Please steal away! If phobic!Lestrade works for you then take the idea and run with it! Besides, on a purely selfish level, I'd love to see you write this story! :-D

Sorry you have to finish the RL work first. However, this gives you a chance to play around with some ideas in your head. Oh, and please let me know when your melancholy Lestrade Xmas tale is posted because I definitely want to read that story as well!