Fic: 221B - Missing in Action

[anarion]

Title: Missing in Action
Words: a 221B has 221 words and ends with a b-word
Rating: PG-13
Pairings : Sherlock/John
Warnings: none
Disclaimer: Not mine.

Summary: ‘365 days of 221Bs’ challenge: a prompt a day, given by atlinmerrick. Day 299.




Previous 221b: A counter offer


Today's prompt:

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Missing in Action


>> Where are you?


>> It's been two hours.


>> There were only three items on that list, two of them chemicals that you could find even if you were blind and handcuffed to Anderson.


>> Sherlock?


>> Please call me.


When he looks up from his phone Mrs Hudson is standing in the living room.

"John, I could hear you pacing through the ceiling. Everything all right?"

"Sherlock has gone shopping. Two hours ago. There were only three items on the list that I gave him."

"Oh, I'm sure he will be fine. He probably stopped at New Scotland Yard to talk to DI Lestrade on the way."

"That's the opposite direction. Then again we are talking about Sherlock here. I'll give Greg a call."

"John."

"Greg, I'm looking for Sherlock."

"Yeah, I just found him. He's been arrested."

John almost drops his phone.

“Arrested? He just went shopping. To a shop round the corner.”

He realises that he sounds like an over-protective mother and shuts his mouth.

Twenty minutes later Sherlock flops down on the sofa as if being arrested is business as usual. John sighs.

"That was nice of Greg to bring you home. And he even brought your shopping bag."

"Yes, about that..."

"Don't tell me. There were only three items on that list."

"...I forgot your biscuits."



Next 221b: The journey is the destination


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AN:
The prompt was 'biscuits'.

I am so sorry that I disappeared without a word, apparently watching Star Trek on Thursday was too much for my poor body and it retaliated with a severe cold on Friday...








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Comments

[verityburns.livejournal.com]

Oh, I snorted at that final line - and I was already giggling from 'even if you were blind and handcuffed to Anderson'

Brilliant stuff... and yes, I too want to know what the hell happened to Sherlock!