♥ Last spring I offered a fic in the lubricus fundraising auction and drinkingcocoa bid an truly ridiculous amount of money to win it. (THANK YOU!!) She requested a fic featuring her OT3 of John/Sherlock/Lestrade. I must admit that it took some time for me to get to the point that I was ready to bring Lestrade into my beloved OTP, but she convinced me, and I'm now in love with Greg Lestrade (and maybe a little bit with Rupert Graves too...) Cocoa's feedback and insight have been invaluable during the process of writing this. She has not only been very patient with me, but she's also been a beta and a muse and in many ways a collaborator. She has a very clear idea about who Lestrade is and how he should be portrayed, and I did my very best to write him exactly as she sees him. I hope this fic is exactly what you wanted, sweetie!
♥ Thanks also to freckles42 for her feedback and for Brit-picking, and also for agreeing to beta another WIP so soon after the last one

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Originally posted to LJ and AO3 between 8/1/12 and 10/31/12.