A Storm in a Teacup
Dec. 11th, 2013 02:02 pmFandom: Sherlock (BBC) (An AU in which Sherlock and John are teapots.)
Rating: U/G
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Irene Adler, Mrs Hudson, Mrs Turner, Bill the Ormstein Teapot, Greg Lestrade
Summary: Lestrade, the kettle at 221 Baker Street, is taken away for repairs. His replacement is a glamorous American stovetop kettle, who has something Bill the Ormstein Teapot wants back. Sherlock and John take on the case.
Disclaimer: Holmes and Watson created by Conan Doyle; Sherlock and John property of Moffat and Gatiss, and the BBC; the Consulting Teapots and their cosies belong to
hisietari. This story is based on A Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. (With a slight nod to A Scandal in Belgravia.)
2,602 Words.
John was a teapot. (Smallish, and a rather splendid sky blue.)
Sherlock had been a teapot (or possibly a coffeepot. It’s all fine). However, after an incident involving a Moriarty teapot, a collision with a kitchen floor and some painstaking (but non-hot-liquid-worthy) restoration work, he was embarking upon a second life as a vase.
Lestrade, conversely, had had a long career as a kettle.
Though at the moment he wasn’t sure if he was a kettle any more.
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Rating: U/G
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Irene Adler, Mrs Hudson, Mrs Turner, Bill the Ormstein Teapot, Greg Lestrade
Summary: Lestrade, the kettle at 221 Baker Street, is taken away for repairs. His replacement is a glamorous American stovetop kettle, who has something Bill the Ormstein Teapot wants back. Sherlock and John take on the case.
Disclaimer: Holmes and Watson created by Conan Doyle; Sherlock and John property of Moffat and Gatiss, and the BBC; the Consulting Teapots and their cosies belong to
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2,602 Words.
John was a teapot. (Smallish, and a rather splendid sky blue.)
Sherlock had been a teapot (or possibly a coffeepot. It’s all fine). However, after an incident involving a Moriarty teapot, a collision with a kitchen floor and some painstaking (but non-hot-liquid-worthy) restoration work, he was embarking upon a second life as a vase.
Lestrade, conversely, had had a long career as a kettle.
Though at the moment he wasn’t sure if he was a kettle any more.
( Read more... )