MorMor One Shots | Sherlock BBC

Ray

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"I don't like it when you keep things from me."

"Are you fucking kidding me? I couldn't keep it from you. Because I didn't know!"

"And you didn't feel like calling me? Telling me that you have good news?"

Sebastian scoffs. "This isn't fucking funny." He runs a hand through his blond hair and frowns. He looks tired. Jim secretly curses himself for not having come home earlier. For having left Sebastian alone with this.

"...She has your eyes, you know?"

Sebastian lets out a sharp breath through his nose. "Jim, you're not helping."

Somehow this makes Jim chuckle. "You're not panicking, are you? Come on, you managed me for years now. How much worse can this be?"

***

She is hiding behind Sebastian's legs. Of course she is. One hand clutching onto his trousers to keep herself up right and watching Jim curiously from behind the sniper's leg.

"Ray? Come on. I told you about him."

She narrows her blue-gray-green eyes and presses her head against her fathers thigh again. Hiding. Her father.

Sebastian gives Jim an almost apologetic look before he goes down on his knees, bringing himself roughly on eye level with the girl. He leans closer, she looks up at him with a small frown Jim believes to recognise.

Sebastian whispers something into her tiny ear and the girl giggles, wrapping her arms around his neck, demanding to be picked up. The sniper sighs but obeys. It looks like the most natural thing to do. How long has she been here, four days? Sebastian never seemed to be particularly fond of kids. Dogs, yes, but kids?

"Jim, this is Ray, my - " He has to clear his throat, doesn't dare to meet his bosses eyes "my daughter." Even the word sounds strange, foreign, coming from him. "Ray, this is -" He interrupts himself again, the girl looks up at him with curious eyes. Maybe just listening to the modulation of his voice? "...That's Jim. He'll look after you with me for now."

Jim raises a brow at that. Oh, will I now?

***

It's not that hard to imagine. Sebastian with a girl. But Sebastian getting her pregnant? Neat, thorough, careful Sebastian?

"How old is she?"

"I don't know."

"Bastian."

He sighs, frowns. Obviously calculates. "...I don't know. Thr- No, four. I guess."

It's strange. Watching Sebastian bend down, giving Jim a careful look like the sniper expects him to point and laugh at him any moment.

"Here" he murmurs, unwrapping a stuffed blue rhinoceros. "It's so you don't feel lonely."

Jim can barely contain a snort.

The girl - Ray - takes the toy cautiously, looking up at Sebastian like she's expecting him to take it away again any second. Once she's sure it won't be taken she wraps her tiny arms around the stuffed animal and lets out a small satisfied sigh before she turns and wanders off to the small fluffy nest of blankets and pillows Sebastian built her on the spare mattress on the living room floor. Sebastian looks so ridiculously proud for a moment that Jim wants to laugh.