On That Midnight Street 4/?

[painted_ship]

Title: On That Midnight Street
Author: painted_ship
Pairing(s): Martin Crieff/ Molly Hooper
Rating: R overall, PG for now
Warnings: Fluff, Angst. More fluff. Smut on the horizon. Crossover with the Sherlock universe.
Disclaimer: I own nothing in either of the universes that I’m shamelessly smushing together for my own (and hopefully your) amusement.

Comments

[ditsypersephone]

Oh Molly, let me cuddle you! And you too Martin! And then slip out so you two are cuddling each other!

Thank you for the update!

[painted_ship]

:-D Thank you for the speedy Gonzalez commenting!

[ditsypersephone]

Yes, well, I just got really excited when I saw that there was an update!

Now that I've calmed down a little, I want to say that I really like the way you're writing Molly - there's still the awkwardness and the insecurity but she comes across very mature on certain things (ie. Sherlock and his ways).

And the lie at the end - oh boy! For someone who tends to panic-lie, I just know how she's feeling!

[painted_ship]

Thank you!
I don't really buy into Molly as a complete idiot. Apart from anything else, as r_scribbles points out below, she's a doctor: she's not stupid. She might be a little naive in some ways and lacks the gritty life experience of other Sherlock characters, but sweet cheerfulness should not be confused with stupidity.

[painted_ship]

Donovan gets a bad reputation in a lot of fics, but I kind of like her. She has a lot to deal with. Also, you'd be in a bad mood if you were dating Anderson. Cut her some slack, fandom!

Ahem. Thank you for reading, of course. :-)

[painted_ship]

The women of Sherlock do tend to get horribly pigeon-holed into 'types', certainly. I suppose part of it is a result of having, necessarily, two strong male leads and an originally Victorian canon where most of the action was carried out by men, punctuated with the occaisonal damsel.
But I agree, having updated the stories and added the female characters, they ought to be doing something a bit more interesting than swooning/bitching/playing ditsy. I'm holding out high hopes for Irene Adler, especially as she can't be wheeled out as Sherlock's love interest (again).

[cutebutpsycho99]

OMG DOUGLAS. YOU BETTER HAVE A PLAN.

And poor Molly and Martin. I don't blame her for feeling a tad cautious and such. I mean, getting burned like with Sherlock has got to hurt an awful lot. I just feel bad that Martin's the collateral damage in that mess.

Also, I also like Sally too. But I often get the feeling that people forget -- this Sherlock is decidedly unlikable. He starts out as a jerk and well, slightly improves?

Admittedly, this is where I miss a certain warmth of Jeremy Brett, but that's just me.

[painted_ship]

Douglas always has a plan. He's Douglas!

Hooray for appreciation of Sally, too. Sherlock can indeed be horrendously unlikeable. Bizarrely it seems to be this which fascinates us, John and, sadly, Molly.

[heron236]

They cunningly got the vulnerability of "really? that's not what people usually say" (almost certainly a misquote) in early, so that we would warm to him a bit. Otherwise...

[syien_island]

Oooh, Douglas you better have some kind of scheme in your head! I have as much faith in you as Arthur does!

Oh, Molls! A spa sounds nice...

[painted_ship]

The question is: is your opinion of Douglas as high as Douglas' opinion of Douglas...

Thank you for reading!

[heron236]

Hooray for Molly being a 3D character. Do like her thought about John & Sherlock occupying their own world. Reject Sherlock's fake flirting, Molly! Worry rather about her being in Dublin when that's where Moriarty (or at least his actorial form) is from...