Drabble: Tennyson's Study in Pink

[sorrel_forbes]

Title: Tennyson's Study in Pink
Author: sorrel_forbes
Characters: John and Sherlock
Summary: A Study in Pink as told by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Word Count: 100

His options few, his future bleak,
John Watson frets, but isn't weak.
Goes out, he knows not what to seek
And finds a man who's dark and sleek
                     Who always looks to see.
And in Bart's lab he seeks a boon;
Asks him 'round to visit soon
(Seven hours after noon)
                    Two twenty one, flat B.

Murder's made and sleuth's invited.
John abandoned feels he’s slighted,
Then remembered grows delighted;
Suddenly, new purpose sighted
                    Sherlock makes him happy.
Poison pills, four victims sicken
Killer's foiled in game of chicken
Danger done, they homewards quicken
                    To two two one, flat B.

Tennyson's Study in Pink
Lear's Blind Banker
Carroll's Great Game

Stevens' Scandal in Belgravia
Blake's HOUND of Baskerville
Lennon's Reichenbach Trip

Yeats' Empty Hearse