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scienceofdeduction-:

improbable-me:

scienceofdeduction-:

improbable-me:

I really can’t say.

Tell me, how did you do it?

I see.

…I really can’t say.

Fine.

Lovely! So glad we had this chat. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have work to be doing.

I was just thinking the same myself. Must be off- governments to run, country to keep together. 

scienceofdeduction-:

improbable-me:

I really can’t say.

Tell me, how did you do it?

I see.

…I really can’t say.

Fine.

scienceofdeduction-:

improbable-me:

An order from higher up than me, Sherlock, cannot be ignored. 

Hence why you got no thanks. Acknowledgement is more than I expected anyway.  

Was it given by Her Majesty?

Well, I’m thrilled to have been unexpected.

I really can’t say.

Tell me, how did you do it?

scienceofdeduction-:

improbable-me:

There were various… complicated reasons that we had to let him go. Reasons you are not permitted to know. 

That’s all I can hope for.

Which I’m sure makes it all better in the view of the bureaucracy. 

I did not say it was accepted.

An order from higher up than me, Sherlock, cannot be ignored. 

Hence why you got no thanks. Acknowledgement is more than I expected anyway.  

scienceofdeduction-:

improbable-me:

You know why. It’s the only way we could get him to talk, you and I both believed in that code and the damage it could have caused. 

Then i’m saying it, there’s no point holding back now, is there? 

I’m sorry. 

I see, and letting him go once you and he had that information? Was there a strategic reasoning behind that, or was it just to teach me a lesson.

Apology acknowledged.

There were various… complicated reasons that we had to let him go. Reasons you are not permitted to know. 

That’s all I can hope for.

scienceofdeduction-:

improbable-me:

Shockingly, that’s what I was referring too. 

I meant before. 

I would rather like an explanation of why on Earth you thought that was any sort of good idea. 

Still no. 

You know why. It’s the only way we could get him to talk, you and I both believed in that code and the damage it could have caused. 

Then i’m saying it, there’s no point holding back now, is there? 

I’m sorry. 

scienceofdeduction-:

improbable-me:

I wasn’t questioning you knowledge of that, Sherlock, though it may surprise both of us that i’m not entirely stupid.

I told him to tell you I was sorry. I am very well aware that it isn’t enough, but it’s all I can give.

Apparently, since you saw fit to tell him my life story and then let him roam free, it would surprise me that you’re intelligent.

Ah, in that case no, as he and I have not spoken in…eighteen months, now.

Shockingly, that’s what I was referring too. 

I meant before. 

{In which Mycroft stares at the message without letting any emotion cross his features.

He pauses momentarily, then clicks “Delete” and watches the message erase before smoothing the creases out of his newspaper and reading the front page story. Terrorism and bankers. Jim Moriarty would call it ordinary.}