October 9th

Sherlock jolts awake when someone shakes his shoulder roughly. "Huh? What? What's wrong?" He notices that it's John and he relaxes, yawning widely. "Oh, it's you."

"Is there any reason that you've fallen asleep with candy corn all over you?" John asks, seeming to be restraining laughter.

Sherlock tilts his head and sits up a little more, candy corn cascading from his shirt. "Oh." He catches a few of the pieces in his lap and dumps them onto the coffee table. "I was experimenting..."

John laughs. "Yeah, right. Did that involve eating a bunch of it?"

"It's... alright, I guess," Sherlock says, gathering a few more pieces of the candy.

"Wait, have you never had candy corn?"

Sherlock gives him a look. "Why would I?"

"... As a kid?"

"Hardly. We were lucky if we went trick-or-treating," Sherlock retorts, trying not to think of the two times that he and Mycroft had done such a thing.

"Have you had Indian corn?"

"Indian corn?"

John picks up one of the candies and pops it into his mouth. "It's got chocolate."

Sherlock wrinkles his nose. "What's the point? It doesn't taste like anything but sugar, anyway. It's not bad but it's certainly not pumpkin pie."

"Is that a hint?" John flops into his chair.

"I can get it myself if you don't want to. I can bake."

John frowns. "Really? You?"

Sherlock scowls at him. "Unlike you think, I am not completely helpless in the kitchen. You forget that I lived alone before you. And I had a rubbish landlord before," he mutters.

"Prove it."

Sherlock smirks and picks up a piece of candy corn. "I don't feel like it right now." He nibbles on it. "Perhaps later. Besides, we don't have any pie pumpkins or pumpkin filling. The former would make for the best pie, though."

"I'll go shopping tomorrow," John replies. "And you can prove it."

Sherlock shrugs a shoulder. "Fine." He pauses. "John?"

"Hm?"

"Pick up some Indian corn while you're out? I need to do another experiment."


Indian corn is better, in my opinion. Candy Corn M&Ms are good, too... but not too Halloweenish.