katikat | 30 Days Relationship Challenge #17

Lestrade & Mycroft, Sherlock

Yeah, they haven't had even one scene together in the whole two seasons this show has been on air and yet! And yet they are my second favorite pairing in this fandom right after John/Sherlock. Actually, John/Sherlock and Mycroft/Lestrade are my OTPs and I don't like it when these characters are mixed with someone else. So yeah, no scenes together yet and as you know, I don't like to ship characters who never met or when there's simply nothing between them to ship (see my reaction to all the Clint/Coulson fics that flooded the net before The Avengers), but these two...

As Lestrade told Sherlock in 202: "Look. I don't just do what your brother tells me." And OMG, that got my fantasy running. It was just one, short sentence but it spoke volumes of the relationship between Lestrade and Mycroft. Mycroft gives out orders and Lestrade obeys - more or less willingly but always with a long-suffering sigh, of course. They are so much like Sherlock and John in that regard, maybe that's why I find this pairing so attractive... Also, the fact that Mark Gatiss considers Rupert Graves "dishy" helps too, of course ;P

And there are so many things that fanfic authors can add. How did these two meet? Does Mycroft intimidate Lestrade? Is there something besides Sherlock they have in common? What's their dynamic in bed? They obviously know each other very well. It's a whole new world for the writers to explore!