Elementary Fanfic: Phyllobates terribilis (JWP 2015 #14)

[caffienekitty]

Title: Phyllobates terribilis
Fandom: Elementary
Alternate Postings: AO3
Rating/Content: PG13, frogs, conservationism, poison
Warnings: None
Word Count: 400
Disclaimer: Not my characters or my world.
Notes: Written for watsons_woes July Writing Prompt #14: Not So Cute. Try to create something shmoopy with a less-than-adorable animal.

Summary: Deadly

Comments

[pompey01]

Sherlock, she voluntarily rooms with you. Surely her perspective on danger is no surprise!

(Those frogs are VERY pretty)

[caffienekitty]

They really are! I was surprised to see them on that list of 'ugly' animals, but I guess it was saying if it wasn't fluffy, it was ugly as well? Don't know.

[gardnerhill]

Joan walks in one evening to boing boing boingboingboing boing CROAK boing boing boingboingboing CROAK

"SHERLOCKKK!!!" she roars, standing dead-still amid hundreds of hopping yellow poisonous froggies - in and around the turtle tank, the beehives, the rooster cages, the quagga stall and the parrot perch.

"Sorry, Watson, but I couldn't resist after all."

[caffienekitty]

After which he'd reveal they were all bred in captivity and non poisonous because coating the flat in deadly frog secretions would be totally irresponsi-

What am I saying, of course he would!