A/N: These chapters are sequential and each will be 221 words or less. I don't own these characters, Moffat/Gatiss and Conan Doyle do. Thank you to the numerous readers who suggested this story!

Four-year-old Molly Hooper is in the backyard looking at the carcass of a bird. She wonders how it could be that yesterday the bird was singing in a tree and today it's dead. She carefully rolls it onto its side and sees the cut in the bird's neck. (A cat got it!) She wonders which cat it was and why the cat didn't eat the bird after killing it. She wonders if any other animals will eat the bird. She looks closely at its wings and gingerly opens them out. (What a pretty colour!) The bird's wings and front are a bright yellowish green, and it has a red head. (Does he have a mum and dad? Do they miss him?)

The back door slams shut and Molly jumps. She turns round to see her mum barreling over.

"Molly Elizabeth Hooper, get away from that awful thing at once! You'll catch a disease! Go inside and wash your hands, young lady!"

Mum grabs Molly by the wrist and drags her inside, all the while scolding her for being unladylike. Molly's greatest fear is that having fun will always get her in trouble.