Coach Watson noticed the huge change in his son. Ever since Sunday afternoon, John had improved wonderfully. He didn't even know what had been wrong with him before, but he was glad to have the old John back. He scored more points than he ever had in the team's next practice.

Sherlock had taken to tutoring the other members of the science team. They had been so impressed by him that they came to him with any questions or difficulties they were facing. He'd even gotten slightly friendlier to them, but old habits die last. He still called them idiots some times.

"Zn4, and by doing that, you end up with two... and two," he said to Ella Thompson "Got it?"

Ella wrote it down. "Yes," she answered.

Molly was so happy. She'd been trying to explain this to Ella for a month and had managed nothing. And Sherlock had done it in a matter of minutes. She high fived Ella and smiled at Sherlock who put down the marker he had been using to write on the whiteboard down.


John looked at his watch. It was time for his rehearsal with Soo Lin. He scored another point and mimed timeout to Greg. Greg nodded and motioned towards the direction of the door with his head. John ran out the gym as his father stared at them with a puzzled look.

"Come here. Go ahead and put five grams of this in," Sherlock showed the science team an experiment. He pointed to a substance which was on the bench. "And that causes it to change from an acidic state," he explained "Causing the colour to change from pink to blue. Just like those pH test strips. Oh, gotta go," he added when he saw the time. He took off his goggles and apron and rushed out.

He and John met in the hallway. "We're late," John teased him as they ran off to meet Soo Lin.


Irene and Jim were walking through the hallway when they heard it. Two voices singing from inside a classroom. And it wasn't just any song they were singing. It was a song from their musical. And they weren't just any voices, they were both male. It could only be Holmes and Watson.

"If we're trying

Yeah, we're breaking free"

Irene gasped. "Wow. They sound good," Jim said. He wasn't helping at all. She looked into the classroom's window and saw them singing while the little Chinese girl was playing the piano, smiling.

"We have to do something," she said. She couldn't bear to not star in the musical. "Okay, our call backs on Thursday and the basketball game and the scholastic decathlon are on Friday," an evil thought struck her when she said this "Too bad all these events weren't happening on the same day... at the same time."

"Well," Jim answered, not quite getting it "That wouldn't work out because then John and Sherlock wouldn't be able to make the..." He then realised what Irene meant and smirked. "I'm proud to call you my cousin." he told her.

"I know," Irene replied and strode off proudly. Jim followed her to the auditorium.


Soo Lin was rearranging her papers. She was so satisfied by today's rehearsal. If Sherlock and John sang like this at the audition, they would definitely get the roles. She heard the door open and hid herself behind the piano. Good thing she did because Miss Wenceslas, Jim Moriarty and Irene Adler walked in.

"I don't want to hear about John Watson and that Holmes boy," Wenceslas was saying "So, if you're telling me as co-presidents of the drama club that changing the call backs would be what's best for our theatre program, then I might actually agree with you."

Soo Lin gasped before she could stop herself. Irene and Jim wouldn't propose something like this unless they were trying to sabotage Sherlock and John's audition. Wenceslas looked around to find the source of the noise. Deciding that it had merely been her imagination, she walked away.

"Is that a yes?" Jim asked Irene.

Irene shrugged and left singing the song they would be singing for the call backs.

"Bop bop bop, up to the top

And wipe away your inhibitions

Stomp, stomp, stomp

Do the romp and strut your stuff

Bop bop bop, straight to the top..."

When she was sure she was alone again, Soo Lin sighed in defeat.


Sure enough, the next morning a new note appeared on the notice board. Soo Lin read it three times to make sure it was really there. She heard the doors open and the voices of John, Sherlock, Greg Lestrade, Molly Hooper and some others she didn't know. She prepared herself to explain the situation to them.

"No problem at all," Greg was saying "It was crazy, mate."

"Hey, what's wrong?" John asked when he saw the look on Soo Lin's face. He walked over to her. She was staring at the notice board. He looked at it and realised why she looked like this. There was a new note on it.

'CALL BACK AUDITIONS RESCHEDULED TO FRIDAY BEGINNING AT 3:30 PM' it read.

"Call back's the same time as the game?" he wondered. It wasn't like that when he last looked. By then, everyone else had gathered around them.

"And the scholastic decathlon," Sherlock added.

"Why would they do that?" John asked.

"I smell a rat named Wenceslas," Greg answered.

"I actually think it's two rats," Soo Lin said, speaking to the basketball player for the first time "Neither of them named Wenceslas."

"Do you know something about this small person?" Greg asked her.

Soo Lin turned to John. "Miss Wenceslas might think that she's protecting the show," she told him "But Irene and Jim are pretty much only concerned with protecting themselves."

"Do you know what I'm gonna do to those two show dogs?" Greg exclaimed angrily.

"Nothing," John answered to him, trying to calm him down, they wouldn't achieve anything by being angry. "We're not gonna do anything to them. Except sing, maybe. All right, now this is only gonna happen if we all work together. Now who's in?" He held out his hand.

Greg stared at the rest of the Otters. They had promised John that they would support him, whatever he decided to do. What Irene and Jim were doing was unfair and they had to do something, something clever. They put their hands over John's.

Sherlock was prepared to do anything to sing with John. He had decided that that was what he wanted. He wasn't going to make the same mistakes. He had allowed others to push him around, preventing him from following his dreams, and he wasn't going to do it again. This time, he was going to do what he wanted to do. He put his hand over everyone else's.

Soo Lin knew that John and Sherlock deserved those roles more than anyone else on the drama club. They were talented and they had amazing chemistry. She could tell, though, it was more than a friendship that they shared. Someday they might discover it and she hoped that through this play they would. She was going to do this for the play, but also for the boys. She placed her hand over Sherlock's.

Molly needed Sherlock on her team. He was easily the smartest person she had ever met. But through getting to know him, she grew to like him for more things than his brain. She hoped that he would notice her, if it didn't work out with John. She knew how important the singing was to him. She wanted to win the decathlon, but she also wanted Sherlock to be happy, no matter what it took. She put her hand over Soo Lin's and the rest of the science club copied her.

They all exchanged a look. They would all have to work together to think of something. It was definitely going to be risky, but they had to risk it. It could be dangerous, but who doesn't love a bit of danger some times? Yes, this was going to work.

I had a bad day. Make me happier :))