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simonejester) wrote2013-03-12 01:30 pm
simonejester) wrote2013-03-12 01:30 pm
Sherlock Fic Quotes #8
Ships this post: Greg-centric gen (all)
12 . He calls Mycroft every Christmas. He knows the man spends it alone and he knows how lonely that must be. Every year Mycroft fusses at him for tying up his phone line and I did not give you this number for social calls, Gregory and Yes, Gregory, I can see that it is snowing and Gregory I am expecting a very important call from the ambassador of Canada if this is not about my brother I will hang up. Christmas phone calls between them last an average of forty-five seconds. But he will still call every year.
13 . He beats Sherlock at Cluedo every time. It infuriates the detective to no end, but it makes Lestrade feel proud.
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32 . He does not like to talk to strangers. He is not the one to make idle chitchat in the line at Tesco, waiting at a bus stop, on the tube. He is often lost in his own thoughts anyways. If people speak to him, he will reply, and he will chat easily, pleasantly, but he will never turn to anyone just simply to talk to them. He is not entirely comfortable doing so, and he does not. It is no great loss to him. He likes to talk to people, and he will be funny and amiable and pleasant, and he will enjoy it, but he never seeks out people to talk with.
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34 . Originally, it was supposed to be the other way round. Sherlock was supposed to need him. But no, he needs Sherlock so much, for everything, and he does not mind at all. Greg loves to need Sherlock. Greg loves to wake up and have a reason to get dressed and go to work and smile and laugh and live, and this reason is Sherlock Holmes and one day he will tell him how grateful he is once he is, once he has worked out the right way to say it.
35 . He will never ever ever get tired of the way Sherlock's eyes light up when he hands him a new case.
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38 . He loves reading John's blog. He checks it religiously, hoping for updates. Sherlock is not the type to chat about a case once he has finished, unless it is to boast about how extremely clever he was in solving it, and he leaves out little details. If the case does not come from Lestrade, he does not hear about it. He likes to read John's writing and he smiles at the stories that are so invariably Sherlock. And yet sometimes, still, he feels something akin to hearing the details of a party he had not been invited to, something like sadness, like jealousy. But he ignores that, and it goes away.
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49 . He hopes – and if all goes well, he should, but still he prays – that he will die before Sherlock. He cannot imagine a world in which Sherlock is not there. He imagines such a world must be dull and without colour and vibrancy and that he would very much not like to live there.
--45 More Things You Don't Know About Greg Lestrade, by (dA)~SaskatchewanStardust
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17 . He can crack eggs using only one hand. Despite his less-than-perfect culinary skills, he's able to pull off this impressive trick with a snap of his wrist. Sherlock taught him this once, and Greg does not know why the detective had known this in the first place or why he had thought it important enough to store on his hard-drive. It took him hours to perfect the trick, but he had done it, and he always feels proud whenever he can deliver that little snap and crack the egg perfectly with one hand, even though whatever he is making turns out a mess later.
--31 More Things You Don't Know About Greg Lestrade, by (dA)~SaskatchewanStardust
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17 . The comic book villan he hates the most is Howard Stark. Not a villan? It doesn't matter. You can lie and cheat and plot and steal and blow things up, but neglectful father always wins in Lestrade's books. Or loses. Whatever.
--
24 . He loves giving Christmas gifts. He buys everyone in his division presents. Even Gregson – they have their differences, sure, and he always uses a lot of tape on Gregson's gifts, just to frustrate him, but it's Christmas. And that's a time to put aside your differences. He loves shopping in the crowds, wrapping presents in his sitting room, the thrill of finding the perfect gift and the look on the face of whoever opens it. He buys gifts for everyone he can just for that thrill.
25 . A promotion would be brilliant, sure, but truthfully he loves where he is.
--
27 . If he could change one thing about the world, just in a small way, it would be to exempt children from suffering.
--
52 . He is sad. Very sad. He has been very sad for a very long time and his heart hurts from it and he cries sometimes, often, and no medication takes it away. He is empty and he is lonely and he is sad, though he hides it very well.
53 . He is happy. He is, really. There is a wonderful world that he lives in, and it is a world with friends and with music and with work and with Sherlock. All of these things make him very happy. He loves his life, even when it hurts. And he will always, always, always love Sherlock.
Even when it hurts.
--53 More Things You Don't Know About Greg Lestrade, by (dA)~SaskatchewanStardust
12 . He calls Mycroft every Christmas. He knows the man spends it alone and he knows how lonely that must be. Every year Mycroft fusses at him for tying up his phone line and I did not give you this number for social calls, Gregory and Yes, Gregory, I can see that it is snowing and Gregory I am expecting a very important call from the ambassador of Canada if this is not about my brother I will hang up. Christmas phone calls between them last an average of forty-five seconds. But he will still call every year.
13 . He beats Sherlock at Cluedo every time. It infuriates the detective to no end, but it makes Lestrade feel proud.
--
32 . He does not like to talk to strangers. He is not the one to make idle chitchat in the line at Tesco, waiting at a bus stop, on the tube. He is often lost in his own thoughts anyways. If people speak to him, he will reply, and he will chat easily, pleasantly, but he will never turn to anyone just simply to talk to them. He is not entirely comfortable doing so, and he does not. It is no great loss to him. He likes to talk to people, and he will be funny and amiable and pleasant, and he will enjoy it, but he never seeks out people to talk with.
--
34 . Originally, it was supposed to be the other way round. Sherlock was supposed to need him. But no, he needs Sherlock so much, for everything, and he does not mind at all. Greg loves to need Sherlock. Greg loves to wake up and have a reason to get dressed and go to work and smile and laugh and live, and this reason is Sherlock Holmes and one day he will tell him how grateful he is once he is, once he has worked out the right way to say it.
35 . He will never ever ever get tired of the way Sherlock's eyes light up when he hands him a new case.
--
38 . He loves reading John's blog. He checks it religiously, hoping for updates. Sherlock is not the type to chat about a case once he has finished, unless it is to boast about how extremely clever he was in solving it, and he leaves out little details. If the case does not come from Lestrade, he does not hear about it. He likes to read John's writing and he smiles at the stories that are so invariably Sherlock. And yet sometimes, still, he feels something akin to hearing the details of a party he had not been invited to, something like sadness, like jealousy. But he ignores that, and it goes away.
--
49 . He hopes – and if all goes well, he should, but still he prays – that he will die before Sherlock. He cannot imagine a world in which Sherlock is not there. He imagines such a world must be dull and without colour and vibrancy and that he would very much not like to live there.
--45 More Things You Don't Know About Greg Lestrade, by (dA)~SaskatchewanStardust
===
17 . He can crack eggs using only one hand. Despite his less-than-perfect culinary skills, he's able to pull off this impressive trick with a snap of his wrist. Sherlock taught him this once, and Greg does not know why the detective had known this in the first place or why he had thought it important enough to store on his hard-drive. It took him hours to perfect the trick, but he had done it, and he always feels proud whenever he can deliver that little snap and crack the egg perfectly with one hand, even though whatever he is making turns out a mess later.
--31 More Things You Don't Know About Greg Lestrade, by (dA)~SaskatchewanStardust
===
17 . The comic book villan he hates the most is Howard Stark. Not a villan? It doesn't matter. You can lie and cheat and plot and steal and blow things up, but neglectful father always wins in Lestrade's books. Or loses. Whatever.
--
24 . He loves giving Christmas gifts. He buys everyone in his division presents. Even Gregson – they have their differences, sure, and he always uses a lot of tape on Gregson's gifts, just to frustrate him, but it's Christmas. And that's a time to put aside your differences. He loves shopping in the crowds, wrapping presents in his sitting room, the thrill of finding the perfect gift and the look on the face of whoever opens it. He buys gifts for everyone he can just for that thrill.
25 . A promotion would be brilliant, sure, but truthfully he loves where he is.
--
27 . If he could change one thing about the world, just in a small way, it would be to exempt children from suffering.
--
52 . He is sad. Very sad. He has been very sad for a very long time and his heart hurts from it and he cries sometimes, often, and no medication takes it away. He is empty and he is lonely and he is sad, though he hides it very well.
53 . He is happy. He is, really. There is a wonderful world that he lives in, and it is a world with friends and with music and with work and with Sherlock. All of these things make him very happy. He loves his life, even when it hurts. And he will always, always, always love Sherlock.
Even when it hurts.
--53 More Things You Don't Know About Greg Lestrade, by (dA)~SaskatchewanStardust