Paper Trails

DI Greg Lestrade has spent months chasing a case that Scotland Yard keeps closing without explanation, until one rainy evening Mycroft Holmes appears at his flat with a single classified file and an offer of information in exchange for silence. What begins as tense, professional meetings over late-night tea quickly fractures into something neither man planned: stolen glances across case files, arguments that end too close, and the slow realization that Mycroft’s control is fraying every time Lestrade challenges him. As a new threat surfaces that endangers both the Yard and Mycroft’s hidden network, the two must decide whether to keep their alliance strictly professional or risk the kind of vulnerability that could destroy them both.