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alexcat ([personal profile] alexcat) wrote2017-08-21 11:29 am

Drabble #21: Obviously (Sherlock Holmes)

Title: Obviously
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: PG
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Note: August 2017 drabble. Prompt: Obvious
Summary: Holmes underestimates his companion.

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OBVIOUSLY

Holmes watched Watson look over the grisly scene. He already knew who did it. The man who’d contacted them to help solve his wife’s murder had killed her in a fit of rage over something trivial, a button not properly sewn, he believed.

“It is obvious, Watson. Do you know?”

Watson nodded. Holmes often wondered just how intelligent his companion was. He did seem to be teachable. His deductions were better now than at the first.

“I do. Do you?”

“Of course. It is Mr. Muldowney. Who else could it be?” Holmes answered.

Holmes never even noticed Watson’s sly smile.