It didn't take a genius to see that Sherlock Holmes was not your run of the mill ordinary man. Just ask Dr. John Watson; best friend to Sherlock Holmes, and as he'd been told on several occasion by the detective himself, a man of "ordinary" intelligence. Even Sherlock's best friend wouldn't hesitate to admit that Sherlock is, to put it delicately; odd. And when Sherlock started to court a pretty young woman by the name of Brianna Turner, the comments that flew around surrounding the pair were much stronger than "odd."
Sherlock had a number of enemies, but it was his acquaintances that gave him the most grief about his relationship with Brianna. No one could believe that Sherlock was actually interested in a woman and John was no exception. He spent many sleepless nights worrying that Sherlock was stringing on the poor girl, and that Brianna would end up with her heart broken just because Sherlock was being, well, Sherlock.
Mary, John's wife, was their biggest supporter. She calmed John when he worried too much and she stopped her babbling friends when their dinner topics spread to relationship gossip. Brianna and Sherlock's relationship was admittedly unorthodox, but it was theirs and nobody else's. As the months rolled on and Brianna and Sherlock were still happily enjoying each other's company John started to get used to the idea that they might actually be a good fit for each other. He started to notice the way their personalities resembled and complimented each other. For example: while Sherlock's mind was always perceiving and educing, making him easily distracted or seclude himself from the world, Brianna would get inspired by something and stop talking mid sentence so that she could draw a picture. She would stop her story, draw for anywhere between 30 seconds to a few hours, and resume her story when the drawing was done, regardless of whether there was anyone else still around to hear her. Brianna was empathetic and sweet, while Sherlock was cold and logical. She was artistic and energetic compared to Sherlock's quieter, calculating and scientific personality.
In many respects they were polar opposites: the blonde and the brunette, the artist and the detective, the extrovert and the introvert, but the more time he spent with the pair, the more John realized they had a lot in common. They were determined, stubborn, prone to loud outbursts, easily distracted, talented, observant and above all else, clever. Sherlock was cleverer than Brianna, but she challenged him unlike anyone he had met before.
Brianna kept life at 221B Baker Street interesting. After Sherlock had asked her to move in, she took over John's old room and converted it to her studio. According to Mrs. Hudson, it was hard to tell who was ever home. Sherlock's schedule was always erratic, but Brianna's was steadily 8-4 weekdays. There were days when she thought no one was home; 221B was quiet, but would come up to find that Brianna had knit scarves for all of the furniture, or she would open the door to find Brianna lying upside down on the couch, legs up against the wall, sketchbook in hand trying to draw a picture of the deer on the wall.
Oppositely, there were days when she couldn't tell how many people were home. Some days one of them would make enough noise for two and when both Sherlock and Brianna were both home the house was either eerily quiet, or boisterous. Despite it being difficult to tell who was home, Mrs. Hudson adjusted quite quickly to having Brianna around all the time. The ladies spend much of their time cooking together, watching bad shows on the telly or knitting. Brianna loves to knit and is often wearing some piece of knitwear she made herself. Mrs. Hudson doesn't have the same aptitude for knitting as Brianna and often busies herself tidying the apartment while Brianna quietly knits the hours away waiting for Sherlock to come home from his latest case. The ladies gossip and trade recipes, and peer out the windows studying their neighbours' affairs. But then there are days when Brianna has been alone too long, and she isn't quite so 'domestic'.
Mrs. Hudson had been used to having to deal with Sherlock's temper tantrums and mood swings, his messy housekeeping, bloody specimens and his violent outbursts, but she was surprised to find out that despite Brianna's sweet demeanor, Brianna had a wicked temper too which meant that Mrs. Hudson was sometimes out matched by Brianna's quirks as well. Although they complimented Sherlock's very well, the pair were sometimes too much for the old woman. That meant that life at 221B Baker street was anything but normal, but then again, that's how Sherlock and Brianna liked it.