Sherlock: 21 years
Mycroft 26 years
Sarafina: 25 years
Liza: 13 months
**I do not own Sherlock! I only own Sarafina and Liza Holmes!**
First Word
Liza sat in her high chair one morning while Sarafina was finding something for her to eat. She finally settled on half a banana and some rice cereal. As Liza ate, there was a knock at the door.
"Coming!" Sarafina called out and walked over to answer it. She opened the door to find Sherlock on the other side. "Ah, Sherlock. Glad you could make it. Have a seat." She gestured towards the living room.
"You said it was an emergency, of course I came." Sherlock said.
"Well, it sort of is…" Sarafina replied as there was another knock at the door. Sarafina smirked and answered it again. This time, Mycroft stood on the other side. "Ah, Mycroft. Thank you for coming." Mycroft walked in and Sarafina shut the door behind him.
"What's the emergency?" Mycroft asked suspiciously.
"No 'emergency' per se." Mycroft gave her a skeptical look. "Come. Sit." She gestured towards the living room.
Mycroft hesitated but slowly walked into the living room. Sarafina quickly made her way into the kitchen and moved Liza's chair into the living room. As she was making her way into the living room, she heard Sherlock yell.
"Sarafina! What is the meaning of this?!" She moved Liza so that she was in view of everyone and looked at Sherlock and Mycroft. "Why is he here?" Sherlock asked
"Because you two need to work this out!" Sarafina said back. "This has gone on long enough and I want it to stop." Sherlock rolled his eyes and crossed his arms.
"I don't see why we have to do this."
"Because it's ridiculous. This childish game needs to stop."
"He's the one being the child." Mycroft said.
"Am not!" Sherlock yelled back.
"Enough!" Sarafina yelled. Both men stopped and looked at her. "You two are going to stay here until you work this out. I'm leaving Liza here so things don't get out of hand." She sat down on an armchair. "Now work it out."
"You're the one who chose him as Liza's godfather. This is your fault." Sherlock said angrily.
"I had good reason!" Sarafina replied. "Mycroft is very responsible and I also feel he would be better equipped to take care of Liza."
"I'm responsible!"
"You're also struggling!" Sarafina yelled. "You're not financially stable, Sherlock. You're also gone all the time with the cases you have and you haven't quite gotten a handle on your addiction either." Sherlock shifted. "It's not that I don't trust you, Sherlock. I love you. But I need to know that if a day comes that I'm not here, I need to know that Liza will be safe." There was a pause and Mycroft finally broke the silence.
"She's right, Sherlock."
"I know!" Sherlock replied. There was silence again. "At least I'm not shagging my secretary."
"Sherlock!" Mycroft shouted.
"Sher-ock!" Everyone stopped and looked at the source of the sound. Liza sat there looking at them. Sarafina stood up and walked to her.
"What did you say?" Liza looked up at her. "Did you say… Sherlock?"
"Sher-yock!" Liza repeated. Sarafina looked at Sherlock in surprise. Both Mycroft and Sherlock's mouths hung open, Sherlock's especially. He walks towards Liza and kneels down.
"Sherlock." He says.
"Ser-yock." He smiles.
"Sher-lock."
"Sher-yock."
"'lock."
"'lock."
"Sher-lock."
"Sher-lock." She giggles. Sherlock smiles.
"Her first word was your name, Sherlock. That's got to account for something." Sarafina said. Sherlock stood up and straightened his jacket.
"Of course it does. It means I'm her favorite uncle." He turns and smirks at Mycroft.
"Hardly." Mycroft sneered.
"So it's settled then?" Sarafina asked. "No more arguing?" There was silence.
"I suppose." Mycroft replied as Sherlock said, "Fine."
"Good." Sarafina said. "Now, who wants tea?"
Hey all! Sorry I havent updated in a while. I barely have time to think about updating let alone do it. Im going to try to make more time to update though. So I think im going to be almost done with this story here soon, but ive already started on The Blind Banker (which is soooo boring by the way. Not one of my favorite episodes.) so hopefully ill be able to post that soon. Well, hope you liked this chapter. I think it was one of the more fun chapters to write. Let me know what you think by reviewing and favoriting! :)