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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.
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.
In a world where everyone discovers their soulmate through seeing a blinding white light after skin-on-skin contact, Greg Lestrade is trying to get on with his life. He's getting older, his ex-partner found her soulmate and, frankly, he's just trying to get from one day to the next. But then his soulmate turns out to be the very unlikely Mycroft Holmes who doesn't want to get involved with him. So what is he going to do? He's going to win him over, of course.
The idea of Sherlock and Eurus connecting over music, over anything, is terrifying. Mycroft has spent decades watching over Sherlock, talking about their fictional family dog and the myth of the east wind, trying to protect Sherlock from the things he doesn’t remember. He’s worried about Sherlock and stood guard over Eurus, and been worse than useless in the end. He was complicit. While he thought he was juggling both threats, maintaining enough control over the situation to keep everyone safe (mostly Sherlock, but the rest of the world as well), he had allowed the threat to escalate.
In which Mycroft is not an easy man to know and an even harder one to look after. Fortunately, Lestrade is diligent and determined, and knows how to pay attention to people. Where family comes with obligations, but it also cares, even when you don't want them around. Where life mostly goes as expected, but sometimes has unanticipated joys.
Getting to know the man behind the voice could be a definite advantage, Greg thought. Yet that it could also mean his death was just the beginning of the complications.
Sherlock can see that Mycroft is starting to break under the strain of his work and loneliness. His plan? To set up a friendship between his brother and Greg Lestrade and maybe turn it into a relationship.
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.