July 2 - Husband's Job

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Title: The Husband’s Job

Author: Pompey

Universe: ACD

Rating: G

Warnings: none?

Word count: 100

Summary: Sometimes it sucks having to be the man of the house.

Prompt: July 2 – phobia redux

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Mary’s scream had brought him running.  Upon seeing the reason for her scream, he calmly assured her he would deal with the situation and gently shooed her out of the room to spare her any further distress.  As soon as the door closed behind her, though, Watson dropped his façade and stared down his loathsome nemesis scuttling across the floor.  There was nothing else for it.  Even with a rolled up newspaper, he was too far away.  To kill the spider, he was going to have to get closer to it, no matter how much arachnids made his skill crawl.