Footsteps
Genre: Friendship/Family
Pairings: Greg and Molly, Sherlock and Sally, background
Main characters: Greer, Michael, Grace; Rosie, Johnnie, Scott mentioned
Greer didn't really remember much of her big brothers taking her by the elbows with adoring determination and hauling her to her feet for the first time. Even at the tender age of two, they felt themselves capable enough in their own footing to give her a hand up – whether she wanted one or not.
It may have been the first time, but it would by far turn out not to be the last time, that John and Scott would hold their baby sister up when her legs felt unsteady and her steps unsure.
Greer didn't know of their own history with Rosie Watson – when Rosie had taken her brothers' elbows and done exactly the same thing.
And thus, in this way, the three children of Greg and Molly Lestrade had taken their first steps.
Greer only knew that it was high time those two little playmates of hers got off their wiggle bums and started walking. She was tired of sitting to play, when there was so much adventure waiting for them – and it could be reached so much faster if they weren't crawling on all fours.
And so, three year old Greer Lestrade, as headstrong and determined as one might think given her heritage and her upbringing, without much thought to it proceeded to take first Michael Holmes, and then his barely older sister Grace by their arms and haul them upright.
At the age of three, Greer was quite steady on her feet, so she provided a suitable support for the tentative first steps of the twins upstairs.
She didn't realize that this was a tradition started by Rosie, but she nonetheless carried it forward.
And so forward they moved, those two long awaited and much cherished children of Sherlock and Sally. Upright, on legs that weren't quite steady yet, and feet which still floundered a bit to grasp the rhythm of one foot in front of the other without tripping over themselves, but still not allowed to let them down… steadied by Greer.
A tradition of loving support that the children of 221 Baker Street had begun as toddlers, maintained through their chronology, and would carry on, as it would turn out, for a lifetime.