Friends To Lovers, Finally (Sherlock; Lestrade x Sally)
This is a mod gift for @mizjoely with the pairing Lestrade/Sally. It’s an explicit fic so part of it is here and the rest is up at AO3.
Friends To Lovers, Finally - Greg reflects on the night before with Sally before trying to make her breakfast in bed.
He stared down at the woman sleeping next to him. Never in his wildest dreams would he have imagined she fancied him. But as soon as she got her promotion and he was no longer her superior, she’d started flirting. And he had been flattered but he had brushed it off.
At least until last night. No alcohol had been involved, really, except about half a pint each. But it had been a conversation at the pub while they were celebrating a colleague’s birthday that had changed everything.
“You do realize I’ve been flirting with you for months now, right? I’m about to give up so we can go back to just friends because you’re obviously not interested.”
“I didn’t think you were serious, Sally. I mean, I’m...me. And you’re you. And you deserve better than an old man like me.”
“I know what I want, Greg. And what I want is you. But just say the word and I’ll stop flirting and we can just be friends if that’s what you want.”
“What if that isn’t what I want at all?”
“Then what do you want?”
“A chance to make up for ignoring all the flirting.”
The grin on her face had been so wide, she’d been beaming. There hadn’t been a kiss just then, though he could have given her one, but they’d decided then to go back to his place and have a more private conversation. They’d sat close to each other in the cab since neither had brought their own cars to the pub, and she reached over to hold his hand and play with his fingers and he was filled with a warmth he hadn’t felt in a long time.
Then they got to his place and went inside, sitting on the sofa and just talking for a bit. Oh, it wasn’t as though they hadn’t done that in the past, but it was different this time. This time he had the feeling it would lead to something more intimate. And when she kissed him, softly, hesitantly, he knew he was right. When he had kissed her back he hadn’t expected more than a bit of heavy petting and snogging on the sofa, but soon they both got hot and bothered. When she moved her lips to his neck, teasing him, he knew he wouldn’t care in the morning if there was a mark.
He hadn’t felt like this since the heady days of his relationship with his wife, but in this case, it was better, as he and Sally had been friends for ages and they were coming from that place with each other. He knew so much about her, and vice versa, and it made the bond tighter, the connection better. He remembered unbuttoning Sally’s shirt to reveal her brassiere and was amazing at how gorgeous she looked, half-dressed, breathing heavily with a sexy smirk on her face.
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#7 for Sherlolly please: You’ve gone to the bathroom fifty times today.
#7, from this drabble list! Feel free to send me some!
“You’re not subtle you know,” Greg says, taking a sip of his beer.
“Don’t know what you mean.”
“You’ve ‘gone to the bathroom’ fifty times already,” Sally, sat beside him, says. Lestrade smiles into his drink, his hand underneath the tablecloth smoothing over her thigh.
She gives nothing away as he strokes his thumb in little circles over her skin. Could play poker with the gods, she could. If she wanted.
Over at the dancefloor, some cougar woman is dancing the night away with a young bloke she can’t stop grinning at, while the bride is slumped against the groom’s chest, the two of them in their own world.
“And you can’t stop looking at your phone,” Greg adds.
Sherlock idly swirls the wine in his glass. “She is her own woman.”
“I swear to God, it’s just a pathology conference.”
“She was nervous about her speech, I gave her some last-minute encouragement.”
“So you admit you’ve been checking up on her?” Sally asks, her eyes slyly flicking towards the hall’s entrance. Sherlock doesn’t notice, wrapped so tightly in the fact his girlfriend’s had to go to a conference as he is.
“I haven’t been—”
“Missed the food then, did I?”
Sherlock is straight up on his feet, turning to face Molly, stood behind him. She doesn’t have a chance to say hello further before he’s kissing her, dragging her out of the main and upstairs.
Greg stares at them, seeing their distant figures at the top of the stairs kiss again. He looks away when Sherlock tugs Molly closer, staring into the bottom of his glass. He doesn’t want to even register the fact that Sherlock touches bums, not even if that bottom belongs to Molly.
“Remember when I once said Sherlock could do with a woman?”
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I'm gonna be cleaning my house this weekend, which really means I will be looking for distractions from cleaning my house this weekend. Prompt me? :p I think some prompt lists I've been interested in are tagged "writing woes" but don't limit yourself. I'm taking any sort of prompt. Anything. Go crazy. Check out tags for pairings I'm willing to write, but again, not limited.
