#wendymarlow

Ok, as usual:

1. Read the tags, because I don’t want you to face something that makes you uncomfortable!

2.If you don’t like a fic I recommended that’s ok. Don’t read what you don’t like :)

3. If there is a podfic to a fic, I am going to like it :)

3...2...1....go!

The Other Woman by Shay_Fae 

83k, Explicit  A young Mycroft meets an older and married Lestrade. They begin an affair -what starts as a kind of testing the waters in sex and love life for Mycroft gets him full stop into the role of the other woman.  I really like it, especially the epic best friendship between Mycroft and Harry. It’s a complement to the ‘Love me with the lights off’ series (So much Teen- and Unilock feels!)

Willing by Tammany

6.8k, Mature All Greg wanted " is a cab home, a curry, a hot shower—and in my dreams a willing bit of totty and a good night’s sleep. In just about that order.” Well, he didn’t expect buttoned-up Mycroft to provide it. Are you sometimes in deep of some comfort soul food reading, no drama but just good goodness with some sexytime. That’s what you are looking for.

also available as podfic read by @aranel-parmadil​

Out of the Ashes by wendymarlowe 

WIP, 27k, Explicit Somehow, despite all odds, Greg Lestrade and Mycroft Holmes never met IRL. Only via texts and calls. They met at the funeral and an invitation to coffee becomes something more. Lestrade is an amazing ravisher! And then Sherlock returns... I think this was my first-time fic where I was confronted with tho concept of WIP. It’s so good. You will bite in a pillow when Greg seduces Mycroft on the phone.

The Reality of Expectations by EventHorizon 

WIP, 108k, Mature It’s a pornstarAU. Greg is a successful Pornstar and Mycroft follows his career as a...secrect admirer...and with that I mean he wanks a lot to sexy Lestrange porn. His wildest dreams come true when Greg has to stay with Mycroft after a fairly serious murderous attack.      It’s a WIP but @eventhorizon451 updates very very regularly. The inner monolog of Mycroft is pure gold. It’s like the cherry on top of the great AU-idea. 

Scotch by earlgreytea68

series, 119k, General audience up to Mature Sherlocks dead, or isn’t he. While slowly building up a relationship to Mycroft, Gregs finds out that Sherlock’s death was a fake. Beside this, it’s not easy to have a romance between the British government and the police. (There is also a big part John/Sherlock but mostly Mycroft/Greg Lestrade.) I love @earlgreytea68 so much for her work in general but this series just got me. It’s just perfect.

also available as podfic by @themusecalliope

Unlikely Connections We Make by Linpatootie

31k, Explicit Greg’s life sucks. A lot. Meeting Mycroft makes it better. But wooing this particular guy is hard work. To admit Greg reaches points where he is painfully desperate. But it pays out in the end.  I remember this thinking like ‘whoa. Greg really really REALLY wants that. Kudos for that guy!’

Sherlock: Give Me A Label (I'll Make Confetti) by IBegToDreamAndDiffer

374k, Explicit HighschoolAU. Greg is a bad boy. He drinks, he fucks, he likes to party. He isn’t into relationships. Than he meets Mycroft Holmes. Despite his first impression that this guy isn’t as stiff as a poker. Well, in certain areas he is *winks intensely*. I love this. @ibegto-dreamanddiffer makes this teenstrade into a 300k+ feast. Its just fun to read and catches the charaters even if there a in a totally different setting. Works pretty well.

The Correspondence of Mycroft Holmes by celestialteapot

1k, General Audiences Mycroft corresponds. It’s just funny texting. But it works so well.

An Unknown Error Has Occurred by hogwartswitch

25k, Teen And Up Audiences Greg sends an e-mail to his wife at work. He stays at home with the kids - she works at brightstreetcorp. But he makes a typo and his mails gets to one Mycroft Holmes. What starts as a stray mail is the beginning of a big love. But also a lot drama on the way. I had a very intense texting-fic time. I stumbled upon this fic by @cleverwholigan. It was a great accident. It’s part of the ‘An Unknown Error Has Occurred’ series.

Ages of Man by EventHorizon

598k, Mature They met coincidence. Thanks to Sherlock sweet tooth. What starts a some serious crush on Mycroft's side becomes a lifetimes love story with all the drama and up-and-downs.  Well, if you got time for nearly 600k words...go on. It’s cute and lovely and they both are just dorks sometimes. :3

Out of Thought by green_violin_bow

18k, Explicit It’s a  Post-Season/Series 03 and post-tab Angsty Mystrade-fic.Really painfully slow burn with a brave Greg, who really wants to get this car running and is opening up, ever this is painful! Mycroft is so tightly controlled that he can’t really act on what he maybe wants or even accept that he maybe has to open up for intimacy. Anthea again advocates for Greg and Mycroft is so painfully buttoned-up that it’s quite a sweet torture to read. @green-violin-bow does a very good job with this WIP. So go and give her some love!

Putting the Pieces Back Together by BubbleGumLizard

16.7k, Mature When Greg asks for a date, Mycroft isn’t  all aflutter. The shadows of his past an abuse he never really overcome withholds Mycroft to open himself to a very understanding Greg. Anthea takes the floor. I loved this but do you think I remembered the title...that was a wild searching but I found it again. @bubblegumlizard did such an amazing job with this. In will finish the list now and read it again!

@chinike wanted to be tagged. Here you go dear.

Also, sweet perfect @allmannerofsomethings writes Mystrade, too. But sadly I hadn’t the time to check it out on AO3 (which you can do here). But since her art is amazing, I don’t doubt her writing skills will match her drawing skills.

Also, since I cannot make a rec list without divine @221b-hound you can have some sweet and sexy and sad Mystrade in her Captains of Industry series with Not an Advantage (sad and sweet) and Oil and Ink (steamy lovemaking)