All I Want For Christmas Chapter 1: Cigarette, a sherlock fanfic

AN: Okay – Take The Detective and His Blogger. Replace John with Molly and Sherlock with Greg, add a dash of holiday spirit and you get – All I Want For Christmas! This will be a mutli-chp text fic that I will run through the holidays. It'll start off as platonic and at some undetermined point become Molstrade. Let me know your thoughts!

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2:02

All I want for Xmas is a damn cigarette...
GL

2:04
What?
Molly H.

2:05
Just listening to the radio and I heard "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth"... Odd sense of humour. Sorry.
GL

2:05
Oh! No I get it. Clever. :)
Molly H

2:06
Not really. But I'm strung out on caffeine and it seems funny.
GL

2:07
So what's going on then?
Molly H

2:07
What do you mean?
GL

2:08
Well if you want a cigarette something must be wrong...
Molly H

2:09

Perceptive aren't you?

2:10

Not as much as Sherlock...

Molly H

2:12

And you hit the nail on the head.

2:11

Sherlock's being a pain then?

Molly H

2:12

Per usual.

2:14

What's he done now?

Molly H

2:15

It's not what he's done. It's what he hasn't.

2:16

Oh?

Molly H

2:17

Yeah. I called him in on a case two days ago. Haven't heard a thing from him and now we've got another victim.

2:17

That's not like him at all though...

Molly H

2:18

This is just like him actually. He's following up on the case on his own but won't share the evidence until he's got the whole thing solved.

2:18

Have you tried John?

Molly H

2:20

Yeah. He's working though. And I don't like to bother him if I can avoid it. God knows his life is hard enough living with Sherlock.

2:21

Yeah – I suppose. Is there anything I can do?

Molly H

2:22

Make my cravings disappear?

2:23

I could sedate you.

Molly H

2:23

That was joke!

Molly H

2:24

I know. Wish it wasn't though – I could use some sleep.

2:25

I'm sure that's true. But with my luck someone would mistake you for a corpse and cart you off.

Molly H

2:25

That's not a pleasant image...

2:26

Sorry! Probably had enough of corpses haven't you?

Molly H

2:26

Yeah. For this month at least.

2:29

Have you ever tired Yoga?

Molly H

2:29

What? Why?

2:30

Well I've heard it's good for stress. They teach chanting and breathing and stuff. Might help you with your cravings.

Molly H

2:31

I don't think me chanting at a crime scene would go over very well. Might not be a bad idea to stretch some though. I can hardly bed to tie my shoes some days.

2:32

Oh I'm sure you're limber enough.

Molly H

2:33

Okay...Thanks I guess...

2:34

Oh God! I'm sorry – that came out wrong...

Molly H

2:35

No – it's fine. Made me laugh.

2:35

Nice to know I'm good for something.

Molly H

2:36

You're good for a lot of things. I know you've been instrumental in helping Sherlock solve most of his cases.

2:37

I don't know about most. Not all his cases involve bodies.

Molly H

2:38

Maybe not – but you help with testing and research too. I'd wager you helped solve 85% of his cases.

2:39

More like 65%. And I just gave him data. He pieced it all together.

Molly H

2:40

Why do you do this?

2:40

What?

Molly H

2:42

Deflect credit away from yourself. You deserve it. Even Sherlock knows how much he owes you. Told me himself.

2:42

Really?

Molly H

2:45

Not in those exact words. But once when he was giving an agent of mine a hard time I snapped at him about acting as though he's better than anyone else. Told him that he should take over the whole justice system since he thought no one else could do their jobs properly. That didn't go over well with him.

2:46

What did he say?

Molly H

2:48

"Lestrade don't be foolish. It would be impractical for one man to run the entire justice system. And there are a few individuals whom I can rely on to be competent within their professions. Molly Hooper for example. Finest Pathologist I've ever worked with and an invaluable addition to my circle of colleagues."

2:48

Wow. He really said that?

Molly H.

2:49

Yeah. I hardly knew you then though, so I just brushed it off.

2:50

Thank you for telling me.

Molly H

2:51

Welcome. Thank you for distracting me.

2:52

My pleasure. Good luck!

Molly H

2:52

Thanks. I'll need it.

2:54

I wouldn't worry. Sherlock will turn up.

Molly H

2:54

I hope he does so before there's another victim.

2:55

Oh he will. St. Bart's 4:30 this afternoon to be precise.

Molly H

2:57

What did you do?

2:57

Told him there's another victim at the morgue and that is presents some new evidence.

Molly H

2:58

But there's no body. Just ashes. You guys won't get anything.

2:58

Sherlock doesn't know that. He thinks the killer has changed their MO and is very curious.

Molly H

2:59

I could kiss you!

3:00

Sorry – Was that inappropriate?

3:01

No – it's fine. See you this afternoon then?

Molly H

3:02

I'll be there. With coffee.

3:03

Molly H

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