Review of "Ice Cream" by Nightstar Phoenix): And thank you, Baby Watson, for channeling everyone's reaction to the King of Tact XD (Oh she is gonna be a JOY in her teen years. - I hope you caught that sarcasm.) If you need ideas, I'd love to see Sherlock smart off to the Scotland Yarders after they tease him about spoiling Izzy :D You do a great job with this!

A/N: Thanks, and hope I did this justice!


"She can't understand you, you do know that, right? I mean, she's only six months old, Sherlock."

The consulting detective grimaced at Lestrade's teasing words and shifted Isabelle into a more comfortable position on his left him. "Ignore him," he instructed the baby, who was looking wide-eyed around the DI's office. "Graham..."

"Greg," came the disgruntled correction.

"Greg," Sherlock continue smoothly as he continued speaking the infant, who seemed enraptured by his words, her eyes wide and gazing straight into his, "is under the mistaken impression that you will retain nothing of what I say to you now, when studies have shown..."

"Why the Watsons ever let you out of their sight with their baby I will never understand," came the exasperated tones of Sally Donovan from the office door. "Honestly, Greg, a baby? Here? With HIM?" She'd stopped calling Sherlock 'Freak' ever since his faked suicide, but she still held no great love for the man and what she termed his crime scene theatrics...although she'd grudgingly apologized to him for inadvertantly helping Moriarty destroy his reputation.

Sherlock sniffed and looked down his nose at Sally, who (for the record) looked entirely unimpressed. "As I was just explaning to Gray..."

"Greg!"

"To GREG, here, Isabelle will be assisting me with cases when she's older, and needs to become comfortable even in the most insalubrious environments. Starting here."

His haughty demeanor was promptly destroyed, however, by the appearance of his girlfriend in the doorway, holding aloft a small bag of the sugar free ice lollies Mary had deemed acceptable for the teething infant to have. "Got em, Sherlock! Wow, it took forever to find this brand, had to go to three different shops, I hope you know! And these cost twice as much as the regular ones...Oh, Hi!" she added, belatedly taking in the sight of Donovan and Lestrade.

The two detectives turned to Sherlock with raised eyebrows and identical grins. "Spoiling her already, are you?" Sally asked. "Gotta have her special lollies, the regular ones aren't good enough for her?"

Lestrade chose to join in the fun, smirking as he added, "Yeah, I mean, nothing but the best for Sherlock Holmes' goddaughter, right?"

Without missing a beat, Sherlock replied, "At least you can make an elementary deduction now. Good to know Isabelle is as good at teaching basic detective skills as she is at, oh, everything else she does. And if you're very lucky," he added, striding to the door and collecting both his girlfriend and the bag of lollies, "maybe one day you'll even be as good at it as she is."