Originally posted to AO3 on 3/15/2018.

Title: The Art of the Blood
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, past Sherlock Holmes/Historical Male Character (classical music RPF)
Recipient okapi, in the fandomlovespuertorico auction
Rating: NC-17/Explicit
Tags/Warnings/Content Notes/Advertisements: Blood, Blood Drinking, Bloodplay, Vampirism, Bloodletting, Cutting, Hand Jobs, Frottage, First Time, vampire kink, Timeline What Timeline

Summary: Watson finds a disturbing, barbaric, medically out-of-fashion item among Holmes’s possessions, and simply cannot let it go. How does Holmes happen to own not just any bloodletting kit, but one that once belonged to a great violin master who died before Holmes was born? The answers revealed will change both their lives - forever.

Warning for cutting, but not in a mental illness context.

A Fandom Loves Puerto Rico bid for Okapi, who supplied me with this wonderful prompt! Nicolo Paganini’s bloodletting kit.