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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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Advent Drabble 13 - Penguin
Requested by MaryJane221b (and girls)
“I just helped Lucky write a letter to Santa,” said Eames.
“And?” prompted Arthur.
“‘Dear Santa,’” Eames read aloud dramatically, “‘last year you didn’t bring me a leopard so this year I’m requesting a penguin, that should be easier for you, since you’re in the North Pole.’”
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Advent Drabble 11 - Brem
Requested by Gioia.
You could lose track of time, traveling in the TARDIS, which Matt knew. Still, when they visited his parents and everyone was wearing masks, it was startling to see how much he’d missed.
“Oh, right,” Brem said when Matt mentioned it. “The pandemic. The covid-19 pandemic, I mean. Yes, right, of course.”
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Advent Drabble 10 - Impossible
Requested by anonymous.
“When you eliminate the impossible,” Sherlock said, “whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”
“So Santa left us a bunch of birds in cages.”
Sherlock scowled. “No, no, that’s impossible, we are eliminating that.”
“What other possibility is there?”
“Mycroft.”
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