Fic: Something Borrowed: Gen
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holmes_minorTitle: Something Borrowed
Pairing: Lestrade/Lomax the Sublibrarian
Length: 221b
Rating: Teen for suggestion and setting
Prompt: the February prompt & the Day 9 prompt atflash_fiction: Someone goes to extreme lengths to return something he/she borrowed.
Summary: Lestrade drops by to see Lomax at work.
“You certainly caused a sensation at my place of work today, Inspector.”
“Me? Or Lancelot?”
“Both. I don’t think anyone has ever entered the London Library at Saint James's Square manacled and accompanied by a representative of Scotland Yard. I had to go to the medicinal cupboard twice, once for smelling salts for Mrs. Penhollow and once for brandy for Miss Murphy.”
“Lancelot was insistent on returning the book he borrowed before he was taken into police custody, and when I noticed the nameplate of the library on the inside, I took it as a sign. I never waste an opportunity to pay you a visit during the day, and, who knows, the judge may take it into consideration at Lancelot’s sentencing.”
“You’re such an attentive suitor.”
“I am, and you're a merciful one.”
“How so?”
“You didn’t charge Lancelot for keeping that book past the date of return.”
“It would have been absurd, not to say cruel, of me to demand a fine as you haul the man away to chokey!”
“Absurd, cruel, and a trifle amusing.”
“Do you know what I think is a trifle amusing?”
“Me in these handcuffs at your mercy?”
“I said amusing, not arousing. Without gallant Lancelot, and his British Birds, we might never have known how much we both enjoy the ties that bind!”
Pairing: Lestrade/Lomax the Sublibrarian
Length: 221b
Rating: Teen for suggestion and setting
Prompt: the February prompt & the Day 9 prompt at
flash_fiction: Someone goes to extreme lengths to return something he/she borrowed. Summary: Lestrade drops by to see Lomax at work.
“You certainly caused a sensation at my place of work today, Inspector.”
“Me? Or Lancelot?”
“Both. I don’t think anyone has ever entered the London Library at Saint James's Square manacled and accompanied by a representative of Scotland Yard. I had to go to the medicinal cupboard twice, once for smelling salts for Mrs. Penhollow and once for brandy for Miss Murphy.”
“Lancelot was insistent on returning the book he borrowed before he was taken into police custody, and when I noticed the nameplate of the library on the inside, I took it as a sign. I never waste an opportunity to pay you a visit during the day, and, who knows, the judge may take it into consideration at Lancelot’s sentencing.”
“You’re such an attentive suitor.”
“I am, and you're a merciful one.”
“How so?”
“You didn’t charge Lancelot for keeping that book past the date of return.”
“It would have been absurd, not to say cruel, of me to demand a fine as you haul the man away to chokey!”
“Absurd, cruel, and a trifle amusing.”
“Do you know what I think is a trifle amusing?”
“Me in these handcuffs at your mercy?”
“I said amusing, not arousing. Without gallant Lancelot, and his British Birds, we might never have known how much we both enjoy the ties that bind!”
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Date: 2021-02-09 07:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-09 07:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-15 06:26 pm (UTC)And it's a very nice nod to EMPT and a cheeky play on words to end on ^____^
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Date: 2021-02-15 09:09 pm (UTC)Thank you, thank you!