#Okay #that look on his face kills me #not because it’s funny #but because it turns from a somewhat humourous face #into a an almost solemn one. #As though he is reminiscing about when they were kids #and Sherlock was a carefree child #and he wasn’t constantly being ridiculed for being so intelligent and peculiar. #He was just a kid then #and it’s like Mycroft remembers that #and he misses it more than he is allowed to express.
AND HE MISSES IT MORE THAN HE’S ALLOWED TO EXPRESS
#and it makes him remember #the time when sherlock didn’t resent him and push him away #but admired him #he was the big brother he always wanted to be #and can’t be anymore #the adolescent that took care of his baby brother #and was loved in return #for no one else ever understood him like sherlock #like family #because sherlock is the only family he had #he raised sherlock #and it hurts him #to be remembered how their relationship is now