Description: Sherlock and Molly attend the NSY Halloween party; Sherlock begrudgingly agreed to go, but Molly makes it worth it in the end...until Sherlock makes leaving look like the better option.
> Flufftober 2021 fic for Oct 2nd - "Sneaking out together"
"Molly I feel utterly ridiculous. We have been pacing around this so-called party for three hours and I have yet to have any sort of fun. Now, if something happened like someone was poisoned or a murderer broke in and started slashing people, /then/ maybe it would be more interesting but this? Pfft. Plus, these masks don't do anything to properly hide your identity, they're akin to a flimsy piece of plastic and it paints a totally unrealistic portrait reminiscent of a Cinderella movie I was forced to watch with Rosie. Which was also utterly ridiculous because there is no way that the boy had no idea who she was with that tiny eye mask on...", Sherlock rambles in disdain as he and Molly make their way over to the snacks and punch for about the fifth time that night.
They had been invited to the New Scotland Yard annual masquerade Halloween party, and Sherlock was very displeased by it. Molly had forced him to make an appearance since she had told him he had to at least try to be civil with these people who could easily revoke his access to his livelihood whenever they so choose. He was dressed in black trousers, a black button-up shirt, a black suit coat, black shoes, and a black cape. A "Halloweeny" touch, Molly called it. Then of course there was the all-black eye mask with a few sparkling swirl accents on it that Molly had bought him to go with the contrast between her lighter one. His curls also seemed much darker tonight, and very luxuriously curly and wild, the way Molly adored.
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"Sherlock, I know this isn't your cup of tea, so to speak. But look, Lestrade doesn't really like these functions and he seems to be getting on. It's just one night. Plus...I think you look pretty sexy. Kind of like a more mysterious, handsome, and brilliant batman of sorts. Not to mention utterly sexy, but that's beside the point.
"Batman. Seriously? Batman? That's what you think I was going for? Ugh, this I even worse than I thought."
Molly snorts and rolls her eyes fondly under her purple, sequined, half butterfly-shaped eye mask. "Well yes, maybe. Or maybe like...phantom of the opera", she winks. "I know that's one of your faves."
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