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Greg is an early-morning runner. Mycroft is an early riser who happens to live on Greg's running route. Hilarity ensues.
Mycroft Holmes worries about Sherlock... constantly. Several snapshots of the relationship between Mycroft and Lestrade from stranger, to friend, to... maybe more. The constants of their changing feelings and actions.
Set in Victorian times, we find Mycroft as a sedentary man of wealth and power and Greg as an explorer, a true man of action. Given their opposite natures, could it be these two might actually achieve the one thing neither has ever thought possible - finding someone to love?
Lestrade met John Watson on a case, one that hadn't been interesting enough for his consulting detective. Or: When Gregory Lestrade meets John Watson before Sherlock does. (Firmly a Mystrade fic)
“I’m sorry, Sherlock, but I think what you just said is that you’ve been catfishing a murderer online, pretending to be a couple, your brother and I, and now you want us to meet him? A murderer? As a couple!” The last few words are really quite loud, and Rosie makes a startled squeak in the kitchen.
Sherlock glares at him.
Greg takes a deep breath. “Sorry,” he says, automatically, then – “No – no! Not – not sorry, because – of all the things, Sherlock, that you have ever done, this is undeniably the most – the most utterly – I –”
He closes his eyes, fists clenched, and takes several deep breaths.
“Overlooking many, many other problems with this entire scenario –” he pauses and takes another breath, “– what on Earth makes you think that, as a couple, a detective and a – a – whatever he is –” he gestures wildly at Mycroft – “would put themselves online on a dating site?”
There was this thing on Tumblr; "Reblog if you want a fake marriage proposal in your ask". So I fake-proposed as Mycroft. And Gregory Lestrade responded. This is what happened.
Prince Sherlock must marry, and his brother is determined to find him the perfect partner before the three nights of the Winter Ball have passed. In Gregory Lestrade, Mycroft thinks he has found Sherlock that perfect partner: a man who is kind, brave, intelligent, and even attractive. Very attractive. Very, very attractive.
Greg's life has gone to the dogs. In a spectacular show of really bad judgement he tries to improve things by hitting on Mycroft Holmes.
Greg Lestrade is a very patient man. Just as well, when it's so hard to get together with Mycroft Holmes.
To prevent them interfering at a vital stage in his case, Sherlock tricks his brother and Lestrade into a vault in the Bank of England—and seals them in for the night. With nothing to do but sit and wait for rescue, Greg and Mycroft start talking at last.