Living with Them
A.N. This is my first GMD fanfic, I hope you guys like it! Critics are welcome!
BTW the reason on why this took so long is because I was bit by my dog whilst doing this. So sorry!
P.S. Barbara names all her drafts and manuscripts so yeah that's a heads up.
Chapter One: MANNY!
When Barbara and her house mate Cora woke up, it was just an ordinary day. Wake up, go to kitchen, have a bit of breakfast then work. Many hours later though, Cora had already finished designing a new horror game called SilenceR while Barbara is still working on her manga's storyboard. Sighing in relief, Barbara took out an inking pen and carefully began tracing, shading and detailing everything on the cover page of her chapter, when suddenly…a hole broke out on the ceiling of her study and two men fell on her desk toppling ink all over her manuscript and causing her to scream. Instead of being unconscious the two men are fighting and…well choking each other and such.
Outside the kitchen, Cora was just drinking coffee and eating some ice cream when she heard her friend scream, getting concerned, she set her mug down and ran upstairs towards her friend's study. Kicking it open she saw her friend there, rocking back and forth, muttering something unintelligible while two men are wrestling each other on the floor with her friend's manuscripts scattered all over the floor.
Regaining herself, Barbara looked for her manuscript and saw it all over the entire are. Running to get them one of the men took an ink bottle (Yeeaaahhhh..she has lots of em) and threw it to the other, failing and causing the ink to spill on one of her best pages. Bending over to pick up the ruined pages, she sat down and flipped through all of them, all ruined.
"Manny?" she whimpered holding the manuscripts together as best as she could.
"Ohhh boy." Cora said rolling her eyes with her arms folded.
"Manny!" she wailed hugging the manuscripts to her chest "Dammit! Why'd you have to leave me!" she went on beating the floor and causing the two men to stop fighting.
"Aaaand there it goes." Cora mumbled, walking toward her wailing friend. "Come on Barb calm down." She said patting her friend's head.
"No it's not!" she yelled pulling away from her friend "Manny and I spent so much time together and they-" she said pointing to the two men "killed Manny!" she finished with a slight sniffle.
"Well…um…excuse me miss, but you do know it was a drawing?" one of the men spoke up coming forward to the wailing woman.
"You!" Barbara said spinning around to face him "You're that wisecrack that threw ink on Manny's face!" she spat out charging at him.
"Now miss, be reasonable!" the first man said starting to break into a run.
"Yeesh, it's drafty all over again." Cora muttered sitting down on the floor.
Finally catching him she hissed out her question, "Who are you and why'd you come here?"
Staring at her, the man said through gritted teeth, "I am Basil Sherringford of Baker Street and I do not know why I'm here."
"And you?" Barbara asked the other one
"Professor Padriarc James Ratigan at your service." The second man said giving a quick grin as he stood up and began brushing himself off.
"This is bullshit." Barbara spat out. Standing up she charged after the second one and tackled him to the floor.
"Barb would you just let it go?" Cora yelled as her friend starts pummeling the man's face.
"No! My deadline's near and they killed Manny!" she said as she was pulled off the man by her friend.
"Thank you miss, I believe I owe you my gratitude." The second man said rubbing his jaw.
"Oh no prob, plus I'll give you a li'l something." Cora said with a smile.
"Really? What is-" stopping in mid sentence he saw her drop to her stomach and kick him in the stomach.
"That's for having me go up here and have my ice cream melted." Cora said with a wicked smile.
Together the two friends pulled out the men and put them in one of their guest rooms. (They've got a five bedroom and bathroom house) Locking the door the two went off to fix the mess the two have made.