Pitching the Sheet RPF
Rating: PG13
Fandom: Sherlock
Pairing: none
Date: January 2012
Beta: none
Spoilers: A Scandal in Belgravia, more or less
Boring but necessary disclaimer: I don’t own any real people
Archive: really?
Feedback: Yes, PLEASE! starshine24mc@yahoo.com
Summary:  Okay, so Joelle found part one on a blog shortly after the first "Sheetlock" footage hit the net and passed it along. It made me giggle a lot! (I can so hear Mark's voice perfectly) So, if this is yours, and you stumble across it here, just let me know cos I totally give credit where credit is due, and this is made of win. As for part two, well apparently Joelle is really really good at making the voices in my head talk so loud I have to write them down. Or, y;know, who knows? Maybe one of these is really how it happened.


PITCHING THE SHEET:
 
MOFFAT: Hello Benedict, we'd like to speak to you about Series Two.
GATISS: Yes, we have some... ideas.
CUMBERBATCH:  Oh really what kind of ideas?
MOFFAT: Costume ideas.
GATISS: You know how you were naked in Frankenstein.
CUMBERBATCH:  ... yes?
MOFFAT:Or more lack of costume ideas.
GATISS:Well, we loved your work in Frankenstein.
CUMBERBATCH:  Oh good God no.
MOFFAT: Oh good God yes.
GATISS: We REALLY loved your work in Frankenstein.
 

PITCHING THE SHEET 2: THE FOURTH SHEET:

Author's Note: It seems to me that Ben really enjoys dropping his trousers, and Mark is, well, Mark. It might have gone something like this:

MOFFAT: (picks up phone late at night) This better be good...
GATISS: Steven, I've got an idea. Well, four ideas. Well, seven, but--
CUMBERBATCH: (in the background)HI STEVEN!
MOFFAT: What the hell--?
GATISS: Seriously, mi amigo--
CUMBERBATCH: (giggling) MES AMIGOS!
MOFFAT: Mark--?
GATISS: So I've got this bloody brilliant idea--
CUMBERBATCH: IT WAS MY IDEA, STEVEN!
GATISS: Yes, all right, Ben, just--here, give me that fag--
CUMBERBATCH: Mi fag est su fag (more giggles)
MOFFAT:OMG Is he drunk?
GATISS: Good deduction, Steven (giggle snort). Now can you deduce what pub we're in from--
CUMBERBATCH: HEY, WHO DOES THE DEDUTHING AROUND HERE?
(Lots of giggling now)
MOFFAT:You're drunk, and I'm hanging up now, Mark.
GATISS: No, don't. I'm not--well, not much--well, yes, we are, but listen, Steven! We've got the most brilliant idea. You know how you wanted to amp up the sibling tension in that first bit of Scandal. So you thought you'd have Sherlock using an umbrella.
CUMBERBATCH: MY UMBRELLA'S BIGGER THAN YOURS!
GATISS: Oi, size queen! Forget the sodding umbrella! What if Sherlock's just--
CUMBERBATCH: NAKED!
MOFFAT: Naked?!
GATISS: Well, in a sheet, like--
CUMBERBATCH:  NAKED! NUDE! SKYCLAD!
MOFFAT: You think Ben should be naked?
GATISS: No, no, not entirely naked. I mean you won't see his gentleman's vegetables or any of that. Just maybe a flash of--
CUMBERBATCH:  CUMBERBUM!
MOFFAT:Uh....
GATISS: It's brilliant! And the fans will love it! And Ben seems really keen...
CUMBERBATCH: MY CUMBERSHAKE BRINGS ALL THE GIRLS TO THE YARD!
MOFFAT: Well....
GATISS: And the best part will be when Watson just has to see what's under that sheet and--Steven? Steven? Hello?
CUMBERBATCH:  TOGA! TOGA! TOGA!



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