Inspired by a certain scene in The Abominable Bride that highlights Mycroft's love and concern for his brother, despite Sherlock's apparent lack of love and concern for himself. The Mystrade bit is just shameless self-indulgence.
Greg needs to do a little shopping and Mycroft decides to accompany him, something the Detective Inspector knows is not going to end well for either of them.
Lestrade finds Mycroft Holmes in a very unexpected place and it leads to very unexpected things... at least for the two men involved.
When Mycroft comes to Lestrade on Christmas Eve, a little bedraggled and very mysterious, asking for assistance, Lestrade is not about to refuse.
Greg gets some highly unexpected news and is not sure how to break it to the news's father... Mycroft Holmes.
Lestrade is enamoured with a young, nubile female and Mycroft is none too happy about the fact. Especially since said female is making a home in their patio.
Greg Lestrade has accepted a date with Mycroft Holmes. Now, the Detective Inspector needs to get himself out of his own head.
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?
Christmas Eve brings many things to many people - family, friends, gifts - but to Mycroft Holmes and Greg Lestrade, this year, it brings something very different. Not that different is a bad thing, but it certainly offers its share of challenges and surprises...
Greg usually disliked his particular gift as it was never wrong, he couldn't shut it off, and it had as much power to bring misery to people as it did joy. Naturally, because his luck demanded nothing less, it had to fail him completely when a certain elegant man strolled into his office with a gleam in his gorgeous eyes...