Originally published 2014 September 17 on AO3, but forgot to post here too. Apparently I'm doing more of these [221bs]?
Irene Adler likes beautiful women and always has. But her favourite kind of beautiful women are the timid ones. She likes to save them from the cruel world, sweep them off their feet with soft words and gentle affection, and then shatter them into pieces. So when she learns of Molly Hooper from Jim, "poor Molly, so tragically in love with The Virgin", she can't help herself.
Their first run-ins are anything but the accident the experienced woman plays them as, but it's clear Molly has a 'type'. And as much as Sherlock denies it, he and Irene are of the same ilk, so it does not take long for the mousy mortician to take a shining to the dominatrix. Irene has to be careful with her. Molly takes direction so well, but she is unused to taking it from a woman; encouraging her obedience and her attraction will take patience and finesse. Something The Woman has in spades.
Tainting something so lovely is an art and Irene must be careful to not ruin the delicate flower. Though their first date does not end with her riding crop, their eleventh ends in the form of a giftbag filled with fragile pink paper starkly contrasting the sturdy leather cuffs and silk blindfold inside, delivered by Molly with a timid, blushing bow.
FIN
I guess I'm on a 221b roll. And my second f/f ever. Hope you enjoyed and don't forget to drop by my author tumblr (themadkatter13-fanfiction) for more.