Infinite Variety

by StrangeBlaze

Miscellaneous drabbles and oneshots based in the Sherlock Holmes universe. Mostly Trated but I cannot promise that there sometimes won't be some M in there. I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety. EMPT

2. Dirty Laundry

Fandom: Sherlock Holmes

Characters/Pairing: Mrs. Hudson and Holmes

Title: "Dirty Laundry"

Rating: G

Note: This is another challenge from LiveJournal. The challenge was "Sherlock Holmes and socks". This one made 200 words, so we'll call it a "double-drabble".

"MRS. HUDSON!" Mr. Holmes' voice thundered down the steps one winter morning at an ungodly hour.

That good woman was entirely used to her lodger's moodiness and occasional rudeness. In all their years of cohabitation, he had alternately abused, coddled, bribed, and just generally annoyed her, but he always did it with some modicum of affection.

Thus she crawled out of her warm bed, into the freezing air, and trudged her way up to his rooms from the kitchen while it was still dark, to see just what it was that had him so upset. She opened the door to see him sitting on the divan, entirely dressed but for his hairy bare feet, smoking a cigarette and looking somewhat bemused.

"I am out of clean socks," he informed her.

She smiled sweetly and looked him in the eye. "Then perhaps you had better go and wash some," she said. She turned slowly and walked out of the room, back downstairs to bed. For a moment it was silent, then she heard him laugh uproariously and come down the stairs. When she awoke, a basket was sitting outside her door. It was full of clean clothes. They were all hers.