Between the lines. Chapter one.
"Do you trust her?" Molly asked without any hesitation.
"What you mean?" Sherlock asked with a confused expression.
"I know that she is important to you, and you want to protect her from Moriarty threats, but remember that she fooled you once in the past, to give confidencial information to him" she said, regretting right after see "how she could know about it" on his face.
"I do trust her, she' s inteligent and quite knows how to deal about the whole situation, since isn't the first time that someone wants to kill her, and now, is Moriarty that wants to kill her."
The pathologist sighed, she knew that The Woman is in danger, but she doesn't trust her, she could hurt his feelings and Sherlock looked so devastated when at that time on Christmas she was a dead body on morgue' s table, the same night that he had hurt her heart with his words. From that time to nowadays their friendship changed, he showed to her that he cares for her, she is no more ignored by him, he respects her feelings and this can be silly, but right now, something is worrying her mind more than anything. She is thinking about it, she already talked to Mary about the subject and she couldn't find a way to get a resolution.
She was waiting on his deductions, to tell him what's going on in her life, and she's going just agree and answer what he'd asks her, not that what happens her life was important to him, but since he's being a good friend to her, he does small chats, even knowing that this was a great effort to him be interested on trivial subjects that she brings out and she appreciated that.
Molly knows that he has so much on his plate last weeks,but months has past and it seems he didn't see through her behavior, that she changed. He for sure had to noticed that she's different. SO WHY ON EARTH, he didn't say nothing¿ She was brought back to reality when her phone started to ring, Reading the name that appeared on the screen she smiled softly,looking around she started to walking toward the door, so she could speak without being worried with the sound her voice, disturbing Sherlock while he is thinking.
What she didn't see was a Sherlock observing her actions and trying to figure out, why she's going to answer her phone out of morgue room, when he was talking to her. John entered the room making him break his thoughts.
"Did you see Molly in the hallway?" he asked John, "I was talking to her about these bodies and she left me alone, do you know if something is bothering her¿"
John knew, he did know everything but he couldn't tell to Sherlock, Mary made him swear, because Molly wanted to tell him in person, so it seems that she didn't tell him yet.
"Why are you saying this Sherlock?" he answered, trying to avoid to spoil it.
"She asked me if I trust Irene."
"What did you say to her?"
"I said, I do, since she's my girlfriend and we are living on Baker Street together..."
"You do!" John said indignified, "I don't know how and why, you do, but seems that Molly and I are concern about the same thing here, I know Sherlock you don't have to explain how you saved her from dead, because it seems that people that die around you, can't stay dead, I hope that if something happens to me, I can return from dead too!"
Sherlock smiled and turned to face the bodies and said: "Something is missing here, what a point to kill four people that don't have anything in commom and leaving them at same place to be found together?"
"I don't know, but you' re changing the subject here."
"I did the same as you did." Sherlock now is facing John with looking directly in the eyes, showing that he knows that John's hiding something about Molly.
"What?" John said trying to avoid the subject again.
"I know John, something is going on there," pointing toward the door, John sighed in relief but frowned in confusion, and when he's gonna say something, Sherlock interrupted, in conclusion his sentence. "she's is not over me, I know, but she has to accept the fact that I'm with Irene, I appreciate her concerns about our relationship, but she has to understand that her feelings for me can't be reciprocated, poor Molly".
"You are an arse, you know, you didn't pain attention at her¿" John said to Sherlock, "Molly helped when no one could do anything for you, and you still so selfish that you don't know what's going on her life, this should not surprised me at all".
"What did I miss? If I missed something"
" She has a boyfriend" John said lifting his eyebrown.
" I know." Sherlock answered.
"How did you know? She was trying to tell you about him... and ask us to not say a word to your because she wanted to tell you"
"Her behavior around me changed ,doesn't it matter, this won't last." Sherlock made his point.
John begun to look at Sherlock with a wish to punch him in the face, how could him be this stupid, Sherlock doesn't care really even as a friend about nothing that refers Molly's life.
"So why don't you say to her that you know? She wants to tell but she didn't get."
"What's the point in telling her that I know?"
"She could act easily around you, because she won't need to keep things hide from you... Sherlock what did you say early about how long this could last?"
"It won't". he said quickly now fussing in the shoes of those bodies, "John all the left shoes are missing here".
"You are wrong about it, she's been dating this guy almost seven months is getting serious."
This hit Sherlock as being big knews, he was frowning trying make sense of something, and John didn't know if was the case or the news about Molly's relationship, this was the detail about Molly's behavior that Sherlock missed, and for a second he let this appear on his face the surprise he didn't know that she was compromised all this time.
John understood the expression on Sherlock and said," You didn't know how long she's been dating, and this took you by surprise, I'll never understimate her skills to keep a secret from anyone again Sherlock, she even can keep things from YOU, that woman is a remarkable."
"What you are talking about?" Molly asked entering the morgue's room, making the two men turn to her, both of them with a smile in their faces.
"Nothing important", Sherlock said.
"Molly, he knows," John said, making Sherlock glance at him if he was throwing a knife in John chest.
"Thank God, Sherlock I was trying to figured out how to tell..."
"This is not important Molly" Sherlock interrupedt her, "I don't care if you have a boyfriend or not" he said hitting her abruptly.
She ignored his words as if were nothing but in her chest she felt sorry for his behavior, and when she was about to say something he interrupted again.
"Why you didn't tell me Molly about your boyfriend?" he asked.
"Don't you know, Sherlock?" now that this began she wouldn't hold on a word to him, "Why? you can't figure out why?" minutes has passed away and she got no answer from Sherlock, it was like he didn't know WHY for sure.
John that was there as a witness, wanted to help and said to Sherlock, "Deductions, your deductions about her boyfriends,mate."
"What?" Sherlock said astonished.
"That's truth, Sherlock, I didn't say anything to you because , you did all those deductions on past and that helped at that time, even making me feel so dumb about my boyfriends choices , at that time I didn't have time to know them well, your deductions were very handy, but now, I think that this one is a good man, and wanted to know him very well before you get to know him, not that you want to know him, but because you are my friend and at some point, you are going to meet each other so, I was afraid that something goes wrong and avoided to let you know, but this effort seems not work very well, you already knew it, John and Mary met him and they liked him..." she didn't know what to say anymore, because the silence in the morgue's room was dominant, if Sherlock wouldn't be right in front of her, she would thinking that she was talking alone, she turned to her right to see if John was there, she waited for a response from him, John was in amusing silence too, she started to feel awkward , now knowing how to act, when something changed on Sherlock's face, like he understood a puzzle and he started to walk towards her and leaning to kiss her cheek he said:
"You didn't have to worry about my deductions Molly" smiling to her he continued, "I'm very happy for you, it seems that we both finally found our matches" with these words he started to walking towards the door's mogue, John still standing there looking so confused as before, when he heard Sherlock, "John, aren't you coming, we need to solve crimes!".
John looked between Molly and the door open, Sherlock was already in the hallway,and finally moving to exit the room he said, "Molly, it seems that this was better than you expected, see you soon".
"Yeah," Molly said with a smile, watching John disappear through the door, "Yeah it seems."