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Advent Drabble 10 - Oliver

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Oliver has been assigned a classmate to exchange gifts with. The entire thing is nonsensical to Sherlock.

“What for?” he demands.

“For the usual reasons that one buys people gifts,” John explains patiently.

“We don’t even know these people!”

“Oliver knows them.” John smiles at Oliver. “Right, Ollie?”

“Yes, and I’m going to give them worms.” Oliver is glowing with triumph.

John hesitates. “Do you…not like the person you got to exchange gifts with?”

“Oh, no, I like him a lot. I’m going to give him the special worms Dad and I have been experimenting with.”

“Good idea,” Sherlock approves.

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Advent Drabble 9 - Oliver

For @kleoette

Oliver gapes at a window display of nativity scenes in a shop they’re passing.

Oliver says, “But what are they?”

“They’re little scenes people set up in their houses at Christmastime. The birth of the baby Jesus,” John explains.

Oliver looks thoughtful.

So John supposes he shouldn’t be surprised when he comes home a few days later to the flat full of nativities, all of them scenes of brutal murder, decapitated wise men, disemboweled babies.

Sherlock explains, “Oliver had the brilliant idea to have festive murder scenes at this time of year.”

“Scenes of birth…or scenes of death!” Oliver adds.

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Advent Drabble 19 - Oliver

For @kleoette

“I think,” Oliver said, “it should be fairly obvious for children to determine that there’s no such thing as Father Christmas.” He said this thoughtfully, puzzling it through. “He doesn’t bring everything anyone asks for. And he very obviously brings more presents for rich children than poor children. Surely it’s easy for everyone to figure out.” He paused and looked at John. “But they don’t figure it out.”

“Dad would say it’s because people are stupid,” John remarked.

“I think…” Oliver considered. “I think maybe they want to believe. So they do.”

John smiled. “Yes.”

“And also people are stupid.”

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Advent Drabble 9 - Oliver

Requested by @kleoette

The headmaster insisted on summoning Oliver’s fathers, who arrived expecting the worst.

Dad said, “What’s all this? The school is still standing. I thought at least you would have caused some damage if you did indeed orchestrate an explosion. As I was told.” Dad frowned at the headmaster.

Oliver said, “It wasn’t an explosion, it was a little bit of sodium and potassium in water.”

“Not ‘a little,’” the headmaster harrumphed. “A great deal. The laboratory is unusable now.”

“It’s science,” Dad snapped. “Science never hurt anybody.”

“Not entirely true,” said Papa, and, “We’ll pay for it to be cleaned.”

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Advent Drabble 12 - Oliver

Requested by @kleoette

“I think it’s preposterous,” Oliver said. Preposterous was four-year-old Ollie’s favorite word.

“What is this time?” John asked, because everything was preposterous these days.

“The idea that a fat man could deliver all the presents in the world in a single night being pulled by reindeer. Coming down everyone’s chimney. It’s preposterous. Why doesn’t everyone else see it?”

“Maybe they like to believe in a bit of magic.” John regarded this little miracle child fondly. “I know I believe in a bit of magic.”

Oliver huffed.

But he didn’t tell his classmates there was no such thing as Father Christmas.

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@kleoette replied to your post “Any chance of Oliver in your Advent drabbles? He is my favorite....”

I would put a million hearts here if I could!

Awww, they’re there in spirit!

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The wierdest thing just happened...I was scrolling through my Tumblr feed and your two posts were there (insufferable husbands and Sherlock) I got to the first pane of the Sherlock one and the page did a wobble and suddenly your two posts were gone! I hadn't even read the Sherlock one yet! I scrolled back up in case I had accidently scrolled down too far but no, they were gone! They were there when I went to your actual page but in my feed...*poof* Very Strange!

Tumblr likes making my TA pages go POOF!

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kleoette replied to your post: …Every time I see the word Panera, I immediately...

I see Panera and think….Bagels…

Valid.

Bagels are Good.