The AO3 collection is at its basics right now, but it is up at https://archiveofourown.org/collections/MollyHooperAppreciationWeekFall2019 for those that want to add their works. I'm probably not going to sleep tonight so I'll fix it all up at 4:30 AM when I get internet access on my laptop.
Have fun and I look forward to seeing cool stuff this round! Remember to include @mollyappreciationweek in the body of your post if you want it reblogged here!
⬡ Who does the cooking, and who could light the kitchen on fire? What do they like to cook?
Janine is a disaster in the kitchen. She tries, but nothing ever turns out quite right. When she and Molly start dating and she realizes Molly can cook (and cook well), most dates end up at Molly home and a dinner and wine and a movie. Janine has great taste in wine, at least, which pleases Molly.
I wrote this last night (Valentine's Day) as a gift for @interestingguesses ♥
Happy Femslash February!!!
“Mmm, you're so sweet.”
Molly blushes to the roots of her hair. (Janine knows this for a fact; she has the perfect vantage, tucked behind her in bed.)
“You're sweet.”
Janine laughs.
“No, not really.” She nuzzles Molly's neck, licks behind her ear. “Brash, yes. Bold. Daring.” She nips Molly's lobe, eliciting a giggle. “Abrasive, even. But not sweet.”
“Hmm.” Molly wriggles back against her, nestling closer into her embrace. “I dunno…” She lifts Janine's hand from where it's wrapped around her waist, brings it to her lips. “You taste pretty sweet to me.” A flicker of tongue on wrist, and Janine's squealing, unable to stop the embarrassing high-pitched sounds and accompanying flailing of limbs.
Molly grins against her skin.
“See? Sweet.” Another lick, this time long and slow, and Janine calms, ticklish sensations subsiding under Molly’s hot mouth. “Delicious.” A long stroke ending in a swirl in the centre of her palm, and Janine sighs into Molly's hair. “Intoxicating,” Molly whispers. “Like Irish cream.”
Molly brings Janine's wet palm down, down, between her legs, and Janine thinks that she can live with being ‘sweet’.
***
It's sitting on the table when Molly comes down for breakfast the next Sunday, still blinking the sleep out of her eyes. She frowns, looking around as if she might be on camera, but the flat is silent, Janine still dead to the world (she probably will be for hours, the lazy dosser). She approaches it cautiously, carefully picking up the bottle to examine it closer. When she sees the label, she breaks out into a giddy grin.
“You ridiculous romantic.”
***
When Janine finally stumbles down to breakfast at half ten, the kitchen is full of rich smells, sizzling butter and sharp acidic coffee and the seductive low notes of fatty meat simmering away in the crockpot. Molly is humming and dancing from stove to counter to fridge and back again. She does a little twirl and catches Janine's eye, teetering off-balance for a second as she tries to compose herself.
“Oh, you're up!” She flushes, a smile spreading across her face despite her best efforts.
Janine chuckles.
“And you found my present.”
Molly flashes her a wicked grin.
“Guilty.” She spins to Janine, a steaming mug in her hand. “Care for a sip?”
Janine squints down at the pale beige liquid. “Just how much did you put in this?”
Molly shrugs. “Enough.” She steps closer, dark eyes alight with mischief. “C’mon. Some Irish coffee for my Irish toffee?” She raises an eyebrow in mock challenge, then bursts into laughter, and it's so adorably endearing, Janine can't help but join her.
“Fine, you win.” She catches her breath and leans forward, lips wrapping around the lip of the proffered mug. She looks up at Molly through sleep-heavy lashes and winks. Molly tips the mug towards her and Janine swallows down a creamy-bitter-sweet-holyhellalcoholic mouthful, and Christ but that's good and strong first thing in the morning. Molly withdraws the mug and Janine licks her lips, slowly, gaze fixed on Molly. Molly’s eyes track her tongue, her breath drawing in with an audible “ah!” that Janine wants to taste.
So she does.
Molly tastes of coffee and booze and buttery toast, and Janine thinks she could live on her kisses alone. She licks into Molly’s mouth, chasing the heady flavour and the soft moans coming from the back of Molly’s throat.
When she pulls back for air, panting and a little lightheaded, she’s gratified to see the slightly awed look on Molly’s face, eyelids fluttering and lips parted.
“Good morning,” Molly breathes.
“A very good morning.”
Molly giggles, breaking the moment, then turns back to the stove where something is still sizzling away.
“Omelette?”
“Sounds good.” Janine slips into a stool at the counter and watches her work, hips swaying as she hums to herself.
“What’s that, love?”
“Old show tune. It’s silly.”
“Go on then,” Janine challenges, and she can feel Molly’s grin though her back’s to her.
“You’re the cream in my coffee,” Molly croons with a tipsy warble. “You’re the salt in my stew — that's Irish too!” She points at the crockpot, and Janine laughs, Molly’s girlish joy infectious. “You will always be my necessity…” She spins to face Janine. “I’d be lost without you.”
Janine can feel unabashed affection spreading out of her chest, warm and bright, up and out through her cheeks stretched wide in a smile.
“My sweetheart,” she sighs, and it comes out more besotted than she’d intended. Molly blows her a kiss.
“My Irish cream.”
Also here on AO3, if you want to leave me comments (I live for comments!!!)
Inspired by this pic ~ tags & embedded image under the cut ♥
The song is You're The Cream In My Coffee ~ you can listen to a clip sung by Annette Hanshaw on the wiki here.
(I know I usually have a Molly graphic but I’m borrowing this laptop and Phtotshop is being a pain so improvisation with a stock photo I had.)
We’re are definitely doing a round this year, but for the first time, there is only one themed day! My own personal New Year’s resolution this year is to clean out my Tumblr inboxes of as many fic prompts as I can, and I thought that this might be a good thing to extend to others as well. Hence our 2019 Free For All Round! The one and only theme day we will have will be the usual Valentine’s Day/Galentine’s Day/Singles Awareness Day prompt, but this year, it will be optional, as are the prompts below. It will run from February 10th, 2019 to February 16th, 2019.
As I said, this is a Free For All round, which means the entire week you can post whatever Molly-centric fan creations you want. However, as some people like prompts, these are character-centric prompts of people you can include in the fics, as well as our regular February prompt:
Day 1 - The Holmes Family (anything involving Sherlock, Mycroft, Eurus or their parents)
Day 2 - The Watsons (anything involving John, Mary, Rosie or Harry)
Day 3 - The Yarders (anything involving Lestrade, Sally, Dimmock, Stella or Anderson)
Day 4 - The Baddies (anything involving Moriarty, Moran, Magnussen, Culverton or any one shot villains)
Day 5 - Valentine’s Day/Galentine’s Day/Singles Awareness Day (any fic involving these holidays celebrated in February)
Day 6 - The Rest (anything involving previously unmentioned characters like Irene, Mrs. Hudson, Meena, Archie, Tom, Janine, Anthea, Kate, etc. as well as crossover characters)
Day 7 - Free For All (anything that didn’t fit into a themed day that focuses on Molly)
RULES:
- Any kind of fanwork you can think of is acceptable for this week: fanfic, fanart, fanvids, manipulations, gifsets (please make sure they are your gifs, though, and you’re not taking them from others without permission), meta, headcanons…anything you can think of that would celebrate Molly Hooper that would fit in with a theme (or just show love for her in general on Day 7) will be accepted with much pleasure.
- Be kind and respectful to everyone participating. We don’t want any wank because this is a week for sharing our love for a character who loves pretty much everyone we’ve seen her meet.
- If there’s something submitted that you like, please like it (or even better, reblog it so others can see it too)! If there’s a link to it on another website, go to that website and leave them love there as well.
- Any and all romantic ships are allowed. Het, femslash, poly…you ship it, we want to see it! We turn no one away. All ships are valid ships. Likewise, all takes on Molly’s sexuality and gender are valid for this week as well. Not everyone shares the same headcanons but we should all be respectful of others.
- If you post something for the day, please make sure one of your first five tags is molly appreciation week. We will not be using secondary tags this round as the daily prompts are optional this round.
- NEW THIS ROUND! We ran into a problem at Sherlolly Secret Santa last round where I could only view about half the tagged posts where it’s one of the first five tags. If you want your work to be reblogged on @mollyappreciationweek you must @ the blog somewhere in your post. I get alerts on the activity when the blog is mentioned and then I will know to go and save your post to the drafts to reblog when the round is over. I will still check the tag but there is no guarantee I will see your post unless you @ @mollyappreciationweek as well.
AO3 COLLECTION
There will be a collection, as per usual, which will be opened as soon as I make it for people to post their works. It will remain open for perpetuity as you are always allowed to answer these prompts even after the posting dates are officially over. When it is created you will be able to find it on the parent collection (so this way the link is sort of up now and not lost in reblogs).
Fandom: Sherlock (TV)
Rating: Mature/Explicit
Relationships: Janine/Molly Hooper, background Janine/Sherlock
Additional Tags: Alternate Scene for HLV, femslash
Inspired by this tumblr post by @katiewont: Janine getting dragged into Molly’s lab when she’s “dating” Sherlock and she thinks Molly is a total fox. When Molly and Janine chat, she’s not intimidated by Sherlock’s … everything, and Janine thinks she’s fantastic. When Molly leaves the room to use the restroom, Janine jokes with Sherlock about how Molly Hooper should have her own it’s not cheating if it’s Molly clause, but Sherlock just raises an amused eyebrow and shrugs. “Invite her home with us.”
I deviated slightly from the premise, and expanded it to slot into His Last Vow.
A welcome home gift for @interestingguesses, who first turned me on to the joys of Janolly ♥ Tagging my femslash lovers under the cut ♥
