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simonejester) wrote2013-03-02 07:45 pm
simonejester) wrote2013-03-02 07:45 pm
Sherlock Fic Quotes #6 (some NSFW)
Ships: Mycroft/Sherlock (1), Lestrade-centric gen (all the rest)
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'We can't ever let anyone know.'
'I know,' Sherlock huffed. He paused before saying, 'Anthea knows.'
'Well, she's a smart young woman,' Mycroft said. 'And she walked in on us in my office.'
Sherlock smiled at the memory. Mycroft had been stuck in meetings all day and had ignored Sherlock's texts. The younger Holmes had made his way to Mycroft's office- the real one, not the one John went to- and had promptly bent Mycroft over the desk and taken him roughly. Anthea had walked in, taken one look, and said, 'Sir, your three o'clock has rescheduled, you have half-an-hour.' Then she'd turned and walked out, locking the door behind her.
--Everything That I Want, I Want From You, by (AO3)IBegToDreamAndDiffer, (Sherlock/Mycroft)
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25 . He's never had a one night stand. It's his go-to whenever the drinking games start up and someone suggests "I Never." He's not really sure why. He supposes it's because he likes it to mean something. Dimmock thinks this is beautiful. Donovan thinks this is ridiculous. Sherlock doesn't know what a one night stand is, and John has to explain it.
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29 . He started going grey around the time he met Sherlock. More than enough said, really.
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43 . He loves the rain. People complain about gray, rainy London, but he likes the rain. It's calming, it's beautiful, it helps him think. And in the rain, no one can tell if you're crying or not.
44 . Some nights he sleeps in his desk chair. Sometimes there's so much work he just doesn't bother leaving. It's not like he has anything to go home to. Sometimes it's not even a decision, he just passes out late one night and wakes up eight hours later.
45 . He thinks he's meant to be alone.
--45 Things You Don't Know About Greg Lestrade, by (dA)~SaskatchewanStardust
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2 . He still watches stars from his rooftop. The roof outside his bedroom window is near flat, just like when he was a teenager, and just like when he was a teenager he crawls out the window some nights to lie on the roof and look up at the sky. It's wonderful, and peaceful, and it helps him think, but when he thinks too much he starts to cry. So he tries not to think, just stares up into the stars and pretends he's falling – no, flying, - flying through space and he focuses on that and tries not to wish he had someone lying next to him so that they could fly through those stars together.
--
6 . His favourite time of year is the summer. Summer is long warm nights and brilliant sun and barbeques and bare feet and picnics in the park. It's blue skies and freedom and swimming pools and parties after dark and no responsibilities. At least that's what it looks like outside his office window.
--
35 . He's not okay. He acts it so convincingly that sometimes he forgets he's acting. But it's still there, at the back of his mind, the bottom of his heart, the Not Okay. No one else knows. They swallow the performance hook line and sinker, which is what he wants, really. Even though sometimes he wishes he acted Okay a little less well. Even if sometimes he wishes just one person would see the Not Okay in his eyes, would see the actor behind the mask. He wants someone to see, and to try to help. Even if it's just a hug. He wants -
But no one sees. No one realizes. He's very much Not Okay but he spends his life devoted to acting Okay and the world sees and swallows and falls for it. Sometimes he wishes he was less good of an actor.
He supposes he's had a lot of practice.
--35 More Things You Don't Know About Greg Lestrade, by (dA)~SaskatchewanStardust
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17 . He loves his team. Dimmock is arrogant, Anderson is stupid, Donovan is rude and Gregson is an outright pain in the ass. They piss him off sometimes, all of them. But he knows every name, every junior officer, every constable, every single man and woman at New Scotland Yard. They're a family. They quarrel and argue and act like children, they make and lose bets and they steal each other's things. They make fun of his weight and his hair. But they love each other like family, and he's hit with a burning sense of pride when he sees them all standing round a crime scene. His team. He's woken up in the hospital to them clustered round his bedside, having broken every of the hospital's rules to be there. He's been in the middle of a couple of team group hugs, and they're absolutely the best feeling he's ever had. They're a constant in his life, and he loves every last one of them. Even Anderson.
Kind of.
Sometimes.
--
21 . Sherlock Holmes is a great man and one day he is going to be a good one. Lestrade knows it.
--46 More Things You Don't Know About Greg Lestrade, by (dA)~SaskatchewanStardust
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2 . He loves kids. Children are brilliant. He wants his own so badly he can feel it, a constant weight inside his chest. But for now he contends himself with watching, watching other people's children fly down the street on their bikes, play football in the park, walk home from school laughing and talking. There's kids everywhere in the city, and he smiles at them, at how happy they are. But he doesn't watch them for too long because people don't take kindly to weird middle-aged guys staring at their kids, even if you are a police officer.
--
8 . He can whistle. His grandad taught him when he was six, and he's never lost the touch. He can whistle songs – he gets every note of the scale on the right pitch – but it's rare he'll whistle when he can sing. So when he does whistle it's usually the two fingers in the mouth cab-hailing traffic-stopping attention-getting shriek. Usually reserved for trying to get his team's attention. He spent a whole summer practising to get that one right, and it wasn't in vain. He ends up using it a lot.
--
14 . He still gets that thrill when he gets to turn on the sirens in the car.
--
23 . He's brilliant at checkers, but miserable at chess. No one ever taught him to play chess, and so Sherlock tries, but Sherlock has the patience of a four-year-old and yells at him for being stupid when Lestrade can't get it right. He always forgets what all the little pieces do, and it takes too much time. Games take hours to complete, and half the game is sitting and waiting and strategizing, and it bores him. So he gives up, and he ends up teaching Sherlock to play checkers instead, and they play that. Sherlock beats him ten games in a row, gets bored, and leaves. But it was nice to have someone to play with while it lasted.
--
32 . He goes to see Avengers with Dimmock. Four times. In the same day. They scream like excited twelve-year olds and clutch each other and laugh hysterically and argue over whether to buy separate popcorns and if the money saved is worth the risk of people thinking they're a gay couple. They're more excited than the throngs of ten year old boys filling the theatre, and they scream and cheer and laugh and cry and quote lines from the film all the way home and for days and days afterward. Lestrade wants shawarma after. He's not entirely sure what shawarma is, but he knows he wants one, except that Dimmock says no because he doesn't want people to think they're on a date. Lestrade says they are on a date, it's a man-date, and he laughs for two minutes straight because he's drunk on adrenaline and popcorn and four back-to-back showing of Avengers. Dimmock punches him in the gut and calls him an idiot.
Lestrade laughs harder.
33 . The next day they have shawarma together.
--34 More Things You Dont Know About Greg Lestrade, by (dA)~SaskatchewanStardust
===
'We can't ever let anyone know.'
'I know,' Sherlock huffed. He paused before saying, 'Anthea knows.'
'Well, she's a smart young woman,' Mycroft said. 'And she walked in on us in my office.'
Sherlock smiled at the memory. Mycroft had been stuck in meetings all day and had ignored Sherlock's texts. The younger Holmes had made his way to Mycroft's office- the real one, not the one John went to- and had promptly bent Mycroft over the desk and taken him roughly. Anthea had walked in, taken one look, and said, 'Sir, your three o'clock has rescheduled, you have half-an-hour.' Then she'd turned and walked out, locking the door behind her.
--Everything That I Want, I Want From You, by (AO3)IBegToDreamAndDiffer, (Sherlock/Mycroft)
===
25 . He's never had a one night stand. It's his go-to whenever the drinking games start up and someone suggests "I Never." He's not really sure why. He supposes it's because he likes it to mean something. Dimmock thinks this is beautiful. Donovan thinks this is ridiculous. Sherlock doesn't know what a one night stand is, and John has to explain it.
--
29 . He started going grey around the time he met Sherlock. More than enough said, really.
--
43 . He loves the rain. People complain about gray, rainy London, but he likes the rain. It's calming, it's beautiful, it helps him think. And in the rain, no one can tell if you're crying or not.
44 . Some nights he sleeps in his desk chair. Sometimes there's so much work he just doesn't bother leaving. It's not like he has anything to go home to. Sometimes it's not even a decision, he just passes out late one night and wakes up eight hours later.
45 . He thinks he's meant to be alone.
--45 Things You Don't Know About Greg Lestrade, by (dA)~SaskatchewanStardust
===
2 . He still watches stars from his rooftop. The roof outside his bedroom window is near flat, just like when he was a teenager, and just like when he was a teenager he crawls out the window some nights to lie on the roof and look up at the sky. It's wonderful, and peaceful, and it helps him think, but when he thinks too much he starts to cry. So he tries not to think, just stares up into the stars and pretends he's falling – no, flying, - flying through space and he focuses on that and tries not to wish he had someone lying next to him so that they could fly through those stars together.
--
6 . His favourite time of year is the summer. Summer is long warm nights and brilliant sun and barbeques and bare feet and picnics in the park. It's blue skies and freedom and swimming pools and parties after dark and no responsibilities. At least that's what it looks like outside his office window.
--
35 . He's not okay. He acts it so convincingly that sometimes he forgets he's acting. But it's still there, at the back of his mind, the bottom of his heart, the Not Okay. No one else knows. They swallow the performance hook line and sinker, which is what he wants, really. Even though sometimes he wishes he acted Okay a little less well. Even if sometimes he wishes just one person would see the Not Okay in his eyes, would see the actor behind the mask. He wants someone to see, and to try to help. Even if it's just a hug. He wants -
But no one sees. No one realizes. He's very much Not Okay but he spends his life devoted to acting Okay and the world sees and swallows and falls for it. Sometimes he wishes he was less good of an actor.
He supposes he's had a lot of practice.
--35 More Things You Don't Know About Greg Lestrade, by (dA)~SaskatchewanStardust
===
17 . He loves his team. Dimmock is arrogant, Anderson is stupid, Donovan is rude and Gregson is an outright pain in the ass. They piss him off sometimes, all of them. But he knows every name, every junior officer, every constable, every single man and woman at New Scotland Yard. They're a family. They quarrel and argue and act like children, they make and lose bets and they steal each other's things. They make fun of his weight and his hair. But they love each other like family, and he's hit with a burning sense of pride when he sees them all standing round a crime scene. His team. He's woken up in the hospital to them clustered round his bedside, having broken every of the hospital's rules to be there. He's been in the middle of a couple of team group hugs, and they're absolutely the best feeling he's ever had. They're a constant in his life, and he loves every last one of them. Even Anderson.
Kind of.
Sometimes.
--
21 . Sherlock Holmes is a great man and one day he is going to be a good one. Lestrade knows it.
--46 More Things You Don't Know About Greg Lestrade, by (dA)~SaskatchewanStardust
===
2 . He loves kids. Children are brilliant. He wants his own so badly he can feel it, a constant weight inside his chest. But for now he contends himself with watching, watching other people's children fly down the street on their bikes, play football in the park, walk home from school laughing and talking. There's kids everywhere in the city, and he smiles at them, at how happy they are. But he doesn't watch them for too long because people don't take kindly to weird middle-aged guys staring at their kids, even if you are a police officer.
--
8 . He can whistle. His grandad taught him when he was six, and he's never lost the touch. He can whistle songs – he gets every note of the scale on the right pitch – but it's rare he'll whistle when he can sing. So when he does whistle it's usually the two fingers in the mouth cab-hailing traffic-stopping attention-getting shriek. Usually reserved for trying to get his team's attention. He spent a whole summer practising to get that one right, and it wasn't in vain. He ends up using it a lot.
--
14 . He still gets that thrill when he gets to turn on the sirens in the car.
--
23 . He's brilliant at checkers, but miserable at chess. No one ever taught him to play chess, and so Sherlock tries, but Sherlock has the patience of a four-year-old and yells at him for being stupid when Lestrade can't get it right. He always forgets what all the little pieces do, and it takes too much time. Games take hours to complete, and half the game is sitting and waiting and strategizing, and it bores him. So he gives up, and he ends up teaching Sherlock to play checkers instead, and they play that. Sherlock beats him ten games in a row, gets bored, and leaves. But it was nice to have someone to play with while it lasted.
--
32 . He goes to see Avengers with Dimmock. Four times. In the same day. They scream like excited twelve-year olds and clutch each other and laugh hysterically and argue over whether to buy separate popcorns and if the money saved is worth the risk of people thinking they're a gay couple. They're more excited than the throngs of ten year old boys filling the theatre, and they scream and cheer and laugh and cry and quote lines from the film all the way home and for days and days afterward. Lestrade wants shawarma after. He's not entirely sure what shawarma is, but he knows he wants one, except that Dimmock says no because he doesn't want people to think they're on a date. Lestrade says they are on a date, it's a man-date, and he laughs for two minutes straight because he's drunk on adrenaline and popcorn and four back-to-back showing of Avengers. Dimmock punches him in the gut and calls him an idiot.
Lestrade laughs harder.
33 . The next day they have shawarma together.
--34 More Things You Dont Know About Greg Lestrade, by (dA)~SaskatchewanStardust