#unistrade

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This is the art I drew for @hippocrates460 inspired to their fic: Come outta the cupboard

And you should definitely check it out!!! Loved going back to drawing the boyz

[green-violin-bow]

Mycroft Holmes, 16, at university two years early. Fiercely intelligent and curious. Auditing as many classes as he can alongside his own core lectures and seminars. Spending every spare moment – whole nights, sometimes – in the library.

Spiky. Uncompromising. Very, very lonely.

Greg Lestrade, 18 and in the first year of his Applied Criminology course, finding his obligatory Social Theory module hard to handle, using the library to try and understand –

They get talking. Mycroft laughs for what feels like the first time in months, and blushes, and he's just a kid.

Greg has a girlfriend. She's beautiful. Funny. Clever. He plays football, and hangs around with the team – but studying with Mycroft in the library becomes a regular thing.

It takes Mycroft under two weeks to develop a life-ruining, heart-stopping, painful crush.

He knows, to Greg, he's just a kid.

Two years – two years of pining, and Greg won't even allow himself to think it – they're friends. Good friends.

And Mycroft blossoms: some of his spikiness wears away, with a friend. He finds himself with people, tentatively: a group. A guy who asks him out on a date.

He should go, shouldn't he? Because he's learned from Greg to take opportunities when they come. Live life. But –

But –

Still.

[watsonianbumble]

i have a fem!mystrade uni idea and im pumped!