This will be the introduction to this series of drabbles I am planning on posting and an explanation as to what is happening.
In my fic, A Dish Served Cold, I had established quite a bit of back ground to explain some of Lestrade's history prior to meeting Sherlock and eventually John. That would be how he met his wife, and their subsequent marital troubles. In the story Lestrade told John they had met at a private viewing of the London Eye in December of 1999 and five months later he proposes to her. During the next five years they separated due to conflicting work schedules that were driving them apart but they remained married. Sherlock enters the picture as established by Lestrade in the episode, A Study In Pink.
What I am about to post here is some of the events that occurred to Lestrade, his wife, and the introduction of the Holmes' brothers into that life, through a series of drabbles. I am doing this because of an inability to write and huge lack of encouragement to write. I do have a half-written story for Lestrade meeting Anne on the London Eye and I also have a half written sequel to A Dish Served Cold, neither of which has budged on iota in far too long a time.
Lestrade, however, will not shut up and in my own attempt to get some things written and to get some of his history out of my head, I asked another FF.N writer, one KCS, if I could use one of her 100 word prompt tables to help me get past this rut, if indeed that is what I am in.
The first fifty odd drabbles (and some extra) deal with Lestrade and his wife previous to meeting Sherlock. The remaining fifty deals with his meeting Mycroft, then Sherlock. There are a very few towards the end that are post The Reichenbach Fall, but there are no spoilers involved.
Each one of these little things is 100 words long and I apologize for the spamming of peoples in-boxes as this first batch goes up.