Sherlock: Tea and Sympathy

Title: Tea and Sympathy
Characters: Lestrade, Sherlock, Mycroft
Rating: PG-13
Warnings/Triggers: references to past drug use and current struggles, quite a lot of dental related pain and procedures, some blood, references to a dead parent and how he died, references to past case-related domestic abuse, swearing
Spoilers: none
Pairings: Lestrade/his wife (background)
Word Count 4,237
Summary: Lestrade always takes in waifs that show up at his door in the middle of the night, even consulting detectives recovering from dental surgery.
Author's notes: As a writer, I take all opportunites to exploit life experiences and, in this case, it is my mother who graciously allowed me to use her recent dental surgery as inspiration. Thankfully, it was not nearly so intense as the one I've given Sherlock.

This is set pre-canon, by about five years, at the beginning of Lestrade and Sherlock's working relationship.

I will warn for a lot of dental stuff going on here. I do this because dental stuff is the one area of medicine I find a bit icky.

( What did he use, a sledgehammer? )