Another day in paradise

[ex_sherlock300]

So far as Holmes was concerned, the devil could take this miserable place with all its irritating peculiarities, and do with it whatever he saw fit. Provided, of course, that the devil was not responsible for this island in the first place, which seemed more and more likely even to his unapologetically pragmatic perspective. A little exploration

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[tardistraveller]

Sarah Jane was in the midst of folding clothes precisely, making sure her dresses and her shirts and her jeans were all up to par when she peered at what the man had discovered. "Oh, it's for women," she remarked blithely. "Just a certain sort."

[ex_sherlock300]

"How thankful I am to have met none of those," Holmes returned, arching one eloquent brow. He caught up another shirt, this one an awful shade of chartreuse, and tossed it onto the others. "Perhaps the whims of this place have been kinder to you, madam." He eyed her stack of clothing and saw nothing too objectionable.

[tardistraveller]

Sarah Jane lifted a brown-green-and-orange dress and a pair of tights. "I'm afraid my own fashion sense tends to suffer from crippling," she joked, good-naturedly. "Here, let me have a look. I think the clothing box and I came to terms when I wrestled it for something normal."

And of course, had threatened to send the Doctor stark naked to parade in front of it.

She pulled out a polka-dotted shirt, a pair of velvet trousers, and a large hat.

[ex_sherlock300]

Holmes gazed at her selections a little askance. "I thank you," he managed after a moment or two of wordless horror, "but perhaps I shall trust my own dubious luck, after all." After a moment, his lips quirked just at one edge. "I suppose I have little enough chance of improving this place's opinion of me, in any case."

Especially so long as he continued smoking in the recreation room.

[tardistraveller]

Sarah Jane laughed, more than a little in horror. "I think maybe it hates me, then," she admitted, extending a hand to be shaken. "Sarah Jane Smith. She of the ill clothing luck."

[ex_sherlock300]

Holmes took her hand, but bent over it instead, touching his lips briefly to her knuckles before releasing her. "Sherlock Holmes," he said. "We are equally favored with ill-fortune, or so it seems."

[tardistraveller]

Sarah Jane arched an eyebrow curiously, but she didn't say a word, simply studied him. "Holmes?" she inquired. "I think I've heard of you." The same way she'd heard of Bond.

[ex_sherlock300]

"Truly?" Holmes asked, a little startled. His name had been recognized as much in England as it seemed to be here. "Perhaps you have read one of the little sketches written by the good Dr. Watson," he suggested. "I am aware of two pieces he has published. Although unless I am much mistaken, I cannot think we have come from precisely the same place."

[tardistraveller]

"I think I have," she agreed, not making mention of her travelling through time, or precisely how she knew him. "I come from all over," she admitted. "Many, many places."

[ex_sherlock300]

"How does one manage that?" Holmes asked, curious. He returned some minor measure of his attention to the clothes, coming up with a black shirt that might be serviceable...provided that he somehow replaced those nauseating faux diamond buttons with something plain. Admittedly, his sewing skills were hardly anything about which to brag.

[tardistraveller]

Sarah Jane smiled warmly as she watched him withdraw clothing. "Oh, you just have to know the right man," she remarked thoughtfully. "I had a friend who wore a hat that was very much of your era," she said, bemused.

[ex_sherlock300]

That sense of surrealism struck him sharply again. "Is that so? I am..." He almost could not bear to say something so illogical, but he had little choice. "I am lately of 1890, directly from London. Your friend was a countryman, then?" His lips curved at one edge. "Or perhaps just something of an eccentric?"

[tardistraveller]

"Eccentric," Sarah Jane confirmed, smiling warmly. "As of late, I am from 2008," she admitted. "However, I've been in the 1910's....the 1500's...and others," she spoke, not mentioning the times in the future.

"All things are possible if you believe in them," she said, before any incredulous disbelief might be thrust upon her.