Ariane DeVere

Sherlock Drabble - Distraction

24th-Aug-2011 07:03 pm

Title: Distraction
Author: Ariane DeVere
Word count: 100
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: Sherlock belongs to way more powerful and wealthy people than me.

Distraction

Sherlock hasn’t had a case for eighteen days and is bored witless. On day nineteen John abandons him for over six hours; when John finally arrives home, his left shoe – still on his foot – is wrapped in a plastic bag.

“Right,” he announces. “I’ve been all over London: took a taxi to six different places and stood in the soil at each place. Your task is to work out exactly where I’ve been, and in which order.”

Sitting down on the sofa, he swings his left leg up onto Sherlock’s lap and grins madly at him. “The game’s a foot.”

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Author’s Note: In May 2012 I submitted this story for possible inclusion in the book Sherlock’s Home – The Empty House, which was to be published to raise funds for The Undershaw Preservation Trust, a charity trying to preserve the former home of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. To my complete amazement, my story was one of the 30 or so stories and poems selected. Links to various ways of buying the book, either in hard copy or on Kindle, can be found here.

Tags:distraction, drabble, sherlock, sherlock fic

Comments

24th-Aug-2011 06:17 pm (UTC)

treelight

ROTFL!!!
What a great idea!

24th-Aug-2011 06:19 pm (UTC)

atlinmerrick

Oh you god damn genius. I am standing here with my hand over my mouth trying to hold in the mad giggles. This, bar none, is the drable to beat. Forever. Oh lord. Put a link to thi on your Tumblr so I can reblog it, please?

24th-Aug-2011 07:59 pm (UTC)

arianedevere

Wow, thanks, mom-in-law! That's an amazing compliment!

I have tumbld the fic as requested.

24th-Aug-2011 06:22 pm (UTC)

random_nexus

BWAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH!
<3

Perfection!

24th-Aug-2011 06:26 pm (UTC)

verityburns

Yay! This is so, SO hilarious... but what I absolutely love most about it is the way you haven't kept the pun for yourself - you've given it to John.

I can so clearly imagine him thinking of it, then going to all these lengths, giggling to himself the whole while, before returning home and (grinning madly) presenting it to Sherlock...

Picture the eye-rolling which would inevitably result, mostly to cover Sherlock's recognition of the affection behind the act.

Funny and sweet - a winning combination!

24th-Aug-2011 06:47 pm (UTC)

kalypso_v

John, you are a genius. (Oh, hang on, that's the author, isn't it?)

24th-Aug-2011 06:48 pm (UTC)

fanbot

Perhaps Sherlock can supply a reBUTTal?

24th-Aug-2011 06:51 pm (UTC)

lucybun

Oh my God! This is brilliant!

24th-Aug-2011 08:01 pm (UTC)

moon_of_my_soul

This. Was awesome. I wasn't real sure what type of drabble this was gonna be (if that makes sense) and then I read John walking back into 221B.

Awesome XD

24th-Aug-2011 10:02 pm (UTC)

jerel

Love it!!

24th-Aug-2011 11:15 pm (UTC)

aelfgyfu_mead

I have been sitting here trying to think of an appropriate comment to leave, and my Brilliant Husband walked by, so I made him read it too.

I'll just leave his comment: "It's a shoe-in for best drabble."

26th-Aug-2011 01:40 am (UTC)

the_mad_fangirl

I dunno. It was a little pedestrian. I took it in stride. It had plenty of sole, though, and was obviously not just cobbled together.

27th-Aug-2011 07:57 pm (UTC)

arianedevere

You absolute heel. You could get booted out of LJ for that.

26th-Aug-2011 11:52 am (UTC)

anarion

You, my dear, rock! Brilliant idea! :)

28th-Aug-2011 11:52 pm (UTC)

mitamot

John is the best, the most caring and creative friend ever xD
Great idea.
And... I have one small question: can I translate this fic into Polish? I will be very grateful, if you agree :)

29th-Aug-2011 11:43 am (UTC)

arianedevere

I would honoured for you to translate it! Thank you so much!

29th-Aug-2011 01:44 pm (UTC)

mitamot

Oh, great! It's my pleasure.

18th-Sep-2011 06:47 pm (UTC)

allesandraq

Heh. Funny. Strange, I can actually see John doing this, just so Sherlock won't shoot the wall.

20th-Dec-2011 05:15 pm (UTC)

tialangela

Am grinning madly, just like John.

4th-Jul-2012 12:56 pm (UTC) - Vote

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mirith referenced to your post from Vote saying: [...] to raise money for Undershaw, people like best. Ariane DeVere's 100-word masterpiece, Distraction [...]

4th-Jul-2012 05:27 pm (UTC) - Fic: 221B - Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.

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anarion referenced to your post from Fic: 221B - Man errs, till he has ceased to strive. saying: [...] on the Save Undershaw website for people to indicate their favourite story. Hers is Distraction [...]

12th-Aug-2012 04:36 pm (UTC)