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vocab_drabblesTitle: Amok
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD) - Sussex Retirement AU
Length: 200
Rating: Gen
Summary: Watson returns to the Sussex cottage after a fortnight in London.
“You don’t seem surprised,” said Holmes. I heard footsteps leaving the back door, moving slowly along the stone path.
“I’m not,” I answered. “We were in London for a fortnight. I could hardly expect the garden to tend itself.”
“True.”
The beds were in a state of utter disaster. Something, many somethings, had run amok in my absence.
“I hope it was a family, perhaps an extended family, of creatures, feasting before their long winter’s sleep.”
“Generous attitude. I doubt I would be so noble if a bear ravaged my hives.”
“It’s my job to tend the garden. I give as much as my aging body and my limited faculties can spare. Of course, I enjoy the fruits of my labour immensely, but I am finding it less necessary to be disappointed if the results are not what was expected. The toil itself is a gift, a gift I am thankfully still able to give, and what results is surplus.”
Holmes hummed. I felt the weight of his arm draped around his shoulders and the touch of his head against mine.
“Let me help you today. I am eager to exchange the city grime under my fingernails for country soil.”
Title: Supine
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Length: 200
Rating: Gen
Summary: Lestrade, John, and Sherlock look at a document in a cold case.
“Look,” said Sherlock.
Squinting, Lestrade and John bent low to examine the document on the table.
“It’s the original police report,” continued Sherlock over their ben heads. “The hard copy, not what was entered in the archive system.”
“How’d you find that?” asked Lestrade. “I didn’t think anything that old would still be on file or, between the termites and the mould, be in any fit state to be read or understood.”
“It required a lot of persistence, a lot of digging,” replied Sherlock.
John snorted and added, “And a small outlay of cash.”
“Look at the third line,” said Sherlock.
Lestrade began, “Ah, yes, it looks like…”
Sherlock produced an old-fashioned magnifying lens from his coat pocket and slid it before Lestrade’s eyes. Lestrade took the wooden handle and steadied the lens for himself. After a moment, he passed it to John, who said,
“It looks as if someone has scratched out ‘prone’ and wrote ‘supine’ with respect to the position of the body.”
“Now, why would they do that?” asked Lestrade in a ponderous tone as he righted himself.
“When we answer that question,” said Sherlock with a smile, “I think we’ll be close to solving the case.”
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD) - Sussex Retirement AU
Length: 200
Rating: Gen
Summary: Watson returns to the Sussex cottage after a fortnight in London.
“You don’t seem surprised,” said Holmes. I heard footsteps leaving the back door, moving slowly along the stone path.
“I’m not,” I answered. “We were in London for a fortnight. I could hardly expect the garden to tend itself.”
“True.”
The beds were in a state of utter disaster. Something, many somethings, had run amok in my absence.
“I hope it was a family, perhaps an extended family, of creatures, feasting before their long winter’s sleep.”
“Generous attitude. I doubt I would be so noble if a bear ravaged my hives.”
“It’s my job to tend the garden. I give as much as my aging body and my limited faculties can spare. Of course, I enjoy the fruits of my labour immensely, but I am finding it less necessary to be disappointed if the results are not what was expected. The toil itself is a gift, a gift I am thankfully still able to give, and what results is surplus.”
Holmes hummed. I felt the weight of his arm draped around his shoulders and the touch of his head against mine.
“Let me help you today. I am eager to exchange the city grime under my fingernails for country soil.”
Title: Supine
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Length: 200
Rating: Gen
Summary: Lestrade, John, and Sherlock look at a document in a cold case.
“Look,” said Sherlock.
Squinting, Lestrade and John bent low to examine the document on the table.
“It’s the original police report,” continued Sherlock over their ben heads. “The hard copy, not what was entered in the archive system.”
“How’d you find that?” asked Lestrade. “I didn’t think anything that old would still be on file or, between the termites and the mould, be in any fit state to be read or understood.”
“It required a lot of persistence, a lot of digging,” replied Sherlock.
John snorted and added, “And a small outlay of cash.”
“Look at the third line,” said Sherlock.
Lestrade began, “Ah, yes, it looks like…”
Sherlock produced an old-fashioned magnifying lens from his coat pocket and slid it before Lestrade’s eyes. Lestrade took the wooden handle and steadied the lens for himself. After a moment, he passed it to John, who said,
“It looks as if someone has scratched out ‘prone’ and wrote ‘supine’ with respect to the position of the body.”
“Now, why would they do that?” asked Lestrade in a ponderous tone as he righted himself.
“When we answer that question,” said Sherlock with a smile, “I think we’ll be close to solving the case.”
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