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1. Barking Up the Right Tree by Ayla221bee

   Fandoms: Sherlock (TV)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   08 Oct 2025

   Tags

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   • Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade
   • Mycroft Holmes
   • Greg Lestrade
   • Sherlock Holmes
   • Anthea (Sherlock)
   • Background & Cameo Characters
   • Self-Indulgent
   • Romantic Comedy
   • Romantic Fluff
   • Dogs
   • Eventual Smut
   • Eventual Romance
   • Happy Ending
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Getting Together
   • Mycroft Holmes Has Feelings
   • Pre-Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade
   • Soft Mycroft Holmes
   • The Smiths References
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added

   Summary

   “Unable to love each other, the English turn naturally to dogs”   J. R. Ackerly.

   Mycroft Holmes has mastered the life of solitude-or so he thought. A midlife desire for compansionship convinces him to adopt a dog. Life with a dog is not what he expected.

   Mycroft's perfectly ordered life begins to turn to shreds (along with his belongings) thanks to the dog . Greg keeps showing up in this new world of chaos and is wanting more than to spend time with the dog and offering more than dog sitting.

   Love was not part of Mycroft's life. Neither was the dog.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   7,167

   Chapters:

   3/?

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