Deranged Detective Oneshots

Playful Bath Time (Female Winter)

A/n: Female Winter and childhood friend SFW (This is the first time I've ever posted something like this, so if it's actually NSFW, or labeled wrong in general, please let me know and I'll fix it.)

She walks into the apartment, exhausted from a long day of work, and half hazardly throws her keys in a small dish next to the front entrance. As she walks further down the hall, she can hear faint music and singing from behind one of the closed doors. She stops and listens to assess the situation, a habit she developed, because of her job.

"Everytime you look at her, I close my eyes / Does she keep you up all night, keep you up all night? / Why'd you say forever if you change your mind?"

Along with a female singing, she hears water splashing every few seconds. She decides it's safe to knock, but doesn't receive an answer after a few tries.

"Lost in her own world again..." She thinks.

The woman slowly opens the door, to try and not scare the other, but failed. The girl in the bath tub screams and desperately trys to find anything to use as a weapon.

"Uh, no, it's just me."

The woman at the door stopped in her tracks to try and calm down the other girl.

"Uhhhhg! Winter! I thought you were a burglar!" Shouted the scared girl.

She's a well known friend of Winter's. In fact, she's the longest friend Winter has managed to keep around. The apartment is one that they started to share after Winter ran away from the Moriarty house. Her friend was living in Japan and recently broke up with her boyfriend she was living with. Winter had business she had to attend to in Japan anyways, so she decided to move in. The timing couldn't be more perfect.

"I didn't mean to scare you. I just wanted to check up on you. You were singing one of those songs again."

She goes silent for a moment, her face almost looking as if she's searching for something on Winter's face, then replies after blinking a few times.

"No, no, no, I'm fine. I just really like that song."

Winter picks up her friends phone and inspects what's showing on the screen.

"You're listening to the whole playlist."

"I'm ok, gease! Just drop it!"

Winter puts down the phone and starts stripping off her clothes.

"Mind if I join you?"

"No, go ahead." Is barely heard inside the tub.

Winter situates herself in the other side of the tub, while her friend looks away. She noticed this behavior since she's moved in. When they were younger, they used to always bathe together like this, having serious and deep conversations. Both of them have also said things that they never thought they'd voice to another person. For them, as silly as it sounds, bathing together has a similar effect that alcohol has on other people.

Winter put both arms on either side of the tub and leaned back. She closed her eyes and let the swaying of the water and the music coax her into a peaceful state, despite the sadness behind the words.

"Then I saw a picture of your smile / something I haven't seen in a while / you know the one, the one you love to hate / but everytime, it takes my breath away."