Queen of the Mind Palace // Sherlolly ✔️

Chapter 11

The pollen is Adenium.
SH

Check it.
SH

Molly rolled her eyes, yet interest piqued in her.  Molly quickly sent the labs in to test, and then she waited, inspecting the pollen samples for herself.  It would make sense, Abott was working in Africa, adenium is native to Africa.  Molly sighed, she really was slow on these things.  Molly was snapped out of her thoughts when another text buzzed at her side.

Sawyer solved it.
SH

Now the interest really tugged at her core strings.  Sawyer had solved it, Sherlock Holmes' prodigy.  Once the media got it in on her, she would explode.  Her life would become a thousand times better, sponsors flooding in once her sad story got out.  Foster parents, adoptive parents, any type of parent would rush in to get their hands on little Sherlock.  But Sherlock wouldn't let that happen.  He probably wanted to do anything possible to avoid the legal part of it, papers he'd forget about.  Then Mycroft would step in, and that was probably the last thing Sherlock wanted.  For his big brother to find out about any of... this.  Whatever this was. 

"Here are your labs, Molly," a voice said behind her. 

"Thanks," Molly said in a dazed tone, too in thought to notice who had even delivered them.  Though she looked up when the voice kept talking.

"Um listen," it was a person who worked as an intern in pathology, a new kid, around Molly's age by the looks of it.  He looked familiar, with kind of long, dirty blonde hair and a freckled face.  He was looking at the ground, running a hand through his hair, "I was wondering if you'd like to go get coffee later or something."  Molly blinked.  Luckily she got a glance at the guy's name tag before she blurted she hadn't a clue who the guy even was.

"Uh, James.  Right?"  She said.  The guy looked up at her, smiling brightly.  He had a nice smile, Molly noticed, as James nodded vigorously.

"But everybody calls me Jamie."  Molly nodded slowly when a sudden thought struck her.  This could be perfect.  She was over Sherlock and this was Molly moving on.  She studied Jamie's bright smile, his timing was perfect.

"Yeah.  Ok, sure.  Pick me up in an hour."  Jamie's smile somehow widened and he nodded, biting his lip.  As Jamie turned and left, Molly could hear him cry "awesome!" after he closed the door.  Molly smiled.  No more Sherlock, exactly.

Molly then shook her head and returned to her work.  She opened up the files and grinned.  Sawyer was right. 

Then she solved it correctly.  It's adenium.  ~MH

Molly could just imagine Sherlock getting the text, his gaze flicking to Sawyer, who was probably reading her book, unaware of the possibilities that shone in her future. 

I need to show you something.
SH

Molly lifted an eyebrow, this was going to be interesting.

What? ~MH

You'll see.
SH

That was never a good sign. 

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It wasn't long before Sherlock burst through the door, Sawyer and Gael in tow.  All of them with lollipops in their mouthes. 

"What's with the lollipops?"  Molly asked Sherlock, he blinked in confusion, as if he had forgotten about them, but then shrugged.

"Gael wanted one so we got them and then he proceeded to refuse to leave until I ate one."