A/N: Brought Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy a couple of weeks ago and finally got around to watching it. I loved Benedict in the movie and it sparked my imagination. It's kind of a crossover, in that it contains characters from TTSS. Peter's boyfriends name seems to be universally acknowledged among TTSS fiction as Richard, so I kept to that. (HE IS NOT MORIARTY) If you haven't seen the movie, it's alright. It's not important to my plot. Though if you haven't seen the second season of Sherlock, you are warned this story contains spoilers. Sorry if the title sucks, couldn't think of anything else.

WARNING: NO BETA. SPELLING/GRAMMAR MISTAKES.


PROLOGUE

Life as Peter Guillam was….Tolerable.

He had a nice comfy flat, but it never really felt like home. He had a job that was… well…dull, predictable and nowhere close to what he enjoyed. - And he had a boyfriend, who was relatively good company but just wasn't….

He couldn't really tell how he'd ended up in a long term relationship; you could probably deduce it was rooted in boredom, loneliness and the need for someone to distract him from his new unadventurous life, along with the need not to be himself. But he'd never expected to actually last. He hadn't expected it to become….easy. It wasn't living with someone that was new; he'd done that for years before circumstances had brought him to Paris. It was sharing a bed with someone. Before he'd never seen the attraction, but boredom had always made him lash out.

Peter had met Richard at a Café during a lunch break from his tiresome job. They'd got talking and well things had just progressed. Richard was interesting in his own way and for Peter that was all that mattered. Though he'd never been quite interesting enough to make his life in Paris completely happy, but then, little could. Richard also help detract attention from him, gave him a smoke screen to hide behind.

Richard didn't know Peter's true identity, didn't know that Peter had deduced every detail of the man's life within five seconds of their meeting. That Richard was a teacher at the local school. That he'd lived in Paris for nearly ten years. That he was born in Southampton, that his father had been a fisherman and his mother a teacher. That he had three brothers, all older. And that most importantly he was very attracted to Peter, no Richard didn't know that the man he'd been in a relationship for almost two years was in truth, Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective, genius - and dead man.


A/N: Well, how was that for an opening chapter? Sorry for those waiting for the follow up to Withdrawal, I'm having problems with it, though I'm still working. But I will get to it, I swear.