#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.
You can see his thought process. The way it just turns sad.
Lestrade: So that is an average day for you.
Mycroft: Indeed.
Lestrade: You disrupt traffic and save the world.
Mycroft: This is correct.
Lestrade: And you cry.
Mycroft: Certainly not.
Lestrade: You said-
Mycroft: I’M THE BOSS.Mycroft would like to remind you that he’s got the longest comics. LIKE A BOSS!