A/N This is my first attempt at Sherlock FanFic. These are just going to be small stories about Sherlock, and they're probably not going to be updated often. Thank you to Ennui Enigma who would not rest until she foun out why the sugar was dissolving, now she has found her answer and here is what we came up with. With the approval of Book girl fan.
It was a normal day at the morgue as a tall dark haired man walked in, it was Sherlock, followed by his new colleague John Watson, a short man with light hair.
"Hello!" Molly said, as Sherlock approached.
"I need David Jeffrey's body," Sherlock stated blankly, barely even looking at her.
She quickly moved over to the body she had been working on, and pulled away the cover to reveal David Jeffery's body. Sherlock quickly moved to her side, and examined the body.
While he was busy with the body she moved to the side and quickly applied a coat of lipstick and fixed her hair. "So...have you found anything?" Molly said, trying to retain a conversational tone as Sherlock poured sugar over her dead work collegue.
"Fascinating!" he exclaimed, seeming not to have heard her.
"What exactly is fascinating?" John asked his friend, just as equally confused as Molly was.
"Can you not see it?" Sherlock asked, unbelievingly, As he deigned to look at them for a brief moment.
"Oh, your small minds must be so boring! Can't you see that the sugar is dissolving?"
John and Molly nodded but continued to stare with blank, uncomprehending expressions plastered on their faces
"Insufferable!" Sherlocksaid throwing his hands up in the air.
"The sugar is from David Jefferey's kitchen. He used it every when he had his morning coffee,.this sugar dissolved in a relatively small part of the particles remain though. The rapidity at which it dissolved was one point three seconds faster then pure sucrose. Note the faint grey discoloration on the skin where it dissolved."
Molly leaned over, trying to see what Sherlock was talking about.
"Therefore!" Sherlock proclaimed triumphantly, "David Jeffery was poisioned. most likely selenium. A simple toxicology screening will confirm it, I'm sure.
"What?" John and Molly asked in unison.
"Don't you ever listen John? He was poisioned," Sherlock said, to his bewildered audience.
Conceding they were not understanding he explained further. "Selenate is a selenium salt that is toxic administered in high enough doses over an extended period. It is colorless and tasteless. It absorbs into liquids with greater alacrity but the residue of the salt always leaves behind characteristic unsoulables. The grey discoloration is a result of the salt and liquid mixing and forming an acid. Hence the victims sugar was tainted with selenium. Basic chemistry, John."
Then, once Sherlock had finished his tyraid, John asked, "So why did you need David Jeffrey's body?" Simply Sherlock answered, "There's no room on the counter," then walked out in the same fashion he came in.
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