Gin and Bitterness

Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: G
Setting: Dark Dog Days universe
Characters: Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes
Word Count: 472

General Summary: Upon reuniting with each other after Sherlock's 3 year disappearance, the Holmes brothers find themselves unusually speechless.

Author’s Note: A short piece I wrote in July 2012. Loosely inspired by the song "Jet Lag" by Frank Turner.


It had been almost three years.

Raising tired eyes, Mycroft Holmes observed his brother quietly, refusing - for once - to break the silence first. Across from him, Sherlock Holmes did much the same thing.

Three years.

The three years on the run had taken a surprising toll on the detective.

Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: M
Setting: Dark Dog Days universe
Characters: Mycroft Holmes, Greg Lestrade
Primary Pairings: Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade
Word Count: 2407

General Summary: Mycroft had only planned to go out hunting; taking a lover was certainly not on his agenda.

Author’s Note: This piece was written for my collaborator after we had discussion about something we thought Mycroft did when he was bored as a young man at university. It was originally posted to Tumblr on 17 January 2012.


Mycroft was on the hunt. He had slipped away, as he was wont to do, and had taken the night for himself. The deceptively inexpensive and currently jacketless suit that he wore in place of his usual expensively tailored one made for an appearance that would have unsettled anyone who knew him. However, he added mentally, carefully rolling his shirt cuffs over his forearms, the small of his back pressed uncomfortably against the edge of the bar, they’ll never know, will they?

The hunt, as he had come to affectionately call it, was something that he had begun to do while at university, at least partially out of boredom. He would dress up, catch a cab to a bar that he had scoped out weeks in advance, and don the mask of a bored barfly. From there it was simply a matter of choosing a target and playing the game. Rather than make the first move, the game required that he slip inside his target’s brain and figure out what would induce them to make a move on him.

Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: T
Setting: Dark Dog Days universe
Characters: Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes
Warnings: Drug use, implied overdose, implied drug addiction
Word Count: 613

General Summary: Mycroft Holmes has long grown used to his younger brother's habits, and has made a habit of being there when no one else can or dares.

Author’s Note: I originally posted this piece in August 2011, and it was later decided by myself and my collaborator to be part of the Dark Dog Days universe series.


The first thing that hit Mycroft as he entered the basement flat was the smell, one of those sickly-sweet odours that hung heavily in the air and clung to the every fibre of his clothes and each strand of his hair like a swarm of insects.

1. Decomposition, several days old.
2. Odour has permeated the entire flat, but has not begun to bother the neighbours yet.
3. Conclusion: Abandoned experiment. Probably in the kitchen.

The flat itself was a catastrophe of broken glass and papers even in the most traversable areas, and as Mycroft picked his way across the room, he carefully stepped over what appeared to be a box full of preserved cat foetuses.