A/N: written 11.20.11 for OtakuFangirlCrazyArtist
Can We Keep Her?
John had a feeling that Sherlock was not going to like this at all. But there had been no one else at the clinic who wanted to claim the baby. It had just been left on the counter at the nurse's station. The army doctor wasn't just going to leave the young girl there. Then she would have gone to some adoption centre and who knows what would have happened after that.
He got out of the cab and walked into 221B after paying the cabbie. The doctor took special care to shield the baby from the cold air. He went upstairs and found Sherlock fiddling with Petri dishes and chemicals in the kitchen.
"Erm… Sherlock?"
"Hm?" The consulting detective replied, not looking up from his experiment.
"I've brought someone home with me."
"Who?" He still didn't look up.
"Well, she doesn't have a name yet… I was hoping you would help me pick one."
Sherlock looked up at this remark and saw John standing there in his coat holding a small baby wrapped in a thick pink blanket.
"You brought home a baby."
"Someone left her at the clinic. No one claimed her, and I didn't want her to have to go to an orphanage." John defended.
Sherlock got up and took off his gloves, coming over to have a look.
The baby looked adorable, swaddled in the blanket and held carefully in John's arms. His eyes flicked up to look into John's. He could see that John wanted this, and although he had at least three reasons to object, he leaned in and placed a light kiss on John's lips.
"We can keep her."