5 months
Molly
It was time for the Ultrasound.
The time where they would find out if what was inside Molly really was a baby girl. Molly half expected the doctor to say that it was some strange alien, because that's what it felt like every time it moved. She still hadn't fully realized that she was pregnant. That she would have a baby. That she would raise and care an actual human being alongside a high-functioning sociopath.
She was very happy, but scared. She had never given birth or taken care of a baby... What if she messed up? What if something bad happened, and there was a miscarriage?
Her mother once had a miscarriage with Molly's would-be baby brother. Molly was only eight when it happened. She couldn't understand why her mother did not come back home with a little baby boy, laughing and cooing over him. Later, when it was all explained to her, she had silently sworn that she would never get pregnant, so she would never deal with the chance of having a miscarriage. But that didn't work out. Because she was pregnant. But she didn't really care anymore.
She squeezed Sherlock's hand, and he softly squeezed her's. She knew that he was nervous, even though he didn't act or look like it. But she could see it in his eyes. She knew he was worried about how he would take care of the baby once it did come, but he had nothing to fear. She would take care of most of it.
The doctor beside her finally called Molly to her senses as he pointed to the screen with a fuzzy blur on it. "There it is," he said, smiling.
Molly looked at the picture in wonder. She could see her own baby, this thing that was living inside of her, and it certainly was not a strange alien.
"It's a girl, isn't it?" Sherlock said, only glancing at the screen. He held himself high, as proud as a lion, awaiting praise from an amazed doctor. But it didn't come. The doctor just looked at Sherlock, and Molly was not sure of the doctor's emotion. Maybe... Amusement? She was sure of Sherlock's emotion, though. Confusion.
"No, actually," the doctor said, a small smile barely playing on his lips that Molly was barely able to see. "I think it's a boy."
For a moment, Sherlock stared silently at the doctor in confusion and a little disappointment. Molly felt a little disappointed too; she had been hoping for a girl. But Sherlock wasn't disappointed because they weren't having a girl; it was because he was wrong.
But Sherlock was only silent for a few seconds. He suddenly turned to the screen, studying it. "Are you positive?" he demanded.
"Quite," the doctor said with a little laugh. Sherlock turned to the doctor, glaring at him.
"I'm only joking, you know," the doctor said, a little taken aback by Sherlock's reaction to his chuckle. "It is a girl. But how did you know?"
"I just did," Sherlock said stubbornly.
He did not speak again for the rest of the day.
Reviews please! Please tell me if anything is wrong with the Ultrasound process or anything... I've never been to one and so I don't know how they work :/ I'll try to get the next chapter up quickly :3