Mycroft rarely shares anything that's personal with his colleagues, but one day he somehow ends up mentioning that he has a difficult relationship with his seventeen year old brother to a couple of colleagues who have teenagers of their own.
The colleagues sympathise, and tell him that their relationships with their teenagers are also a bit difficult - why, their children hardly ever speak to them, and mostly communicate through grunts. This stops Mycroft. He suddenly realises that Sherlock speaks to him almost all the time, and shares what he did at school or what's on his mind etc. Of course this might simply be because Sherlock isn't a quiet person by nature, but perhaps he isn't a completely inadequate parental figure after all.
tags are getting to be too much so:
anyway further headcanon that the reason sherlock had to go to the other university is because the professors at whichever one mycroft went to were like "Nope. Not teaching Sherlock Holmes. Hell no. We will go on strike if you make us teach Sherlock Holmes." so he had to go and take an unsuspecting university by surprise.
A university deciding that they've dealt with Sherlock enough when he was Mycroft's chaos gremlin shadow and would NOT deal with him after Mycroft graduates is COMPLETE GOLD!!!
Love this. They go to the almighty other university and is like "The force of nature the like one has never seen before is engering your threshold as a student because the place he wants to go to (them, because Mycroft went there) is strictly blacklisting him 😂
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Sherlock is saying that he won’t bother going to university unless he can go to Oxford (because Mycroft went there), so Mycroft has to work hard to convince him that Cambridge is just as good as Oxford.
