Fic: The Adventure of the Dancing Men Chapter 1/3 - Part 1 in the English Dance of Death series

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Title: The Adventure of the Dancing Men, Chapter 1/3
Author: Tuesdays with Moriarty / tueswmoriarty 
Rating: R
Warnings: Character death, both major and minor. (Hence the “dance of death.”) Possible slash. Depictions of Bipolar I. Language. Violence.
Characters/Pairings: Nearly everyone, though I’d say Sherlock, John, Lestrade, and Mycroft are the most prominent. Intended to be Sherlock/John UST or pre-slash, but they seem a bit impatient.
Word count: 6,594 this chapter.
Disclaimer: Arthur Conan Doyle’s, not mine. This incarnation of Holmes & Watson belongs to the BBC, Stephen Moffat, and Mark Gatiss. “The English Dance of Death,” by William Combe and Thomas Rowlandson, was published in 1815 and is well out of copyright.
Notes: The Adventure of the Dancing Men is the first part in what will probably be an eight or nine part series, plus an epilogue. Chapters 2 and 3 are complete, they just require a bit more tweaking. I'll post them in a day or so! I got the dancing men font from the text generator Rumkin.com. I tried re-writing it myself (so the final characters in each word would have flags, regardless of punctuation) but I kept messing it up! Thanks so much to my beta-reader tehomet!
Series Summary: Jim Moriarty loved to watch Sherlock dance. A series of attempted murders, a 19th century poem, and a burning heart.

Fake Cut to my journal: (In which there is a cipher, a bomb threat, a trail of dead doctors, a victim of Sherlock Syndrome, and a comic book trope.)