Fic: The Ferret's Grand Plan: G

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Title: The Ferret's Grand Plan
Form/Word Count: 221B
Characters/Pairing:  Ferret, Aemelia Vole, Mouselet, Poley the Moley
Rating: G
Warning/Content: Another idea that will never work.

 

“What’s up with Ferret?” Poley the Moley asked.  “Is he sulking?”

Aemelia Vole looked up from where she was stitching a flower on an apron.  “Oh, yes,” she agreed.   “He is.”  She then turned her attention back to her embroidery.

“It’s okay,” Mouselet added.  “It never lasts.”

“What brought it on?” Poley asked.

“It was his latest Grand Plan,” Mouselet said.  “Glasses, filled with different amounts of water on which he would play a tune.”

“It sounds quite ambitious.”

“And extremely messy, given half a chance.  Which he wasn’t, as Dr Watson refused to help fill the glasses.  He said they didn’t need a repeat of last week when Mr Holmes had knocked a full jug of water over when demonstrating a baritsu movement to Inspector Lestrade.”

“It would have been quite nice to hear him,” Poley said, a little wistfully.

Aemelia snorted.  “Only if you were prepared to paddle halfway through the first verse.”

Poley laughed.  “You may have a point.  Have you any idea what his next plan is?”

A gruff voice said, “I am the Great Mysterioso, the master of disguise.”

Mouselet giggled.  “No, you’re not.  You’re Ferret wearing a pair of glasses.”

“Mr Holmes disguises himself in a dress.  Do you think that might work?”

Aemelia winked at the others.  “Maybe if you disappeared inside the bonnet.”