Prompt: Holmes acts as receptionist at Watson's medical practice for the day.

By: mrspencil

A/N: This has a very small amount of swearing.

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"Holmes?"

"Yes Doctor Watson?"

"Why are you acting as a receptionist?"

"Well, there's a murderer loose Doctor!" He hissed. "Trust me, I know what he looks like-and he has a four o'clock appointment with you today, I believe, so I shall lay out a trap for him."

"An excellent plan- only, you do know you have to work as a receptionist the whole day?"

Silence-then...

"Damn!" Holmes muttered.

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"Yes how may I help you?" Holmes asked dully. In his disguise, the only person who recognised him was Watson, who had walked with him to the clinic that morning so that Holmes could actually get the gist of how the medical practice operated.

"Yes- I have an appointment with Doctor Anstruther in six minutes fourteen seconds, brother." A familiar voice droned into his thoughts. Holmes groaned inwardly.

"Shh, Mycroft! They'll hear you- and why do have an appointment with him anyway? Why not just ask Watson for his assistance ?"

"Doctor Watson is currently busy with the Prime Minister about a splinter through the thumb. I am here because I have"-

"A sprained wrist? Yes, I am aware, Mycroft- now sit down, please. Unlike you, I am busy." Holmes glared at his brother until Mycroft waddled away to a red padded chair in the corner of the room

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At half past eleven, Holmes directed a German woman of middle age to see about her pregnancy. And by three fifteen, he helped two women about to go in labour with their babies give birth after being unable to locate an available midwife, saved a man from dying of choking and even managed to help his brother get the door after he was having difficulty opening it with his right hand, more accustomed to using his left, due to both doctors having tight appointment schedules.

But at the last minute, a message arrived stating that the murderer's appointment was cancelled for the following month.

Poor Watson and Mrs Hudson, as well as the neighbours, put up with Holmes swearing like mad and shooting the walls with renewed ferocity all night until half three in the morning . It seemed that he had handled two squalling, blood drenched newborn infants for nothing- and, to top it all, he had had to get the door for his brother like a valet or a butler- oh, the indignity of it all!