It was a normal day, or what could be considered one with Sherlock in the house. He had once again stowed a gruesome human body part in the fridge, which Molly always seemed to be happy to supply him with from the morgue. John had the unluckiness to opening the fridge to the lovely sight of several pairs of eyeballs in a jar. It certainly put him off the tea he was making. John sighed, purposefully closing the door loudly and glared at Sherlock, who was currently observing something under his microscope that looked suspiciously like a sliced eyeball.
"Why do you have to put them in the fridge?" John complained as he walked past a preoccupied Sherlock, and was surprised to receive an, if short, answer.
"Where else am I meant to keep them?"
John smiled to himself, it was always like this. Sherlock turned to observe John secretly, still with a very slight limp, and military induced posture, flop into his favourite chair, sigh and pick up the paper.
"Sherlock, why is there an advert to sell Mycroft in the newspaper? 'Tall, fat and annoying. Must go immediately.' He doesn't even live here!"
"He threatened me with a knighthood, again. Besides, he was being annoying." Sherlock frowned, "Where's Mary?"
"She's visiting her sister, I told you."
"Oh, did you? I don't remember you saying that."
"Of course not." John set down his newspaper, "You need some milk, I'll get it."
"I'll go." The words stopped John from standing and he looked at Sherlock.
"Really?" Nobody could blame him for being sceptical.
"Well, seeing as I'm living on my own now I need to learn how to do everyday tasks." Sherlock smiled, before threading his favourite blue scarf around his neck and departing quickly.
"Okay." John settled back down still a little shocked, and shrugged.
His tea now finished, John stood up and walked to the kitchen. As he walked past Sherlock's microscope, he sneaked a look and shuddered, dreading to think what could be on the slide. Placing the cup in the sink, he started to wash it when a very strange noise filled the air. Unlike any noise he had heard before, it was simply indescribable. John whipped round to see a strange object the middle of the living room.