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After meeting Sherlock's mysterious brother at Baker Street, Greg decides to ask him out on a date to get to know him better.
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.
Mycroft decides to try for a baby to carry on the Holmes name. Originally, he was going to do things artificially, until things get sticky and a better offer waltzes right into his lap.
Mycroft Holmes and Greg Lestrade have a very clear, simple agreement set up. Sex, once a week, with no romantic entanglement and no strings attached. But of course, relationships are never quite that simple. Rules are bent, boundaries are renegotiated, and the end result may well be something that neither of them ever expected to achieve.
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?
“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?”
A step-by-step look at how Gregory Lestrade fell in love with Mycroft Holmes.
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 and Mycroft are both single parents, both lonely and overworked, both trying to keep their families together. When they're called up after their children get in a tussle, they find that each other's friendship offers a respite from the toss and turn of their past and present challenges. However, their pups are more than willing to put aside their differences, and offer up something a bit more than friendship as an option.
"Well. I'm flattered and insulted. Just another afternoon with Mycroft Holmes." "I do so like to be consistent." There were any number of reasons why this was a terrible idea—not the least of which was that Mycroft seemed to think that making Greg angry amounted to a sort of charm.