Apology

[rabidsamfan]

It was not from any lack of confidence in your discretion that I kept silent, Doctor. My brother Sherlock has never been an enthusiastic correspondent, and I promise you that wandering the world on his own gave him no impetus to correct his indolent habit. Such news as he did send me was usually political, not personal. I once spent five months waiting to learn if he had avoided a nasty end in the Himalayan snows, only to be dunned with a beggarly telegram of four words from Egypt.

Why give you hope of his return when I had none?

Comments

[surgicalsteel.livejournal.com]

That makes such perfect sense!

[mariole.livejournal.com]

I love your Mycroft. :)

[dreamflower]

Your Mycroft voice is absolutely perfect.

Have you ever read the "theory" that Nero Wolfe was related to Holmes, and took after the Mycroft side of the family?

[lame-pegasus.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that's a killer. Still the mistress of last sentences, you really are. *applauds*

[fictualities.livejournal.com]

Lovely Mycroft, and so typical of the family that he doesn't say what Holmes's four words were.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

*bows before the drabblemaster*

[persephone-kore.livejournal.com]

"Every time I thought about telling you he was alive, I realized I wasn't sure of it myself!"