Framing Order: {Drabble for SH}
Cosima was standing inside of a Jo-Ann Fabrics, looking this way and that. In one hand, she was holding a coupon Alison had given her for 60% off her custom framing order, and in the other a print inside of an envelope from Kinkos. She looked past bolts and bolts of fabric, reams of trim, the cutting counter and the sewing machine display until finally, tucked into the back corner with furniture foam and batting she found the framing counter. It was abandoned, and Cosima wouldn't have been surprised if a tumbleweed of pillow fluff came rolling by. She rang the bell and waited.
She wasn't surprised that Alison had coupons for a place like this, let alone didn't visit every day. She'd seen that craft room, she was aware of the need for sewing speed. Setting the paper down, she gingerly pulled the print out of the envelope and held it up to the florescent light. She hoped they could accomodate her specific request. It was a gift, and one that had to make it by a specific date. Yet, looking around, it didn't seem they'd be able to. After all, these frames were run-of-the-mill at best. Sherlock deserved better.
She'd been thinking about him a good deal lately, when her mind wasn't on work or the Clone Club. He would slip in and out of her thoughts, the smallest things bringing to recall the sound of his voice, or the scent of his aftershave. The other day, a piano track on her Spotify shuffle made her daydream about his fingers.
Then it hit her. Cosima was infatuated with Sherlock Holmes. No matter how she tried to justify it otherwise, she'd quietly and with little alacrity, taken him into her heart and let him stay there. Hell, the whole reason she was standing where she was was the need to make the perfect Valentine's present. Smiling her herself, she thumped the cupped palm of her hand into her forehead.
"Eureka moment." she said out-loud. Before anyone could get to the back counter, she scooped up her coupon and moved away. Maybe she could call in a favor to the art kids. But before that, Cosima pick up a few spools of colorful needlepoint thread to wrap around a few of her dreads. She felt like being a little fancy for the upcoming holiday. And she had more than than just the one coupon; Thank you, Alison.
Sherlock would receive, upon the fated day, a present wrapped and tied off with a bit of colorful thread. Inside, a light box with a picture of his sequenced genome modge podged onto the surface, which would be illuminated from behind once plugged in. Also inside the box, a note.
I hope my crazy science and yours will collide again someday soon. Until then, please accept this gift of your illuminated DNA. I thought it would make a radical night light.