The Empty House: Busted

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Title: The Empty House: Busted
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60                     
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: Maybe Sherlock Holmes hadn’t been his actual target.

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Wax effigies throughout that hideous mausoleum just down the street – perpetrated by that French ghoul who’d made casts of the royal heads during the Reign of Terror. Horrific and unnatural things.

A simple plan: aim through the windows and mutilate them all.

Moran raised his air-gun and grinned. He’d start with that ridiculous bust of Holmes that wasn’t fooling anyone. 

Comments

[marta-bee.livejournal.com]

Really interesting to see Moran wasn't at all fooled - entirely too likely for a marksman like him. I enjoyed this take on the story.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Can't be a coincidence that 221b Baker Street is literally just around the corner from Madame Tussaud's and Holmes can just happen to lay his hands on a wax likeness of himself. So it was a wax job, not a whack job.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

A good idea, sadly short-lived.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Tragically, Moran will be unable to stop the museum from portraying Kardashians.

[trobadora]

*giggles*

I like this idea!

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Gotta admit that that wax museum is hella creepy.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Ah, now this is a real story. I like this very much, but thankfully he got caught all the same.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Just as well Holmes went with the wax bust and not his original plan (Mrs. Hudson in a dressing gown with a pipe in her mouth).

[debriswoman]

An appealing notion:-)

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Yeah, a wax museum is a little too much like walking through an undertaker's parlour where all the corpses are standing.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

This is such a great and amusing twist ^___^ It's kind of like a crossover with SIXN, with the idée fixe actually existing this time.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Moran probably has traumatic childhood memories of being beaten with candles - he's terrified of wax things.

[alafaye]

Huh. Intriguing...

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Moran was probably traumatised as a child by being forced to visit a horrific wax museum.

[alafaye]

Plausible :D