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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.
Mycroft Holmes attends all the right events, knows all the right people and wears a suit like a set of armour. If Sherlock is to be believed, he is also the British Government. In his free time, however, he drops the upper class persona and prefers a simple life. When his relationship with DI Lestrade takes a more intimate turn he is unsure of how to share this side of himself.
Lestrade fulfills his Fae Family's Marriage Debt and gets engaged to Mycroft Holmes, solving one Family's problem--only to gain a whole slew of new ones.
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...
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?
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...
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.
Greg Lestrade has accepted a date with Mycroft Holmes. Now, the Detective Inspector needs to get himself out of his own head.
He realised that some officers were able to maintain reasonably healthy relationships and remain on the force, but he had tried that. He was too intense, too passionate, to balance his life to the satisfaction of a partner, and when given the choice between a partner and his job he had chosen his job. Every time.