A/N: Ha! Thanks to some reviewers from dA, I have been encouraged to write a sequel for "A New Beginning". Let's hope this tops it. Just to give everyone a heads up, all flashbacks, thoughts, and notes will be italicized. Flashbacks will be separated with the divider...So anyway, I hope you all enjoy!

Disclaimer: Aside from my own OCs, all characters belong to Disney and Eve Titus…not me…never did…never will. Also I'm not sure what the name is for the Inspector in the Eve Titus books so I'm just going to stick with that character from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Prologue

April 13, 1908

It was a calm and peaceful night in the city of London. The streets were bare, not a single soul in sight. The only sounds that could be heard were crickets chirping. Suddenly, a loud painful scream was heard from the residence of 221 ½ Baker Street. Basil and Olivia Baker have been married for five months and were expecting their first child. At this moment, Olivia has been in labor for the past ten hours, and the pain was getting worse. As Basil sat beside her, he gently brushed her now drenched hair as he continued to assist her. He hated the fact that she was in so much pain.

Once again, Olivia began to have intense contractions, getting stronger by the minute. Olivia felt like she wanted to die. She knew that it was going to be painful but this was too much for her delicate body to handle. Minutes late, another sharp pain stabbed through her body and she gripped Basil's hand tighter than before. It was amazing that he hadn't lost feeling in his hand, but he had a feeling that any moment she was probably going to break it.

"GOD I CAN'T DO THIS ANYMORE!" Olivia shouted as another contraction took over her.

"I know, but it's almost over. You just need to keep breathing." Basil replied calmly

"Basil, please I want it out. Just get it out!"

Basil honestly didn't know what to do except watch his wife suffer. He never recalled seeing his mother go through so much pain when she was in labor with his younger siblings. It was five minutes to four when the doctor came back in to their bedroom. After looking Olivia over, he told Basil to sit her up slightly. The moment of truth was about to begin, and in the back of Olivia's mind, she knew it was going to be excruciating.

While she was pushing, Olivia felt like she was being torn from the inside out. Doing the best she could, she continued.

"Ouch, Basil I can't do it." She said as her body became more tired out.

"Yes you can darling, you're almost there."

With Basil's assistance, she continued to push until three minutes later, it was over. Olivia let out a final scream when she attempted the final push. When the baby was finally out, she fell against Basil, who at this moment, was sitting behind her. The room was completely silent until moments later the sound of the baby's soft cries overcame Olivia. Still breathing heavily, she glanced up to see their beautiful baby girl. After she was cleaned up and wrapped in a blanket. Olivia held her daughter for the first time. What Olivia didn't notice was that Basil had tears streaming down his face. Olivia looked up at him and noticed the big smile on his face. As his gaze finally met with hers, he kissed Olivia passionately. His looked back to his little girl.

"Do you want to hold her?" she asked softly.

Nodding, Basil gently took the baby from her arms. Not once did he take his eyes off her. As gently as he possibly could, he kissed the top of his daughter's forehead. While holding her, he was afraid to make a slight move. She was so tiny, so delicate; he thought if he made one false move she might break.

To Basil, everything completely disappeared. His sudden fears vanished. Everything he most deeply wanted had finally become reality.

"I can't believe it. I'm a father. I'm actually, finally a father."

"So how does it feel?" Olivia asked him.

Smiling at her, he took her hand, "makes me feel like I'm the luckiest man in all of England."

Olivia smiled at him and then looked back at their daughter. She could tell that he was happy. Not because of the fact that he continued to smile, it was because she knew deep down in his heart that it was something he desperately wanted ever since she saw him nine months ago.

'Has it really been nine months?' Olivia thought to herself. To her it felt longer than that. She looked at the gold wedding band that gently lay on his finger and then at hers. In the back of her mind she didn't regret that things happened as fast as they did. Neither did Basil for that matter. Not even now. Things happen for a reason and that's how she thought of everything that happened between her and Basil.

"So what are we going to name her?" Basil asked softly.

"Oh, that's right."

Not even a second later a thought came to her and she looked up at Basil.

"What was your mother's name?" Olivia asked him.

"Alexia, why do you ask?" he realized why she'd asked him that. "Are you thinking what I think you're thinking?"

"That depends if you agree with it."

"Ha, darling, you're assuming that I won't."

"I don't know."

"Olivia, I'll agree to it only on one condition." He smiled playfully

"What's the condition?"

"You give her your mother's name as well."

She thought for a second, "Hmm, Alexia Michelle Baker. I like the sound of it."

"As do I, so do we agree?"

"Of course dear." She said as she laughed softly.

They kissed once more. With their daughter, Alexia, still in his arms, Basil carefully laid beside Olivia. She gently placed her head on Basil's shoulder. She was exhausted but she didn't want to fall asleep just yet. She never knew childbirth would take so much out of her. But of course it's worth it in the end. Moments later, Alexia slowly opened her eyes. Both Basil and Olivia knew it was going to be a while before her true eye color would show. But it didn't matter. Either way they were still amazed.

"She's so beautiful." Basil spoke softly.

"Just like her father."

Basil glanced at Olivia and kissed her forehead.

"She's going to have some of you in her. I'm sure of it."

"Basil's it doesn't matter to me. Besides, I can tell that she's going to be so much like you."

"How can you tell?"

"Mother's tuition I guess. But I just have a feeling that she will be."

Basil looked at Olivia. He gently wrapped an arm around her while still holding on the Alexia. As carefully as she could, Olivia slid closer to him. She winced a bit due to the fact that she was still in pain. The doctor that was in the room had already fixed Olivia up and left, so it was only her and Basil.

They knew from there on out that their lives were going to change, especially Basil's. With him being a father now, he knew he had to make sure that absolutely nothing was going to happen to his daughter. No harm was EVER going to come to her. Olivia knew that Basil would give his own life for Alexia, as would she. Both also knew that her life was going to be different from the other children. She was going to see more than what any child should see, just like Olivia when she first met Basil. Since she was eight years old, her life was different. She saw the world for what it really was, knew more than what other children her age should know, and it was all because of Basil. Their only hope was that she didn't become scarred because of their profession.

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