After writing Olivia Flaversham Goes to School about two years ago, a thought occurred to me a month or two now. I decided to write another interpretation for it, so instead of Fidget doing chores (although he wasn't being punished), Basil and Dawson agreed that Fidget shall have fun with them. Also, this is dedicated to DiscordantPrincess and CrystalMagi for picking the title for this story. DiscordantPrincess's title was Elementary, My Dear Fidget, while CrystalMagi's title was GMD: Mystery Elementary. So, I picked Elementary, My Dear Fidget. I decided to make this a multi-chapter mini-series fic, GMD: Mystery Elementary. This is the first chapter. Enjoy!
Summary: Olivia goes to school and Fidget, feeling lonely goes over to Baker Street and thanks to Olivia's father's suggestion, and Basil and Dawson tell Fidget that they're going to solve a mystery. They find a little girl lost in the grocery store and needed help finding her parents.
One morning, Olivia was getting ready for her first day of school. As soon as she was ready, she had enough time to say, "Bye, Fidget. Have a good day." Her father escorted her outside and brought her to school.
An hour later, Fidget woke up stretching as he yawned. "Livy?" He got out of his bed to look for her. "Whatcha wanna do today?" He looked for her in her room and she wasn't there. "Livy, where are you?" Everywhere he looked, she was nowhere to be seen.
Olivia's father came back home from dropping Olivia off at school. "Fidget, what are you doing up?" he asked, surprised to see Fidget up.
"Uh, looking for Livy," Fidget replied shyly.
"Well, I dropped her off at school." Then her father changed the subject, "How about some breakfast?"
"Yeah, breakfast sounds good."
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Mr. Flaversham and Fidget ate cereal for breakfast.
"What are you going to do today, Dad?" Fidget asked.
"Selling toys I've built, of course," Mr. Flaversham answered. "You can go to Basil's to see if he has something for you to do after breakfast."
"Okay." Fidget continued to eat his cereal. After all, he needed enough energy to go out to find Basil.
After breakfast, Fidget and Mr. Flaversham brushed their teeth. Before Fidget left, he said, "Have a good day of work."
"And have fun with Basil and Dawson!" Mr. Flaversham called as Fidget headed out the door.
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When the bat reached Baker Street, Fidget knocked on Basil's door. "Basil?"
Basil opened the door for him. "Why, hello, Fidget," he said, "And what brings you here on this fine day?"
"Can I talk to you in private?" asked Fidget.
"You sure can." Basil led him inside and Fidget closed the door behind him.
"Guess where Olivia went today?" Fidget said.
"School," Basil answered.
"Yes, that t-t-terrible and s-s-scary place," Fidget stammered, "I wonder what's going to happen to her?"
"I'm sure she'll be fine."
Just then, Fidget began to cry. "That's what I wanted to…to talk to you about." Distraught, he hid his face in his scarf, weeping.
"It's alright, we all had a first day," Basil said, hugging Fidget with consolation. "But in the end, we know that things turn out fine. Olivia will be home after three." Basil rubbed his back soothingly.
Fidget remembered when he was in elementary school, his parents brought him to school on the very first day, they hugged him and hoped he had a good day in case he got scared and sad. Whenever Fidget cried, some kids laughed at him and called him names like "crybaby", but others, including his teacher, comforted him because he needed a buddy or another adult to care and acknowledge his feelings.
"There, there, Fidget," Basil continued gently, "We're going to have fun today."
"What kind of fun?" Fidget asked with a sniffle.
"Well, you like to solve mysteries, don't you?"
"Yeah, especially if it's with Livy."
"She'll always solve cases with you." Then Basil changed the subject in case Fidget sobbed again, "How about a cheese crumpet and tea?"
Feeling a little better, Fidget took a cheese crumpet and drank tea with it with glee.
"We hear that a little girl is lost in a grocery store," Dawson said.
"And Dawson and I thought you'd be up to the task," Basil told Fidget.
"I sure am!" Fidget cried enthusiastically and packed up some cheese crumpets for the road.
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Basil, Dawson, and Fidget hopped on Toby. "Ready, Toby?" Basil asked.
"Toby, want a crumpet for the road?" Fidget said, making the cheese crumpet face Toby's hungry mouth and Toby licked it out of his hand. Toby ate it and was ready for takeoff. "Sic 'em, Toby!" Basil called and they were on their way to the grocery store.
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Basil, Dawson, and Fidget arrived in the grocery store and just in time to find the missing child. The trio introduced themselves.
"Hello, what's your name, little one?" Dawson asked.
"Shelly," the girl replied.
"Miss Shelly, what are your parents' names?" asked Basil.
"Mike and Sally."
"We'll bring you over to the front desk and your parents will find you there," Basil assured her. "I'm Basil, and this is my partner, Dawson and our bat friend, Fidget."
"Hey, Shelly, you remind me of someone I know," Fidget said, not wanting to frighten the girl.
"Who?" the girl asked.
"Olivia, who I often call 'Livy'." He winked at her.
Shelly giggled.
Once at the front desk, the trio of men and the little girl told the greeter that the girl was lost and needed her parents.
"I'll see what I can do," the greeter assured them. "Mike! Sally! Please come up!"
They waited until Shelly's parents arrived and embraced their little girl.
"Shelly! We missed you!" Shelly's mom shouted.
"We wouldn't know what to do without our little Shelly," Shelly's dad said and to the trio, he said, "Nice job, men. We couldn't thank you enough, saving our little girl."
"It was a pleasure," Basil said.
"She's sweet," Fidget told her parents.
"Thank you, Fidget," Shelly said as her parents walked away with her, "Thank you, Basil. Thank you, Dawson."
The trio waved the family, bidding them goodbye.
"That was fun," Fidget mused.
"It was elementary, my dear Fidget," Basil told him with a wink.
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That day, they had a lunch break and at 1 PM, Fidget was becoming very sleepy and yawned. "Looks like our peg-legged friend is getting very sleepy," Basil told Dawson. So he and Dawson returned the bat to Baker Street. Basil, cradling Fidget, sat down on his favorite chair with Fidget on his lap.
Mrs. Judson, who'd been watching the two of them, put a blanket on Fidget and a pillow underneath Fidget's head. "Solving mysteries can tire you out," Basil mused as he patted and rubbed a sleeping Fidget's back, which Fidget liked although he couldn't feel it. "Have sweet dreams, lad." Then Basil decided to take a nap and Dawson reclined on the other chair.
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Later, Fidget woke up from his nap at 2:55 PM. He yawned and stretched.
Basil had done the same. "Fidget, want to go on Toby?" he asked.
"Yeah, sure," Fidget said sleepily.
"We're only going to ride on him," Basil told him.
Suddenly, Dawson woke up. "I'm in."
"Good thing, too, because Livy would be coming home soon," Fidget stated, "I remember a time when Ratigan forced me to drop out of school."
Basil and Dawson gasped at his remark. "You do?"
"What if Olivia came home late from school if her dad was working late?"
"We'll make sure it doesn't happen," Basil said.
"That's what I'd like to hear."
…
At 3 PM, Basil, Dawson, Fidget, and Toby saw the Flavershams walking home.
"Hello, how was your first day, Olivia?" Basil asked Olivia.
"Boring," Olivia replied.
"Without a doubt," Basil agreed.
"Boring as heck," Fidget chimed in.
"But what did you do today, Olivia?" asked Dawson. "I mean what is the fun thing you did?"
"We wrote about who we missed," said Olivia and to Fidget, she added, "And I missed you, Fidget. Not only was I worried that you'd cause trouble, but I was also worried about your safety and I had a feeling that you missed me, too. What did you do with Basil today?"
"We solved a mystery and found a lost little girl that reminded me of you," Fidget answered.
"We brought her over to the front desk and the greeter called her parents' names," Dawson told Olivia.
"It was fun," Fidget said.
"And elementary, my dear Fidget," Basil repeated.
"I was waiting for that, Basil!" Fidget chuckled as he gave Basil a noogie.
Everyone laughed.
Toby, who also missed Olivia gave her a lick, making her giggle. "I missed you, too, silly dog!"
From then on, Fidget began to accept the fact that Olivia went to school every day, except weekends, holidays, snow days, and summer break. Whenever school got canceled, he was always eager to spend his days with her.
