Hey everyone guess what 10 CHAPTER! WOOHOO this is a big deal for me, I've never had more than 5 chapters before so this prompt is CHILD which is super awesome and it's kind of inspired by "Basil the great mouse detective" I hope you enjoy! Oh and it's marriedlock ;)

Claudia Jones, hurried quickly down the busy street, it was going to get dark soon and she would need to go home. A horn tooted frightening the poor girl as she fell into someone.

"I-I'm sor-rry" She stuttered scared of the tall man she ran into, he looked down at her with a friendly face.

"It's alright are you okay" He asked bending down so he was around her height, she nodded looking down at her feet. "Are you lost? Where are your parents?"

"Yeah, I don't know" She answered tears falling from her cheeks, the man gave her a comforting hug before grabbing on to her hand.

"come on, it'll be fine. Let's just get you home" The man smiled leading her in the opposite direction of her destination.

"No" She yelled, causing the man to jump back, he let go of her hand and looked ashamed of himself, the girl blushed she didn't mean to make a scene. "I need to find Sherlock Holmes."

"Why?" The man asked concerned, what did a little girl want with the great detective Sherlock Holmes, she should be at home playing with her toys.

"Because he needs to find my mummy and daddy" She cried. Claudia walks home from school, but today was different instead her mother greeting her in the kitchen she was in an empty house, she waited for hours but no one came for her, it was only until she remembered the stories about Sherlock did she think they'd gone missing.

"Oh right, what's your name?" he asked realising he didn't even know who she was.

"I'm C-Claudia" She smiled, as they began walking towards 221B, she reached up to grab his hand feeling safer.

"Hello Claudia, I'm John Watson" he chuckled squeezing the little girls hand, she looked up at him now a huge grin spread across her face.

"You're the man who writes the Sherlock stories!" She gasped. The two made their way back to the flat, walking up the stairs, Claudia began to feel very nervous what if Sherlock didn't want to help her.

"Sherlock?" John called out, looking for his curly haired husband, he heard footsteps, Sherlock was in his room again.

"John, why are you back?" Sherlock asked confused, John had gone to go and get some more milk and tea but he hadn't even been gone for five minutes.

"I ran into someone" John answered gesturing to Claudia who gave a small wave "This is Claudia, she's lost her parents"

"Maybe they're at home looking for her" Sherlock said, he wasn't happy about being caught in John's room and he didn't feel like dealing with a runaway child

"No! I came home and mummy wasn't there, I waited and waited but daddy didn't come home either, I waited more and no one came!" Claudia yelled. "You're supposed to be smart like in John's stories!"

The two men stared at the girl in shock, John chuckled at the Claudia not many people have said things to leave the detective speechless. Sherlock looked at John, he never knew what to do around children so he thought it best if John took over.

"Calm down Claudia, it's okay we'll find them" John said taking the hint, he looked over at Sherlock then back to Claudia. "We should ask the police maybe? Claudia what are your parent's names?"

"My mummy's name is Sally Jones and my daddy's name is Daniel Jones" Claudia stated, she looked over at Sherlock expecting him to come out with some magical answer of where they were but instead he went on his phone.

"John come with me, Claudia you stay with our land lady" Sherlock said walking out of the door.

"No I'm coming with you!" Claudia cried grabbing on to Sherlock's coat, Sherlock looked at her shocked, John wondered what it would be like if they had kids.

"It's not safe Claudia, we promise we'll be back soon okay" John said picking her up, she nodded sadly as John carried her over to Mrs Hudson. "We should be back soon. Hopefully"

The ride to her house was silent, John was worried about Claudia's parents and Claudia herself, what if they couldn't find them, or if they were dead, or they might have not been missing and Claudia was really a runaway, but she seemed to convincing.

"Quit worrying John, I'm trying to think" Sherlock muttered as he started at the window. They stopped at Lestrade's office asking him about the parents, to John's surprise they found out the parents used to be involved in a secret gang only quitting when they found out Sally was pregnant.

"So they were taken? The gang wanted them back?" John asked hopefully, his hopes were crushed quickly as Sherlock shook his head.

"Not this gang, there are generations of families involved, the only way to get out would be to die" Sherlock explained

"So there's nothing we can do?" He asked, Sherlock nodded grimly "What about Claudia?"

"Well since she has no other family she will be sent away." Lestrade informed, John turned to Sherlock, giving him a pleading look.

"No"

~4 months later~

"Daddy John, look!" Claudia squealed, it was Christmas and Claudia had finally managed to get one of her new fathers up, Sherlock was sitting in his chair smiling at her excitement.

"What are you going to open first" John smiled holding his daughter in his arms. Claudia freed herself from John and walked over to the tree with her eyes close grabbing the first present she touched, she opened gleefully a huge grin spread across her face as she saw her new toy.

"Yay! This is the best Christmas ever!" She laughed jumping into John and Sherlock arms, they spent the rest of the day eating, opening presents and spending time together like a real family.

This went for longer than expected haha, anyways please review! Reviewers are amazing! Haha and if you have any prompt ideas feel free to send them in! :D thank you!