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Tom loved Molly.
Molly loved him too.
They just were not in love with each other.
He just wasn't Sherlock Holmes and she just wasn't his The One.
Tom decided to wait for his The One after realising it and push Molly towards hers.
The first time Tom met Molly was at a pub, through mutual friends. He remembered seeing her eyes go wide when she first saw him, then giving him a sweet smile.
Needless, to say he had a crush on Molly from the moment he saw her.
It was only six months later, when he met the world's only Consulting Detective, that he understood why her eyes had gone as they had.
Tom, unknowingly dressed like the great Sherlock Holmes.
Their first date went tremendously well, he learned that Molly was an only child, with both parents death, has a cat and many other things about her.
The most surprising of that was that she was a pathologist. No wonder she had such a morbid sense of humour. Though he was a bit squeamish about her job, he could ignore that bit. He liked Molly and she was cutting up dead bodies, not murdering them.
One date, led to another and he started growing more fond of Molly as time passed.
She seemed to like him too and so one day he proposed.
She accepted and they were happy, though he always felt something was missing.
Then, one day the not so dead detective rose from his grave and he suddenly understood what was missing.
True Love.
He remembered Molly getting texts that said 'Not dead', sometime from someone with the initial SH and sometime MH.
He wisely refrained from asking Molly, what they were about.
After all, his girlfriend works in a morgue.
When one day, Molly told him about Sherlock Holmes- the detective with the weird hat- and that she knew him, that he was alive, Molly was involved in faking his death, Tom did not know what to think.
Molly told him that it was a secret and she was sorry that she did not tell anything about him before now. He understood, he assured Molly and figuring that Sherlock was Molly's friend he expressed that he would like to meet Sherlock and all her other friend.
Molly went to solve crimes with Sherlock.
He noted the change in Molly after that day.
She looked happy and yet sad at the same time.
He wondered what happened with Sherlock.
He went to meet Molly's friends on a Baker Street gathering, Molly's warning ringing in his mind about hurtful deduction that would surely be swung his way and he should not get upset since Sherlock doesn't really mean them.
He was curious about this detective that seemed to take so much of Molly's mind.
When he finally Sherlock's face, shock would be a lesser word for what he felt.
He felt like he stepped into some twilight zone.
He knew Sherlock's reaction mirrored his.
He saw the detective look at Molly first, with a soft smile and saw how quickly that smile was wiped of his face, the detective looking positively sick.
He noticed how the detective was barely able to stay in the room after that, not even bothering with the deduction Molly had warned him so many times about.
It made him wonder if Sherlock Holmes felt something other than friendship towards Molly.
However, what he wondered most was if Molly chose him because he looked like Sherlock.
Tom chose not to think about it at all for now.
They were having quite a lot of sex.
He wondered if it was Molly's way of trying to rid her mind of the consulting detective.
The wedding was a really interesting affair, albeit weird.
Sherlock solved a murder at John and Mary's wedding.
Tom offered things like meat dagger as a theory which he himself got embarrassed about later.
Tom had never been a smart person, but meat dagger was even a height for him.
Molly stabbed him for insinuating Sherlock was drunk.
What was most interesting was, the glare that seemed to be directed his way and the look- on anyone else's face Tom would describe as longing- was directed at Molly when she wasn't looking from the world's only consulting detective and the fact that Sherlock was barely able to talk to Tom and didn't come close to talk to even Molly when Molly and Tom were together, like he couldn't stand the sight of them together.
He didn't miss the glare Molly seem to be shooting the bridesmaid for flirting with Sherlock.
Tom didn't miss the fact that Molly was still desperately trying to be happy with him and trying to fool herself into believing that she didn't love Sherlock Holmes any more.
They both decided to break off the engagement at the same day.
Molly because she finally realised what she was doing and Tom because he knew that Molly's heart was somewhere else and even though he did love Molly, he knew he could do without her.
Even be friends with her.
They loved each other but they were not in love with each other.
They really did stay friends, even though it took them sometime.
In fact they became such good friends, that they started sharing their love life's with each other, with Molly setting Tom up with any nice female friend she knew- with Tom's permission, of course- and Tom trying to make Molly see that Sherlock Holmes actually had the hots for her.
Tom had never been an intelligent person but he was good with understanding emotions and he knows he hadn't mistaken the detective's feelings for Molly, even though she is dead set on telling him otherwise.
Molly was an intelligent person and he didn't understand why Molly hadn't caught up on it, if he had to guess, he would say her probably due to her fear of getting hurt, of raising her hopes and having them crumble down.
He had heard what the detective had to say about his method of deduction.
So, Tom was absolutely positive, that this time his deduction is correct.
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
Sherlock Bloody Holmes was in love with Molly Hooper.
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Tom and both Janine's surname were not mentioned, right? or did I miss it?
It's like the creators thought you guys are both going to be ex fiancée, why would your surname matter?