Sherlock Holmes had been working with Scotland yard as a consulting detective for 3 months, officially. Of course he had also been offering his advice before that via texts and just generally showing up at crime scenes. despite all this Greg Lestrade had yet to grow accustomed to Sherlock's erratic behavior and mood swings.
It was 7:30 on Wednesday and Lestrade was just getting ready to go home via the pub when the call came. Two bodies, both women, found in the bathroom of a night cub, both with bite marks on their necks akin to those in a vampire movie. As soon as Lestrade got the call he knew they would need the help of Sherlock, despite protests from the team. So, once they had reached the crime scene and confirmed that it was in fact a double homicide with signs o mythical creatures, he rang the high functioning sociopath. "Sherlock, we need you" Lestrade begrudgingly admitted fully expecting a sarcastic comment back about "that makes a change" or "keep Anderson away he is to stupid even for Scotland yard." he instead heard "sorry i have plans." Lestrade blinked. "what...?" " .Plans" Sherlock repeated slowly as if talking to a small child. "but.. Sherlock we have a double homicide with signs of mythical creatures...and your saying no...?" Lestrade sighed. "yep, i'm sure Anderson can handle it..." Sherlock said distractedly. Wait Sherlock just said something nice about Anderson. Something was up. "Sher-" but he was cut off by the dial tone. Well that was odd...
"well that was out of character..he turned us down..." announced Lestrade. "wait the freak turned down this..." exclaimed Donovan gesturing t the two bodies "i thought this would be right up his street. why'd he turn it down?got a hot date?..." she trailed off laughing at the unlikeliness of her statement. "well whatever it was we best get on with this, we wont want it to look like we cant function without him, he wouldn't let us live it down."
A/N: hey this is m first sherlock fic. i read some that were similar and loved them and the plot bunnies have been jumping around my head ever since. hope you like it.