Domesticity

Molly's eyes blinked open at the usual time, even without an alarm. With a groan she pushed herself up, swinging her legs over the side of the bed and resting there for a second before attempting to move any further. Being pregnant was harder work than she'd imagined.

"Where do you think you're going?" Sherlock's deep voice rumbled from the other side of the bed. Molly turned back to look at him, smiling softly. He was already propped up on the pillows, in his 'thinking pose', clearly having already been awake some time. He smiled back at her, with a cheeky glint in his eye.

"To get a shower, of course, like usual." She answered.

"I presumed as much. You do remember that your maternity leave starts today though, and therefore there is no need for you to be getting up so early." Sherlock pointed out.

"I know," Molly sighed "I woke up out of habit, and I know there's no point trying to get back to sleep now; I'm too awake."

"Doesn't mean you need to get out of bed." Sherlock replied slyly, shifting behind her and wrapping his arms around her, one hand caressing her baby bump, the other cupping her breast as his lips found her neck. Molly sighed in pleasure, leaning back against him for a second, before pulling away and getting to her feet.

"Sorry, but it does. I really need to pee." She pouted. She'd already been twice in the night, another unfortunate side-effect of the pregnancy.

It was a good thing the bathroom in 221b was right next to Sherlock's bedroom. They had moved back to Baker Street shortly after Molly had fallen pregnant. John and Mary had decided to get their own place after all, and not wanting to leave Mrs Hudson on her own again (and deciding it would be useful to have her support with the baby anyway) Sherlock and Molly had moved in.

Sherlock followed Molly into the bathroom, pulling out the scales and a tape measure while she was on the toilet. When she was done she obediently stepped onto the scales, while Sherlock looped the tape measure round her belly.

"Do we really have to do this every day?" She grumbled.

"The measurements need to be taken at regular intervals in order for me to effectively track the baby's growth. I suppose weekly might have sufficed, but you agreed to daily at the start, remember." Sherlock reminded her, making mental note of the figures and letting Molly sit back down, while he turned the shower on to warm up for her. "Besides, you only have a couple of weeks to go. We're into the final stages, if anything I need the measurements more now than before, if I'm going to accurately calculate the baby's weight at birth."

"Why do you need to predict the baby's weight, though? We don't even know the sex." Molly pointed out, taking his arm as he helped her up and into the shower.

"That was your idea, though I have a pretty good educated guess, and I'm happy to wait until the day to find out I'm right." Sherlock smirked, joining her in the shower.

"If you're right." Molly teased, before dropping the subject.

After they'd showered and dried off, Sherlock sat down at the table with his laptop, inputting today's measurements into his spreadsheet, and checking his emails for any new cases, as Molly moved around the kitchen behind him, making tea and breakfast.

"Boring. Dull. Obvious. Not even a case. Dull." He muttered, scrolling through.

"What about that one?" Molly asked, a title catching her eye as she put his toast down in front of him, before sitting down with her own, much fuller plate.

"Jewel thief at some rich snobs' wedding? Barely a 5." Sherlock said with a wave of dismissal.

"Well that's good isn't it? Since you promised you wouldn't work anything bigger than a 6 until after the baby is born, in case I need you. I'd say a 5 is pretty high up the scale." Molly reminded him.

Sherlock sighed and pouted at the screen. He hadn't forgotten his promise, and hadn't taken anything but 6's since he'd made it. Mostly high 6's. Today though, this 5 was the best his inbox had to offer.

"It'll do I suppose." He sighed.

AN: Hello again mi lovelies. I know I've been talking about it for a while, but kept getting distracted by oneshots, but it's finally here: the third part of my Sherlolly series. I considered posting just the first chapter as a teaser, but I've kept you waiting so long I thought I'd better give you something a bit more substantial to get your teeth into. Hope you enjoyed, hopefully I'll be able to keep up with my chapter a day rule for this series, so more tomorrow :) As always, reviews make my day, so please pop in and say hi. Especially my regular readers, looking forward to seeing your usernames in my review box again :D