[Set a few weeks after Mycroft meets John.]

You are to join me for dinner tomorrow night at 8:00. –MH

[No response.]

Did you get the flowers I sent, dear brother? In congratulating you on your engagement? –MH

[No response.]

I think we need to put things in the past if I'm to be your best man. –MH

For being so important, you sure find foolish ways to waste your time. –SH

Oh, a response! I'm so honored! –MH

Do you even know what he did for you, Sherlock? –MH

He saved my life the first day I met him. It seems beneficial to keep him around. –SH

Oh, that? I was talking about when he turned down money to spy on you for me. –MH

Yes, well, you don't need to test my friend to see if he's trustworthy. You know I'm capable of that myself. –SH

Friend? Oh, well this is getting complicated. –MH

[No response]

I have all of his therapy notes. Surely you couldn't have learned everything about him just by glancing at him. I could have them delivered to you. –MH

I've learned everything I need to. Leave me alone. –SH

Oh, but I have the updated ones. From the few sessions since he's met you. –MH

[Several hours pass by]

Aren't you curious to know what he thinks of you? –MH

I know what he thinks of me in too much detail. He blogs about me. –SH

Come off it, brother! I'm sure your ego loves having a blog dedicated to your work. You've always cared about recognition more than you tell people. –MH

I'm sure you weren't happy about the solar system thing, though. That was hysterical. –MH

Can you not read the words 'leave me alone?' -SH

Surely you're not so dense as to not realize there must be things he doesn't write about you in the blog. I have some of them here. –MH

What would it matter if he felt anything else? –SH

Sherlock, you can't play that 'above sexuality' act with me. I knew you as a teenager and I saw who you looked at the most. –MH

I'm not "above" anything. People invest far too much in romantic ties; my work would suffer. –SH

Oh, these notes are a great read, though! I can't believe you're not the least bit curious! –MH

You know how John is wary of "how people talk?" The way he fawns over you in that blog is his version of holding back. People would definitely talk if he said everything that's in these notes. –MH

In fact, maybe I'll get one of my staff to hack into his blog and spice it up a little bit. –MH

Must you be so criminal? –SH

You can afford to be when you're at the top. –MH

[Five hours pass by]

Ignoring me again? I guess I will update his little blog. –MH

I'll meet you tomorrow, Mycroft. –SH

Lovely! Protecting your friend from embarrassment; how uncharacteristically provincial of you, Sherlock. –MH

And yet this has not been uncharacteristically manipulative of you. –SH