10 Things that Never Leaked From the Yard
1. He had never liked coffee. The buzz it gave was simply a jittery awareness of what was going on around him, and in his line of work one couldn't afford to simply possess jittery awareness.
2. Even though he didn't like the caffeinated beverage, he still always had a pot of it brewing in his office incase someone arrived in the wee hours of the morning and desired some. He still preferred the hot chocolate he kept hidden in a drawer.
3. He met Sherlock Holmes for the first time in the middle of a robbery. Holmes was doing the robbing; Lestrade was taking part in the arresting. Though he later found out that Holmes was actually just searching for a document for one of his early clients, Lestrade would never approve of breaking, or even bending the law. He vowed that if he ever caught the man trespassing again he would replay the events of that night and put him in handcuffs.
4. He hoped it never came to that though, he was sure he'd be no match for the Great Detective if the Great Detective ever wanted to be a problem.
5. Once upon arriving home to his new bride, he was disheartened to learn that she had glimpsed the tall brooding man and his trusted companion entering Simpson's on a hot summer day, her only comment being how impressive and thin he looked even from the side.
6. If you were to offer him a tea-cake he would decline, he's trying to loose weight.
7. As a child he often had to ask for help with his studies, as a young man, he occasionally took the assistance of an more experienced officer, so when he became Inspector he was very ready to have matters in his own hands, with people beneath himself. The first time he knocked on the door of a private consulting detective he thought a part of him withered and died.
8. He was occasionally ashamed of himself, ashamed of the Yard, ashamed of the city he lived in and served. But then he would make slight progress in a problem he had been working on, or he walk pass a home with people safely inside. It was then that he would forgive himself for not being perfect or at least as perfect as Holmes, the most "observant" man in London.
9. The truth was, he may not have been able to tell you where you were born, or what you did for a living, but he understood emotions, and he could tell when people were truly happy.
10. He more often then not felt sorry for Great Detective.
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Thank you! Sorry if this comes across as being too hard on our dear Sherlock, its not supposed to…I've gotten some really sweet feedback for this and I'm not done yet. I'm going to definitely do one with Mycroft, and possibly one with Miss Irene, but the problem is I don't know how much liberty I can take….not that what I have so far is quite up to fact, but I've only made slight changes….I'd really love some word.