A/N: Hades, darling, I did try… Apologies to all Scottish people for potentially butchering their dialect!


From Hades Lord of the Dead: Listen to 'It's Not Just Me' by Let's Eat Grandma as a prompt for today's story


Day 3: It's About the Friendship

"Doctor?"

"Hmm?"

"Do you enjoy this?"

Watson looked up then. "Holmes," he said slowly. "I am examining a corpse."

"Yes, of course. What I mean to say is, do you enjoy investigating cases like this?"

"Well, I'd hardly do it if I disliked it."

"Of course."

Watson looked back up, and Holmes didn't like the scrutinizing look in his hazel eyes. Then he barked a short laugh and his accent turned full Scots. "Ye absolute bampot."

"I beg your pardon?!"

"Idiot, Holmes. You're an idiot. Yes, of course, we're friends."

"That is not what I asked," Holmes attempted with whatever scraps of dignity were left to him.

"Yes, it was, and that is why you're a bampot." Watson was grinning far too smugly. "I wouldnae willingly spend so much time with you if we weren't friends, Sherlock Holmes."

Holmes managed a contemptuous sniff. "As usual, Doctor, you have drawn a totally erroneous conclusion."

"Ah. Well then, I'll just be off."

"What?!"

"Well, I don't see how I'm needed if I usually draw erroneous conclusions."

"Watson…"