The Wallaby of Death - Part 4

Scene 4 - Open field

Watson has pulled over, and the company is camping out for the night.

Bre: I’m getting hungry…did anyone pack food other than cheese?

Watson (whips out apron and cooking utensils)

Bre and Grace stare in disbelief

Holmes: What are you doing, Watson?

Watson: I should have thought it very simple to deduce, Holmes.

Holmes (annoyed)

Mary (weakly beats fists on the inside of trunk)

Watson (starts making some unidentifiable food)

Bre: Um…What is it?

Watson: Pancakes!

Watson flips pancakes

Rustling is heard in the bushes

Watson (nervously): What was that? (starts flipping pancakes faster)

More rustling in the bushes

Watson: Hoooolmes…

More rustling

Watson (flips faster, wide-eyed)

Bre: Holmes! That’s the same rustling we heard in the bushes when I wrecked my car!

Holmes (leaps up): The chase is on!

Bre, Grace and Holmes leave Watson and run off into the night

Mary (still beating fist in the trunk): HEEELP!

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The Wallaby of Death - Part 3

Scene 3 - Ferrari

Watson and Holmes are sitting in the front seats, Bre and Grace are in the back seats.

Grace (to Holmes): So…do you have any theories on the wallaby prints?

Holmes: Not as of yet…but I feel as if things may take a serious turn in a short while.

They drive on in silence

Bre (sees a person standing alongside the road in the distance): Who would that be, out in the middle of nowhere?

Grace: I wonder if she needs help…

Watson: Shall I pull over?

Grace: Sure!

Car pulls to the side of the road a short distance from the person

Person starts running toward car

Bre: This is freaky…

Person reaches car

Person: HI!

Watson: Um…hi…

Person: I’m Mary!! You have a cute mustache!

Watson (eyes widen, leans back)

Bre (is greatly amused)

Mary: Can I have a ride? In the awesome, mustachioed man’s car? Please??

Grace (skeptically leans forward) Holmes…is that such a good idea?

Holmes (laughing) I see no harm…

Watson (blushes)

Bre: But there’s no room!

Mary: I don’t care! (tries to scramble into the car)

Grace and Bre attempt to restrain Mary from entering the car…Mary puts up a fight.

Holmes (does a sweet baritsu move and stuffs Mary in the trunk)

Mary (muffled): No! No! Is not the mustachioed man kind?!?! (beats fists on inside of trunk)

Holmes (dusts off hands): That should take care of it…

Bre (in disbelief): What just happened?

Grace: Um…I think we shoved someone in our trunk against their will.

Bre: Oh.

Everyone re-enters the car, and Watson drives off

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The Wallaby of Death - Part 2

Scene 2 - Baker Street

Bre and Grace stand outside the door of Baker Street.

Grace: I wonder how awkward it is to ask to borrow someone’s car for your road trip.

Bre: I have no idea.

Grace (knocks on door): I guess we’ll just have to find out.

Pause

Mrs. Hudson (opens door): Hello…oh. I remember you two…

Bre (smiles sweetly): I remember you too, Mrs. Hudson!

Grace (snorts)

Bre: Grace! Don’t snort, it’s unbecoming of you.

Mrs. Hudson: Well…come in.

Bre and Grace follow Mrs. Hudson upstairs

Mrs. Hudson (opens door and peeks in): Mr. Holmes… (gasps)

Bre and Grace: What?

Mrs. Hudson (covers eyes and runs away)

Bre and Grace walk up to the door and peer in…

Holmes and Watson are inside, frolicking about the room, doing the snuggie dance

Bre and Grace: Oh…dear….

Bre: Holmes???

Holmes and Watson immediately stop dancing and stand awkwardly by the window

Long and awkward silence as they all stare at each other

Bre: Pray do not steal my dance. It is copyrighted, I assure you.

Holmes (grabs snuggies and dashes into his bedroom)

More awkward silence as girls watch in disbelief

Watson: Nice weather we’re having…?

Grace: Yeeeeah…very nice…

Bre (staring)

Watson: Er…won’t you sit down?

Grace and Bre sit on the settee

Watson sits in the chair across from them and folds his hands

Watson: Um…it’s nice to see you girls again…

Bre: It’s….lovely to see you too…

Bre and Grace burst out laughing

Watson (blushes)

Holmes enters dramatically

Bre and Grace eye him unsurely

Holmes: Don’t give me that.

Bre: Kay.

Grace: He has a point. We did make it up.

Bre: True.

Bre and Grace leap from the settee and hug Holmes

Holmes stiffens

Bre and Grace return to their seats

Grace: It’s so good to see you, Holmes!

Bre: Yeah!

Holmes: It’s wonderful to see you all, completely unharmed…

Bre: What do you mean?

Holmes: Automotive mishaps do have a tendency to cause injury, especially to adolescent females.

Grace (whispers in Bre’s ear): He wants us to ask him how he deduced that, so he can tell us.

Bre (nods slowly in understanding)

Bre and Grace grin

Grace (to Watson): Can we borrow your car?

Watson (is confused) Holmes…?

Holmes (slightly annoyed): Well, Watson…it seems that in the midst of a completely superfluous argument, control was lost and the vehicle crashed after a short time, into a tree, post, or other some other sort of obstruction.

Watson: I see.

Bre: We reallllly need a car…we’re in the middle of a road-trip, and we only have 3 days!

Watson: But…but…it’s…a Ferrari…

Bre: A WHAT???

Grace: We’ll be very, very careful!

Holmes (mumbles sarcastically): Yes, as careful as you were with the last one…

Grace (glares at Holmes)

Watson: Ok, ok, I give in…you may borrow my…car…

Holmes (studying Bre’s face): But that is not all, my dear friends…

Bre (squirms uncomfortably): No, it’s not…

Grace: We may have a case for you, Holmes.

Holmes (settles in chair and steeples fingers): Continue.

Bre: Well…while we were assessing the damage done to my car…we heard some rustling in the bushes, and when we went to investigate, we saw a bunch of odd-looking footprints…and they were big…and scary…and deep…and big…and…frightening…

Grace (bursts in): Holmes, they were the footprints of…A GIGANTIC WALLABY!

Silence

Holmes: I think it would be prudent if I could observe these…goings-on… for myself. (rises) Come Watson, we shall join our friends on their road trip.

Watson (grins): May I drive?

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The Wallaby of Death - Part 1

Scene 1 - Smart Car

Bre and Grace are crammed in the smart car. Bre is driving.

Bre (greatly agitated): I’m telling you, dancing hogs are a danger to the minds of our youth!!!!!!

Grace (calmly): I don’t believe it would affect them in any way, actually.

Bre (exasperated sigh)

Pause

Bre: But what about the anchovies?!?!

Grace (puzzled): What about the anchovies?

Bre (throws hands up in the air)

Grace (grabs steering wheel): BRE! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!??!!

Car careens out of control and goes off the road, rolls down a hill and into a tree.

Bre and Grace sit in stunned silence

Grace (sarcastically): Nice.

Bre and Grace exit the car and begin to assess the damage

Bre: Oh dear.

Awkward silence

Bre: Now what?

Awkward silence

Grace: You tell me.

Awkward silence

Bre (wails): NOW WE DON’T HAVE A CAR SO WE CAN FINISH OUR TOUR OF THE ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE!!!! (collapses on the ground sobbing)

Grace (stares blankly): How far are we from London?

Bre (stops wailing and stands up): 22.2 miles.

Grace: Okay then.

Bre: Why do you ask?

Grace: Why do you think I’m asking?

Pause

Bre and Grace: HOLMES!

Bre and Grace hear rustling in the bushes.

Bre (edges closer to Grace): What was that?

Rustling stops

Grace: Let’s go investigate…

Bre and Grace wander to bushes and begin inspecting ground

Bre (stops dead in tracks and points at ground): Grace…I found something…

Grace (comes over to see): What?

Pause as Grace looks at ground

Grace (gasps)

Bre (solemnly): I think we should let Holmes handle this.

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Surprise!

Grace has been at my house since last Tuesday...and we have been working on a surprise for you all :) I know it has been a long time since we have posted anything, but we figured this would make up for it. haha.

So yeah. :)

Enjoy your surprise!

Enter: The Wallaby of Death

Hi Holmesians!!

Wow.

It has been a *really* long time, hasn't it?

Summer is flying by so fast, I haven't even had time to sit and figure out a blog post.

So...I just thought I would say...Grace and I didn't die. lol She's away at camp...I'm just insanely busy.

BUT. In August, she's coming to the sunny south to visit me...and there will be sooo many exciting things to blog about then :)

And that contest isn't going anywhere...it will still happen, though when...not sure :P

Old Copies of the Canon...

Hi Everyone!

I hope everyone has had a super blessed week!

I'm sorry about not posting the contest information yet, but Grace is currently away so we haven't had time to finish prepping. It will be up soon, though.

But for now, I have some awesome pictures to share!

My mom and I went on a college tour of Bryan College in Dayon, TN a couple of weeks ago. They had a libary FULL of very old books. I, naturally, wandered to the British Literature section and got my hands on two copies of Sherlock Holmes...one, a copy of the Hound of the Baskervilles from 1902:

And one, a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, dated 1900.

There was also a book with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's picture in it, dated 1896.

They were pretty awesome...all falling apart and such, but it was amazing to hold a book in my hands back from the time Holmes was actually created :)

Anywho, like I said, contest information is on it's way; I shall likely be working on it this very afternoon. Enjoy the pictures, and have a spectacular weekend!

Bre