Kid!lock - Young Sherlock comes home one day to discover that his family will once again be moving, and to the countryside. After days of trying to entertain himself with adventures throughout the house, Sherlock decides to wander the surrounding area, and is surprised when he meets another boy of about the same age.

Mrs. Hudson is attacked. Sherlock is a suspect. As he sits in the cell, paralyzed with fear and regret, he remembers how Mrs. Hudson helped him through the horrors of his childhood. As he struggles through the agony of her injuries, Sherlock must reconcile a past that he couldn't have survived without the landlady who was more of a mother than his own.

If anyone were to ask John what the highlight of his day was, he would almost always answer 'returning home'. Parentlock.

Drabble series continuation of A Messy Business, continuing the original prompt involving overprotective!parental!Sherlock and cold-catching!wee!John. Warning for kidfic and ghastly amounts of fluff.