Joan was awoken by the birds chirping away in the trees outside the brownstone, she tried her best to get up without waking Sherlock but she failed.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you" she whispered, it turns out she didn't wake him up he just rolled over and fell straight back to sleep, "Typical" she laughed as she wrapped a blanket around her and headed for the bathroom. Her morning routine consisted of her spending exactly 12 minutes in the bathroom and 18 minutes getting dressed and putting her make up on. To her surprise Sherlock was still asleep when she crept back down the stairs placing her heels at the door, it was only 8:30am so she decided to let him sleep a little while longer. She headed downstairs to the kitchen and made herself a cup of coffee, as she put her spoon in the sink she felt his arms wrap around her waist and a kiss on her neck,

"Good morning" she chuckled as she threw her neck back onto his shoulders,

"Good morning my love" he replied.

"Detective Bell text whilst you were asleep, we need to be at the precinct in an hour" Joan said as she turned around to face him,

"Ah, I'm afraid you'll have to go alone today, I have some business to attend to" he replied

"Anything I should be concerned about?" She questioned as her left eyebrows raised

"Of course not" he said as he kissed her on the forehead,

"Okay" she smiled as she walked towards the front door, beginning her normal routine of putting on her heels and Sherlock assisting her with her coat.

"You better be wearing underwear today baby" he whispered in her ear

"And what if I'm not?" she smirked as she walked out the door. He chuckled as he shut the door behind her.

Watson walked into the precinct alone, instantly missing Sherlock as she made her way through the commotion on the first floor and making her way to the elevator, it was empty when it opened, oh if only Sherlock was her she thought to herself. As the doors opened on floor five she exited the elevator and made her way to Bells desk,

"Where's your partner today then?" he questioned

"He has business to handle" she replied whilst rolling her eyes. As every hour ticked by she missed Sherlock more and more, there was no crime scenes that needed looking at so she was stuck at the precinct. Her phone buzzed in her skirt pocket

"Sorry for not being with you today, let me make it up to you at dinner tonight? -SH"

"What's with the sentences I can understand? Everything okay?"

"Yeah everything is fine, be ready for six okay? -SH"

"Okay, I love you x"

"I love you too -SH"

It always made her laugh how he would sign his messages off with -SH, she always told him not too, he always said it was a force of habit and she got used to it. She left the precinct at 4:30 leaving her plenty of time to get ready, she was greeted at the door by Sherlock, he was apparently already ready although it was only 5:00.

"I've missed you today" he said as he kissed her, she kissed him back and then pulled away

"Later" was all she said before taking her coat off and walking upstairs.

She stood at the top of the stairs, took a deep breath in and began her careful descent down the stairs, she hated walking down the stairs in heels let alone with someone watching her. When she reached the bottom of the stairs all that was heard was a simple "wow" escape from Sherlocks mouth, Joan was in a black skin tight dress, about an inch above the knee and the sleeves were black lace, her heels were black and making her two inches taller than she normally was; her hair slightly curled but not too much and her makeup showed off her cheekbones even more than normal.

"What did I do to deserve you, ey?" Sherlock questioned, he in a simple black suit with a black tie but looking dashing as ever,

"I could say the same" she replied. Just like every time they left the house Sherlock helped Joan into her coat and opened the door, closing it behind them both.