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Mycroft Holmes and Greg Lestrade, best friends, are dreading the Christmas season and all of the family gatherings it entails. They decide to be pretend boyfriends to get their families off their backs for once.
“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?”
Certain that he would not survive his final confrontation with Moriarty, Mycroft agreed to attend a Christmas function with a plus one. Two months later his carelessness comes back to bite him – now he not only needs to attend the dreaded party, he also needs to find someone to play his partner for the evening.
After his parents’ passing, Mycroft Holmes is faced with a difficult decision. As stated in his parents’ will, he either has to marry or lose his brother’s custody.
Finding himself an spouse isn’t the difficult part.
Not giving his actual feelings away is a little more difficult.