AN: Hi everyone! Well this is me trying my hand at writing a female Sherlock and her epic friendship with the ever adorable Dr. Watson. So from the beginning till the very end it is going to be purely friendship of epic proportions with large doses of happy family drama, humour and a really tiny bit of angst. I generally do not write multi-chapter fictions as I'm very bad at following it up, so reviews will surely be an encouragement to be regular.

Also this is neither beta-ed nor Brit-picked. I apologize in advance for the grammatical errors. Please read the end notes for my Beta request.

WARNING: 1. Canonical Minor character death (Mary Watson)

2. Mentions of IVF (In-vitro fertilization), surrogacy and pregnancy mood swings. And liberty will be taken about these issues for story's sake, so won't be scientifically very accurate.

3. Third person POV. Narration/story telling style.

SUMMARY: When Sherline Holmes is the surrogate mother to Mary and John's child, pregnancy mood swings will have an all new meaning! Post- Reichenbach.


CHAPTER-1

Mary and John

Sherline Holmes had returned from her supposed death, 2 days after the tragic death of Mary Watson in a road traffic accident (RTA). The accident was caused by a speeding car which when trying to avert a collision with another, suddenly swerved and rammed on the pedestrians walking on the side-walk, killing one and injuring two others.

Sherline had been supposedly dead for 3 years and 4 and half months now.

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John was miserable in every way one would be if they lost their love of their life so suddenly, especially when one was just planning to start a family with them. He was completely devastated that he hadn't even noticed a silent figure lurking in the background during Mary's well attended funeral, which had taken place two days after her death due to various procedures associated with a RTA victim.

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Mary had entered John's life exactly 7 months and 3 days after Sherly's death, when she had accompanied her friend to his clinic. If one would believe in destiny and 'love at first sight', they surely would say that is what happened when these two met that fateful day. But the two involved parties being too sane and skeptical and one just recovering from a great personal loss, were not going to make few hormones trick them into believing they were in love. So they did not even bother getting each other's numbers, each believing that it is an unprofessional thing to do.

So when they ran into each other due to pure chance for the third time in totally unsuspecting places, they decided to confront each other, err well literally. Somehow both instead of feeling all romantic and tingly, accused each other of stalking. And funnily they spoke at the exact same time causing the other to pause and think what the other person was saying and making themselves a spectacle in middle of the café which later turned out to be both their favourites, among many of the other common shared favourites.

At the end of that spectacle both decided they needed to sit civilly and discuss whatever was happening. And somehow it rather turned to be a confessional session with each saying that they know something was there between them which did not seem to have any basis. So being the sane people they were, they didn't think it would work out between them. John even hinted about personal loss too vaguely and with that they decided to leave things be.

Well that was until when Mary literally fell into his lap exactly 3 weeks later due to pure coincidence again. It happened when John was getting up from the crouching position he had been for past 20 minutes for feeding the ducks in the pond in the nearby park on a Sunday morning when something or somebody in this case, ran into him and both fell back on the ground. But this time however when they realized who the other person was, instead of fighting, both started to laugh out loudly thinking that their fate too was adamant just like them. And they finally decided to exchange numbers and go out for coffee.

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That was the beginning of an epic love story which was almost fit to be a fairy tale. They were just perfect for each other; their characters were totally in sync with the other that it really seemed they were destined for each other. They married just after 5 months of starting their relationship and even though it seemed early, everyone who knew them certainly had to agree that it was something inevitable.

They had a simple traditional wedding, a week after Sherly's first death anniversary.

Their wedded life had been a thing of envy to all those with evil hearts and a testament for true love and happiness for every good hearted person who knew them. So two years into their marriage with John having a permanent job at Bart's and Mary already being a successful software professional, when they decided to add another member to their family of two, the only problem that they encountered was biological. It seemed Mary's womb was too weak and was unable to support the development of the fetus to full term. So instead of making too much fuss and worrying, John had simply suggested surrogacy and Mary too thought it was a more practical choice. Thus the matter was decided soon enough.

It was during this sweetly anxious time when they had just finalized everything about the surrogacy and submitted their samples for IVF at the lab the day before, the tragedy of Mary's death occurred.


AN: Reviews are always appreciated and will be replied to.

Beta request: Well if you have read the above chapter and thought it would have been much better without the grammatical errors and if you have the patience to read through much of this non-sense and would be able to proof read few chapters at one go (because I need to post this in next few weeks and finish it before next month for some reasons), you are the person I have been praying to meet! So Please PM me and I would surely be very grateful. :)