-Until he was in high school, Ian signed his name 'Ian H.W.' When he was younger, he'd tell John, "There are just too many names, Dad!" but after that it was a habit.
-Ian was madly in love with Molly until he was about six. John thought it was karma for the way she felt about Sherlock.
-Sherlock gave Ian the sex talk when he was seven, not leaving out any details. He didn't want his son to think two men could make a baby.
-Besides watching Peter pan and going to the park, Ian's favorite past time as a kid was going to the zoo. John would take him almost every day off he had.
-Ian tried to name one of his gold fish Jim once. "No!" Sherlock shouted for two hours.
-Ian is really good at and really loves math. He was always the best in his class, and he'd come home from school and tell John about how great he did in his class that day. John was impressed, but Sherlock was actually blown away.
-Ian was The Flash for Halloween when he was four. He wore the costume for weeks after, and after those weeks he wore it under his regular clothes.
-Ian got slapped in the face by a girl when he was 6. It was at the park and John and Sherlock were watching from a distance away. "Oh, look, he's talking to that little girl. How cute." John said. "What's he doing?" Sherlock asked as Ian leaned in with his lips puckered. John and Sherlock jumped up and went to the kids as the little girl slapped him. John grabbed him as he clenched his cheek and asked, "Why did she slap me, Daddy? You said that'd work!" John glared at Sherlock and Sherlock choked back a laugh. "Sorry."
-John would come home many afternoons to see Sherlock and little Ian in their underwear doing nothing at all.
-Sherlock loved getting Ian stuffed animals and giving Ian lessons on the stuffed animals.
-Sometimes Ian would get mad at Sherlock and throw each and every stuffed animal one by one down the stairs.
-Thought Sherlock greatly disagreed, they got Ian a tarantula when he was 13. Four weeks later, Sherlock found the tarantula in the bathtub and had a heart attack (he's afraid of spiders). He trapped the tarantula in the tub and left it there until Ian and John returned home, then made them get rid of it.
-In return of getting rid of the spider, Sherlock got Ian an iguana.
-Ian packed his suitcase to run away once. He was six. He rolled the suitcase downstairs and pulled his coat on. Sherlock looked up from his book and asked, "Going somewhere?" Ian didn't look at Sherlock and said, "I'm running away." Sherlock said, "Oh? Where are you going?" Ian said, "I don't know, maybe I'll live at the park." Sherlock got up and went to Ian. "Well, that's too bad," he said, "But it's been a pleasure knowing you." Ian held his hand out and asked for cab fair. Sherlock gave him the money in his pocket ($4) and said, "I love you." And Ian said, "Don't miss me too bad, Daddy." Sherlock said, "I'll be devastated until the day we meet again. Who else is going to eat the mac and cheese Dad's making tonight?" Ian thought it over for a minute and said, "On second thought, maybe I'll stay for dinner." Sherlock took his coat and said, "Great. It'll be a pleasure." They sat on the couch and watched Peter Pan for the rest of the afternoon.
-Ian liked to pick out his own clothes when he was little. John let him wear whatever he wanted, but one morning Ian came downstairs wearing khaki shorts, a black t-shirt, a blue sweater vest, red rain boots, a bright yellow scarf (John wondered why in the world he has a bright yellow scarf) and a green beanie. "No, absolutely not." John said, pushing Ian upstairs to dress him himself.
-Before Ian was born, Sherlock went crazy buying baby clothes. Ian had so many clothes that he didn't even get to wear one or two outfits.
-Ian was an insanely photographed child. John loved to document everything he did.
-John and Sherlock renewed their vows when Ian was 17. Ian said no way to being ring bearer, so his dads fought over who would have him as a best man. He ended up being a mutual best man.
-Ian used to tell Sherlock, "You're not my friend, you're my dad."
*This one has a few long paragraphs, sorry. And I realized I might make it sound like Sherlock and Ian fight a lot, or something, and they really don't. It's just that sometimes those are funnier scenarios.
*Also, I was asked if Colin Morgan can be Ian. If Colin is what Ian is to you, then be it! But for the sake of not taking what's already been done (on tumblr and such) I like to think of Ian as Ezra Miller, and for those of you who don't know who this glorious human is, here is a picture: http:/ / blogs (dot) phoenixnewtimes (dot) com (forward slash) jackalope (forward slash) ezramiller1 (dot) jpg As for little Ian, he is Asa Butterfield because I adore that child and I think he's perfect and sometimes he looks so damn much like Benedict Cumberbatch it's weird. Here's a photo of him as a younger kid: http:/ / images (dot) tvrage (dot) com (forward slash) people (forward slash) 79 (forward slash) 234804 (dot) jpg and here's him older: http:/ / wgtccdn (dot) wegotthiscovered (dot) netdna-cdn (dot) com (forward slash) wp-content (forward slash) uploads (forward slash) asa-butterfield-enders-game (dot) jpg
*But you can definitely leave it to your own imagination, there's no reason you have to go by my rules! Thank you for reading!