Prompting Part XXVII
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It works. She makes friends, gets lots of support, she's more fit, her posture improves, etc.
But she never told anyone at work so when one of Sherlock's cases has Sherlock, John and Lestrade staking out a suspect at the venue where her group hold their performances...
The boys see a lot more than they were expecting.
And when they talk to her about it backstage/later, Molly is not embarrassed or ashamed, please.
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can't wait to read it!
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A Tiger, Not A Lamb, mein Herr
by Laura
“Five minutes!” the runner shouts.
Molly performs some last minute adjustments to the black corset, smoothes her fishnets and slips her feet into bright red five inch heels. The rest of the women are doing much the same. She’s one of those who are on first, tonight. Quick check of her hat in the mirror, and she picks up her cane.
“Showtime! Break a leg,” Maria, the head of the group, calls. High-fiving her as they go, Molly, Alexis, and Jennifer leave the dressing room, and head for the stage of All That Jazz.
Burlesque dancing, in a Soho cabaret club. It wasn’t exactly something she’d imagined herself doing, growing up. Here she is, though, having a fabulous time with her fabulous friends, and they all look amazing. Time to get her Dita on, then. Cane given to the stagehand, Molly straddles the back of the stage left chair. Listening to the band play Willkommen, from Cabaret, she waits for curtain up, and her cue ( ... )
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“Stake-out,” Sherlock mouths, when he next catches her eye. Another time, and it’s: “Talk backstage.”
“OK,” Molly mouths back. She smiles widely (he knows all about ‘eyes and teeth, eyes and teeth’), and continues with the routine.
Molly, who’d summoned all her courage to give him a huge, perfectly justifiable, metaphorical slap in the face, last Christmas. Burlesque dancing was the last possible thing he could have imagined her doing. But here she is, and she’s very good indeed. If he was as mean to her now as he had been then (not that he would be, because she does matter to him, very much), Sherlock knows there would be no necessity for Molly to summon courage to call him on it.
As the dancers go into another song from Cabaret, Mein Herr, he feels can now tell John and Lestrade why he didn’t delete knowledge of the film from his hard drive ( ... )
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Thank you so much, this was lovely!
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