@machiavillainusâ said ;Â âMerry Christmas, Holmes,â Moriarty smiles, passing a nicely wrapped gift to him. Itâs nothing special other than a well-made timepiece that bears a prestigious brand, but itâs truly the best she can offer other than a well-planned crime for him to solve.
        His previous attention fixed on his papers suddenly shifted as soon as his eyes met a neatly wrapped box being extended towards his direction. Looking up, Sherlock´s eyes unexpectedly met those of professor Moriarty with an intriguing nature. Was the woman actually offering the detective a gift? it was true that in the past, Moriarty had been without a doubt, Sherlock´s most notorious nemesis, a woman whose intelligence he admired and respected probably the same as she did regarding his, yet their differences from the past did no longer matter as the two were faced into a completely different time, now working under the same roof and for a greater good.
Lifting up his eyebrows with a newly found interest, the young man took hold of the box carefully in between his gloved hands as he stared up at Moriarty again for a brief moment, almost as if expecting for her to have confused the receiver of the gift. Only once Moriarty wished him a merry Christmas did the detective finally began to carefully unwrap the present, his characteristic curve of lips now slowly intensifying as he certainly found the whole idea of his previous nemesis gifting him a present very amusing.
Once the man was able to take away the neatly wrapped paper, his eyes faced an elegant and quite luxurious looking pocket watch. The gift was certainly something he would have expected out of her considering just how refined her tastes usually were, yet Sherlock couldn´t quite get out of his mind the thought of how much that would have cost her.
A genuine smile now fully graced his thin lips as he held the pocket watch as carefully as if it was a feather, his stern gaze slowly softening as he stared down at her before stating his gratitude in a low sincere tone of voice;
âI truly am grateful over your thoughtful gift madam Moriarty, I do not feel worthy of such an intricate present⌠yet I hold this object an unmeasurable value as it comes from your very own spirit.â Sherlock spoke with a warm feeling inside his heart as he then proceeded to take off his glove, in order to delicately hold her hand in his as he then placed a polite kiss over the top of her hand;Â
âThank youâŚMerry Christmas to you as well Madam Moriartyâ














