The Yellow Face: Sham Amber

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Title: The Yellow Face: Sham Amber
Author: gardnerhill               
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: Or maybe not.
                                                                                       
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“It’s your friend Challenger.” Holmes gave me the telephone.

“Professor? Happy birthday!”

He was delighted and agitated. Yes, he’d received the amber-stemmed pipe I’d sent, the one with the fossilised mosquito.

“…Wait, what ‘experiment’?”

A screeching roar bellowed down Baker Street, accompanied by a thundering stomp of giant feet. Screams outside.

I covered my face. “Tyrannosaurus or Brontosaurus? …You idiot.”

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Aha, Jurassic Park Victorian style.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

And the same idiot scientists who never learn that just because they CAN do something doesn't mean they SHOULD.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Wonderful crossover. ACD would be so proud ^__^

Greatly amusing ^_^ (I assume Mrs. Hudson will be popping outside with a ginormous collar and lead and a stern expression?)

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Poor Professor Challenger - the Arthur Conan Doyle creation nobody remembers.

And you're right - Mrs. Hudson would march outside and drag an angry Tyrannosaurus back to its owner by the scruff of its neck like a naughty cat. "Do be careful where you leave your pets, sir!"

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I only know of Professor Challenger (just read Adventures in the Strand). But I am presently reading the collected Brigadier Gerard stories - and enjoying them more than I expected to.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

The guy knew how to write an involving story.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Hee, hee. I agree that ACD would be proud. That bug in the amber, nobody can resist it.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Especially not scientists who are a little fuzzy on the whole cause-and-effect thing with the results of their experiments.

[debriswoman]

Wonderful:-)

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

Good idea, and how very Challenger-esque.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Typical absent-minded Victorian scientist - never asking "and THEN what?" after doing something like this.

[sanguinity]

Heh! There are never enough Challenger stories. Nor are there ever enough dinosaurs-in-the-streets stories. :-D

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

So far I've only seen one filmed Holmes/Dinosaur version, and none involving Professor Challenger.

I think you're the only one in Elementary fandom turning dinos loose on Holmes and Watson.

[sanguinity]

Heh. Well, that leaves us many, many more opportunities to set the dinos loose!