Best Short Mystrade Fanfics
Mystrade novellas — 10k–50k words, perfect for a weekend. All curated from AO3 and ranked by kudos.
Top 9 Short Mystrade Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length Mystrade fics — 10,000–50,000 words.
The Night Makes Sinners of Us All.
by Vanimelda4
Mycroft and Chelsey Lestrade have been friends since childhood.What Chelsey doesn't know is that Mycroft has a serious crush on her father........or that the feeling might actually be mutual..... (Disclaimer: Mycroft is 22 in this fic and Greg well in his forties.All sexual encounters are with conse
Carry You Home
by K_Holmes39
Greg had seen a lot in his twenty years on the force. Quite aside from his own personal list of injuries; being shot, stabbed, his broken bones. He’d seen fellow officers downed, mass shootings, his fair share of explosions. Strange things, too. Once Sherlock had shown up in his life. But nothing wo
【麦雷】亲密关系
by luluDan
原名为《地铁事件》，后因扩写的缘故换了一个更合适的名字。 事情的起因是格雷格在地铁上遭遇的一次强制猥亵，令他意外的是，对方竟然是自己的床伴——麦考夫·福尔摩斯。从一次次的越界行为中，格雷格隐约察觉到对方似乎不满足于肉体关系，这令他感到无措和不愉快。他认为肉体关系是最为轻松、简单的关系。 简而言之，麦考夫希望二人的关系不仅局限于床上，并为此作出了一些错误的或正确的举措。
Intimate Relations
by luluDan
Original title: Unexpected Incident On The Subway, it was later given a more fitting name after the story was expanded.The matter began when Greg was subjected to a forcible indecent assault on the Tube—and, to his astonishment, the other party proved to be none other than his own bedfellow, Mycroft
Under Protection
by Tabaculera
Greg Lestrade is hired as a bodyguard in a private close protection detail for a high-profile client. He does not expect the client to be Mycroft Holmes. Twenty years ago, they knew each other. Now Greg is assigned to protect him. What was supposed to be a new bodyguard to make Mycroft’s life easier
Fated By Blood
by LadyArkin
It was during World War II that Sub-Leftenant Gordic Albert Holmes was saved by a common soldier, Gunner Frider Lorang Lestrade. They survived hell together. At the end of it, they swore a blood oath to combine their families as one.Years later, Siger Holmes and Anaïs Lestrade missed their chance to
The Lost Kingdom
by st4rwhispr
It was at that moment, and only then, that Mycroft observed the man in front of him in his entirety. The scientist squinted his eyelids. His vision contemplating a half-dressed body. A sea-blue fabric wrapped around one shoulder. An azure symbol painted on the other.Mycroft lifted his lips in slow m
The Little Princess
by Starlight_Jay
Mycroft had found himself in a plane crash, barely escaping with his life after a meeting he was attending was intercepted by a readicalist group; the crash proved not fatal for him but for his pilot. Now, in the middle of the Sahara Desert and with little to no experience in aviation mechanics what
Guilty as Charged
by StellaCartography
Greg pops by the Diogenes unexpectedly asking Mycroft to join him for a drink - of stolen liquor. What follows is a series of cosy meetings appointments dates engagements where no one is being entirely honest about what he wants.
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Novella-length Mystrade fics — roughly 10,000 to 50,000 words — let writers fully develop a single AU, trope, or relationship beat without sprawling. Plenty of time for setup, payoff, and a satisfying ending; not so much time that you're juggling fifty bookmarks.
Great for trying a new author or testing whether you'll enjoy a sub-genre before diving into something longer.
About This List
This list of 9short Mystrade fanfics spans 232,362 total words. Kudos range from 5 on the newest entries to 122 on the most established. Most entries are ongoing works, so subscribe on AO3 for update notifications. The most common rating is Explicit (3 of 9 fics).
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