JWP 2014 #02 --- Careful Jostle

Title: Careful Jostle
Theme: July Writing Prompt 2014 #02 - July 02
Prompt: Animals Animals Animals. Expand on one of the non-human creatures appearing in or mentioned in the stories (Toby, the mongoose, the trained cormorant). Or create something based on one of the animal AUs (Sherlock Hound, Basil of Baker Street, Otterlock and HedgeJohn, Dangermouse). Will you be the 1,000,000th Sherlockian to speculate on just what the Giant Rat of Sumatra was?
Author: Alaylith
Rating: PG
Universe: BBC (S1); based on ACD "Silver Blaze"
Characters: Sherlock, John
Word Count: 348
Summary: The case of Silver Blaze makes Sherlock pushy, but John is quite happy with it.

A/N: Meehhhh... I was soo happy to get an idea for a general topic to connect all prompts yesterday and then we get such a prompt today. :/ Juggled with it for about 4 hours (with a short re-watch of Granada's Silver Blaze), until I managed to find a way to integrate it with my overall topic and then to write it.
But I am not really happy with it...

Let's see what I can make out of the next prompts to get a better grip on it; want to connect all once again.

For the timeline - this prompt starts something like a second part to my overall topic and the first prompt belongs to the first part (may also be the start of it, I am not sure yet).

I believe I am going to make a chronological Master Post within the next few days to more easily follow the connection of the prompts...

But now have fun reading this little tidbit.

Btw, the mentioned article was a headline of today's online version of The Guardian (UK). Just needed something to put in here. :)

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