Written for AugustMist's Eureka Season 3/4 Winter Break Challenge (Challenge #1). 300 words exactly. Words used: identical twins, lobby, garden gnomes, fumigate, and cult.

Disclaimer- Don't own any of the characters used.


"Absolutely not, Fargo," Sheriff Carter said to the wildly-gesticulating scientist in the GD lobby. Fargo wanted to fumigate half the town to get rid of the garden gnomes he claimed were stalking him. Luckily, air quality decontamination processes had to be approved by the sheriff. Unfortunately, Fargo refused to accept this answer.

"But they're after me! Those gnomes follow me everywhere!" Fargo protested. "Look, see," he said, pointing, "there's the identical twin ones right now!"

"There are no gnomes, Fargo." Sheriff Carter replied. "You're imagining things."

"But-"

"No, Fargo. " Carter said, stopping Fargo in mid-sentence. "There are no gnomes. I am not giving you permission to fumigate Eureka. Go home and get some sleep. If you're still seeing gnomes tomorrow, we'll institutionalize you."

Fargo glared angrily at Carter, then stormed off to his lab.

Carter shook his head sighing and turned to Zane Donovan, who was smiling gleefully. "I'm not wrong, am I? Do you see gnomes?"

"Nope," said Zane happily, "I'm in a gnome-free zone." His smile widened to an impossible, Cheshire-cat like width.

Carter began to get suspicious. Nothing that made Zane smile like that could bode well for Eureka. And Fargo had burned off the other man's eyebrow a few weeks before…

"You've been doing this to Fargo, haven't you!" Carter demanded.

Zane smiled. "Guilty as charged." Carter looked at Zane incredulously. "Hey, I happened to have some free time on my hands. It was either this or join a cult. I thought that this would be more entertaining."

Carter considered this. Zane had a point. This was entertaining. And if Zane had taken a different form of revenge things probably would have turned out much worse.

"Okay," Carter said to Zane. "But, next time, use something less creepy than garden gnomes."


Sorry for any grammatical/spelling errors...I literally wrote this at 3am. R&R!