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Title: Same Old Tune
Author: [info]capt_facepalm
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Gaslight ACD)
Characters: Dr John Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes, Wiggins' dad
Summary: An unexpected case
Warnings: (none)
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: July 26th 2014 prompt: Inspired by a fairy tale.


.oOOo.

Wiggins senior was a sorry sight. Shaking with the desperate need of alcohol he implored Sherlock Holmes to find his missing boys.

‘Coppers say they'd run off, but not my boys. They said they wanted to stay wif me. We don’t got much but I keep a roof over their heads, an' bring home supper more often than not, an’ I never once laid a hand on ‘em.’

‘They wanted to stay? Who asked them to leave?’

‘Some holy roller was sniffing around offering education and a new life.’

‘Sounds like a modern pied piper to me,’ said Holmes, grimmly.

.oOOo.

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Date: 2014-07-27 12:45 am (UTC)
ancalime8301: viola (Default)
From: [personal profile] ancalime8301
Aw. Nice take on the prompt! :)

Date: 2014-08-03 05:55 am (UTC)

Date: 2014-07-27 08:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gardnerhill.livejournal.com
Ach. Right down to the raw danger in real fairy tales. (I'd originally thought this would be Hansel and Gretel - another fun story about starving kids lost to a benevolent-seeming adult.)

Date: 2014-08-03 05:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] capt-facepalm.livejournal.com
There is real evil in the background to this story... a tale of misguided philanthropy and few happy endings.

Date: 2014-07-27 08:20 am (UTC)
debriswoman: (copdog)
From: [personal profile] debriswoman
Something sinister seems afoot...

Date: 2014-08-03 05:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] capt-facepalm.livejournal.com
Very sinister indeed...

Date: 2014-07-27 10:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wirral-bagpuss.livejournal.com
OOOH! We need to read more! What happens to Wiggins?!!! Lovely story. But it has left me wanting more!!! :)

Date: 2014-08-03 05:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] capt-facepalm.livejournal.com
For the urban poor, it is a perilous, precarious life.

Date: 2014-07-28 03:13 am (UTC)
methylviolet10b: a variety of different pocketwatches (Default)
From: [personal profile] methylviolet10b
"...said Holmes, grimmly."

I see what you did there. ;-) Pun on top of a fairy tale FTW!

Date: 2014-08-03 05:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] capt-facepalm.livejournal.com
Who, me?
(I was wondering if anyone would catch that!)

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