#mcmolly

[afteriwake]

McMolly -- 1, 4, 5, 8, 11, 12, 15, 20, 23, 31, 36, thanks!

Ship Ask Game - The Basics

For the life of me I couldn’t find the ask meme post these were from, so I found a different post with cool questions and I’ll answer those instead! I hope you don’t mind. Once again, setting this in my The Best Laid Plans AU.

1. Describe their first date. Since they did the friends with benefits thing until that failed spectacularly, technically their first actual date was their friends setting them up for dinner so they’d be forced to talk to each other and hash out the fact they both wanted an actual relationship with each other. But basically after they admitted they had fallen in love with each other, they spent the £100 their friends had put on a tab for them on drinks and McCoy and Molly splurged on the most expensive dinner they could, splitting the tab in the end (even though McCoy did offer to pay for it all), then went to her place and had the best make-up sex either of them had had in their lives.

4. Who initiates affection? Why does the other not initiate affection as much? When they’re doing the friends with benefits thing, initially McCoy did a lot of the initiating but eventually it became pretty equally split between them, and continued that way once they actually started dating. 

5. Do they argue often? If so, what do they argue about? They’ve had one major argument in their relationship, and that was at the gala where Sherlock was getting an award (which I haven’t written yet) when Molly got the wrong idea about a woman hanging on McCoy and McCoy decided he’d had enough of her using him to make Sherlock jealous. After a decent length estrangement, they decided to never let things get that bad again, and so they never let anything get beyond a disagreement without talking it out. 

8. What do they love most about the other? Why? McCoy loves that Molly has accepted his past (both being from an alternate universe future and his past with his ex-wife) and still loves him with all her heart. Molly loves that he showers her with all the love and affection she could possibly ask for or ever need and he does it because he adores her for exactly how she is.

11. How do they feel about nicknames/pet names? If they like them, what pet names do they use? If they hate them, why do they feel that way? Molly doesn’t really use pet names with McCoy, which is fine with him, but she loves it when he says “Darlin” in her direction with his Southern drawl. She sometimes absently calls him Bones once his crew mates arrive in the past, though, since that’s what Kirk calls him all the time. McCoy is amused by that.

12. Do they have a difficult time when separated from each other, or are they fairly independent? They both lived fairly independent lives long before they met each other, so they can stand to be apart. They jut prefer to spend short periods apart rather than longer ones.

15. What songs remind you of their relationship? I just posted a fanmix inspired by the series here.

20. How do they comfort each other when one of them is upset? Is this method of comfort effective? Depending on the type of upset, the comforts either involve either sex or curling up on the sofa with sappy romcoms. Both methods of comfort are pretty effective.

23. What are the defining characteristics of their relationship? Passion. A lot of passion, and a lot of laughter, too.

31. Do they often go out on dates? What are these like? Once McCoy got more used to being in the past they’d go out to movies or the theatre more often, but he already knew some version of a lot of the movies that were new to her since Kirk was a fan of the time period he had landed in. They also loved to eat out and try new cuisine from a variety of places.

36. How do they feel about having kids? Are they in agreement? In this series I went with the TOS canon bit that McCoy had a daughter named Joanna, and Molly had said she’d never push for a child of their own after the pain of losing his daughter by ending up in the past, but when she ended up pregnant he was overjoyed at the prospect of not only raising another child but raising their child,

[mollyappreciationweek]

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And the AO3 collection is now open for the 2023 Molly Hooper Appreciation Week Prompt-A-Thon!

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MHAW Day 7 -- Free-for-all

Molly Hooper and some of the lovely men I ship her with -- Khan Noonien Singh (Star Trek Into Darkness), Mycroft Holmes (BBC Sherlock), Sherlock Holmes (Granada Holmes), Sherlock Holmes (BBC Sherlock), Sebastian Moran (BBC Sherlock, sorta), Leonard “Bones” McCoy (Star Trek AOS), and Jim Moriarty (BBC Sherlock).

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⬡  Who sings along to the radio? What do they sing? 

Half the time McCoy has no clue what the hell he's listening to on the radio but he hates it and keeps turning on the Beastie Boys since Jim played their stuff all the time in the Academy and he's got EVERY. SONG. MEMORIZED. Molly is shocked at how well he raps and secretly slips more Beastie Boys onto her iPod just to listen. "Sabotage" is the only song he can't listen to because of flashbacks to Yorktown, which makes him miss his friends.

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"Don't mind me, just want to remember how beautiful you look in bed this morning." McMolly

So I’m finally getting back to cleaning out the inbox on this account by answering fic prompts, and this one had caught my eye for a while but I got reminded I’m kind of the head of the McMolly ship by a post @strangelock221b reblogged so why not add one more fic to our fleet, you know? So enjoy!

Our First Christmas (A “Bones McCoy, Private Investigator” Story) - Molly wakes up her first Christmas morning after she and McCoy officially start dating to find he's still in bed, and there are things he wants to make sure she knows.

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"Don't mind me, just want to remember how beautiful you look in bed this morning."

“You’re just happy we made it to bed,” she said with a laugh, turning to look at him and not bothering to pull the quilt up to cover her chest. In fact, she stretched and watched as Leonard licked his lips slightly. “I mean, we could have ended up on the sofa in the office, but we were good enough to keep our hands mostly to ourselves on the way back to my flat.” She then leaned in and pressed a kiss to his pulse point. “Merry Christmas, Leonard.”

“I think this may have become my favorite holiday,” he murmured, turning so he could gently tilt her head up and kiss her properly, she realized. And she didn’t mind. Since the kiss in the office that had been interrupted by James, there hadn’t been time for anything else. His work on tracking Marcus for the police department took up much of his time, and she had been filling in on quite a lot, doing nearly everything she could for other cases that didn’t require a licensed private investigator. They were working well as a team, but the night before…

Well, apparently there was some Christmas magic in her life after all, along with a Christmas gift of good quality scotch. Though to be quite honest, neither of them had finished their first glass before he kissed her again, and again, and clothes had almost started to come off before her rational side said a bed would be more comfortable. They had both slept on that sofa, she’d pointed out. They knew how small and uncomfortable it could get, and with two?

They’d just barely made it into her flat when they picked up from where they had been in the office, and then, hours later, she realized the bed had been a good choice as she fell asleep in a mess of tangled limbs with Leonard. This was going to change things, she knew...but hopefully for the better. She knew they both needed some better in life.

When he was done snogging the breath out of her he rolled onto his back, pulling her half next to him and half on him, and she rested her head on his chest, smiling as she listened to his heartbeat and felt the few short curly hairs he had on his chest tickle her face. “I’m glad I’m spending Christmas with you.”

“I am too,” he said, pressing a kiss in her hair. “We can spend all of it in bed if you like. Maybe except for a shower or a bath, and then something to eat...or not. I’m game for anything today.”

“And I know you’ll stay as long as you can,” she said, letting her fingers curl in his chest hair a bit.

“Darlin, I’m staying all day. I already sent a text to Jim saying that tonight someone else gets to tail Marcus. You don’t deserve to have me run out on you today of all days.”

She moved her head so she could set her chin on his chest. “I’m just glad we did this. Don’t think I’m not, even though it complicates things.”

“It does, but if we stick together like the team we are, we’ll be fine.” He ran a hand through her hair, letting it settle so that he was cupping her cheek, and she tilted into it. “I’m going to tell you a million times a day I love you though.”

“And I’ll do the same,” she said giving him a wide smile. “Starting now. I love you, Leonard McCoy. I have for quite some time and...” She turned her head and kissed his pal, “I will continue to for quite some time as well.”

“I love you too, Margaret,” he said, and she shook her head but still smiled. “And I'll try and make you happy, from today till we can’t or won’t be together.”

“May that day be a long time off,” she said, getting up more so she could lean over Leonard, her breasts brushing against his chest before she leaned in and kissed him softly, a kiss that quickly became more heated as he rolled her onto her back and her hands began to wander. May that day be decades off she thought to herself before she lost herself to the sensations of being kissed by the only man she truly loved.

[afteriwake]

I'm About To Hit TWO Fic Milestones On AO3!

So I'm going to put up some polls with some prompts in a bit, but my fic enabler @strangelock221b has been sending me tons and tons of prompts over the years, and I'm going to pick some for the three ships I plan on writing (Khanolly, McMolly and Sherlolly) and have three separate polls to pick four Khanolly prompts, four McMolly prompts and two Sherlolly prompts to hit 1,400 Sherlock fics and 300 Star Trek AOS fics on AO3. So keep an eye out tonight and I'll link them to this post!

LINKS TO POLLS: Khanolly | McMolly | Sherlolly

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PROMPT POLL: Leonard "Bones" McCoy/Molly Hooper (McMolly - Star Trek: AOS/Sherlock)

Top Four Prompts Win! Pick One...

"Oh, I have an even more brilliant idea to warm us up."

first kiss: a kiss on the corner of the mouth

“Corpses? Oh darling, you always bring me the best gifts.”

They wanted to be touched, to be missed, to be loved. Was that too much to ask?

“YOU DON’T LIKE MARSHMALLOWS IN YOUR HOT CHOCOLATE? WHY DO YOU HATE LOVE?”

“Most things are more rewarding when you break a sweat to get ’em.”

"Why haven't you kissed me yet?"

Person B go and sit on Person A's lap, forcing the other to pay attention to the

When the bookstore closes, they go to a coffee shop to continue their discussion

B hates A’s music and when they meet, B is not shy about letting them know.

you’re the new employee who just saw me shove an entire cupcake into my mouth.

roommates: My alarm is loud enough so you can hear it through the wall

Voting ended onFeb 28, 2024

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Leonard, is Molly worth the pain of everything you went through before you met her?

“My divorce was hard, losing Joanna was hard, losing the people I called my family to be stuck here in the past...maybe that was the hardest thing of all,” he says, tapping his fingers slightly, as though he’s itching to touch something.

Or someone.

He looks away and looks at a picture on his desk. It’s him and Molly beaming at the camera. You decide a smile looks nice on him. He picks it up, lets you hold it, and finishes his thought. “Molly saved me, and so yes, it was worth it all to have her in my life.”

Interview #1: Leonard McCoy