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Eight years ago, Greg Lestrade vanished into an undercover assignment.
Mycroft Holmes never stopped looking for him.
When they meet again—in an interrogation room, under fluorescent light—Greg is no longer the man Mycroft remembers, and Mycroft is no longer the man who believed he could keep him safe.
The mission ends, but the damage doesn’t.
Mycroft refuses to let him disappear a second time.Bookmarked by Aister8
10 Jun 2026
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“Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.”
Anatole Broyard, Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village MemoirBookmarked by Aister8
22 May 2026
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Mycroft sees things other people can’t. Lights, spectres, shades, demons, phantasms, and creatures that no one else can see. Voices no one else can hear. Colours eddying around people’s bodies, visible only to his eyes.
It isn't deduction for Mycroft; it's a living nightmare that leads to self-imposed isolation. When Sherlock "dies," Mycroft finds himself reaching out for a golden slice of happiness, just one person to call his own in a landscape of horrors.
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- Part 1 of The Tenth Muse
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13 May 2026
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Mycroft spent most of his life building his empire for one purpose; to keep Sherlock safe. But it wasn't enough, and with everything crumbling around him he makes a plan. It will work. He will be gone, Sherlock will be safe, and there will be minimal collateral damage.
Then Gregory Lestrade gets himself involved, and even that one last plan begins to unravel.
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13 May 2026
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The watercolor painting on his studio table mimics the sunset: stains of color running into one another, edges blurring and lines saturating around coin-sized pools of wet pigment. He watches as the gleam of color dulls into a dry matte, and he thinks of how his own life is doing the same. A drying out of the steadfast and glorious career of Mycroft Holmes, his covert accomplishments disintegrating into the bones of an archaeological dig that no one will ever even think to fund.
Mycroft Holmes has sequestered himself in a desolate part of the world as he struggles with the consequences of the events at Sherrinford. He is confronted with the unexpected when a visitor appears on his doorstep.
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- Part 1 of Craquelure
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08 May 2026