fic summaries: the truth about cat cafes and book clubs

[cimorene]

1. Mycroft Holmes is a poor artist with secrets hiding in the shadows of his life and a brother who is something of a human hurricane. PC Greg Lestrade is a young and eager member of law enforcement who never thought he'd find the man of his dreams sitting on a box in front of an easel...



2. Still reeling from his divorce, Greg has begun frequenting a local cat cafe just to feel a little less lonely. Mycroft stumbles into the same cafe, having spied a remarkably handsome man through the window. One very special cat thinks they really ought to meet...



3. AU Greg Lestrade is an award-winning maker of music documentaries. He's less than thrilled to end up making one about opera and the effect the enigmatic leading tenor, Mycroft Holmes, has on him is not helping heal his crumbling marriage.



4. Greg is asked by a friend to help with a driver training course for MI5 personnel. Mycroft has been sent for driving skills assessment. Is this the beginning of a beautiful friendship



5. Greg in order to get himself out of the flat joins a silent book club. The misterious ginger hair man sitting across him week after week captivates his attention. So Greg makes up a plan to try and engage in a conversation with him...

Comments

[stranger]

Huh, some of these are good fun. Or make me think up how they'd be good fun. I totally believe a determined cat can engineer a romantic meeting of minds, for instance...

[cimorene]

Sure, good fun, just a wild mismatch with everything about canon.

[stranger]

This may be realted to RPF also being a hotbed of AU tropes, variously suited to the original characters.

[cimorene]

Yes, exactly so! I think people just ... untie one of the extra constraints on their imagination.

[zana16]

I love the lack of a question mark at the end of #4. It really promises great things in this fic.

[cimorene]

Surprisingly common in this fandom!