Title: Messed Up Chemistry
Prompts: Watson's Woes Table 2-#33 Destroy
Watson looked up from the novel he'd been reading, distracted by the violent swearing of his odd flatmate, Sherlock Holmes. He was impressed--in a horrified sort of way--at the man's language.
Language that would make a sailor blush, he thought to himself, before he asked, "Holmes, whatever is the matter?"
"This stuff is supposed to be an acid, and it's acting like a base," Holmes replied. "It seems that--dear Lord, that's interesting."
Curiousity got the better of Watson, as he abandoned his novel to see what Holmes was up to now.
Five seconds later, he regretted his decision, as with a great BOOM! the chemicals Holmes had been mucking about with exploded right in his face.
Pain raced along his skin in electric arcs, as the chemicals burned into his flesh.
"Holmes," he panted, trying to speak thru the pain. "You need to flush the chemicals out of my eyes."
With a growl that sounded suspuciously like "I know that", Holmes grabbed a dropper and filled with it water.
With the gentleness of a man handling fragile china, Holmes flushed the chemicals out of Watson's eyes, and cleaned his face as well.
"Now you need to--" Watson began, but this time, Holmes interupted him.
"I know how to handle chemical burns, Doctor, so please, be a patient patient," he growled, hoping that his choice of words would distract the man from his injuries.
"'Patient patient'? I mean, really, Holmes, where did that come from?"
Unfortunately, it worked too well...and Holmes was forced to knock Watson out to get him to shut up long enough to get some rest.
"I don't knew morphrine, H'mes, th' pain issn't that bad," Watson said sleepily as the morphine kicked in