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IC Prospective | Mycroft 7th year

Character: Mycroft Holmes (BBC 'Sherlock')
Mun: Gowa
Plot specific: Not really, just trying out Mycroft as year head boy or prefect?

While I understand that as a student one cannot simply ignore the opportunities to cause chaos when presented with such a situation, I strongly encourage everyone to please do as they are told and avoid stealing into the Forbidden Forest. Things could get... messy.

[filtered to Sherlock]

This friendly suggestion goes double for you, brother. We wouldn't want to upset Mummy with an Owl about how you managed to get yourself spirited away by some over-eager Centaurs, now would we?

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People can talk all they want. He's quite the reputation with the ladies. I doubt a few nights gallivanting around with me are going to challenge that.

Yes, I suppose there is that. You'll just have to enjoy the time you have left then.

There's still next year. And even if he were to get a new girlfriend, I'd still come first.

You don't really think that, do you? No brother of mine could possibly be so... naive.

Eventually he will find himself a girlfriend, someone he won't want to part with, 'the one' if you please, and when that time comes do you really think he'd be willing to leave her to go gallivanting about at the drop of a hat?

If you're so clever, Mycroft, why don't you try explaining why someone who wants me to be happy would leave me while someone who wants to destroy me may never leave me alone?

John's different. No woman on earth could ever replace me.

Because in the end, John Watson is a good man. Not a great one, but a good one, and good men eventually attract very good women. Following nature's course, they may have children, begin working, building a life together... How much time do you think he will have for an eccentric great man who insists on dragging him all over God's green earth at the drop of a hat?

In the case of Jim Moriarty... He's fixated on you since you are, in the end, the only one who can match him in wits. I'm sure you've noticed, there aren't many men like the two of you in this world. Why on earth would he let you go when he may not meet another like you in his lifetime?

How confident are you that John won't eventually find a woman who compliments him perfectly?

[Not so confident now.]

Perhaps women are an obstacle I shall simply have to steer him to avoid. I could be enough. I don't drag him--he likes to come.

You could be enough? You mean to make it so he'll never desire to be with the fairer sex because he'll have all of his needs fulfilled in you? Don't be absurd Sherlock, we both know you're simply not the type - you monopolize others, you don't give yourself up to them.

You would have me expect and allow him to walk away. No. John is mine, Mycroft.

Therein lies your biggest fault and the one thing that could very easily drive dear John away.

He's not an object for you to own, Sherlock.

I'm seeing very little reason to view sharing him as an option. He'll get used to it.

Without even explaining to him why? I see the beginnings of such a very open and strong relationship between you two.

[Can you feel that sarcasm oozing through the ink?]

John doesn't need to know everything.

I can make him love me and he'll happily agree for things stay exactly as they are. Shouldn't be too hard. Idiots do it all the time.

Ah, but you've never been in love. How would you know how to woo him?

I'll kiss him. If he likes it, he's mine.

How bold.

Yet so crude.

You realize if you kiss him out of the blue like that he'll be more inclined to panic and flee from you?

Moriarty's methods; not mine. Crude, perhaps, but generally effective. But John's not a coward. He might strike me for it but he wouldn't run. And even if he did, he'd come back soon enough with the courtesy to explain to me why I shouldn't have done that.

Do you remember going hunting that one summer when we were younger?

I remember I'm a better shot than you.

Do you remember how when you chased the first buck you saw after successfully tracking it, you never saw it again that day? No matter how good a shot you are, once you've startled your prey, there's a high possibility you won't hit it.

Keep that in mind.

Right. Stay out of the Forbidden Forest and don't kiss people out of the blue.

Something along those lines, yes.

I'm thinking I don't want to talk to you again until after Christmas. Agreed?

Stay out of trouble and I'll consider it.

You make me want it. So leave me alone if I can't have some. I'm done talking to you for the rest of this year.

[Filter.]

watchful_big_brother - 2012-11-01 13:36 (UTC) - Expand

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