Ok so I’ve been stewing over Mrs. Holmes’ horrible comment to Mycroft at the end of TFP, til I had another revelation yesterday afternoon.
So we find out that Redbeard wasn’t a dog, Redbeard was Sherlock’s best friend, a boy named Victor. Eurus justifies her killing of him by saying she never had a best friend, that she was alone and had no one. Um, excuse me? That’s not a good enough answer sweetie and let me tell you why. There’s someone else who has had no one, the ENTIRE series, and he never killed a single person or held any resentment over it.
In the exact same flashback of the kids playing, of Eurus being jealous of Victor, someone else is standing quite alone. Young Mycroft. Young Mycroft, throwing stones and supervising his younger siblings and their friend, standing on a tiny island, completely alone. He too, has no one.
When Victor goes missing and dies, Sherlock forgets and Eurus is taken away. Guess who has to live with this trauma alone, with the guilt and weight of responsibility on his shoulders? Young Mycroft. He has no one, he lived with the secret of his sister’s condition at Sherrinford for most of his life. No one to tell, no one to lean on for support, no one. He never killed anyone.
When Sherlock is on drugs, who’s taking care of him? In the flashback we were given of this time in TAB it was young Mycroft, alone. With no one else to help or support him not even his parents. He never killed anyone.
Christmas during SiB, Mycroft is sitting in his huge house completely alone. On CHRISTMAS. In the same episode when the terror cells are alerted about the Bond flight, he sits in his house, drinks, and cries because he failed his country, he has no one to comfort him. In SoT Mycroft is seen running on his treadmill, again in his huge house, alone. When Sherlock faked his death, he had to spend those intermittent years with NO ONE. Because without Sherlock, he truly had no one, and it was yet another secret he had to keep all to himself. At the very beginning of TFP Mycroft is sitting alone in his house again, smoking, with no one. Still never killed anyone.
Sherlock has started to worry since last season, he has openly accused Mycroft of being lonely. With good reason, Mycroft has spent a lot of time trying to help Sherlock maintain his relationship with John, but has no friend of his own. Mycroft denies being lonely, because in his eyes he probably doesn’t think he is. He has spent his entire life alone, defending and taking care of himself, his siblings, and the country. He has come to accept this fact that he has no one. But Sherlock knows, he needs some one. A best friend? Maybe.
I think Eurus’ words struck a chord with Sherlock. He asks Lestrade to take care of his brother at the end of this episode. Why? Because perhaps he thinks it’s finally time Mycroft has someone. Someone to take care of him, to support him, to help him out, to be there for him.
Just wanna hug poor Mycroft forever. He can be my big brother any day, he’s just the best. I would take good care of him and never take him for granted. He would have all the cakes. #protectmycroft2k17
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