- Sherlock's ears had a sort of sonar sound machine when it came to hearing Ian at any time. So much that one day at the shop, he heard a baby crying across the store and made a mad dash to said baby. It was not his baby, and needless to say everyone thought he was a little crazy.
- From the time Ian could walk until he was thirteen, he liked to sit on Sherlock. What does walking have to do with sitting on his father? Simple, he'd get tired and want to take a seat. Sherlock would pick him up and pull him close, letting the baby's back press against his chest and letting his tiny feet rest on his thighs. Why did it last until he was thirteen? Well, that may or may not have been more Sherlock than Ian.
- Once, John tried to let Ian sit on him like he sits on Sherlock. Ian was nine and growing like an eleven-year-old. Where Ian seemed to fit perfectly draped over Sherlock, he was a bit too tall for John. Ian sighed and stood up, looked at John and said, "Sorry, Dad. This really isn't going to work." and stepped over the coffee table to Sherlock's lap.
- Ian, until he was five, had the unfortunate habit of falling asleep at random places. He fell asleep at the police station loads of times; in restaurants so many times that when they went to Angelo's, Angelo purposefully seated them in a booth with a long bench; he fell asleep uncomfortably in cabs almost every ride; he fell asleep on the floor of the flat so much that John and Sherlock began leaving blankets and a pillow in random places. The only place he never liked to sleep? His own bed.
- Sherlock was always deathly afraid that his son would have a lisp. No bigger relief in his life came the day Ian said his sixth word, "Yes." and it didn't come out, "Yeth."
- Ian has freakish monkey toes like Sherlock. John had great joy in plucking up one of those tiny feet, holding it solidly in his hand, brushing his fingers over the bottom, and watching the tiny toes curl into a full fist.
- Ian's body is so flexible, especially toes, that he used to like to read in his bed, on his back, with his book dangling over his head being held by his toes.
- When Ian was five, Greg Lestrade asked Ian what he wanted to be when he's all grown up. Ian, not skipping a beat, said he wanted to be just like his daddies and fight bad guys. Lestrade glanced up to Ian's daddies and said, "That's good, Ian, because your daddies are great men."
- Ian's favorite color is red. Always has been, always will be. This just provides back information to the time Ian was so angry with John for days John bought him green rain boots instead of red.
- Sherlock is utterly convinced, and actively trying to prove, that Ian is made of John's sperm and Sherlock somehow managed to produce an egg, or visa versa. That child is so much him and John that it's just flat impossible.
- Once, Ian saw a picture of pregnant-Amy in one of John's old photo albums of Ian's birth process. Ian stopped the photo and, as a four-year-old, said, "She looks nice. She looks like she's a nice mommy." John sort of smiled in a sad, aching way.
- John and Sherlock were always sure they'd have different names from Ian, Sherlock was going to be "Dad" and John was going to be "Papa". That didn't work, because when Ian could say, "Dad" or "Daddy", they decided not to confuse the baby into thinking one wasn't his father. It made sense to Sherlock, ok? So now John is "Dad" and Sherlock is "Daddy".
- Ian and Sherlock have a cycle. Once a year, at the beginning of the fall, Ian gets sick with the a bad cold or the flu. Not a day after he's well again, Sherlock gets sick. John has the cycle down to a science.
- One year when Ian got sick, John decided to end the cycle by going to Harry's for three days while he was sick. On the third day, John left Ian at Harry's while he went to check on Sherlock, and he found Sherlock wrapped up in their bed holding Ian's bed comforter and Ian's favorite stuffed animal. Instead of greeting John when he woke up, Sherlock looked around and asked where Ian was. Sherlock never had nights alone in the flat again.
- Speaking of Ian's favorite stuffed animal, it's a shark. It used to be large, fluffy spider with large, fluffy eyeballs, and a large, fluffy smile, but Sherlock, who's deathly afraid of spiders, "accidentally" forgot it at the park one afternoon, and when he went back to find it, it was gone. Ian was so upset he cried for six days and nights, and John was so mad at Sherlock, he didn't talk to him for six days and nights.
- At age eight, Ian discovered comic books. He loved them; he loved the books, he loved movies from the books. After seeing Batman and doing vicious research on the character, Ian came to the conclusion that Sherlock was Batman. John asked what that made him, and he said he didn't know because Robin got the girls.
- This upset John. While he and Sherlock were getting ready the next morning, John grumbled to Sherlock, "I could get the girls." and Sherlock said, "I know, sweetie." and John said, "I could, and I have, but I don't want to anymore." and Sherlock said, "Please don't try to prove anything to our son, John." and John said, "Sherlock can you pass me the shaving crème when you're finished? Yeah, you missed a spot shaving right there, love. I wonder what you'd look like with a mustache, probably take away from the curve of your lips." and Sherlock smirked and said, "Who used to get all the girls?"
*For the first story of all this parenthood-ness, and to learn who Amy is, please read IF they had a baby. That's also by me. And to know about Sherlock and spiders -and other fears of theirs- read Chapter 11 of All Their Differences. Ah, hell, read about all of their differences, please. And review. All of it. Review always.
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