The fall of a small, new republic, coinciding with today of all days?
He prayed it a false conclusion.
Anthea burst in the office a moment later.
“Sir, the armies-”
“Yes, yes, I know,” he said, weary at the thought that not 48 hours after declaring its independence, the tiny Eastern European state had fallen into disarray, the south once again separating from the north, and the north retaken by the regime.
Her lip twitches, just barely, and she waits in the doorway.
“Pull aid,” he says in an exhale, picking up a different phone, “while we figure out how they’re going to spin this.”
She nods, and disappears.
Mycroft dials a number he has memorized but loathes to use, but before he can hit ‘call,’ an incoming call interrupts him.
It looks like he was right, after all.
Mycroft holds his head in his hands as he answers.
“Happy Birthday!” the cheerful criminal chirps. “Did you like the present?”
“I’m not sure you understand the meaning of the word, Mr. Moriarty.” He will not gripe over the loss of a week’s work.
“I got you a country! I thought you liked countries.”
It’s a shame the full weight of his facial expressions are lost over the phone.
While they’re at the whole breaking and entering and turning Mycroft’s home into a little haunted house show, John and Sherlock also download Grindr on Mycroft’s phone and make him a profile
AU where Mycroft’s umbrella is some sentient/magic object except Mycroft has no idea
YOUR TAGS OMG
Does it cockblock Jim by constantly tripping him into stuff? Does Mycroft just assume that Jim is uncommonly clumsy? Does Magic Brolly dump a hip flask of cheap whiskey down the back of Jim’s pants because a) lol and b) Mycroft will smell the booze and decide Jim is a drunk and want nothing to do with him because he’s already babysitting one addict and does not need a second, kthx.
Does Jim try to strangle Magic Brolly but cannot find it’s neck? And then eventually realize that brollys don’t have respiratory systems? Does he turn all Conspiracy Guy trying to plan an elaborate murder of Magic Brolly, only for it to be destroyed in a freak wind event (much to Mycroft’s dismay) and Jim has a full on Anderson-style breakdown?
Jeff Goldblum as the Grandmaster in Thor Ragnarok and Ted Danson as Michael in the Good Place have the same energy
they’re friends
they’re ex-boyfriends what are you talking about
Ex-boyfriends who remained friends after their different ambitions* meant their paths in life diverged covers it neatly enough for me.
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*You would think torturing dead humans in an illusory hell dimension and forcing marooned and enslaved aliens to fight to the death in gladiatorial combat on a trash planet (optionally banging Tom Hiddleston) would be compatible career goals but their schedules just would not sync up.
problematicjustbecause 