#And one coworker was like 'My husband wanted some scarf from Doctor Who.' So I was like 'Oh the 4th Doctor?' and she was like 'I think it-

[nosferatufaggot]

My coworker said that I know quite a lot about Doctor Who. I told them they have no idea.

[koltarmi]

Things I liked/noticed about Amélie the Musical UK

Before the show:

• A friend and I watched Amélie at The Watermill Theatre in Newbury, which is absolutely tiny. (Picture below) It seats about 200 people and is in the middle of no where. It was a hour’s walk from Newbury Station, but he scenery was quite nice. We got two seats in the front and they were cheap (about £26) because there was a pole, but it was so skinny it didnt block anything.

• Because it was in the middle of nowhere, the surrounding area was beautiful and nothing like a traditional theatre. There was a nearby stream and everyone was sitting on on these iron park benches and just enjoying the view.

• The theatre and stage is tiny. So tiny it makes the theatre that I work at which only seats 50 people look like Carnegie Hall.

• The cast : Audrey Brisson as Amélie, Chris Jared as Nino, Johnson Willis as Collignon/Dufayel, Kate Robson Stuart as Suzanne, Sioned Saunders as Gina, Faoileann Cunningham as Georgette/Sylvia, Oliver Grant as Lucien/Mysterious Man, Caolan McCarthy as Hippolito/Elton John, Samuel Morgan-Grahame as Joseph/Fluffy, Josh Sneesby as Blind Beggar/Gnome, Jez Unwim as Raphael/Bretodeau

• Here’s the set:

ACT ONE

• The show starts with the subway light effect and a transit announcement in French.

• I really hope the UK cast records an album and that it includes the “Everybody’s Connected” song because I love it.

• All the actors spoke with a French accent and used French words when saying hello, goodbye, thank you and etc.

• So instead of having a child actor play young Amélie they used a puppet controlled by the guy who plays Lucien while Audrey provides the voice. And holy shit the puppet was terrifying. It had Dora the explorer choppy hair and had this wooden sheen. It also had the ability to blink which added to the creepiness factor.

• Because of the limited space the actors played their own instruments, ocasionally switching off with someone else when they were in the scene.

• The photo booth doubles as a door frame, the background of the sex shop, and a confessional booth in Notre Dame. The large sign that says “Photo Booth” has a light inside that turns on and which makes the inside of the booth visible from the outside and it looked super cool.

• Instead of it being a tourist from Brussels being on top of Notre Dame, they go back to a tourist from Quebec like in the film. The actor stood on top of the photo booth Instead of jumping, the tourist shoots himself and falls on to a crash mat, killing Amadine.

• Amélie describes her mother’s death using the word “squish’

• As they transition scenes, they straight up drag Amadine’s body off stage and it is hilarious.

• The garden gnome is used as an urn for Amadine’s ashes. Like they literally pour her ashes from the urn into the gnome.

• “Times Are Hard For Dreamers” was moved from the first act to the second act and is after “No Place like Gnome”

• I really want “Going Around Circles” to be in the album and I hate that it isn’t cause it’s a bop.

• Hippolito and Joseph smoke while in The Two Windmills, giving it a more Paris vibe

• A bit off topic, but I went to the Two Windmills cafe in France. The food is so good. If you’re a fan of the movie, I definitely reccomend you visit! (Some photos included below.)

• The guy who flirts with Amélie in the cafe leaves his number on a receipt. As she cleans up his table, she stuffs the receipt into her mouth.

• After, Suzanne invites Amélie to go our for drinks with her, Gina, and Georgette, but Amélie refuses.

• The two pianos on stage convert into Georgette’s tobacco counter and the market where Collignon and Lucien work.

• The clock at the top doubles as Amélie’s apartment. The face of the clock slides open into two doors. There aren’t actually any stairs so to get up there, a pulley with a lampshade is dropped down and Audrey just grabs onto it and swings into the apartment. I kept getting nervous every time she went up because the pulley moved so fast, even though it says in her bio that she grew up doing several Cirque du Soleil shows.

• Speaking of Audrey Brisson, SHE IS SO TINY AND I LOVE HER. Like I’m a pretty short person and she was shorter than me.

• Dufayel has the camera to see the outside world like he did in the film.

• One thing they added was at the beginning if each scene they stated the date, time and occasionally the weather, humidity and etc which is a callback to the film. The whole story of Amélie (by which I mean the events that happen within the show) takes course over three months.

• Chris Jared, who played Nino was HOT, in my opinion at least. The headshots were in black and white in the program, so I didn’t know he was older until I saw a few grey hairs, but he was still super hot in a DILF kinda way.

• They make it clear that Collignon hates figs which is why he gets annoyed when Lucien sings “Three Figs”. He’s so disgusted by figs that he vomits in his hat before putting it back on.

• When Amélie starts her quest to do good deeds, she calls Suzanne and asks for a day off. Suzanne agrees and asks slyly, “What’s his name?” Amélie replies with, “Dominique Bredoteau.”

• They included the scene where Amélie goes door to door looking for Bredoteau, another callback to the film.

• Due to the inaccessibility of the second floor besides the lampshade pulley, if a character needed to stand out, they would climb and stand on top of the photo booth. Amélie stood on it in “Tour de France” and Nino stands on it during “When the Booth Goes Bright”

• When Amélie calls Bretodeau, the phone is held by an ensemble member who makes the ringing noise. When he picks it up, the light in the photo booth turns on, revealing Amélie wearing a scarf around her head and a pair of sunglasses as she speaks to him.

• Before “Goodbye Amélie”, as the report of Princess Diana turns into one of her fantasies, Amélie reaches into the TV and puts on a sparkling tiara as Elton John enters.

• She stands on top of the two pianos placed back to back as they serenade her. At the very end of the sing, she lies down across them with her arms crossed and her tiara on her chest as she winks at the audience.

• There’s actually an intermission.

ACT TWO

• It starts with everyone on the subway. Amélie and Nino are on the opposite end of the train car and they sing a lovely duet. I don’t remember the exact lyrics, but there was metaphor of being lost at sea hinting at “Halfway”. I love the song and I need it in a cast album.

• At the end of the song Nino, stands in front of the audience as if exiting a subway car and Amélie sees him, but she immediately sinks into her seat so that he doesn’t see her.

• Nino leaves his photo album on top of the photo booth when he goes to catch his last train. Audrey Brisson is so small that even on her tip toes she couldn’t reach the top of the booth, so she climbed the door frame of the booth to reach the album.

• During intermission, the grocery stall is replaced with a display case full of different sizes and colors of dildos fo the sex shop scene.

• In the scene where Nino laments the loss of his photo album, (“years of his best work” as he calls it) his coworker is polishing a large black dildo with a cloth.

• Audrey plays the piano as she sings “Halfway” and its absolutely beautiful, so much so that I had tears in my eyes and I got a tattoo inspired by the song in Amsterdam.

• What isn’t beautiful is the return of the Young Amélie puppet during “Halfway” who is visible through grown-up Amélie’s clock apartment.

• She calls Nino from her seat on the piano bench while he’s standing behind the piano, which I thought was brilliant staging. It shows how strong their connection was, but despite that, there was still an obstacle preventing them from meeting each other which was Amélie’s reluctance to reach out to him.

• She leaves him with the riddle of solving Xeno’s paradox along with a photo strip of her dressed in a Zorro costume, which is another callback to the film.

• They also narrate Amélie forging a letter from Gina’s late husband. She does so by taking some of the letters he wrote her before Amélie returning the box of letters to Gina.

• Collignon comes into the cafe, complaining about Lucien. Seeing a chance to get back at him, Amélie serves him a fig tart. As Collignon becomes sick, three people wearing nightmare fig costumes bust out of the photo booth and haunt him. The lights around him and the cafe go dark and turn nightmarish meanwhile Amélie is brightly lit in the downstage left corner by the cigarette counter, as she leisurely unwraps a mint and pops it into her mouth. Collignon is shaken out of his fig nightmare when Lucien enters the café to grab his attention. Collignon admits as a young man he wanted to be a doctor or a lawyer, but his mother wanted him to be a grocer and so he became one despite having no love for it. The reason he is so mean to Lucien is because he sees how much care and love Lucien takes when handling the produce that it makes him bitter. He apologizes to Lucien. Lucien replies he has no idea what he’s talking about and offers to close up the shop for Collignon, who agrees and says that Lucien is a good boy. I love this addition as it doesn’t sweep Lucien and Collignon’s plotline under the rug like the Broadway production does. It’s addressed and resolved before the end of the show.

• After the fig-induced nightmare sequence, Raphael rushes in to the cafe in distress. Instead of going into “No Place Like Gnome” they pause the scene in the cafe.

• They narrate that 275 km away Nino posts flyers of Amelié in the Zorro costume around the city and they move into “Thin Air” instead. Nino comes in from the side of the clock and stands on top of the photo booth. Again because of the limited space, the posters are just stuck around the metal framing of the clock.

• They return back to the café after “Thin Air”. After “No Place Like Gnome” as Amélie spray paints Hippolito’s quote below the clock, she notices the posters and panics ripping one off, but leaves the rest hanging. A took a picture of the set at the end of the show.

• Amelié sends another photo strip to Nino writing, “It has come to my attention that you are looking for me. This Friday. 5pm. Montmartre Carousel. Bring five francs.”

• Amelié wears the Zorro costume in “Blue Arrow Suite”. The ensemble acted as the carousel and had blue arrows on the back of their instruments or on them. For those playing smaller instruments, they wore blue gloves and pointed towards the next “arrow”. The top of the hill was the photo booth and Nino pulls a red stand of binoculars out of fucking nowhere.

• Joseph says Georgette looks lovely when she’s flushed. She replies she’s flushed because of her gluten intolerance.

• When Nino and Amelié are set to meet at the cafe, the airline hostess is one of the customers there and joins in signing “A Better Haircut”

• They cut out the line where Nino says he loves Amelié and doesnt even know her name in “A Better Haircut” and I’m honestly so glad they did that. It works so much better Instead it just goes, “But you know I think she understands me/ I don’t know why she would understand/She may not even feel the same/But I don’t even know her name” with the “She may not even feel the same” part being dragged out a bit more.

• Georgette gets Hippolito to write down Amelié’s address on a page in his notebook that he tips out and gives to him.

• As Amelié sits in her clock apartment, the photo booth is turned so the side that is the door faces the audience. Nino waits below in front of it as they sing “Stay”. As they sing, Amélie moves from her apartment to the top of the photo booth. Again I love the staging, the use of different levels shows both the emotional and physical distance separating them.

• At the end of “Stay”, Nino realizes she won’t be opening the door. He looks like he gets an idea and walks away as the booth is turned to show the photo booth side. Amelié collapses in on herself and cries. From his window, Dufayel tells Amelié there is nothing to fear and shows her his new painting: it’s Amelié drinking a glass of water, making her the girl with the glass.

• Instead of opening the door, Nino climbs through a “window” aka on top of the photo booth (at least that was my interpretation of it, it wasn’t very clear how he got in)

• They sing the “Halfway (Reprise)” and do the the famous kiss on the cheek, neck and eye. Honestly, the tension between them was insane and had whole audience dying with anticipation as we collectively held our breaths. Audrey Brisson and Chris Jared have such crazy good chemistry. When they finally kissed it was like a sigh of relief washed over the audience.

• As the ensemble kneel before Amelié and Nino, Raphael stands, stating that he finally goes on a trip with Suzanne by his side, who then stands up beside him and smiles at him.

• In “Where Do We Go From Here?” one of Nino’s line is changed instead of singing, “Will there be sweet things?” It goes “Will you be with me?” and Amélie’s reply sticks to the original lyric as she answers with, “I hope so.”

• After bows, the cast sing a finale song that combines “When the Booth Goes Bright” and “Times Are Hard for Dreamers”. I cannot stress enough how badly I want a cast album of this show.

In Summary

• The show has improved so much and fixes a lot of the issues the Broadway version had.

• Overall, the UK production stays more faithful to the movie, including lots of callbacks and scenes from the film itself as well as the overall atmosphere of the Paris.

• I. Need. A. Cast. Album. Of. The. UK. Production.

[fictiography]

it’s 2002. my mom has taken me to the public library for a halloween harry potter party, with a sorting hat and games and a trivia contest, with the winner getting a ticket to the first showing of chamber of secrets at our town’s only movie theater. I’m wearing my costume with a thin black robe and gryffindor scarf, confident I can win the ticket after acing an AR quiz in school, but worried other kids might be faster than me or that I won’t be able to answer because of a mouth full of toffee candy. I did end up winning and my parents proudly took me to the theater a few weeks later

it’s 2004. I’m beginning classes at a new school, moving to middle school. I’m nervous and don’t know anyone in my first class. the class is overfilled so I’m seated at a side table with two unfamiliar girls. I had some allergic reaction over the summer and the doctor prescribed a steroid cream; my mom joked I could tell my new classmates I’d taken steroids all summer, which is why I was so buff. I tried the line and one of the girls grimaced at me: “so you were horny all summer?” she spat. I didn’t know what that meant and felt small and afraid, so I didn’t reply

it’s 2009. I’m still learning how to drive. my dad is making me drive him and my grandpa home from church in my jeep. I nervously back out of the parking lot too quickly and hit our pastors mailbox, lurching it over. my dad glares at me while my grandpa gawks behind us. I white knuckle the steering wheel on the drive home and too late notice a turtle nearing the edge of the road in my lane. the jeep shudders and I anxiously glance at the side mirror. “yeah, you got him,” my dad mutters. I tear up and make it home and hurry to my room before I start crying

it’s 2012. I’m working at a sandwich and salad shop and lost my opening shifts after failing to meet too many deadlines. the owner’s wife is managing and berating me in front of customers. I curse her strongly later during shift change and get called into the office the next day. her husband confronts me and jabs his thin finger into my chest, furious at what I’d said to a coworker in confidence. the friendly shift lead sits quietly in the office counting money, eyes away from me. I keep a hard blank stare until I get into my jeep and break down, throwing my little cap aside and weeping at the indignity and betrayal

it’s 2015. my friend and I have taken my kid to the beach. on the way there we listen to uptown funk and look at the seabirds bickering overhead, up through the open sunroof. her long hair is whipping at my face but I don’t say anything because it smells nice. we get to the beach and lay out our towels, I accidentally dust her with sand while turning over to grab something. when I apologize and look for my daughter I see her dump a bucket of sand into her braided hair and quietly curse. my friend laughs and shrugs - kids will be kids. I sneak a look at her in her swimsuit and try not to blush

it’s 2015 again. a few weeks later my friend and I are stopped at a grocery store, I want to cook for her and she wants gnocchi. a disheveled man in a beaten up van stops us in the parking lot and begs for any money I can spare; I give him the loose change in my cup holder, apologizing that it’s all I have. he thanks me and wishes us a blessed day, and tells her to not let go of me. I later botched the gnocchi and she left for home quickly. she soon married a soldier and moved out of state

it’s 2018. I’m working at a festival moving boxes out of a truck and one of my superiors is joking to another executive about a woman who has accused a supreme court nominee of raping her when they were young. I’m seething with anger but hold my tongue because he could fire me on the spot. I’m furious hours later until my boss pulls me aside and says he doesn’t like it either, but it’s just part of it. “not at my damn job,” I fume, and he lets me go with upraised pacifying hands

it’s 2021. my daughter had a rough day at school and went to bed upset. I try to console her when she turns to look at me. “would your life be better without me?” she asks and my heart stops. “haven’t you missed out on so much by having me?” I shudder and concede that, sure, my life would have been different without her in it, but that doesn’t mean it would have been better. she quietly sobs and continues, “why am I alive? how do I exist? why am I here?” and I have no response. I shush her and tuck her into the covers and lie down beside her until she sleeps

[tall--noodle]

victuuri teacher au hc’s part 2!

here’s the first part if you didn’t catch it this morning

here’s another long one because it turns out that there are more non-teaching staff than the charas that are teachers so i’ll separate them into two posts

this one is the general non-teaching staff. the next post will be for the Presiden’ts and Principal’s office staff

hope y’all look forward to that one!

without further ado, here it is (with some under the cut again lol)

Yuuko nishigori (secretary/cashier)

-          The nicest secretary you will every freaking meet

-          Calls everyone “dear” or at least the Japanese equivalent

-          She and her husband eat lunch in the cafeteria and everyone gets cavities because nishigori-sensei makes their bento everyday

georgi Popovich (guidance counselor)

-          Pretty good guidance counselor, even though he manages to almost always turn the discussion into finding “your one true love”

-          Also the theatre club moderator and cries everytime they stage romeo and Juliet or sleeping beauty

-          Always offers to be the costumes and make-up director

-          The members of the club stop him from going too hard on the eyeshadow and lipstick, much to his dismay

-          The students who are regulars in his office exchange their love stories, and they follow one others’ love lives

-          The students root for him so hard and throw shade at the girls who cheated on him or broke up with him

Otabek altin (security)

-          No one has any words for how attractive this man is: chiseled features, perfectly coiffed hair, quiet and mysterious

-          Rarely smiles except for when he’s around his best friend from college

-          Someone caught both of them hanging out together and just in time to catch officer altin’s B L I N D I N G  SMILE

-          Thus started the rumors of maybe yuri—the pres sec OJT—and sir altin were dating???? Or at least almost together

-          Everyone ships it

Michele crispino (volunteer janitor)

-          Nobody knows why he’s here

-          One day a couple of students heard a lot of shouting at yuuko-san’s stall, something about getting him some work despite the fact that all positions are filled

-          Then the next day they saw him in a janitor’s uniform with a scowl on his face and lurking around the cafeteria

-          The science teacher emil-sensei apparently knew him from way back and kept inviting him out to drink

-          It was so damn obvious that he was flirting, but Michele kept thinking emil was after his sister who worked as one of the cafeteria ladies. She was clearly interested in the president’s secretary

Sara Crispino (cafeteria cook)

-          Applied for the job on a whim

-          Ended up loving it, especially because she got to see the middle aged couple being all lovey-dovey while they cooked

-          She got away with going to work there for about a month before her brother found out. He demanded a job from the school the next day

-          Sara tried to avoid him as much as possible

-          She’s begun courting Mila for about a week now, and she’s doing everything that she’s seen guys do

-          Brought her food that she made from the caf

-          Had bouquets sent to her desk

-          Left cute sticky notes for her

-          Texted her all day long

-          Posted some snaps and pictures of their weekends together

-          Aka all that shit guys do for the girls they’re courting

-          The students totally ship them

-          Or ship her with them

-          They can’t help it—she’s a total babe

Hiroko and Toshiya Katsuki (cafeteria cooks)

-          Got referred by Yuuri to the school

-          Since they left mari in charge of the onsen, she’s employed outside staff, telling them to take it easy and relax

-          They can’t tho. Working is in their bones and since mari won’t let them work home, Yuuri suggested they apply for the cafeteria cooks in the school he teaches at

-          Their katsudon is DA BOMB™

-          And they’re so nice to everyone jlkabflrygblierg

-          Yuuri gets embarrassed a lot tho because they keep bringing up that time when he was a fat kid

-          Victor however loves hearing stories of when Yuuri was a kid and always asks for some stories whenever he had time

-          They liked victor a lot, and supported him when he declared his feelings and intentions towards their son

-          They liked the other yuri too, especially when he’s scarfing down the katsudon he ordered, and asked for seconds

Nikolai Plisetsky (librarian)

-          Outside he seems very scary but he’s a nice old man once you talk to him

-          Knows the library in and out since he’s been working for this school for decades omg

-          comes in to work with a bag of pirozhki

-          Like, he knows you don’t eat in a library, but sometimes he just sees students during lunch break and asks if they’ve eaten and they tell him no and he just

-          He’s like “no nuh uh these students will not starve in my library”

-          So he brings a bag of his handmade pirozhki and gives them to the students when lunch is over so they can eat it on the way to their classes

-          He experiments with different flavors, even katsudon pirozhki when yuri expressed interest in the dish

-          He’s just such a good grandpa okay

-          The pirozhki are so good that the students wonder why he wasn’t one of the cooks

-          He argues that if he’s in the cafeteria all day, the students spending their lunch time in the library won’t have anything to eat when they’re done

-          Which is a fair point and they don’t question them further

-          for his 50th birthday students trickled in one by one in his workspace until hiroko and toshiya came in carrying a huge ass cake with a message in icing on it

-          it was shaped like the mint green car he always drove and it almost brought tears to his eyes

Seung-Gil lee (infirmary doctor)

-          is sort of like lilia with his sternness

-          like if you came to the infirmary wanting some medicine, he expects you to take it, give it a few minutes to take effect, and then be on your way

-          unless of course, they’re collapsed or have a fever or smth he isn’t that harsh

-          while he may be cold for a doctor, he’s very efficient and caring

-          like when a student needs a wound patched and he knows it’s gonna hurt, he’ll lend them the plushie he keeps in his cupboard for them to squeeze

-          said plushie is a big bean plushie hamster that phichit once gave him, to “brighten up the place” as he put it

-          seung-gil didn’t really feel the need to “brighten up the place” but it would be rude to refuse a gift from a coworker

-          plus, the plushie was actually pretty cute

[simplyshelbs16xoxo]

Chapter 26 of ‘Domestic Bliss Must Suit You’ is up!

the case is resolved and Molly kicks some ass lol!

I honestly don't think I like how I wrote this but it's probably just me. As they say, you are your own worst critic. Please, let me know your thoughts.

Molly awoke tied to a chair in a room with two other women who shared her same fate. She looked down at herself to see that the rope wasn't as thick as she expected. Molly squirmed, attempting to shimmy herself out of the binds, as being small is very advantageous at times, but it didn't let up.

"There's no use in trying," Mrs. Blackwell told her.

"Hey, you some kind of doctor?" Mrs. Cunningham asked, nodding at Molly's lab coat.

"Pathologist," Molly replied quietly, thankful that someone noticed she still had her lab coat. Of course, she thought. Maneuvering her hands to grab onto her coat and reach into her low pocket, Molly successfully grabbed her scalpel and began to cut her binds.

Arriving at Kingly Street, John and Sherlock saw the unregistered car that appeared in the kidnappings. The door to the house it was parked in front of was not, however, unlocked, but it took no time for Sherlock to pick it. They entered quietly, John prepared to pull out his gun whenever needed. They heard footsteps descending downward towards a basement.

"That's where they're being kept, I bet," John whispered. Sherlock only nodded, silently and slowly stepping through the house to find the basement door.

Molly had just finished cutting her hands free and she quickly began on the rope around her ankles. She only had one of the three binds cut before she heard footsteps descending. Keeping the scalpel in her hands, she quickly put them behind the chair to keep up the illusion she was still tied up. Moving her feet, she realized she could step out of the ropes if needed.

The man she had thought was her coworker entered.

"Hello, Mrs. Cunningham, Mrs. Blackwell," his eyes moved to Molly, "and Mrs. Holmes."

"What do you want?" Molly growled.

"Interesting," he continued, ignoring her question. "You are THE Molly Hooper. My shooter didn't kill you months ago like I had hoped, so of course, I had to take matters into my own hands."

"You're the other man who was in Moriarty's network," Molly realized.

"Hmm, yes, I don't really need these other two ladies…I just needed to get to you. They were my practice, you see. Like Moriarty, I'm not one to get my hands dirty but as you see, I had no choice in the matter," the man explained.

"Who are you?" Molly asked.

"Sebastian Moran, at your service," he chortled with a flourished bow.

John stayed at the top of the stairs as lookout, ready to call the police while Sherlock descended them. Sebastian had heard the creaking of the stairway, deciding to meet who he hoped was Sherlock Holmes at the bottom of it. His back was turned to Molly, hands obviously ready to pull a gun. She just knew it would be Sherlock when she saw the bottom of his belstaff come into view, so she got up quietly and quickly grabbed his arms, disabling Moran from being able to reach his gun, and held her scalpel against him.

"You do NOT harm my husband, understand!?" Molly screamed.

"Molly!" Sherlock shouted in relief at the sound of her voice. He then reached the bottom of the stairs. "Molly?" He saw his wife, struggling but surely holding her kidnapper in place.

"Mr. Holmes," Moran spat. "We meet at last. Your wife's a bit of a spitfire; more demure about it but I see why you married her."

"Right pocket, he has a gun, take it," Molly urged Sherlock. He went for the gun just as she said but Moran wriggled free attempting to reach for the gun first. "No!" She shouted before her elbow to Moran's temple knocked him out cold. Sherlock looked on in amazement.

"How did you learn to do that?" he smiled.

"I may have taken a few classes from Lestrade," she smiled in return.

"Police are here," John announced from the top of the stairs. Molly worked on undoing the other two women's bindings as Lestrade and others came charging down just as Moran started to wake. They already had him handcuffed by the time he was fully aware of the situation.

"Who knocked him out?" Lestrade laughed, clearly knowing the answer. Molly's once put together bun was in shambles and her face was flushed. "Good work, Molly."

"Thanks," she laughed half-heartedly.

"Wait…Molly did all this?" John asked, his eyes wide.

"Yep," Sherlock grinned, popping the 'p.'

When all was said and done, Sherlock made sure to call Mr. Cunningham and Mr. Blackwell to come to New Scotland Yard, assuring them their wives were safe. They were a little scratched up but alive, nonetheless, and that's what was important.

Arriving home at Baker Street, Molly collapsed on the sofa as Sherlock hung up his Belstaff and scarf.

"You saved my life," Sherlock told her, kissing her gently. "Then again, you always save me." Molly knew he was referring to the fall he took years ago, but he clarified more on the topic. "Not just the fall but you were helping me in my mind palace at one point too. The night I was shot, it was you asking me the right questions, telling me the best ways to survive." This new bit of information surprised Molly.

"I'll always try to save you, Sherlock," Molly spoke softly, kissing him again. Though, it was a sweet moment, Sherlock couldn't help but think back to when Mary jumped in front of Vivian Norbury's bullet to save him. He hoped Molly would never do such a thing if history ever repeated itself, as he felt he would rather die than have her in harm's way again. Shaking the terrifying thoughts from his mind, he felt Molly relax against him as she placed soft kisses anywhere she could reach. As he held her there in his arms, he was glad that the last of Moriarty's network had been dismantled for good.

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