A/N: Part of a Hades Lord of the Dead's December Challenge of Awesomeness. If you're interested, come join the writing party and PM Hades LotD.

Prompt: 10 Words. Write a piece using the words, 'defiant', rush, fear, weapon, woe, evanescence, cryptic, spontaneous, tragedy, and choke'.

From: Lemon Zinger

Date: December 1

Disclaimer: Scribbled in haste. Mistakes most likely. Abstract literary licence utilized to meet the challenges. Occasional rhyme.

WATSON'S REVOLVER PLOY

Come they told me

Pa rum pum pum pum

Weapon of woe I see

Pa rum pum pum pum

A rush of fear it brings

Pa rum pum pum pum

Yet ne'er a whistle rings

Pa rum pum pum pum

Rum pum pum pum

Rum pum pum pum

It is a tragic end

Pa rum pum pum pum

Of my chum

~O~

Single cryptogram

Pa rum pum pum pum

I am alone again

Pa rum pum pum pum

Spontaneous I spring

Pa rum pum pum pum

An evanescent ping

Pa rum pum pum pum,

Rum pum pum pum,

Rum pum pum pum

My pen falls down again

Pa rum pum pum pum

Here I come

~O~

Holmes he nodded

Pa rum pum pum pum,

He stood defiantly

Pa rum pum pum pum

I used my revolver

Pa rum pum pum pum

And saved this case solver

Pa rum pum pum pum

Rum pum pum pum

Rum pum pum pum

Then he smiled at me

Pa rum pum pum pum

Me and my gun

~O~

Loosely based on "The Little Drummer Boy"