I love Mycroft and I see him as a loving brother, no matter what he lets others see. But, for once, I want to see him really dark. He's been extremely cruel and abusive towards Sherlock his whole life and managed to keep it secret and threaten Sherlock into silence. Sherlock has had plenty of different injuries and even broken bones, but every time the harm is obvious to others Mycroft makes sure everybody thinks that those are accidents, Sherlock is clumsy and so on. But since Mycroft is frighteningly clever, the emotional abuse is even worse. When Sherlock was a child/young teen he even had a stammer, due to the trauma, and kept wetting his bed even as a teen.
There's no way he can escape and disappear even when he's an adult, even though he starts living separately from the rest of his family. Mycroft always knows where he is and how to find him. He can terrorise him even from a distance. He's a powerful person to boot.
When Sherlock meets John, it's the only relief he's ever had meeting another person, because John is nice and caring. Sherlock is not used to living with anybody since leaving his family home, let alone with somebody who doesn't hurt him.
One day Sherlock breaks into the office of the therapist John visits (less and less often), because he suddenly needs John for something. John's therapist has failed to see that John needs war, not runs away from it, but it takes her minutes to see Sherlock, his body language, the way he talks and so on, to see that he's been severely abused mentally, emotionally and physically for a very long time, even if it's not obvious.
He's not her patient, so she doesn't have to keep it quiet and during her next meeting with John she explains him the situation, because she knows how much Sherlock means to him.
John doesn't really believe it. It's Sherlock, he's unusual. How anybody can tell that something's wrong with him, let alone something this terribly wrong, if he's not like any human being John has ever met? But the more he thinks about it, the more worried he becomes. Maybe Sherlock gets injured during a case and John takes care of him and accidentally sees scars and half-healed bruises and/or cigarette burns.
When John actually gets evidence of how bad things are, he can't let it continue, except Mycroft is not a person you can just stop or get arrested. Too much power and influence. I'd love a situation where John (purposely or not) walks in on Mycroft abusing Sherlock like whoa and kills him.
Please, a lot of comfort, PTSD, healing and Sherlock finally free of the never-ending terror. Only when Mycroft is dead Sherlock can start talking about the pain he's been through, but he knows he'll never be really okay.
+ Family reunion of Sherlock and his parents who somehow learn about everything (maybe John tells them, angry that they did nothing to stop the whole thing, only to learn that they simply didn't know anything). They are terrified that they'd never once suspected anything. They love Sherlock, he's their baby and it's a big shock for them that they failed to see and stop the nightmare.
Very Dark!Mycroft, Protective John. Abuse, Child Abuse. Trauma, Heavy Angst.
There's no way he can escape and disappear even when he's an adult, even though he starts living separately from the rest of his family. Mycroft always knows where he is and how to find him. He can terrorise him even from a distance. He's a powerful person to boot.
When Sherlock meets John, it's the only relief he's ever had meeting another person, because John is nice and caring. Sherlock is not used to living with anybody since leaving his family home, let alone with somebody who doesn't hurt him.
One day Sherlock breaks into the office of the therapist John visits (less and less often), because he suddenly needs John for something. John's therapist has failed to see that John needs war, not runs away from it, but it takes her minutes to see Sherlock, his body language, the way he talks and so on, to see that he's been severely abused mentally, emotionally and physically for a very long time, even if it's not obvious.
He's not her patient, so she doesn't have to keep it quiet and during her next meeting with John she explains him the situation, because she knows how much Sherlock means to him.
John doesn't really believe it. It's Sherlock, he's unusual. How anybody can tell that something's wrong with him, let alone something this terribly wrong, if he's not like any human being John has ever met? But the more he thinks about it, the more worried he becomes. Maybe Sherlock gets injured during a case and John takes care of him and accidentally sees scars and half-healed bruises and/or cigarette burns.
When John actually gets evidence of how bad things are, he can't let it continue, except Mycroft is not a person you can just stop or get arrested. Too much power and influence. I'd love a situation where John (purposely or not) walks in on Mycroft abusing Sherlock like whoa and kills him.
Please, a lot of comfort, PTSD, healing and Sherlock finally free of the never-ending terror. Only when Mycroft is dead Sherlock can start talking about the pain he's been through, but he knows he'll never be really okay.
+ Family reunion of Sherlock and his parents who somehow learn about everything (maybe John tells them, angry that they did nothing to stop the whole thing, only to learn that they simply didn't know anything). They are terrified that they'd never once suspected anything. They love Sherlock, he's their baby and it's a big shock for them that they failed to see and stop the nightmare.
Make it hurt! </3