The Speckled Band: Hidden Depths

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Title: The Speckled Band: Hidden Depths
Author: gardnerhill               
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: Do not anger a houseproud woman.
                                                                                       
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“Mr. Holmes!”

A clatter. She’d found the damaged poker.

I turned to her. “I’m afraid that visitor–”

The tiny woman snapped the poker true to form, with nary a twist. “Hmph! Next time call me instead of mucking with it yourselves!”

We gaped as she went downstairs.

I cleared my throat. “We’d… best pay our rent on time, Holmes.”

Comments

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

*lol* They are a strong breed, landladies. Both muscles and nerves of steel.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

One can't hold the Empire together, one lodging at a time, with fainting milksops, can one?

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Very good idea, Watson ^_^

Mrs. Hudson - what a woman. I love that image of Holmes and Watson staring after her in stunned silence ^_^

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

If only Mrs. Hudson hadn't been away at her sister's when Professor Moriarty came to call - she'd have left him bound and gagged on Holmes' doorstep like a proud kitten displaying its first mouse, and the whole Reichenbach tragedy could have been averted.

[debriswoman]

*applauds Mrs H*
Beautifully set up:-)

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

One does not provide landlady services in the great cesspool of London without nerves (and forearms) of steel.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Mrs Hudson, a force to be reckoned with at all times.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

And like most Victorian women, quietly hiding that force under a demure and ladylike bushel.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Hee, hee. Love it! All those trays up and down stairs have buffed Mrs. Hudson up.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Not to mention chucking out the odd rogue or villain.

[castiron.livejournal.com]

*applause*

NEVER underestimate Mrs. Hudson.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Just ask that would-be assassin who got a boxed ear for his troubles.

[grrlpup]

AWESOME. :D

Don't mess with a landlady's household tools!

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

I can see her using that selfsame poker to thrash a howling Moriarty around the head and shoulders as she chases him down the stairs and out of her building. Threatening her paying lodgers indeed!

[sanguinity]

The grip strength of a draw die! Yes, they'd best mind their p's and q's, and call her instead of mucking about with things themselves. :-D

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

No wonder they fled for Switzerland when Moriarty's gang firebombed the rooms - they'd rather face the Professor than their furious landlady.