Prompting Part XXXV

[sherlockbbc_fic]

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Re: FILLED: Restore Us To Sanity Part 5/?

[(Anonymous)]

After that Lestrade put Mycroft to sleep, no matter how unlikely that sounds. Mycroft kept protesting, but Lestrade was having none of it. Thankfully, Mycroft was exhausted and fell asleep as soon as he hit his bed. Lestrade closed the bedroom door carefully.

Once in the living room, he sat down and buried his head in his hands and felt his own tiredness and turmoil wash over him. Despite his earlier resolve, he was not so sure about his actions himself. Shouldn’t he have taken Sherlock’s side? But Mycroft is Sherlock’s immediate family, thus his well-being matters as well – right?

Oh, who is he kidding? He has been fixated on the man since they had first met. He will never forget that day. It was a couple of days after Sherlock had first been arrested for drug possession. Mycroft blackmailed him into letting Sherlock go free of charge, and Lestrade couldn’t even be angry about (not for long, anyway). Everything Mycroft said was clean, sound and rational – flawless in his own unique way. The man’s efficiency was impressive if a little worrying.

Lestrade was in the late stages of his divorce then, full of resentment and shame. Mycroft gave him a target to focus his attention on instead. He gave him Sherlock, asked Lestrade to keep an eye out for him. They have been comrades in a way; after the first round of Sherlock’s detox treatment, Mycroft brought Sherlock back to Lestrade. Lestrade in turn made sure that Sherlock was always occupied and not thinking about returning to cocaine. It gave purpose to his life; meaning in the place of the void that had filled him after Jody left.

Until this minute he had never realised how important Mycroft has been in the process. He always focused on Sherlock, but now… maybe it was because of John. Sherlock had John now. Lestrade didn’t feel particularly jealous or possessive. His mission had been finished years ago. It was ironic that now Mycroft, the very one who wanted to end Sherlock’s drug habit was in much the same position and he seemed none the wiser about it.

Lestrade scoffed. ‘I’m always in control.’ Mycroft had said. What sort of buggery rubbish was that? No one can be in control all the time.

God help him, Lestrade was dreading every single day to come, but he felt his resolve strengthen; he knew he could do this; save a man’s… Mycroft’s life. The way he had saved his. He was only returning the favour. He stopped mulling on the past and started planning.


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Lestrade had to realise that he was alone in this. Well, except for Anthea, but it really would have been easier if he had had Mycroft. Asking Sherlock for help was absolutely useless: everything he wanted to do with Mycroft which according to him fell into the category of 'helping' seemed more like petty revenge to Lestrade. Blatantly obvious at that.

Lestrade couldn’t really blame him, going through cocaine withdrawal had not seemed like fun. Then again, Sherlock had only himself to thank for acquiring an addiction in the first place.
The fact remained that Lestrade had no help in his current mission.

Then the solution dawned on him: he would ask Mycroft's help by doing exactly what Mycroft would do with someone in his situation.

So he got Mycroft to check himself into the best private clinic’s rehab program and made him assure that they would not let him out for the full duration: six weeks – which some argued was enough for the physical withdrawal to quell down and the urges to lessen. The clinic offered private therapy as well as different kinds of group therapies and they even held AA meetings once a week. It sounded exhausting, frankly, but at least this way the patients had options to choose from. Nobody was allowed to visit the recuperating patients during that time, so as not to jeopardise their progress.

Surprisingly, it went well. Mycroft stayed the whole duration of the program. When he came out, he seemed tired but determined. Lestrade went to pick him up and take him home by car.