AN: Just a small chapter. Not much happens here. But Chapter 8 is on its way.
Non Beta'ed and Non Brit picked as usual.
CHAPTER - 7
MRS HUDSON'S GIFT
After four weeks:
Saying that Sherly was being bored to death would be an understatement. She was under strict orders to not move about too much in the house, let alone go out and run after few nasty killers. Moreover Lestrade, according to her was being his usual useless self and was deliberately not giving her any interesting case. She had petulantly messaged him those exact words with a little extra abusive words added each time for variety's sake for approximately hundred and eighty nine times up-till now.
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When they had come back from the clinic that day, John had been the one to tell them all the shocking but good news. Mrs. Hudson who first thought he was joking, later was so overjoyed that she had almost sprained her hip again. And even Harry had been very happy and had hugged both her brother and even Sherly, much against her petulant grumbles.
Lestrade who was waiting for a chance to 'discuss' the sudden death of one notorious sniper, Sebastian Moran, was left totally speechless when John had repeated, by then his favourite rote again. But when Lestrade came out of his shock, he just awkwardly patted Sherly's shoulder and said, "This is really very nice of you, Sherline. But I hope atleast you won't mess this one up." Which ofcourse earned him an icy cold stare from her.
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She had been advised to take bed rest atleast for 4-5 weeks. After which she could move around but was advised against any strenuous tasks, as this was delicate than normal pregnancy. And Sherly as expected completely ignored the part of bed rest but thought she could atleast stay indoors for few weeks for John's sake. Also thankfully her morning sickness had not started yet but she knew that it was just around the corner. She could already feel certain changes in her moods and if she observed carefully, which she ofcourse always did, she was sure that she was slowly putting on some weight too.
Sherly knew that the first three months of pregnancy or the first trimester as it is medically called was the most important stage of pregnancy. It is when the major development of the foetus occurs. And therefore it is also the crucial stage at which, if one is not careful, there's most chances of birth defects to occur.
But knowing the importance was not enough to appease her raging mind. She was craving for the adrenaline rush she got from solving a nice tough triple murder or something like that. But here she was, annoyingly reminded every three hours to eat or drink some or other boring food by Mrs. Hudson, who was under orders from John to keep an eye on her.
She had already solved all the petty murder and theft cases that appeared in the newspapers each day. And to her utter frustration, it seemed that not even many boring cases were being reported, like they used to be before. It seemed like without Moriarty, the whole criminal world was going to rot!
And now her boredom had reached to such a high level that sometimes she even deigned to call the officer in-charge and tell them who the actual criminal was; doing their job for them from her living room. But well not before she had insulted his or her intelligence to the maximum of her ability. And that sadly in turn would more often than not lead to angry calls from Lestrade and then John (if she did not pick Lestrade's annoying call).
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Well, now it seemed that poor Sherly did not have anything to do except watching crap television with Mrs. Hudson during the day and then with John at night times. Since there was no new data to be added to her website, even the internet was utterly boring to her. And even her brilliant plan to start a new set of interesting experiments with a few cyanide compounds was expertly thwarted by John and co, plunging her into eternal boredom; well according to her atleast.
But yes, there was also the gift which Mrs. Hudson had given her few weeks ago, but she was not even going to speak about them. They were a couple books on pregnancy; 'A pregnant mother's pass times', 'What to expect when you are an expecting mother' and 'Healthy mother makes a healthy baby!'. Sherly had been livid when Mrs. Hudson had given her those pedantic books, but John, the ever goody boy John, had thanked her for the book, well after apologizing for so called 'childish behaviour' of Sherly's, much to her indignation.
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But now, after four weeks of futilely harassing Lestrade for cases, watching non-stop meaningless drivel on telly and even losing all hope that John would ever give her his gun; she decided she will deign herself to atleast have a look at those books.
And that, right there, was going to be the root cause of all the worries in the world for poor John; he just didn't know that yet.
AN: I know it was a small chapter, but don't worry the next chapter is in the finishing stage and on its way to be served.
And in the meanwhile, if you are a Mycroft fan, you can check out 'THE UMBRELLA MAN' from my profile. (OR go here: www dot fanfiction dot net/s/8167786/1/THE_UMBRELLA_MAN . Replace the dot with symbol. ) . It was actually supposed to be a chapter for this story, but somehow became too Mycroft-centric to be posted here. It is for now a Mycroft kid fic. Do give it a try and tell me your comments there.
And as far this chapter is concerned, I know there is nothing much to comment... But I would like to take this opportunity to ask the readers who have not reviewed till now, for their comments. I have now enabled ANONYMOUS comments for those who don't have an account here to review. So I hope to hear from you, well hoping it is going to be a constructive criticism even if not all good. Because if it is going to be completely rotten tomatoes, I'm running away now itself! hehe
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