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holmes_minor2017-05-07 10:05 pm
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Fic: Peace & Quiet: PG/Teen
Rating: PG/Teen
Length: 221b
Content Notes: Hopkins/Holmes; Lestrade/Watson; part of the Broom Cupboard 'verse by
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thesmallhobbitSummary: Mrs. Hudson has a quiet Mother's Day.
Author's Note: for monthly prompt: flowers & Mother's Day in the US is next Sunday.
Prompt by
thesmallhobbit: Sherlock Holmes (ACD): It's gone very quiet in the broom cupboard lately. Have the Holmes/Hopkins and Watson/Lestrade partnerships moved elsewhere, or has Mrs Hudson finally bought the unpickable lock?“It’s quiet,” said Mrs. Turner.
“Yes,” said Mrs. Hudson with a smile. “It’s what every mother truly wants from her household, isn’t it?”
“But how did you manage it?”
“Come.”
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“You painted the inside of the cupboard with pansies, primroses, lilies, and tulips! Lovely, but how did this contribute to your domestic tranquility?”
“Do you know Madame Miranda?”
“The medium?”
“Yes, she was able to contact the other side for me and obtain most of the answers I needed. The last I got by my own detective work.” She sighed. “It won’t last, but it’ll give me a day’s respite.”
“Martha, you’re being awfully cryptic.”
Earlier…
“Uh, oh.”
“John, what is it?”
“Those flowers. The primroses.”
“Yes?”
“Well, they were my mother’s favourite. Makes me think of her and what she might think of me shoved in a broom cupboard with one of Scotland Yard’s finest.”
“One of the finest? But, oh, wait, Mummy always liked pansies, just like those. Keep your roses, she’d say, give a pocket of pansies and I’ll be as something as something.”
“What?”
“Well, it was a long time ago, but I miss her still.”
“Hmm. Maybe we could postpone, not that—”
“Yes, yes. Another time.”
And…
“But Holmes, I kiss my mother with this mouth!”
“Oh, just wait ‘til I get a paint brush.”
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It's such a horrible and horribly silly line. I love it. And I love making fun of Hopkins, even though I might invoke the wrath of some pink-candle-nibbling rodents.
Yes, a lot of bits and pieces fitted together. You do wonder. Maybe the moms were just happy to be contacted! *at least someone remembers us, sniff, sniff*