I cannot believe I forgot to do a story with Molly's reaction! I am so glad JFreak mentioned it. Alright well this is after the fall obviously but it would be best if Molly didn't know very much about the Irregulars for the best reaction so, for context Molly has heard about them but because she has never seen them personally, thought it was just media lies. Hence, she can still be surprised.
Sherlock was welcomed back with open arms by most of the yard, and a fair few apologies. Mira practically threw herself at the man; John was surprised he wasn't knocked over with the force of the hug. Irene had even called it, her reaction was less than pleasant for the detective however, the argument had ended with the dominatrix hitting Sherlock with the riding crop she'd given him with a surprising amount of force. It had taken almost an hour to grumbling before Sherlock allowed John to treat the cut.
Molly had of course, been in on the entire thing but was still happy to finally be able to speak about it openly, nobody resented her for it. Though John couldn't help the stab of jealousy. However Molly still got to have a shock, a few weeks later.
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Molly walked into the morgue and nearly dropped her coffee; two children were sitting on the empty slab, right next to a dead body, looking at it with curiosity. They must have been here with their parents and obviously, had wandered off.
"What are you two doing in here?" she asked sweetly, the boy turned to look at her.
"Looking around" He shrugged, "Nina, do you think we can make a wound look like it bled naturally? Cut the skin then you could squeeze the blood out"
"Nah" the girl, who must have been Nina replied, "Then ya'd leave bruises and finger prints"
"Now, you two this isn't a place for children" She scolded lightly putting her coffee down, "You really should go and find your mummy"
"Don't treat us like we're stupid" Nina scowled, "We weren't gonna touch it or anything, right Mason"
"Yeah" Mason nodded
Molly sighed, she was about to tell the kids they really couldn't be down here and that she would have to call security when the door opened and a woman with long dark hair and green eyes walked it.
"There you two are" She smiled, "I hope your not disturbing anything"
"We are just looking" Nina hummed
"These are your kids?" Molly asked politely, "They really can't be in here sorry"
"Oh they wont cause any trouble" She smiled, Molly felt a stab of jealousy at the woman's beauty, "They are just waiting for their father is all, he promised to let them burn magnesium"
"Well, if it's only for a few minutes…" Molly relented, "I'm Molly-"
"Hooper!" The woman smiled, "I heard what you did for Sherlock, thank you"
"Ah yes" Molly blushed at the detectives name
"I'm Mira" The woman continued carefully lifting Nina off the slab and handing her a few tools to examine, "These two are Nina and Mason, in case you didn't know"
Molly had been about to reply when Sherlock appeared in the doorway, John just behind him. Molly had been about to introduce them when Nina jumped up from the floor and said something that made her jaw drop.
"Daddy!"
The girl attached herself to the tall man's leg for a few moments before handing him some strips of silver metal, magnesium. Where did she pinch those from?
"Dad can we burn it now?" She pleaded, "please please pleeeeeeease!"
"Not here Nina" he replied, "The others want to be there too, we will go home"
"If you set the kitchen on fire…" John warned
"That was one time" Sherlock rolled his eyes
"It was a lot of fun though" Mira joined in, "Sherlock, you really should of introduced me to Molly before, she is so nice"
Molly felt strangely numb, she remembered hearing about all those tabloid, "Sherlock Holmes has children" exposes years ago but she never thought…He never said anything about it…
"So these are your kids?" She squeaked finally, "I thought it was all media lies"
"Nope, all fourteen of them" john sighed, "Their a terror Molly, you won't believe the things they've done"
"Don't be like that Uncle John" Mason whined, Molly jerked when she felt a pull on her lab coat, Nina was at her side.
"You helped Dad right?" She asked, Molly nodded shakily, feeling more and more stupid, Nina smiled, apparently oblivious to Molly's feelings for Sherlock.
"Thankyou Aunt Molly" She smiled, Molly gave a weak smile in response before turning to Mira, determined to be pleasant.
"So, fourteen kids" She said finally, "Are these two the oldest?"
Mira laughed, "God no, that would be Joe, he's fifteen"
"Mira" John spoke the word like he was scolding a child; Mira raised her eyebrows at him. Then back to Molly, eyes widening ever so slightly, the entire exchange was ignored by the oblivious Sherlock who was explained the coagulation of salvia after death to his daughter.
"Oh" Was all Mira could say, great, was her jealousy that obvious?
To her surprise Mira smiled sympathetically.
"Come on, we should let Molly work" Sherlock announced shuffling the kids out the door, "John, Mira"
John followed the two children out, Mira stayed, she looked at Sherlock, he looked back and sighed, did he know what she was thinking?
"Fine, Goodbye Molly" He called before leaving.
"Don't worry about it" Mira smiled
"He never mentioned…"
"It's not in his nature" Mira interrupted guessing the next sentence
"He knew what you were thinking" Molly went very red, Mira laughed.
"No he didn't, he just observed my facial expressions" She laughed, "He knows me well is all, I've known him since I was Nineteen"
"How long is that?" Molly asked, it had to be at least fifteen years, to her surprise Mira replied with,
"Ten years"
"What?"
"Those kids, they aren't ours, together I mean" She laughed, "Fourteen kids, really?"
"but-"
"Their street children" Mira smiled, "I work the soup kitchen, Sherlock looks after them, found them a home and teaches them, I feed them. They started calling us 'Mum' and 'Dad' years ago"
Molly would be lying if she said she wasn't relived.
"But!" Mira added heading for the door, "Don't tell anybody you know, we've had this joke going for ages now. You should of seen Lestrade's face"
Molly laughed, half with amusement, half with relief.
"So you and Sherlock…?"
"Just friends" Mira insisted, "Good friends"
I'm glad you guys didn't want a Mira/Sherlock couple. I really didn't want to write it! This is a lot of filler I know but I've only got one other idea at the moment and I wanted to do this one first.