Greenie, you should know that I have a very serious thing for text messages in fic. I adore it SO. FREAKING MUCH. Make it Mystrade and I am SO THERE.
So…at lunch I sat at my desk with my food and my phone, reading this incredibly DELICIOUS chapter made entirely of text between my two favorite guys, and inside i’m like
But on the outside i’m cool and calm, because work.
Until my coworker stops by my door to tell me he’s going for a walk, and without even thinking I said “OKAY HAVE FUN IN THE FRESH FRESH AIR!!!!!!!!!!!!” But I said it so LOUDLY and EXCITEDLY that he actually took a step back and said “it’s only a walk.”
So…that happened. 😂😂😂
Aksjdhfjfj I love you 😂
Mycroft Holmes, 16, at university two years early. Fiercely intelligent and curious. Auditing as many classes as he can alongside his own core lectures and seminars. Spending every spare moment – whole nights, sometimes – in the library.
Spiky. Uncompromising. Very, very lonely.
Greg Lestrade, 18 and in the first year of his Applied Criminology course, finding his obligatory Social Theory module hard to handle, using the library to try and understand –
They get talking. Mycroft laughs for what feels like the first time in months, and blushes, and he’s just a kid.
Greg has a girlfriend. She’s beautiful. Funny. Clever. He plays football, and hangs around with the team – but studying with Mycroft in the library becomes a regular thing.
It takes Mycroft under two weeks to develop a life-ruining, heart-stopping, painful crush.
He knows, to Greg, he’s just a kid.
Two years – two years of pining, and Greg won’t even allow himself to think it – they’re friends. Good friends.
And Mycroft blossoms: some of his spikiness wears away, with a friend. He finds himself with people, tentatively: a group. A guy who asks him out on a date.
He should go, shouldn’t he? Because he’s learned from Greg to take opportunities when they come. Live life. But –
Wars we
fought, things we’re not by blueink3, 55 k, mature. This is another
fake relationship for a case, but this time John and Sherlock are playing
parents with a foster-child baby that Mycroft has thrust upon them. Playing a
gay family on holiday, they spend time at a seaside town where several gay
couples and their children have gone missing.
In the
Dark Hours by hubblegleeflower, 51 k, explicit. John, wounded and
silent, drifts back to Baker Street for healing…and then goes home again. He
visits, gets more upbeat, chattier, smiles, jokes… and still goes home again.
Sherlock wants him to move back in – it just makes sense – but John shows no
signs of doing so. This is the story of how John and Sherlock learn to say what
needs to be said when they’re both so very, very rubbish at talking.
Pointsby lifeonmars, 53 k, mature, this fic pics up after John and
Mary’s wedding in an AU where Magnussen didn’t happen. Mary is still pregnant,
but life continues in a different direction.
Slow burn as John finally comes to terms with his feelings for Sherlock.
A kinder look at Mary as everyone remains friends.
The Moonlight and the Frost by CaitlinFairchild, 77
k, explicit. A series 3 fix-it fic. Mary is found guilty and sent to jail. The
baby isn’t John’s. At loose ends, John processes his bisexuality and his anger
in a very believable way before moving back in to 221B. John and Sherlock
reconnect with some cases before finding their way back to each other.
Truth May Vary by amalnahurriyeh,
93 k, explicit. Seven years after Sherlock’s death, John’s life is normal. And
then it isn’t. Sherlock comes back, and John’s quiet life with his wife Mary,
and son, Naz is turned upside down.
Albion and the Woodsman by Glenmore,
54 k, not rated. Sherlock and John are devastated after Mary Morstan makes her
final moves. Sherlock relapses at the crack house, John walks around the world
… and a lot happens in between. Parentlock, in the good way.
The
Pieces that Fall to Earth by Itsallfine, 49 k, mature. Epistolary fic that picks up
after s4. John is reeling with his loss, and struggling with alcohol abuse,
anger management, and therapy as he raises his daughter. Sherlock hovers at the
edges hoping so much that John will let him into his life. It helps that John
finally decides to come out.
Electric Pink Hand
Grenade by BeautifulFiction,
67 k, explicit. “If Sherlock’s brain is a hard drive, then these attacks
are an electro-magnetic pulse.” Sherlock Holmes does not do anything by
half, not even a migraine. It falls to John to witness one of the greatest
minds he has ever known tear itself apart, and he must do his best to help
Sherlock pick up the pieces.
Given In Evidence by verityburns, 97 k,
mature. Coming back from the dead can be a complicated business. With a new
case on the horizon, rebuilding a life is one thing… rebuilding a friendship
quite another. For Sherlock and John, things may never be just the same…
The Thing Is by TSylvestris, 56 k,
explicit. The problem with living with Sherlock, John thought, was that you
never, never, ever knew the significance of anything. Like your flatmate’s nose
buried in your hair. Whilst you’re in bed.
Guilty Secretsby Ellipsical, 55 k,
explicit. John has a prostate exam and discovers something surprising about
himself. Experimentation follows. Sherlock wants to help. They’re in love. You
know the drill.
Before You Know It
by LollipopCop, 85
k, explicit. John hates how his life turned out, and mourns the lost potential
between him and Sherlock. So when he’s given a second chance, transported back
to the night Sherlock returned from the dead, John must make good use of it.
Lunar Landscapes by J_Baillier, 57 k,
mature. An accident forces John to face the fact that Sherlock’s downward
spiral had started long before his flight to exile even left the tarmac.
Cold Hands, Warm Heart
by chasingriver, 51
k, explicit. Mycroft has a country to run, and the last thing he wants to do is
go on a ski holiday with Sherlock and his parents. When he gets there, a ski
instructor named Greg changes his mind.
Armistice by mydwynter, 66 k, explicit. Things were good, all
told. Weren’t they? On paper he was doing just fine. So why did he feel so…at a
loss?
Out of Thoughtby green_violin_bow, 80 k,
explicit. Mycroft finds that it is harder than he could have believed to push
away the determined friendship (or something) of Greg Lestrade.
Dream a Little Dream
by EventHorizon, 81
k, mature. Mycroft Holmes knows he’s not the most scintillating man in the
world, but wonders what it would be like if there was just a bit more
sparkle in his smile. Or if he had a smile at all. Like a certain Detective
Inspector of his acquaintance, who he would very much like to make a better
acquaintance, if he only had the chance. Perhaps a little wish might be of
help… at least in his dreams…
Not Mineby claro, 72 k, explicit.
Omegaverse. There’s a reason two alphas aren’t supposed to bond. Mycroft and
Greg get carried away during sex and accidentally bond, leaving Greg badly
injured and Mycroft distant and cold, refusing to accept Greg as his mate.
Past Our Dancing Days by lobstergirl, 56
k, explicit. A post Reichenbach setting in which a disillusioned government
official and a demoted police officer find out they have more in common than
meets the eye.
The Other Woman by Shay_Fae, 83 k,
explicit. “This is what you do now, is it? Seduce men away from their wives?”
Or The Growing Up of Mycroft Holmes.
Matchmaker by HastaLux, Mottlemoth,
69 k, explicit. Still reeling from his divorce, Greg has begun frequenting a
local cat cafe just to feel a little less lonely. Mycroft stumbles into the
same cafe, having spied a remarkably handsome man through the window. One very
special cat thinks they really ought to meet…
The Habits of a
Lifetime by out_there,
54 k, mature. 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.
When the sun shines,
we’ll shine together by Sunnyrea, 50 k, teen. Greg is having problems with his wife, it’s
tough enough being a copper, and then Mycroft Holmes starts sending him gifts.
The Weight of the World
on Your Shoulders by remanth, 51 k, gen. 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.
Bringing Greg Home
by Freebirdflying,
74 k, mature. DI Greg Lestrade is taken hostage by violent members of a Mexican
drug cartel. His only hope of being saved is that one of his closest friends is
a consulting detective and another is the “minor”
wizard-behind-the-machine, Mycroft Holmes. If “friend” is really the
right word for what Mycroft is to him…God, he’d like to live to find out.
Green Violin Bow 