IT’S A SCI-FI HEIST AU! AWW YISS~~
Title: This Thing All Things Devours (part 1/15ish)
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Rating: eventually explicit, but this is part one and part one is tame
Summary: (In Time AU) In 2169, time is money—literally. Humans are genetically engineered to stop aging at 25, when the numbers on their arm start counting down from one year. When that time is up, they die. The only way to get more time is to earn it, borrow it, or steal it.
John Watson lives day-to-day in the crowded slums of Zone 13. He never imagined living any differently—until he meets the practically-immortal Sherlock, and helps him on a case to track a local time-thief…
meant to do a time zone reblog yesterday and forgot, woops belated~
GUYS. GUYS. THIS FIC IS REALLY COOL, GUYS. So far we have mysterious stranger!Sherlock, and John cheating death for fun, and a society where the minutes of your life act as literal currency, to be won, bought, sold, and stolen in return for goods and services (and living, of course).
This Thing All Things Devours (1/15~)