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Advent Drabble 22 - Hot Chocolate
Pete finds it shoved in the back of a kitchen cabinet.
“Look what I found!” he sing-songs to Patrick, carrying mugs into him.
“What’s that?” Patrick asks miserably, sniffling.
“You said if you drank any more tea you would puke, so I made you hot chocolate!”
“Where did you get hot chocolate?” Patrick asks suspiciously, and then sneezes.
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Advent Drabble 20 - Memories
Requested by MsLucySue
The thing about a mind palace was that it should have held everything securely. Every moment from Oliver’s childhood should have been perfectly stored there, on well-ordered shelves in well-laid-out rooms. And they were, they were all there. The problem was that the mind palace wasn’t perfect. It could store all the facts, but ( Read more... ) -
Advent Drabble 16 - Soulmates
Requested by anonymous.
“I read that soulmates can read each other’s minds,” said Pete. “What am I thinking right now?”
“You’d kill for some Cheetos,” said Patrick.
“Dude, how’d you know?” said Pete, laughing.
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“I read that soulmates can feel each other’s pain,” said Pete. “Can you feel this papercut on my finger?”
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Advent Drabble 15 - Chocolate
What to Get the Person Who Has Everything! proclaimed the headline.
“Useless,” muttered Sherlock. Nobody had everything. What people had were enough things that it was difficult to make an impression. That was Sherlock’s problem: When you gave someone all Twelve Days of Christmas, what could you get them after that?
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Advent Drabble 14 - Dancing
“You could be a better dancer than that,” Sherlock remarked, when John returned from the dance with his cousin.
“It’s just a wedding,” John told him. “It’s not the Royal Ballet.”
“Nevertheless, you could be better. You’re so focused on the steps that you miss the point.”
“And what’s the point?”
“The feelings.”
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