# same energy
The Bachelor: Mycroft Holmes edition
The Queen disapproves of the fact that he’s unattached and Anthea’s like, dw I’m on it, and mails in the “audition tape” she had prepared (heavily edited footage of Mycroft threatening peasants) and the show producers love him. Sherlock helps forge the contract signatures.
Mycroft goes in for what he thinks is a meeting but instead there are giant lights and a makeup team and camera people and the producer is like “the man behind the transport ministry!!! You’re all over the tabloids for best dressed, I’m a huge fan. What made you want to be on The Bachelor?” And Mycroft’s all “I don’t want to be here” and the producers are like lollllll yeah we’ve already had people breaking down the door to get on the show cuz of you, guys start rolling
No, but, what if Mycroft’s like, “Wait, I already have a boyfriend,” and the Queen is all excited and says something along the lines of “Who is it?! Why didn’t you tell me?!” only for Moriarty to walk in with a “Did you miss me?” and she faints.
Sherlock is a cool guy.
He’s this tall, gangly kid, and he barrels into crime scenes with all the intensity of a derailed train.
Philip sees a bit of himself in the kid, really.
They both work forensics, more or less. They’re both a little pale. And they’re both new to the unit.
In fact, until Sherlock Holmes came along, Philip Anderson was the newest guy on the team.
So he feels a bit, well, responsible, perhaps, for welcoming the rookie. He’s been there. Time to pay it forward now.
Sherlock and John once left the country for a case- completely unannounced. As revenge for their recklessness Mycroft and Mary took over the detective business for a time. They were extremely well received because of course they were faster, more polite, and in line with the law. When John and Sherlock got back they had absolutely no clients and had to negotiate with Mycroft and Mary to get them to stop- negotiating of course included several humiliating apologies.
now i want to write johncroft but i feel like it’s only going to get derailed by jealous!jim
I would totally read that.
Jim calls Mycroft the Iceman because his feet are always freezing and instead of doing something practical like wearing socks to bed the tall fucker just curls up thinks it’s ok to stick his icicle toes under Jim’s legs and it’s terrible
I could write out a massive list of all my ships. But the simpler, much more honest version is for me to say that I ship a somewhat emotionally stunted Mycroft Holmes with a character who happens to be thinking “Holy shit, Sherlock. THATS your brother?!”
Even Anderson.
I’m thinking about Mark Hamill’s story about how he was so clueless and self-absorbed in his twenties that he didn’t notice his co-stars having a very obvious affair and how completely in charachter that is for Luke Skywalker. Like, how long do you think it took Luke to notice that his best friend and his twin sister were married. I’m guessing when Leia was seven months pregnant with Ben
Luke: what do you MEAN you’re pregnant? Who got you pregnant??
Leia: Han.
Luke:
Leia: My husband. Han. Who I’m married to and live with.
Luke:
Luke:
Luke: Your WHAT
yup, that’s Luke.
I could write out a massive list of all my ships. But the simpler, much more honest version is for me to say that I ship a somewhat emotionally stunted Mycroft Holmes with a character who happens to be thinking “Holy shit, Sherlock. THATS your brother?!”
