Hey guys, thanks for the reviews! Oh my word you are all amazing! They really do push me on and keep me going! So I'm incredibly sorry that I haven't posted for a few days, things got a little busy with work, but all is calm once again :-) Hope you enjoy this, so what was the vote... punch and kiss? ...


The boards at Euston station were full of travel information. The 13.25 to Nottingham was delayed, the 13.30 to Tring was now boarding. She scanned the boards, not really sure what she was looking for and aware that she was looking at the departure boards and not the arrivals anyway. In front of her eyes, as she looked at the big black boards, one by one, they went blank, the writing seemingly having been deleted.

"We are sorry to announce that all trains are currently suspended, this is due to a fatality on the tracks. Please listen for further information. Once again we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause our passengers, please be advised we are checking whether other operators will accept tickets from this station."

Molly froze in a sea of business men and women, backpackers, students going back to University, commuters all bustling around, calling loved ones, colleagues or other train providers. Some rushed towards the underground, other left the station altogether.

Molly just stood there.

A fatality on the track.

She couldn't lose him, it wasn't him, it couldn't be him, it wouldn't be him.

Please God don't let it be him. She could feel that she was about to start hyperventilating so she slowly managed to walk over to the few seats by the bins. She sat with her bag in her lap and her head on her bag. She knew she was being stupid, but she couldn't help it, couldn't force herself to think rationally. Since receiving those messages her brain had been coming up with scenarios to stop her getting her hopes up too much. Convincing her that it might not even be Sherlock Holmes, that he might just need something from her and he'd be gone before she could even really say hello. That he simply wanted access to St Barts or to the morgue or that he just wanted to check on John through her.

But convincing her that this time he really was dead, that the fatality on the tracks was Sherlock, that was cold, she chided her own thought process. Wow. Sherlock Holmes really was driving her insane.

She pulled a sports bottle out of her bag that she'd refilled with water and finished the last mouthful before throwing it into the bin a seat away without first looking up.

"I think you meant to put this in the recycling bin miss." The sudden noise so close to her made her start a little.

"Oh I didn't see a recycle bin." She replied as she took her first look at the man who was speaking to her. He was a janitor for the station, dressed in the red virgin uniform; he had one of those big rubbish carts and was putting new bags into the bin which she'd just thrown her bottle into. He lifted the lid off and waved it in front of her face, the smell made her cover her mouth and nose.

"It says it miss; clear as day on this 'ere lid, does it not. No plastic bottles. Yet you just throw it in, bold as brass."

She could swear she heard him tut.

He sat down in the seat next to her, and she cursed herself for being snobbish enough to actually lean away from him slightly. "I suppose I can let it go this time, you look sad so I don't want to make your day worse."

Finally Molly smiled a little, "Thanks, I promise I'll be more careful with my rubbish from now on." She couldn't help but see the funny side to how seriously the man took his job.

"You do that Molly. Now I guess I'll leave you alone so you don't miss your friend when he walks on by."

At first she smiled, nodded, opened her mouth to thank him and extended her hand to shake the one he'd offered. "How, name, what. You're? Molly."

As the man, who was still holding her hand smiled, she could see what she'd missed for the past three years, the piercing cold yet sparkling eyes of Sherlock Holmes.


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