Benedict Cumberbatch and Louise Brealey had been dating for two years now. When they had told the rest of the Sherlock cast and crew everyone had been thrilled for them, especially Una Stubbs, Martin Freeman and Amanda Abbington - all three knew they were made for each other. But there person who was more excited, maybe more so than the couple themselves, were Ben's mother Wanda. Wanda wanted nothing more than for her only son to settle down with a beautiful, successful young women and start a family of his own, but as Ben's career rockets the idea got more and more unlikely.
Well, it was until Ben finally built up the courage, with the help of his cast mates, to ask Louise out on a date. After both insisting that they were nothing more than friends none of their friends held their breath but when both turned up to work the next day smitten, it was obvious that their earlier attempts to get them together had worked.

"Come on you two. I want grandchildren before I'm 80." Wanda joked to her son and his girlfriend. "You've been dating for over a year now, and know each other even longer."
"Mum.." Ben groaned. "It'll happen when it happens."
"Well make it snappy, it better happen soon." she said handing her husband a cup of tea and joining them in the living room.

After what Wanda had said Ben and Loo had talked about the possibility of children, both agreeing they would like some and that now would be a good time to start trying before Ben got too busy with Hamlet and Loo with other work commitments. That was the night that they 'officially' started trying for a baby.

A month later, no periods and a week of constantly feeling sick, Loo had an idea what might be wrong, or hopefully right. They had bought a few pregnancy tests the week before, ready to use when they had a feeling Loo was pregnant, like now.
Ben was at work, so it was just Louise and their pet Labrador, daisy, the name curtsy of Louise's niece in the house. Daisy chasing her own tail in the kitchen while Loo was sat in the arm chair reading over the instructions before going in the bathroom and doing as it said.
That bit was easy, it was the waiting that was the hardest part. Loo had washed her hands three times just to try out and smell some new hand wash she had bought the day before. She went and checked on daisy to make sure she hadn't destroyed any of the cushions which she was famously know for doing and made it back to the bathroom, still all before the timer went off to tell her to look at the test. She groaned, this was defiantly the longest five minutes of her life. She sat on the edge of the bath imagining her and Ben with a child, it would have her smile and brown hair, but Ben's curls, cheekbones and mesmerising eyes.
Her thoughts were disturbed by the sound of her phone timer going off, telling her the five minutes were up. With no messing around, she took a deep breath and picked the test up off of the window ledge. As she read the results there was a grin on her face, and a tear escaped, but she wasn't going to tell anyone about that.
Just to be sure she took another three tests, each one said either the words 'pregnant', 'positive' or there were two clear blue lines, all meaning one things. She was going to be a mum.

The next four hours we're just as painfully slow as waiting to look at the sticks were. Loo was dying to tell Benedict the good news but he wasn't going to be home until at least eight.
Two hours before he arrived home Loo decided she was going to make them food, spaghetti bolognese, and tell him the news over dinner. She set to work, and before she knew it, time had flown and she had 20 minutes left to lay the table, light the candles and get changed into something a little more flattering than legging and a blue and white stripy jumper. Not wanting to go over board she settled on a simple navy blue dress and tied her hair up into a simple ponytail.

Just as she dished up the food Ben walked through the door. "Hey. Ooh, you look gorgeous." he said pulling her into a hug. "Special occasion?"
"You could say that, but I'll tell you later." She smiled as she placed the dishes down.
"Mm, this smells and looks great. I'm starving, it was hectic on set today as they're put the deadline back a week." Ben rambled on about his day like he did ever day, but he never failed to bore Loo, she loved to know how projects were getting on, and she still fangirled when he got to work with some big names. "So, how was your day?" he asked, as he finished his last mouthful.
"Same old, I took Daisy for a walk, update my blog." She shrugged. "I got sent the scripts for a new TV drama."
"Any good?" Ben asked.
Louise just shrugged. "I guess but they're due to start filming in April, but I sort of had plans for May, non negotiable really. That reminds me, are you busy in May?"
Ben shook his head, "No, I don't think so, but I'll have to check with my agent, why?"
"Good, because I'm pregnant, and due in May." Loo beamed pulling out four pregnancy tests from the bag that was resting on the chair next to them that was tucked under so Ben couldn't see.
His face was priceless. At first he was trying to work out if she was joking, before looking at the tests and realising she was dead serious and his face broke out into a huge grin "I'm going to be a dad!" he said walking round and picking Loo up and giving her a spin.
"Careful, I don't want to bring my tea back up." she chuckled. Ben pulled her into a hug and planted a kiss on her forehead.
"This is the best news ever." he said still beaming, as a little tear rolled down his face, just like Loo had done.
"I know." She smiled at them, pulling him onto the sofa with her. "We're going to have out very own little baby."