anonymous asked: Baby Watson loves it when her godfather reads to her. Her favorite is " The Hobbit" Sherlock does a fantastic Smaug.;-)


"Do the voice again, Uncle Sherlock!"

"Yeah, Daddy, do the boice!"

"Please, Daddy, the boice! Dwagon!"

Sherlock looked helplessly at the three eager faces staring up at him, then over at his wife, who merely grinned and then had the temerity to giggle. "Sorry, Sherlock, you're the one who decided to make the dragon all growly. You can't blame them for loving it!"

Then his wife had the infernal nerve to turn and leave him alone with the three small beggars, who had resorted to physically tugging at his dressing gown in order to catch his attention. His goddaughter, three-year-old Isabelle Watson, batted her baby blues at him, while his own eighteen-month-old twins, Scarlett and Edmund, babbled incomprehensibly and simultaneously.

Knowing when he was defeated — a feeling he'd never owned up to until becoming first a godfather and then a parent — Sherlock sighed and flopped down in his chair, flipping a hand toward the bookshelf. "You know where it is, Isabelle," he said, and his goddaughter, chortling happily, scampered off to collect the well-worn paperback while Scarlett and Edmund clambered up onto his lap.

Never again, he vowed, would he ever read a story in anything but his everyday voice.