The Night Watch

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Title: The Night Watch
Author: capt_facepalm
Rating: PG
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Gaslight ACD)
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Dr Watson
Summary: It has been a long night
Warning: (none)
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: July 10th 2017 prompt: The third object

 

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Sherlock Holmes checked his pocket watch and yawned. It had gone past two o’clock and the day’s events were finally catching up to him. He and Dr Watson had joined the police raid on a dockland smugglers’ den when things went wrong. Watson, who had been poleaxed by a brick, lay on the settee, badly concussed and occasionally moaning incoherently. He had settled now but Holmes would have to wake him soon. Holmes too, was tired. He searched amongst his chemistry supplies and found what he needed to stay awake; after all he had made coffee in a beaker before.

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Author's Note: My third object? An unwashed coffee cup.

Comments

[violsva]

An unwashed coffee cup.
You and me both!

Lovely drabble. Poor Watson!

[capt_facepalm]

Thanks! My desk is currently a mess so finding yesterday's coffee cup there was not such a surprise. Usually there are some LEGO mini-figures here and there.

[scribal_goddess]

I would NOT make coffee in one of Holmes' beakers if my life depended on it... who knows what's been in there. Mercury? The Devil's foot? Several dozen ounces of Shag Tobacco?

[capt_facepalm]

Thanks! I would not cook in Holmes' beakers either but he presumes he knows which ones are clean and non-toxic enough, after all, this is not the first time he has done so.

[gardnerhill]

I'd first guessed a brick, then a beaker. Coffee cup works, though!

Holmes would get on famously with Dr. Murray (from A WRINKLE IN TIME), who cooked stew on her Bunsen Burner.

[capt_facepalm]

Thanks! I could have used brick because there are several LEGO bricks on that side of the desk currently. Instead of using the coffee cup directly, I used it as the inspiration for the drabble. I cheat. I know.

A Wrinkle in Time was my gateway drug to YA fantasy.

[thewhitelily]

Ever resourceful!

[capt_facepalm]

Thanks! Holmes is not anything but resourceful. Besides, he would catch the devil from Mrs Hudson if he woke her (again).

[hagstrom]

For a minute there I thought the third object was probably the beaker...

And I'm sure Holmes' immune system must be a wonder, to resist drinking coffee from one on his beakers-

[capt_facepalm]

Thanks!
I couldn't imagine Holmes using something as mundane as a coffee cup... so I thought up his equivalent!

[med_cat]

Let's just hope the beaker had been thoroughly cleaned...;)

[capt_facepalm]

Or the coffee at least strong enough to kill off anything still there...

[med_cat]

Haha, now there's a thought...