Prompt from Hades Lord of the Dead: No good deed goes unpunished. This is a sequel to Christmas Surprise, for those who were wondering what had happened to Lestrade.

"Your wife should be coming soon, Inspector," the officer told Lestrade. "Brown has gone to your address to get her now."

"Thank you, Collins." Lestrade turned away from the bars to glare at Holmes. "At least someone can listen to orders."

"I'll remind you, Inspector, this was not what I intended when I asked you to accompany me tonight." Holmes sat back on the hard bunk provided for prisoners, holding a cloth to his rapidly swelling eye. "There was no reason to believe Hodgson would be violent-"

"- except clearly, there was." Lestrade gestured to Holmes' eye, then to himself. "Else I wouldn't be smelling like the inside of a chamber pot." His uniform smelled strongly of urine, with splodges of brown that he hadn't wanted to look too closely at. It had been bad enough being thrown into the gutter in that part of town without thinking too much about what else might have found its way into the gutter with him. "Teach me to give up Christmas dinner with my family to help a friend," he muttered. "Just goes to show, no good deed goes unpunished!"