Chapter 1: 1 Good Morning Starshine 2 The Bells are Going to Chime
Summary:
Mrs Hudson catches the boys dancing and brings word of Mummy Holmes
Chapter 2: 3 Love Like Yours 4 A Song of Love that Clings to Me 5 Your Heart Goes Pitter Patter
Summary:
Greg brings a crime to pre-wedding breakfast.
Sally watches Sherlock prancing about a crime scene, and tries to gently point out to John that he is perhaps humming a love song, and that might not be entirely appropriate. But she doesn't really mind.
At the morgue, John is still humming. Sherlock seems to be humming along to the duet. Molly thinks it's sweet, though she's not certain she has understood the explanation of the murder...
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Chapter 3: 6 Burning Love
Summary:
Mummy Holmes wants to know what John's defects are; what he percieves Sherlock's to be; and then she confesses some of her own. She was a terrible mother, but that's not all she is. And John reminds her so much of her late husband.
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Chapter 4: 7 Eternal Flame
Summary:
The aftermath of Eloise Holmes's confessions of her defects. Rage and grief and fear. Sherlock thinks he is just like his mother after all, but John knows that he isn't. The door on past grief comes off its hinges at last, and everything can be seen in a new light. Then there is comfort, and tea, and terrible, wonderful, awful love songs.
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