A/N: Hello new fandom! HAPPY TOWEL DAY EVERYONE! ^ . ^
If you're here from one of my other stories, thanks for reading!
This will be a bunch of one-shots from about three different universes(but probably mostly just randomness),
Hope you enjoy this first one!
John Watson was a man with odd quirks no one could explain; not his family, not even the great Sherlock Holmes.
For starters, the doctor always had a towel with him, always.
When asked about this strange habit he looked at the asker as if they had gone insane and told them the towel was an absolutely essential part of life and had many different uses.
One encounter happened as such:
It was a fine summer day in London, and it was the first day without rain since the Sunday past.
Sherlock had been called for a double homicide, dragging John with him, of course.
Though Sherlock had mostly deduced the murder before lunch, he was missing one crucial piece to the puzzle... the suspected killer's phone.
While everyone was thinking of ways to obtain the phone no one noticed that the blonde doctor had disappeared.
Once they did he was already back, in his gloved hand the phone they were all looking for.
Even Sherlock looked impressed.
"How did you do it?" was the common question asked.
He smiled mischievously and said, "With the help of my towel!"
DI Lestrade looked at the doctor like the man was truly insane (a possibility that was looking more and more likely the longer the DI spent with the man.)
Finally, it was Sally Donovan who asked the disbelieving question.
"How could a towel possibly help you get that phone?" she asked.
John stared at her, though in all honesty everyone at the scene was wondering just that.
Slowly and carefully he spoke his answer. "I convinced him I was a trustworthy traveler who needed to borrow his phone to ring my own. After all, if a traveler still has his towel he must be responsible for his things and must not be asking lightly."
With that he turned and walked off the crime scene, handing Sherlock the phone as he passed by.
That wasn't the last time either. John Watson had multiple times obtained items with his traveler disguise and his towel.
Sometimes they were absurd items for the ploy too, such as a man's watch (which held a fingerprint that proved something or other),
a very old pipe (used for neither tobacco or drugs, instead to hide a priceless jewel in plain sight for the past ten years),
a woman's passport (that not only confirmed she had been in London a week earlier than she claimed but revealed she had several aliases)
and an old picture of the friends and family of a victim from the killer, who was at the time secretly running from the police. (At first everyone, including Sherlock, thought the picture made no real difference to the case, as all evidence pointed to the victim's maid. But after it was revealed the maid was involved with a drug dealer at the time and unable to be the killer, the picture revealed the killer had taken it from the victim.)
In the end, even Sherlock was resigned to saying that the towel did seem to help convince others to help John. (Though he had no idea how, and reluctantly left it at some odd thing in the human psychology as the culprit*.)
When DI Lestrade met Harry Watson (who had witnessed a robbery and was, fortunately, sober) after they solved the crime (a desperate man needed some quick cash, was told by some shady acquaintances about a vulnerable house), asked the older sibling why her brother always carried a towel.
She shrugged, she had no idea why. Though she did give this tidbit of information.
"I honestly don't know why, but I remember that it started when he was five and he said that his imaginary friend told him to."
She also revealed that the imaginary friend's name was Ford Prefect, who John fully, 100% believed was very, quite, real (and quite, maybe, possibly he still did today.**)
Not that anyone would confront him about being just a tad mad, not when it was entirely obvious that he most likely, definitely was. You had to be if you had been living under the same roof as Sherlock for little under a year.
*Though as we all know this is in no way just a product of Homo Sapiens nature. We here writing Hitchhiker's guide companion book, "Information on Some Less Important Things, But You Still Find Interesting", had our workers test the towel truth (would it really get a Strag [non hitchhiker] to loan you stuff) and found that 97.98979738% of the time that yes, it would. (The exceptions being a few species and a few individuals who were particularly stubborn.)
*In fact, other than a few very odd universes that may (or ever) never exist, John Watson has always known someone named Ford Prefect. Though the role and importance of the man, alien, or another entity varies.
Notes for those concerned with the mental state of our dear Doctor.
Doctor John Watson is of average mental stability for a man who has spent most of his life hitchhiking, an impressive feat for spending so much time in company of those such as Trillian Astra (formally Tricia Marie McMillan), Zaphod Beeblebrox (the best galactic president ever if you go by the secret duty of the president), Marvin the Paranoid Android (a perpetually depressed robot), and one Ford Prefect (whose true name no one other than his father could pronounce, not even himself, after the Great Collapsing Hrung Disaster of Gal./Sid./Year 03758,)
According to our consultant psychologists the average mental state of a Hitchhiker is nowhere near the galactic standards for mental health, fortunately, an exception has been made for Hitchhikers as they are generally considered enjoyable people who tend to know excellent stories and how to make a fantastic Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster.
End of entry.
Copyright "The Official Unofficial Companion Book to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Information on Some Less Important Things, But You Still May Find Interesting"
Published Earth Year 2016, by the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor.
If you find this book for free anywhere but from a fellow Hitchhiker please assume it has been stolen or hacked from our database and return to the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor next time you Hitchhike there, you will be given a free copy from one of our resident Hitchhikers.
This entry was written by the current head writer for everything involving, related to, or incorporating Earth(see entry); Yuki Iffroo(see entry) originally from Traffii Vleb(see entry), who previously wrote for the Guide(see entry.)
A/N: So what did ya think? I'd love to know! I don't know when the next one-shot will be up, could be a few days, could be a month, sorry. : 3
Oh! The universes will be these;
A; Hitchhiker's and Sherlock happen in same universe, John is Arthur Dent
B; Hitchhiker's and Sherlock happen in different universes, John is still Arthur Dent.
C; Both ways(depends on one-shot) John is Arthur and Trillian's son(Harry being John's cousin he was raised with. . .Random also appears.)
and D; Anything that is too depressing for me to put in the other ones. ; 3