Shameless plug time! The Function Verse is my on-going series of 221b ficlets dealing with the lives of the Holmes Brothers pre-series. These will be coming out as inspiration strikes. They are not being written in order, but their linear narrative order is below. These stories all come out of my headcanon for these two, and make loads of ACD!canon references. There are likely going to be a LOT of these.
The story so far (this story is underlined):
Six
Delete
Diet
Never
Six
A Function'verse Ficlet
By JadedofMara
Pa is anxious and Mummy is resigned. Both of them are weary. Mycroft knows what that means. Once again, he is not getting a brother.
One Saturday, Pa takes Mycroft aside for a long talk. Pa still isn't used to talking with Mycroft, rather than to him, but he does his best.
Mycroft, there's something you should—
How on earth did you — ?
Laughter. I forget who I'm talking to, mon petit génie. Pa doesn't speak French, but Mummy uses it often enough. I should have known you'd work it out.
Beat.
Mycroft—sigh—don't you ever say such things in front of Mummy. What a horrible thing to say. Of course you could get a brother this time—there are never any guarantees with this sort of thing—
No. No, it's alright. I understand what it looks like. It's just… Mummy and I were very lucky with you, we know that now, and we want to be lucky again, that's all.
You're right. We were supposed to be done. This one wasn't supposed to happen. But we're very glad it did.
Another sigh.
It's very dangerous, Mycroft. But we have hope. You need to be strong, alright? Can you do that for us, grand frère?
That's my boy.
For all that Sherlock was the miracle, Mycroft was never second best.
Read and Review, dear ones!
Ta,
Jaded