sherlockbbc_fic | Prompting Part XXXIV

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To the surprise of absolutely everyone, John and Mary name Sherlock the godfather of their newborn child. No one expects it to work out (Anderson starts a betting pool re: how long it'll take Sherlock to accidentally kill the baby in a freak experiment), but to everyone's amazement Sherlock turns out to be the most doting and proud godfather ever.

Bonus points if he takes to showing up at the Watson residence at the most random of hours, proclaiming "Hello, John/Mary. I am here to see my godchild" and then flouncing up the stairs and into the baby's room, where he'll spend three hours silently staring at it while it naps. Because regular babies are boring, but John's interesting, and John's baby is FASCINATING (by the time Baby Watson is a toddler, s/he's got Sherlock wrapped completely around his/her little finger (though Sherlock would never admit to such sentimentality)).

YES!
Seconding with a lot of enthusiasm

The prompt made me smile. I would love to read more of that.

It was a violin.

For one baffling moment, John stared at the wall opposite trying to work out if he had just experienced the longest dream known to man. But no, those were definitely the curtains that Mary had picked out whose pattern he could just about make out in the faded light of their room.

He hated those bloody curtains and he had a sneaky suspicion that Mary only kept them because it amused her to see him sigh at them.
The violin stopped.

John was just about to drift back to sleep when his brain suddenly started to engage.

Violin.

Middle of the night.

John scrunched his eyes shut.

“It’s your turn,” Mary muttered.

“I got up last night,” John mumbled.

“I dealt with Sherlock three hours ago,” Mary replied, sounding as if she were wriggling deeper into the pillow.

Bugger.

Making some noise that sounded like agreement, John rolled out of the bed and stumbled into his slippers and dressing gown before making his way out of the bedroom and down the hall to his daughter’s room.

And, in his half slumberous state, walked straight into the part open door.

“Shut up,” Sherlock hissed at him from where he was stood by the cot.

John glanced heavenwards as he rubbed the knee that had just caught the edge. “It’s two thirty in the morning,” John hissed back.

“I don’t know why you bothered getting up,” Sherlock complained, turning his attention back to the cot. “You are notoriously useless when you get up at this time.”

“Someone was playing the violin,” John snapped and then resisted the urge to swear chronically when Sherlock turned and glared at him, pressing a long finger to his lips.

Wanker.

“It soothes her,” Sherlock replied, looking down at the cot.
And, just like that, the annoyance vanished.

John walked over, carefully picking where to step to avoid making any more noise. Once he was at Sherlock’s side he gazed down into the cot at his sleeping daughter. The baby was on her back, arms flung out and a little frown above her nose as if sleeping were taking quite a bit of effort.

“Like father like daughter, I suppose,” John muttered, leaning his elbows on the bars of the cot.

The barest flicker of a smile crossed Sherlock’s face. “Her coordination skills have improved by three percent,” Sherlock declared after a moment.

“Three percent?” John asked, nodding at the claim. “Sounds about right.”

“She’ll start crawling soon,” Sherlock added, as if John might not have been aware. As it was, the image that sprung to John’s head was that of Sherlock leading the baby around by a little harness and lead-

God, he would.

“I’m not a moron,” Sherlock muttered.

“What?”

“Whatever was going through your head right now,” Sherlock said with a slightly dour expression on his face. “I am not a moron.”

John said nothing as he stared down at his sleeping daughter, still slightly unable to believe that he had managed to create another human being.

OP here! Awesome fill, anon! I love how it's not the baby keeping John and Mary up at night, but Sherlock! Thank you so much - it's just what I asked for!

Not op

Omggg, this was one of the cutest prompts ever and this fill is just adorable. Like father like daughter, I suppose *flails*

Prompting Part XXXIV

Sherlock the godfather

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