Anthea and Molly are dating and decide to set Jim and Mycroft up.
Tag: Jimcroft
lol jimcroft au where Mycroft actually gets amnesia and forgets about Jim who he was in a secret relationship with, whether they’re just banging or are secretly married or whatever, and now nobody believes Jim and he has to try to get Mycroft to remember him
But Mycroft and Jim develop a *really strange* negotiation/custody of the world system after they get together and it’s like:
“I told you you could only kill THREE of my people this month. That’s two nights on the sofa,”
“That’s the tenth scheme of mine you’ve ruined, you know what that means… we’re getting a cat!”
“Oh no, it’s my turn to pick the restaurant. You blew up those offices yesterday, remember?”
Soulmate AU where you get your soulmate’s initials and Jim’s are (I’m sure you know where this is going) M-something-H (Gasp) and he decides that he’ll wine-and-dine Mycroft and Molly simultaneously, find out their middle names, and dump whoever he needs to. But Molly is dreadfully embarrassed by her’s and Mycroft’s is a state secret so it takes longer than anticipated and before long Jim is attached to both of them.
If Moriarty and Mrs. Holmes are both mathmeticians, does she set up Jim and Mycroft?
I’m sorry, I’m getting MASSIVE Jimcroft vibes from Hamlet.
Um, first Gertrude’s all ‘Honestly Hamlet, everyone dies,’ and NOW she’s having his FRIENDS SPY ON HIM.
Johncroft or jimcroft? Mystrade or mollcroft?
See, the thing is is that they’re both affairs. And I mean, Jim’s always going to be more fun in an affair. It’s like, “Gotta wear this sweater so Sherlock thinks I had sex with a woman,” vs “Is this week more of a kidnap week or a get-myself-arrested week?”
Does that make sense?
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And I mean THIS is not a challenge at all. No matter what other insane sex-anigans I image Mycroft getting in to, I’ve never completely dropped Mystrade from when I discovered it when I first watched Sherlock.
With Mollcroft it’s like every once in an age I’ll think, ‘Oh lord, that’s like the epitome of cuteness why don’t you ship that?!’ and then I do ship it, determinedly and obsessively. Always, though, within 48 hours I’m back to thinking, ‘No. They’d totally just be bffs,’ and that’s that for a while. (For some reason it works differently when Jim’s thrown in. They work from friends back to lovers.)
Accidental marriage or amnesia for the trope ask :)
accidental marriage what
umm. omg.
im gonna go with amnesia fic
This is pure crack sorry I couldn’t resist
Three sharp knocks echoed at his chamber door, waking the prince from his nap.
If this was another suitor Jim was going to carve out someone’s trachea with a spoon.
“Look Jessica, Grace, Griselda, whatever your name was, sorry-not-sorry to disappoint but I’m a busy man. Kingdoms to run, lives to ruin, toys to play with, the usual; I don’t have time to listen to your nonsense.”
“My Lord, it’s Greg Lestrade from the Guard.”
“Sure it is, and I can rip your heart out and share it with Sebastian if you don’t leave me in peace.” At the sound of retreating footsteps the raven-haired man turned to face his companion.
“Why can’t I just marry you instead Sebby?” he patted the tiger’s head idly, “at least you’re useful alive or dead. Unlike that weird guy with the not magical magic lamp.” The offending lamp cast a warm glow over his bedside table, the flame inside dancing in secret mirth. It had been a week since he’d first acquired the thing, and despite his best efforts the lamp refused to respond to any of his requests.
“At this rate, I’d rather marry – what’s his name from court last week, the ice cube, right – Mycroft Holmes,” he mused, “I think Mister Holmes would enjoy a healthy amount of anarchy, and he’s not hard on the eyes. Might have to take a few inches off him though, can’t have my wife being too tall of course. In fact, if it would deter all these suitors, I wish I could be married to Mycroft Holmes.”
There was a muffled thump accompanied by a male groan and the sudden feeling of cool metal encircling his finger.
“That was fast.”
The other man turned to face the course of the comment, only to find himself face to face with the Prince Moriarty. As he was unable to bow, he settled for a slight nod and a small frown.
“My Lord, was there an urgent matter you wished to discuss with me?” The Duke said, watching the interested looking tiger cautiously.
“Back off Sebby, he’s mine! Go find your own wife!”
“I beg your pardon?”
“Granted. Don’t let that rug with teeth fool you, I’ll be a much better husband for you than he could ever imagine. SO, are we keeping my name, since I rule the kingdom and all, or am I changing mine to yours, Mycroft?” The splotchy flush on the other man’s face was rather cute, in Jim’s opinion.
“I don’t recall getting married, much less any discussion of such.”
“You’re right, maybe we shouldn’t change them, although Mycroft Holmes-Moriarty does sound exciting.”
“Do I have any influence on this matter?”
Jim paused mid-ramble, gesturing arms coming to rest in his lap. “Unless you have a suggestion for the name of out firstborn, no. No you do not,” he said solemnly. “But I’m more than certain you’ll enjoy it anyways. So, which kingdom should we conquer first.”
Mycroft pinched the bridge of his nose.
This was going to be a long evening.
Jimcroft for the ships!
- who’s the werewolf and who’s the hunter
Jim’s a werewolf except Mycroft’s like the king or something and he orders people to catch the beast that’s been terrorizing the villagers and then they bring him this crate but the knights all look really weirded out because when they open it up there is an unconscious man inside and they could’ve sworn it was a giant fuzzy thing with teeth that tore out one of their guy’s throat. so now Mycroft has Jim in a cage what
- who’s the mermaid and who’s the fisherman
I HAVE BEEN WANTING TO WRITE A JIMCROFT MERMAID AU FOR A WEEK OK and I’m probably not gonna do it so I might as well post this here.
k so. Dr. Moriarty owns this bioengineering firm and people let him do what he wants because he caught this immortal deep sea squid once and is on the verge of some breakthrough where they can engineer fast working self-repairing tissue. but instead of like, finding more squid or whatever he spends all his time chasing down Sherlock the mermaid who he has SEEN with his EYES a dozen times but can’t catch. Mycroft is Not Happy with his reckless younger brother and has been trying to get him to not go so close to the top fo rmonths. Jim builds some smart particle net thing and on some day Mycroft and Sherlock have a fight and Mycroft goes after Sherlock, Jim deploys the net mechanism and catches Mycroft instead.
LONG STORY SHORT Jim takes Mycroft back to the lab to study him and at some point starts thinking Is It Weird I Want to Bone This Fish. Mycroft thinks ok maybe if he gets in the water I should drown him, except then he doesn’t. And they’re both like super confused. and then fish sex. And then the Board Members start harping on Jim for not delivering on these cells and Jim gets paranoid and orders hits on anyone even remotely related to transporting the mermaid so he can be sure no one knows about Mycroft, and then they like elope or something idk this is going to get long I have to stop
- who’s the witch and who’s the familiar
familiar!Jim is a cat who has watched his Mycroft go through a series of laughably terrible dates over the years until he starts dating John and like really likes him and suddenly Jim is like This Is Not Okay and finds a way (Sherlock???) to get himself turned into a person so he can steal Mycroft back. except being a person SUCKS and Jim is like lol why do people do this I can’t wait to turn back into a cat, I’ve already romanced Mycroft and he’s broken it off with John so mission accomplished. And according to the spell/potion/whatever there’s a time limit if he wants to change his mind and not make the change permanent, except then Mycroft asks him out and Jim is like ugh. oh man. if I change now I’ll stand him up and then he is going to be SO SAD. and normally sad Mycroft is great because get to stay in and I get cuddles while he rants about the dumb guys he’s no longer seeing. BUT I’LL BE THE ONE WHO MADE HIM SAD AND I CAN’T DO THAT. so he doesn’t do that. if he ever has to explain what happened to Mycroft’s cat it’s gonna be awkward.
- who’s the barista and who’s the coffee addict
I tried to write this once and it turned into something else entirely lmao. I like the idea of Mycroft coming in at weird hours while Jim creepily observes his odd hours and habits
- who’s the professor and who’s the TA
Professor Moriarty is this super tempermental genius and his TA’s never last but Mycroft is weirdly stoic and nonchalant about everything and Jim thinks it’s weird that this kid hasn’t cried and run off yet but obviously this devolves into him getting weirdly obsessed and then office sex happens
- who’s the knight and who’s the prince(ss)
this could go so many ways asjdlajdska so. many. ways. hmm, let’s see – Jim is a prince who disguises himself as a knight on some delegation to the Holmes’s kingdom where Mycroft, as part of his duties as the firstborn, is also head of the armed forces or whatnot, which means Jim spends a lot of time trying to keep Mycroft from getting a face meeting with the foreign prince, during which he’s trying his darnedest to seduce Mycroft
- who’s the teacher and who’s the single parent
lmao is this au where it’s richard book instead. he reads books to kids in the school library. sherlock is a little terror and thanks to his experiments worms made their way into everyone’s lunches. Mycroft is Tired. Jim thinks it’s adorable.
- who’s the writer and who’s the editor
Jim Moriarty’s been ghostwriting for The bestselling thriller/mystery writer for like their last 20 books but what he really wants to do is write surreal existential novels about the human condition and he tries – he works on that damn novel every single day while staring at the red-inked post it note he got from an editor he submitted the first version of the book to several years ago. Mycroft “Iceman” Holmes told him mean things about his book one time, and now instead of writing this waffley dreams-driven book of his he spends all his “novel” time dreaming up revenge fantasies where he becomes successful and Mycroft is in tears and apologizes about how humiliated he is he ever thought Jim was a second rate writer who is only capable of churning out mechanical pulp fiction. it doesn’t help that sometimes he sees Mycroft at like, book launch events. and the revenge fantasies get more elaborate and intertwined with the thrillers he’s ghostwriting and suddenly they’re both spies and then whoa why is he having an affair with him if one of them is going to kill the other and oh my god now he’s having sex dreams about Mycroft Holmes
