The address we pulled up to was as I expected. A druggie house. The ramshackle brickwork on the front almost distracted me from the half boarded windows.

"Do you want me to stay here miss?" the cabbie asked.

"Yeah keep it running I will be right back." I said warily regarding the decrepit house. Here goes nothing...I thought to myself, as I walked up the walkway. Do I knock??? I knock on the faded blue door and it swings open. Out wafts a smell that could wake the dead. I pull my scarf over my nose and mouth and plod onward into the house. The floorboards creak under my weight as I walk into the din.

"Sherlock?" I say softly, skirting around the bodies that lie in their own filth. Nothing, no response.

"Sherlock??" I say louder this time. I am on high alert as I look for my Sherlock.

"What are you doing here sweetheart?" A very intoxicated man says as I head up the stairs.

"Looking for somebody. Sherlock Holmes." I say as the man follows me up the stairs.

"Are you his girlfriend?" The man asks. I walk faster.

"Hey doll I asked you a question!" The man says getting angry, he grabs my arm.

"Sherlock!" I yell as I try to get the man to release me.

Suddenly I see movement at the far end of the hall. As fast as lightning Sherlock stands beside me. He looks at my left hand with clouded eyes.

"Let go of my wife!" He bellows as he punches the man in the face. The man releases me. Sherlock grabs the man's arm and propels him into the wall.

"Sherlock! He isn't worth it lets go home." Sherlock turns his grey eyes on me again and hands me a list.

"That is for Mycroft." He says and scoops me up bridal style. "Let's go wife." He says his deep voice rumbling in my ear. He carries me out of the house not letting me go, even though I tried to get down.

"Sherlock?" I ask as he sets me down in front of the cab.

"Yes?" He says, his eyes studying my face. I gaze into his glazed over eyes. He is higher then a kite. But still I hesitate a moment. I had to say this before I could go, preferably when he wont remember."I love you..."

Sherlock smiles at me as he gets into the cab. I get into the cab beside him, my face glowing red.

"I love you too...Wife."