Chapter 8: Card Games
"Sherlock, why am I here?" Hayden wondered as she watched Sherlock look from the microscope to the notebook on the counter.
She sighed when the man didn't answer and pulled out her phone to text Molly, wanting to know if the woman wanted to get lunch with her. Hayden smiled at the response before turning to John, who was glaring at Sherlock.
"John, you wanna play some cards?" Hayden asked.
"Sure," John agreed, pulling his eyes away from Sherlock to grin at Hayden, "do you have cards on you?"
Hayden smiled back at the man before pulling a deck of cards out of the bag hanging off the left arm of her chair. She went over to an empty tabled that JOhn had cleared off a few weeks ago when Hayden and Sherlock had borrowed the lab for a small case.
"What game?" Hayden asked as she shuffled the cards, bridging them together and moving smoothly into a single hand shuffle.
"Uh," John thought for a moment, "why don't you pick?"
"Are you worried that I'd judge you for your choice in card game?" Hayden questioned, setting the deck down, "it's okay if you are, just remember that I played go fish with Mycroft Holmes last week."
"You can pick," John reiterated with a smile and Hayden grinned at the man.
"Let's play Idiot," Hayden suggested, thinking back to when she'd taught Sherlock and John the game as they had waited for an update on a case from Lestrade.
"You're on," John said, "best of five?"
"Best of five," Hayden agreed, picking up the cards and dealing them out.