by Sherlock Holmes Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:54 am
Sherlock was slouched on the armchair, flicking through the channels on the TV endlessly, repeating the word "dull" over and over again at every station he turned to. Every single programme was dull. There was no hope.
Suddenly he heard something. The creaking of a stair? He turned off the telly and strained his ears. Yes, definitely footsteps. Not a client, he decided. They weren't urgent enough. These were slow methodical footsteps, two pairs. Definitely men. One man significantly shorter than the other.
Now who on earth would be coming to visit him at this time during the day, when John wasn't here, two men, who weren't clients, one tall, one short. Two men with slow, methodical steps, creeping up his staircase without knocking on the front door, rude enough, bold enough, cheeky enough to let themselves in?
"Good afternoon Jim," Sherlock called out, without looking round.