Watson's Woes - July 6 - Two-Thirty In The Bleeding Morning

[pompey_01]

 

Title: Two-thirty in the Bleeding Morning

Author: Pompey

Universe: ACD

Rating: PG

Warnings: none

Word count: 200

Summary: It’s the middle of the night and there is screaming on Baker Street.

Prompt: July 6 - It's the middle of the night. Why is screaming coming from Baker Street?

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I kept silent and assumed an appearance of abject guilt.  I could not warn Holmes, but I trusted he had enough sense to do the same.  After all, it was his objectionable violin solo at two in the morning which had woken me.  I did not dispute my part in the current mess.  However, if had Holmes not belligerently – and loudly -- defended his insensitive behavior, we would not have started the argument which in turn woke Mrs. Hudson.  And, had Mrs. Hudson not been so rudely awakened, she would not have vented her spleen at us at full volume.

 

It was just about then that another voice from next door joined in the din, demanding to know what the fuss was all about when decent folk ought to be in bed and asleep.  Almost immediately, yet another voice from newly-inhabited Camden House entered the fray, demanding that we all “shut yer gobs!” as it was “two-thirty in the bleeding morning!”

 

I hazarded a glance at Holmes.  His face remained nearly impassive although the corner of his mouth twitched uncontrollably.  As for myself, I was in serious danger of choking on suppressed laughter at the farce we had descended into.