Sherlock "pretends" to be in love to John to stop him from ever again going out with other women.

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This a very long one that has Sherlock convincing John that he is in love to him and giving a shot at a relationship so that John will never leave him for some other woman. Without realizing that he is in fact in love with John.

Mycroft pretending to be harmless

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Anyone know stories where Mycroft pays more than lip service to the "minor government official" cover? When he meets a character for the first time and pretends (successfully) to be just a harmless stuffy bureaucrat. Or self-important politicians treat him like dirt while Mycroft is manipulating them and laughing inside the whole time. Or he gets involved in a crime by accident and it's a huge mess because he likes to keep a low profile. Or...you get the idea. Bonus for scaring someone half to death upon revealing his true power!

Any verse, pairings and gen welcome, though I'm not a big fan of sentimentality from Mycroft. I am a big fan of ambiguous-but-still-good!Mycroft in the BBC verse.