Sherlock Holmes stuff

Mummy asks seven year old Mycroft to go to the grocery store around the street corner and buy formula for Sherlock.

Mycroft takes his mission very seriously, and clutches the coins that Mummy gave him as he makes his way to the grocery store to buy food for his baby brother.

Sherlock is even more distressed when Mycroft leaves the house, and starts squalling.

Mycroft immediately gathers the baby in his arms when he gets home, and tries to soothe him while Mummy prepares a bottle.

Years later, teen Sherlock finds a picture of kid Mycroft sitting on a cushion and feeding him a bottle. Below the picture, his mother has written that little Mycroft saved the day by going to the grocery store all by himself.

"I did that for you, and I'm doing this for you, brother dear."

"...Why am I so red?"

"You started crying when I left. You still pout when I leave."

"Yes, because it's hardly fair to me! Where are you going!"

"I've to go to work."

"You're not fair."

New hyperfixation?

Teen Sherlock generally considers eating to be boring (Mycroft often has to practically force-feed him), but he does love discovering foods from foreign countries, and really enjoys the snacks. He brings them to school, and brags about his big brother if anyone makes a comment about them.

If Mycroft happens to be at work during breakfast time, he finds the time to excuse himself from whatever important meeting he’s having and call Sherlock and tell him to eat.

Mycroft wishes every year for his younger brother’s safety.

A furious Mycroft finds him, and Sherlock expects the worst.

However, once he gets him out of the pub, Mycroft is extremely gentle with him (although he plans a sound scolding when Sherlock is sober). A chauffeur drives them home, and Mycroft leads Sherlock to his room and dresses him in pyjamas and puts him in his bed.

Everything had gone so wrong in Sherlock's life, that he took his brother's word at face value. Plus, he might have imagined the flinching to be a result of him wanting to betray him, as well as the nerves. Mycroft doesn't look Sherlock in the eye one moment during that scene and Sherlock probably thought it was because of the betrayal, and I also imagine this is the "Mycroft is smarter and cleverer than Sherlock and can manipulate him"— plus Silas is very very carefully looking at Sherlock, if Sherlock for a moment thought that Mycroft was lying or pretending, Silas would have caught on and wouldn't have believed Mycroft because the one who knows Mycroft best at that table is Sherlock. Mycroft needed to make sure Sherlock believed him, no matter what his plan later on was, or else Silas wouldn't have believed him. Cordelia is someone I'm less willing to forgive for this, she literally speaks over/for Mycroft before he even gets to say what he wants and then continue doing that, she and Silas are both pretty toxic in different ways and both contributed to Mycroft's flinching (he flinched at the raised voices and at the fight, so that probably happened a lot in his home and it would have been Silas and Cordelia fighting) asw, but again, Sherlock believing made it easier for her (as well as Moriarty and Bea) to believe it; he it the only one Mycroft really had to convince. Plus, considering we never find out what the British govt actually tell him, but we do see that he's like ashen and afraid when he meets his family again, I think it's safe to assume that the government did tell him exactly that, which means he was telling Sherlock (it was hus belief that was important) the truth about what they wanted, and possibly what he told them because he tells them that "they'll help" and moves the convo on, so Sherlock sees the nerves, the flinching, the inability of Mycroft to look him in the eyes, and the truth of his words and comes to that conclusion— he knows Mycroft well enough to know he's telling the truth about what the govt wants and hence, scene plays out as it did. And despite loving Mycroft and not ever thinking he'd betray them (when he sees Mycroft in Paris, for example, he has no worry on why he might be there despite the fact that they just followed their Father there, and openly explains what he knew), all of that plus the fact that he'd just discovered his Father as an evil evil man, and that his sister was alive and working with him had already done a number on him.

And that made Sherlock believing Mycroft betrayed him so so much worse! But the "well done brother dear" "thank you brother dear" healed a little for me too! And it makes me forgive Sherlock somewhat.

Mycroft telling Cordelia "I'd have doubted me too" breaks my heart though. No Mycroft. No. It wasn't inevitable! I didn't doubt you for a second and they shouldn't have either— but again the only one at that table that knew Mycroft did think so and they rest followed his word, just as Mycroft needed them to. I do hate Cordelia's "if he thinks he can just come back and I'll forgive him" line though. I was screaming "he doesn't owe you a thing!!"

Nooo fr😭 Cordelia killed me too with that. Like no faith at all in him!! After everything he did to keep the family up alone? 😭I knew exactly what was going to happen since he came back from the meeting and why he did what he did at the dinner. His mother should’ve given him more credit. So under-appreciated istg

I really want S2 to dive into his truama too, along with him climbing up again. And also HIS FAMILY RESPECTING HIM FOR ONCE. Either he should get a crashout that silences the life out of those idiots or Sherlock should stand up for him because what do you mean you're having dinner at your home and your oldest son isn't here but your youngest's thing is and you're saying "the whole family together" I hate that moment as much as I do the dinner scene.

And yes he understands the character so well!! He really is so under-appreciated and neglected by everyone 😭 I can sort of forgive Sherlock who is just finding out how broken and screwed his family is but also DUDE YOUR BROTHER RAISED YOU SHOW HIM SOME RESPECT AND LOVE NAD STAND UP FOR HIM. Like I know Sherlock does care and love and respect but he is not good at showing it around his family and it sucks.

And yeah Cordelia should have known better when he took the whole family on his shoulders and raised Sherlock and made sure that they were still a respectable family— the only time she's nice to him is when she says Silas' mistakes aren't his fault and when she tries to apologise but still not enough from you he was a kid that raised a kid and kept your family thriving THAT IS NOT ENOUGH.

Also also Moriarty paying more attention to Mycroft than his family at the dinner scene always gets me so so mad. Like yeah Moriarty is filing everything about everyone and is the observer but also. Why does this family not pay attention to this wonderful man? I really want to kill them for their neglect of him.

Yeah, exactly. Sherlock really needs to stand up for his big brother at some point😭 I would love a crashout. Poor man deserves one after all the stuff he’s been through and taken without thanks or notice. And for his mother to treat him so badly. It’s like Sherlock is the favorite, and he’s just Mycroft 😢Sherlock is paid attention to because of all the trouble he makes, but nobody appreciates everything that Mycroft is doing to keep himself inline and the family and Sherlock and moving up in the world. He was a kid raising a kid, and both parents really ignored that and acted like it was nothing. And Sherlock certainly could appreciate more how much Mycroft has done and is doing for him. He risked his job and lost it to protect him, and Sherlock has barely any regret for it

My fics give him so much recognition because no this isn't fair to him. They show us clearly that he has so much truama but they want tell us more about it and it's not fair 😭

And yeah every time someone (mostly Silas) treated Mycroft as less then I was yelling "SLAP THAT IDIOT" because how dare he but not one person stood up for Mycroft and Mycroft has been raised/grew up with the impression that he should take everything and not stand up for himself 😭😭

That scene really irked the life out of me! If Mycroft had come home I promise you Silas would have been dead in that place though so maybe that's why they couldn't bring him in lol. He'd have seen how Silas was manipulating Sherlock and would not have missed him at all!

Sherlock really does have to stand up for the person that gave him a normal and stopped the truama from ruining him, and also Mycroft swallowed his own truama for his sake but that's ignored and that sucks so much.

It really is criminal how much they ignore him!!

He really was a kid figuring the world out while taking care of a traumatised kid while also taking care of his family's image and his mother in an asylum and everything! Poor boy!

Exactly! The amount times I seethed and cussed Silas out watching the show. Mycroft is used to being silent and doing what he’s told to reduce conflict and be “good” because fighting for himself would only cause more trouble. Kills me. Absolutely tragic. And everyone takes advantage of that.

Mycroft would’ve definitely cleaned house and taken care of business. Lol so yeah probably why they didn’t bring him in. Although I still would’ve loved him included in that dinner scene.

Really! That little boy really became man of the house, father, and leader in one crushing moment and it lasted for 12 years. Can’t imagine.

Yes! It's so sad that no one tries to help him they just take advantage of his truama 😭

I'm writing a fic rn where he's not in that dinner scene but they do call for him and he comes during the scene when Silas is trying to manipulate Sherlock!!

It lasted 12 years and more! There's no proof that it stops now, actually it will probably increase bc James and Beatrice are certainly going to be at odds with Sherlock soon and I feel like Cordelia is going to die soon (even if I much rather it be Beatrice (and confirmation that Silas is gone)) so Sherlock's going to need Mycroft so much.

Hopefully though Sherlock's there for Mycroft too know and both of them sit together and have a big cry about everything in their lives that went wrong.

Oh yeah, especially since Silas is gone and Moriarty and Bea are up to something *sigh. Mycroft will always be the father figure to Sherlock, who will probably always be getting into trouble.

Yesss, I need him to return the favor, and be there for Mycroft like he’s there for Sherlock.

And... Talking about Silas reminds me of my theory again... I'll mention it in the Young Sherlock Server! Anyway, Moriarty and Beatrice are up to something and that something is very bad news for Sherlock so at the end of the day Mycroft will have to hold him as he's falling apart again 😭

Female colleague : They can be a handful at that age.

Mycroft : Yes.

Female colleague : I love children. How old is he?

Mycroft : Nineteen.

They assume that he's in his mid-late 30s bc of that and also bc he has grey hairs from raising Sherlock 😂