Chapter 3: A Companion Canine
Molly had been watching Pride & Prejudice When Toby jumped up onto the couch beside her and hit the remote with his paw making the channel change to BBC News causing Molly to giggle,
"Sorry buddy, Friday night is movie night" she teased before changing it back to her film but Toby proceeded to hit the remote with his paw, once again changing the channel back to BBC News and Molly rolled her eyes as he looked at her and wagged his tail and she giggled, scratching him behind his ear the way he liked,
"Alright, fine. We'll watch the news" she conceived and Toby barked happily,
"The thieves were tracked down and the money stolen was returned by Baker Street, Consulting Detective, Sherlock Holmes" The reporter said and Molly watched with a bored expression,
"Guess he's not wearing the deerstalker on this case, hey Toby?" she teased but looked confused when Toby rested his head on the couch and whimpered sadly,
"Hey what's the matter buddy?" she asked gently, scratching him behind the ear once more and her faithful friend proceeded to jump off the couch and walked toward the tv and raised his paw, pressing it against the screen on which an image of Sherlock Holmes being interviewed was displayed and Molly frowned confused as Toby looked at her and whimpered sadly once more but all she really thought to do was get his dog food ready to cheer him up.
Molly slept soundly that night but Toby the basset hound was on a mission, He jumped off his mistress' bed and proceeded into the kitchen were he exited into the garden through his doggy door.
The brave dog's ears flopped up and down as he jumped at the back gate before giving up and grumbled realising his attempts were in vain and he trotted over to the fence behind the bins and proceeded to lightly but the fence with his nose and his ears perked up happily when it swung loosely and he began squeezing his way through the wooden gab but his collar became caught on an old nail causing his collar to break off as he exited the gab and barked happily before running off.
The next morning found Molly searching her home for Toby which soon lead to searching the garden and she felt mortified when she found Toby's collar by a small gap in the fence which Toby could easily fit through with effort,
"Oh Toby where have you gone?" she asked the air before running inside and she went and searched her local area feeling tears developing when she found no sign of him, asking her neighbours was no help as none of them had seen Toby either so Molly headed home and began to get in contact with every rescue centre, pound and vets within London; She wasn't giving up until she found her canine friend.
It was the very next day when Sherlock was making his way out the door to go and see Lestrade regarding a new case when he found a basset hound sitting on his door step and the detective looked surprised as the dog looked up at him and began wagging his tail,
"Errrrrr... Hello there" Sherlock said rather awkwardly causing the dog to bark up at him happily in response and the detective couldn't help but give a half smile.
Toby The Matchmaking Basset Hound! YAY! haha :) Let me know what you think of Toby's mischievous nature.
Kind Regards,
TheAuthor1996
