Mycroft in Euro's old cell

 (Sherlock meta by thediogenes)

Anonymous said: Personal headcanons as to what went down with Mycroft while Sherlock and John were doing their business, well and all that? We didn't see him get hit with the thingy so what if he were awake while they were dragging them away?


Anonymous said: So, about Mycroft's time in Euro's old cell. Do you think she put any more messages or videos in there to torture him? Maybe lied to him that Sherlock and John were dead, or that she was going after the Holmes parents next? How disheveled and out of his mind with fear and guilt do you think Mycroft was when the police finally came to get him out?


thediogenes: 

I’m going to bundle these two asks together in a sort of buy-one-get-one-free Mycroft whump special offer.

The thing that struck me – as anon 1 points out – is you don’t see Mycroft being hit with a dart in that scene, so I’m going with him being conscious throughout.

So Sherlock & John get knocked out. Mycroft is then left alone in the room with them for few minutes freaking the fuck out because for a few moments he’s not entirely sure if she’s killed them or not. He can’t process everything that’s just happened because he’s blinded by fear and anxiety.

The guards eventually come in and drag him kicking and screaming to Eurus’s old cell and dump him in there with the governor’s body. I personally don’t think she’d even need to add extra fun & games – locking him in a room with a dead colleague would be bad enough.

I think the real torture for Mycroft though would be in not knowing what’s happening. He wouldn’t have a clue where Sherlock is, if he’s dead or alive. He wouldn’t know whether Eurus has split them up so she can kill him in revenge for imprisoning her. All he’d be able to do in that situation is wait, and in the process probably rake over every single error he’s made. For a man so used to being in control of both his emotions and the world outside him, it must have been absolutely excruciating.