Sorry this one's so short and that my notes are about just as long as the chapter itself maybe more. However, there really wasn't much more I could write about the baby's Nursery and the story just seemed to flow in this length while anymore I feel would have been overdoing it. I currently have the outline planned for the whole first part of this story rounding out at a total of 20 chapters I just need to write the actually chapters themselves. But, so far the next six chapters are titled; Baby Shower, Molly's Feet, Showing, Moriarty?, Names, and Early. As I said before in the last chapter the contest for guess the name of Sherlock and Molly's son to be will end in the chapter in the one titled Names. This means once the chapter Moriarty? is posted with the last clue (there are nine clues in total), this story will have a much longer hiatus between chapters. About one month before the Names chapter is posted and all guessing ends. One more thing it is also my father's birthday today, which I just realized on looking at my notes about my character that I put his originale birthday as I was figuring out the timeline the same day as my fathers without even thinking about it. However, after looking at the Sherlock timeline online I changed the estimated due date in earlier chapter's because October 4, 2012 doesn't work. So the due date is now September 18, 2012. Which means the Sherlolly baby birthday went from July 29, 2012, to September 19, 2013, back to the original date I had of July 29, 2012. Well enough of my rambling and moving onto the disclaimer and then the story enjoy.

Disclaimer: I don't own Sherlock

Chapter 14: Nursery

22 weeks since Sherlock's fake death and 19 weeks pregnant

It wasn't really much of a nursery more like a corner in her bedroom. With the crib that Molly had as child up against the wall.

The crib itself was an old wooden antique that despite its age was still in prime condition. After her mother had died in childbirth her father hadn't the heart to keep all of the things they would have needed for her younger brother's nursery and so it had been sold. All except the Hooper family crib which had belonged to her late Granny, that had been put into storage and left to Molly in her father's will as had everything else that he owned after her brother passed away. Except for the house of course because by that time her father had been living in a nursing home and had already sold the house to pay off the rest of the mortgage.

While the mattress and sheets were new having picked them out a week ago with Mary.

Beside the crib there was Molly's dresser which she had since converted the top into her baby's changing table, and removed the mirror. While she had separated her clothing into two drawers instead of four and removed the top drawer which had been promptly filled with storage bins for all of her son's baby products including diapers, and baby powder.

Molly had also added a rocking chair alongside the crib in the space directly between her bed and the one in which her child would eventually sleep. To complete the nursery was a small mouse by the name of Basil which had been proudly prompted against the far corner of the crib as though it was waiting for the little hands that would eventually grasp it in their delicate clutches, while a mobile with a young fox, rabbit, deer, squirrel, raccoon, and owl hung from above.

The nursery certainly wasn't much to the average eye to look at; being only a corner in her bedroom, but it was certainly enough for Molly and her child to be and that was all that really mattered.

Clue 5: This name originally belongs to a god?

The names that have been given as possible guesses so far are Geoffrey, Hans, Charles, Tom Marvolo Riddle, Lord Voldemort, Severus Snape, Sean, and now Casimir to add to the list (and while I do like this last name, despite never having heard of it before) unfortunately it and the rest are not correct. But keep at it people.

Shoutouts

Renaissancebooklover108: it hadn't even crossed my mind to use the name voldemort as personally I don't really care for it as far as names go. Because although I am a fan of the Harry Potter series Severus, and Sirius were always my favorite two characters.

FanFicGirl10: glad you liked my use of Basil in the story, and your comment about how you love this story is very inspiring. Let's just say I spent a year actually thinking about my character and his name before actually even working on the first chapter of this story. Which came from actually reading Sherlock fanfictions no less. The one thing I noticed that in every story, where Molly had Sherlock's child while he was away was this. Though the plot may be written different they all had one thing in common. That Sherlock, his brother, Moriarty, or Moran (basically any of the principal characters which could or would drive the plot), figure out Molly is pregnant while she's gone. I being the creative person that I am wanted to do something completely different with my Sherlock baby story and in this way Like father like son was born.

So going back to what an earlier reviewer asked and to answer your question Rocking the Redhead: No Sherlock doesn't know that Molly is pregnant with his son and neither does anyone else beside Mary Morstan at this point in time. But, who knows things could very well change in the chapters to come or not. You'll just have to read on to find out.

Note; those who do not follow the rules and disobey them in any way will automatically be disqualified from the contest.