John felt himself be ripped out from his sleep as the closet door was thrown open. Of it weren't for the arms that had caught him, his head would have surly hit the hardwood floor. He looked up to see the pair of arms belonged to his Grandma, who was smiling down at him as she pulled him up to his feet.
"There we go dear, careful now, you've had a long night I'm sure."
Once John was back on his feet he rubbed his eyes and squinted, his eyes having not yet adjusted to the light after being in the dark for so long. It was then he realized that there was yelling coming from downstairs.
"It was just a stupid joke! The little brat was hogging the bathroom!"
"I don't care Harriet! That's no reason to lock him in a closet! What if there was fire? How would he get out? Grandma and I would have no idea where he'd be and there's no grantee that you'd get to him in time. Anything could have happen Harriet-"
"I told you, Don't call me Harriet! It's Harry!"
"Don't you take that tone of voice with me young lady! From this point on you're grounded. You are not to leave the house for the rest of the trip."
"You can't tell me what to do! You're not my mum!"
It was at this point that Grandma took John by the hand and led him away from the closet. "Why don't we get you change and then get some breakfast, hm? There's this really good beagle place down the road that I've been meaning to try."
Aithley placed a chaste kiss on her husband's cheek as she straightened his tie. It had been a long week for both of them, and next week would be even longer. Although technically Aithely was working from home, she was traveling more often than not. She had been trying to spend as much time with her family, but somebody always called, or some design needed to be approved, there was always something.
Aithley still remembered the last time she took Sherlock to school. It had been the week before Mycroft would return, Sherlock had been grumpy the entire morning (probably because he had been awake most of the night trying out his violin) but his spirits had brighten while he got ready for school.
Sherlock was practically bouncing in his seat all the way there, and when his mother questioned him he said that he and John were planning on look for earth worms during recess. John had; apparently, agree to help Sherlock catch some earth worms as long as he got to bring some home to scare Harry with.
John Watson, the boy had changed Sherlock in so many ways.
"I got a surprise for you my dear." Esteban said as he drew his wife out of her mind.
"Oh? Not another necklace I hope, I'm still over the moon about that ruby pendent necklace you gave me last week."
"Oh no, my dear." He said as he took her by the hand and led her to their bed. "I got us tickets for a two-week cruise to the Caribbean Islands."
Aithley's face was picture of pure shock. "Oh Este, what about all the work around here? We've still got to go through the paperwork for the new staff, interviews, and-"
"Do not fret; I've hired a house keeper, a woman named Mrs. Sanders. She's had plenty of experience hiring staff and said she take care of everything. She'll do all the interviews and paperwork, but will make sure to show us the people she's looking to hiring before employing them. I've taken some time off, and for the next few weeks Mrs. Sanders will only be beginning to do interviews and seeing to that the Manor is ready for the new employees. I've check your schedule, all your meets can be easily pushed back a week or two."
Aithley couldn't help but blush, Esteban had done so much to make sure they had time together, how could she say no? So with a girlish giggle she nodded her head threw her arms around Esteban's neck and placed a deep, passion filled kiss square on his lips.
"Hello, Electric London? Yes, I'm a previous client from Hensworths Electric Co. I'm looking for a new supplier, you were recommended by our previous supplier."
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"Yes, the name is Esteban Ricardo, but could you please put us down as 'Holmes', H-O-L-M-E-S."
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"We live out in Kensington at Holmes Manor."
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"Oh, you'd send one of your employees? Yes thank you, but could you send them sometime this week, I'm going away next week on a trip."
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"Yes thank you, could I have the name of the man you're sending so we know who to expect?"
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"Thank you, you've been most help. I'll make I'm home on Thursday when Mr. Watson arrives, goodbye."
A/N: First off, I'd like to apologize for not posting when I'd said I'd like to start posting weekly. Unfortunately, where I live we just entered our wet session and we've had a lot of storms lately and even lost power a few times. Plus I was participating in the Tumblr Exchangelock 2014.
Secondly, I know this shorter than most of my chapters, but fret not! This story is about to start picking up! I've been trying to put in some filler chapters because some big plot points are coming up and a ton of crap I've been saving up for is coming.
I know this started out being a kinda day-by-day lives of Kid!lock and kid!John, but because of how long this story is turning out to be it's going to be more week-by-week or month-by-month. Don't worry! I'm not gonna take out any thing important, it's just I've had some stuff planned and I can't get to it if we kept going day-by-day. I'll make to put a little thing showing what month it is and so on!
