Title: A Modern Odyssey
Characters/Pairings: Molly/Mycroft, Sherlock
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None
Word Count: 12,715
Notes: for the Sherlockmas 2013 Summer Prompt Fest
Prompt: (68) Molly/Mycroft; slow romance--Molly ends up on some absolute disaster of a trip (possibly due to Sherlock somehow?) and calls the only person that she figures will have ( Read more... )

Mycroft sat in his darkened study, allowing himself a short moment in which to relax at the end of his over-long day. The only light came from the fireplace, the flames dancing there mimicked in the shadows flickering across the walls. He stared at those shadows until one among them caught his eye. It moved apart from the others, pulling away from ( Read more... )

Perhaps she had been emboldened by the swim suit, or perhaps any amount of fabric felt demure after it. Either way, when Molly selected her dress for that evening she chose, of the two at her disposal, the one she judged to be more flirtatious. It actually covered more than the other, but the way that the fabric wrapped around and about, one sheer ( Read more... )

If Mycroft were to sum up that sail in one word, it would be ‘brilliant’. Not in the sense that it was so commonly used, to describe something particularly wonderful-although that meaning, too, applied-but as it should be used, to describe Molly’s eyes and her smile and her laugh. Dazzling, luminous, radiant.

They had taken a car to the cove. Molly ( Read more... )

Not being exactly like his brother, he had determined the problem by the end of his meal. He had intended only to protect Molly from the manipulations of Troy the would-be (and had-been) gigolo. Thus, he had made plain to her the man’s intentions. To insure that he gave up his pursuit, Mycroft had also made plain to Troy that Molly was under his ( Read more... )

After finding breakfast, which she would have described as delicious if she’d had any thought beyond replenishing her depleted energy reserves, Molly returned to her suite to succumb to a last catch-up nap. It wasn’t until after lunch that she went out to explore the resort.

It was one thing to charge a meal to the room-and she’d kept her lunch ( Read more... )

The next time the door opened, Molly jerked her head up from the table where she’d rested it in an attempt to nap. The attempt must have worked despite the lack of comfort; she could not have said how much time had passed, but her bladder was telling her it was enough for the bottle of water to have neared the end of its journey.

Mycroft Holmes and ( Read more... )

At least it couldn’t get any worse. Molly reminded herself of this repeatedly as she hunted for a place to sit in the surprisingly seating-scarce air terminal. She had already lost everything: luggage, passport, money, boarding pass. The only things she had left were the clothes she was wearing-a bit ripe now after too many hours continuous wear, ( Read more... )

Title: Six Days, Two Weeks, Nine Hours
Characters/Pairings: John/asexual!Sherlock
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Mild dub-con
Word Count: 3,193
Beta: splendens
Notes: for the Holmestice June 2013 Fanworks Exchange, written for serissime

Summary: Six days of bliss, two weeks of hell, and nine hours to tear it apart and put it all back together again.

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Author: red_chapel
Word Count: 53,945
Rating: PG
Characters: Sherlock, John, Lestrade, Mrs Hudson, Mycroft, Sally, OFCs, OMC
Prompt: "Sherlock receives a seed for a job. From it he grows John."
Summary: If this were an ordinary fairy tale, it would start with ‘once upon a time’ and a princess or a dragon or a poor fisherman by the sea. But this is not an ( Read more... )