Drabble: Improving the Mind

by Clonesgirl

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Written for the Weekly Drabble Challenge on Lifein1973 Sunday 25 July 2010.  Prompt: Book from Alice in Wonderland.

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"I don't believe it!  Gene Hunt reading a book?”

"I can read you know.  I bloody have to with all those forms you keep giving me."

"You don't read them, you sign them.  You'd autograph anything."

"Yeah, on account of I can trust my DI to dot the "I"s and cross the "T"s so the case won't get thrown out of court."

"Providence Island.  A bloke and two girls shipwrecked on a desert island.  And here I thought it might be something intellectual."

"It's intersexual, not intellectual."

"And it's got you all hot and bothered."

"Yeah, come here!"

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