"Nor, unless I've made a very great mistake, can you be impregnated, John. I believe I've made my goals very clear."
Once John knows his secret, Sherlock stops even trying to be discreet, and no sooner does the door shut on Yasmin (a completely incomprehensible physicist) than there comes a text from Emma (a jazz drummer):
THE BLOODY NUISANCE IS HERE :(
and Sherlock, without even mocking the emoticon, texts back
PITY. SEE YOU IN TWO WEEKS THEN? SH
"They never bring the babies round," John says.
Sherlock grimaces. "No. That's one of the rules."
"There are rules? What are the others?"
Sherlock counts them out on his fingers. "Applicants considered only by referral, and accepted only after examination. They can see Mycroft for a one-time payment to defray the cost of ... nappies or ... socks or whatever it is that babies need. And I do not babysit."
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Once John knows his secret, Sherlock stops even trying to be discreet, and no sooner does the door shut on Yasmin (a completely incomprehensible physicist) than there comes a text from Emma (a jazz drummer):
THE BLOODY NUISANCE IS HERE :(
and Sherlock, without even mocking the emoticon, texts back
PITY. SEE YOU IN TWO WEEKS THEN? SH
"They never bring the babies round," John says.
Sherlock grimaces. "No. That's one of the rules."
"There are rules? What are the others?"
Sherlock counts them out on his fingers. "Applicants considered only by referral, and accepted only after examination. They can see Mycroft for a one-time payment to defray the cost of ... nappies or ... socks or whatever it is that babies need. And I do not babysit."