"Ah, good. Detective Inspector. I require your assistance." Greg frowned slightly trying to place the posh voice coming over the phone. "Mycroft Holmes?" Mycroft calls Greg with a little tiny problem. Pre-Mystrade with a special appearance of Rosie Watson.

Gregory Lestrade never became a cop. He lives a charmingly mundane life. He runs a diner, lives with his best mate Donovan, is friends with Sherlock Holmes, and occasionally - when he closes down shop - he goes out and kills people for Mycroft Holmes. Most people do not know this about Gregory Lestrade. And he likes it that way.

Lestrade has had it with Sherlock's shenanigans. Why couldn't he get results without half killing his suspects? Still, a visit from a familiar face always made him forget how much a crap day he was having. (A new series with Parental!Lestrade and small doses of Mystrade later on.)

When Lestrade is shot while chasing down a suspect, nobody expects him to wake up and not know who they are. His amnesia sets him back about twenty years, before he even became a detective. Now, he has to come to terms with the man he grew to become, the people whose lives he influences, the job he worked for, and the man he... loved?