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stonepicnicking_okapi ([personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote in [community profile] adventdrabbles2019-12-05 02:49 pm

Dec 05, BBC Sherlock, Peppermint Cocoa

Title: Peppermint Cocoa
Author: [personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Length: 100
Characters: Lestrade, Sherlock, John
Relationship: pre-Mycroft/Lestrade
Rating: Gen
For: Day 5 [community profile] adventdrabbles: Peppermint Cocoa
Summary: Sherlock makes a deduction about Lestrade's cocoa.


Lestrade stirred the contents of the paper cup with a red-and-white-striped stick while he spoke.

Sherlock interrupted.

“Mycroft has finally made his affection known.”

John gasped. “How—?”

Sherlock smirked. “That’s not coffee he’s stirring. It’s Hotel Chocolat’s dark cocoa supreme. Lestrade wouldn’t spend that kind of money on a hot beverage, so it’s a gift, and that,” he nodded to a thermos flask on the desk, “is not his. Arrived this morning. With a note?”

“Hand delivered,” said Lestrade. “And, yeah, there’s a note.” He turned the cup where written in an elegant hand was:

SOD OFF, BROTHER MINE!

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