More Things That Never Happened to Sherlock Holmes

by Pompey

On-going series of AU drabbles and drabblets, some depressing and some funny. Updated as ideas strike me. Suggestions welcomed. Feel free to steal any AU that spawns a plot-bunny. Ch 97: the first rule of getting information out of people is Don't Be A Creeper.

31. Vacation?

"The villain is dead," Holmes pointed out.

"He certainly is," Watson agreed dryly.

"No one else was injured."

"Thanks goodness."

"We have undoubtedly saved scores of lives."

"Oh, undoubtedly."

"Then what is the problem, Watson?" Holmes asked, sounding put out at his friend's lack of enthusiasm. "The case has been brought to a successful conclusion."

Watson sighed and surveyed the ship's survivors coming ashore while avoiding the flotsam that was once the Dutch ship Friesland. "Yes, Holmes, but couldn't you have found a way to solve the case without marooning us all on this God-forsaken island?"

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For KaizokuShojo, who wanted to know what would happen if the boys were shipwrecked. This story is completely separate from the other (and wonderful) Friesland story, "Vows Made In Storms" by KCS and PGF.