Prompting Part XXXIV

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FILL: Part 3B - All Life is an Experiment (Mycroft/Sherlock)

[(Anonymous)]

Mycroft shifts his focus to his assistant. “The lack of care for visual impact with the first two sets of flowers indicates someone who is either unaware of or is uncaring of flower arrangement.”

Andrea huffs. “I haven’t the foggiest about flower arranging.”

“Ah yes, my dear,” Mycroft allows. “However you would research the matter and then, in all likelihood make a valiant attempt or involve the services of a professional. Balance of probability indicates that these are from the male of the species. And all from the same person I believe.”

“Why then all the different types of flowers? Is he trying to say something?”

“Perhaps. But at this present time I’m more curious about who is sending these gifts.”

“Shall I get security to review the tapes?”

Frowning, Mycroft shakes his head. “That he managed to get into my office here without notice or alarm indicates he won’t show up on the security either. And given that I think I know who the culprit is.”

It takes Andrea a few moments but she quickly comes the correct solution and a small fission of pride blooms in Mycroft. “I’ll leave that particular conversation to you,” she tells him, smirking as she leaves the room.

Something to look forward to. Mycroft wonders what his little brother is planning although his pondering is quickly interrupted by the return of Andrea. As she approaches his desk, she holds a large and tall navy-coloured box in her hands. While redundant, Mycroft feels the need to ask. “Another … already?”

“Delivered by courier upstairs.”

“Oh dear.”

Andrea places the box in front of him and threw him an amused smile. “I imagine it’s a good thing you’re all misanthropes upstairs because rumour is the courier didn’t recognise the Club and called out your name rather loudly.”

Mycroft closes his eyes and counts.

Two, three, four. Five.

Sighs.

Rather than respond, he pulls the box towards him. He isn’t surprised when it drags lightly across the veneer. He has to stand, not to open the box but to pull out the contents. As he wrestles the lid free, he finds himself leaning in. His eyebrows rise at the sight within and he hears Andrea take a sharp breath in surprise.

With careful and steady hands he pulls out a long, thin vase with a thick, wide flared base. Its colour matches the box it came in. The narrow gap at the top is only wide enough to cradle the two stems. One a pure white rose. The other is also a white rose, Mycroft supposes, in its broadest definition. A literary paper rose.

Not quite.

A second glance, as he holds the vase up, reveals the top of the petals yield printed text but the underside of each is a fragment of a musical score – handwritten.

A long while later, when he has the privacy and time to examine the latest gift in more detail, Mycroft discerns the text is a passage from Ovid’s Metamorphoses although he cannot identify the specific book except it is one that refers to Jupiter and that the musical score is one of Sherlock’s own creations.

But why?

He thinks back to the strange conversation with Sherlock just the previous day. His brother is up to something, that much is certain. But what and to what end remains unclear. He finds his phone after ushering Andrea from the room, presses the sequence of icons and waits for the line to connect.

Mycroft?

“John. Have you noticed anything untoward with Sherlock recently?”

What – no kidnapping this time? Have we graduated to phone calls of concern now?