Fic: Nor The Years Condemn (5/6)

Title: Nor The Years Condemn (5/6)
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, DI Lestrade
Pairing: Lestrade/OCs (mentioned); Lestrade/Sherlock
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I don’t own them
Word Count: c. 6,300 (this part); c. 37,000 total
Warnings: Language; Age Discrepancy; Mild Sexuality; Drug Use
Spoilers: None
Betas: sidneysussex, gentlest_sin, archea2

Summary: Greg Lestrade is forty-three when he saves the life of a brilliant drug-addict. Two years later, he's starting to realize there are some certainties to his life now that Sherlock Holmes is part of it. He's going gray quickly, for one thing. He starts finding experiments in his kitchen. And he may even be, inexplicably, beginning to care for the detective. A series of vignettes that cover the five years leading up to “A Study In Pink.”

Prologue (with full Author’s Notes)
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four

( Part Five: “This is what you signed up for. Do you realize that, Lestrade?” )