#bbc jekyll

I took a lot of notes as I watched the first episode...

...and the second...

...and all the way to the end.

I wrote almost 14,000 words of Jekyll fanfic over the next year, including several crossovers, and you can find most of it on AO3.  I also collaborated on a fusion with Moffat’s other retelling of a Victorian classic.

Although I first talked about the basic foundations of “Jekyllock” with another friend, @ellekess and I ultimately took the story and ran with it.  In that AU, Jim Moriarty had been Sherlock’s murderous alter ego, sharing and occasionally transforming his body, since childhood.  Mycroft knew about Jim but kept his existence a secret from Sherlock.  Eventually, in the series timeline, John and Sherlock pieced together the truth.

Throughout 2012 and for a little while after, Elle and I wrote scenes as they occurred to us, out of sequence, and emailed them back and forth.  Sometimes we texted each other in character as John and Mycroft, or Jim and pretty much anyone.  (We both really loved writing in his voice.)  I vividly recall scribbling one scene on public transit – I can’t find the draft now, but it involved Molly Hooper finding out what was going on – in a burst of creative energy that I still find remarkable to this day.  I also remain delighted by the interactions that Elle wrote between Jim and Mycroft, in particular.  (“I have no wish to hear about your urges, James.”)