Meme: tell me of a story i haven't written

[rodlox]

From Seren_CCD...

MEME!

Tell me about a story I haven't written, and I'll give you between one and three sentences from that story.

(you don't have to copy this to your LJ if you don't want to, even if you take part)

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[rodlox]

As Joan walked the retirement community's halls to her grandfather's suite, she thought back to the note left for her this morning...It had begun with Sherlock saying how she had assisted with his reaching the answers sooner than he might have otherwise, wishing her well on her next assignment if she chose to go anyway, etc etc, and then, in a surprise to her, he had written You left just when you were getting interesting.

If only he knew how often that phrase gets used in my family, Joan thought to herself as she reached the suite's door and unlocked it to admit herself.

"Hi, Grandpa," Watson said, coming over to give him a quick hug before she sat down in the chair beside his wheelchair.

"How's my favorite granddaughter?" Indy asked.

"At a crossroads."

"When in doubt, go -"

"On an adventure," they both said in unison.

"I've said it a few times?" Indy jested. Off her nod, "Think you could bring me? The colleges don't ask me to sub as often as they used to, and there's not as much to do here as I'd like."

My God, what hijinks would my grandfather and Sherlock get into? Joan let herself wonder. "Think you'd like to spend a few days with me while I figure out which path to take?"

Taking off his hat and tossing it onto her head, "Thought you'd never ask, Junior."

"Why am I Junior?" Watson asked, voicing a question she had wondered for years.

Indy grinned. "Not because your name's Joan Indiana Watson, that's for sure. It's because, whether you believe me or not, you listen better than your brother does."

"My mother would argue the point."

With a chuckle, "Fine, you hear better. Now let's go. Though I'm not sure Gregson'll be happy I'm back in the neighborhood - did he make Captain yet?"

[pygmymuse]

I didn't expect to see Watson as part of the Jones family or any kind of crossover when I gave that prompt, but it works well.

I just had to smile as I read it. :)

So... as many prompts as I like? What if you explored this one a little:

My God, what hijinks would my grandfather and Sherlock get into?

[rodlox]

"And no whips."

Sherlock just looked at her. "I must say, Watson, that I'm stunned. Your grandfather and I were simply having a lighthearted discussion of what entertainments the three of us might seek this evening - and your mind goes straight to the whips, it seems." Stranger still, as she hasn't remarked on my whips since she saw them when we first met.

"If you know my academic record as well as you seem to," Indy said, "then her comment should make complete sense."

"It does. So, to a museum, then?"

Watson coughed.

"I have this habit of repatriating things that were illegally gained, Mr. Holmes," Indy remarked. "Even if its been a hundred fifty years in their collection."

"Right. Fine dining?"

"Beer."

"And no snakes," Watson said, and relished the look of confusion - puzzlement? - on Sherlock's face.

"That's the last time I take you to Vietnam on your birthday," Indy told her.

"That was the only time you took me to Vietnam," Joan said. I was ten and...faced with snakes and small birds in large bottles of alcohol.

"Very well, and I suspect I may regret this - Disneyworld?" Holmes suggested.

"Banned for life," Indy said.

"I am. You aren't," Joan said.

Sherlock's mobile phone rang. "Ah, Captain Gregson. Please tell me you have a case."

[pygmymuse]

I think you should make this a continuing series. :)

All the trouble the two (3?) of them could get into...