She sighed happily, she rarely felt as content as this. Sitting in the dark with only her thoughts as company. Sure, most people might find this a boring way to spend the hours, but most people were idiots whose thoughts were so dull they’d sooner picture paint drying if they had the imaginative capacity.
Sherlock suddenly sat bolt upright, there was a scrabbling at the door. Only one thought crossed her mind, burglars! She jumped quietly from her chair and leaped across the room to the fireplace where her kisu was keeping some letters in place. She grabbed the kisu kwa the handle and ran to stand kwa the door. She waited for a few moment whilst the scrabbling continued. Suddenly the door burst open and Sherlock threw the knife.
There was a scream.
“Nyha” she cried, “I got you, you-” Oh… That sounded an awful lot like-
“Sherlock!!!!”
Crap, it was, “Watson I’m so sorry!!” She quickly switched the light on to see Joanna pull the kisu out of her shoulder and staring at the wound which was steadily bleeding.
“You threw a kisu at me!”
”Are wewe OK?!”
“Of course I’m not. wewe threw a kisu at me!”
“Can I do anything?”
Watson groaned, “Get me my medical bag…”
“Yes!” Sherlock ran into Joanna’s bedroom and quickly found her medical bag on the table. She ran back to the living room and passed the bag to Watson who opened it with one hand.
“Help me clear this wound up.”
“Are wewe going to be OK?”
“I should be fine, it’s just a graze. Apparently you’re not as good a shot as wewe think wewe are.”
”I was going easy on you.”
“Sure wewe were.” Watson grimaced as she wound a length of bandage around her shoulder.
“I was! There are far less maswali If wewe just wound someone and tie them up. If I’d have killed someone, even if they were a burglar, then the police would’ve been all over this house like locusts, rearranging all my stuff, making it smell-”
“This house already smells. Can wewe open that please?”
”Sure”
There was a pause in which Watson took a deep breath “What were wewe thinking?!”
“I’m sorry, I thought wewe were a burglar! Why did wewe break in?”
“I’d Lost my key!”
“Why didn’t wewe knock?”
“I didn’t want to wake you!”
”But I was up!”
“I know! Can wewe hold that for me please?” alisema Watson passing Sherlock some bandage.
“At least now we’re even.”
“What do wewe mean?!”
“Don’t wewe remember that time wewe shot me in the leg?”
“That was an accident!”
“So was mine!”
”Mine only stemmed from wewe using me as bait for a serial killer!”
“Yours was from doing something illegal!”
”It’s not illegal to break into my own home.”
“Should be.” Sherlock pouted causing Watson to sigh.
“Does it hurt?”
“Yes.”
“Are wewe nearly done?” alisema Sherlock a little impatiently.
“Yes, in fact,” she tied a knot in her bandage and shut her bag, “I’m done now.”
”Good… What are wewe going to do now?”
”I don’t know, why?”
“It’s just that I was rather enjoying myself.”
“Is that all wewe care about? wewe just stabbed me and wewe want to get back to reading!”
“I wasn’t reading.”
”I don’t care! You’re unbelievable!” Watson stood up and flounced towards her room. “And don’t think that just because I’m going to sleep you’re forgiven!”
Sherlock glanced at the receding Watson and shrugged before sitting back down and switching the light off.