Mycroft Holmes | Sherlock (BBC) | That Bar Place

[mm_z]

Mycroft is not happy today. This is mostly because he found out last night that his oldest son had done something as pig-headed as start a fight with another boy over something entirely pointless

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[sandhu_kids]

Some time after his father, Fry finds Mycroft and approaches, on his crutches. He still looks uncomfortable.

[not_yourproblem]

"That must be unbearable," Mycroft points out. "Why don't you have a seat, Fry?"

[sandhu_kids]

"I don't have any choice but to bear it, but yes, it is very painful." Fry says, sitting down. "Co-codamol's worn off and I can't take it for another hour."

He gets his knee up on a chair.

[not_yourproblem]

"Would you like some tea?" Mycroft asks. "It's not exactly been proven by medical science, but it may help. After all, if you have to live like this for six weeks, you might as well find a way to cope."

He takes a small sip of his own tea.

[sandhu_kids]

"No thanks, I don't like tea." Fry says.

He digs in his pocket and gives Mycroft an invitation.

"Dad says you and your spawn are invited to a party."

[not_yourproblem]

Mycroft isn't sure whether he should laugh or frown at Fry's noun choice. So he decides to ignore it outright as he takes the invitation from him.

"Ah, yes. He had mentioned interest in a lunch engagement. I trust you'll be in attendance?"

[sandhu_kids]

"Dad and Sherlock said I should try and make friends with your children. But I'll warn you that I can't pretend to like someone if I don't." Fry says.

"I'm not so socially desperate that I need to befriend bullies."

[not_yourproblem]

Mycroft frowns. "Jackson, you mean?" he asks.

[sandhu_kids]

"Yes." Fry says.

He gets a waitrat to bring him a pepsi.

"He's also a coward, because he kicked me when I was on the floor trying not to pass out. And I don't believe a word of the crap you told Dad about me 'misunderstanding' what he was doing.

So while I will try and get along with him, there's a limit to what I can work with. People might think that becoming my friend means they're doing me some sort of favour, but I don't need people like that."

[not_yourproblem]

"I did hear about that, and he has been punished for it," Mycroft says gravely. "That sort of behaviour is not to be tolerated for any reason, and I can assure you that if it does happen again, he will not be returning here."

He still can't believe Jackson would have done something like that.

[sandhu_kids]

"I memorised the code on the screen and wrote it out and showed it to Lenny, and he says it was a real virus."

Fry gets out one of his notebooks and shows Mycroft the page, in photographic detail.

"So what Dad was told was a lie."

[not_yourproblem]

Mycroft looks at the code, and stops himself from frowning at it.

He was very aware of what Jackson was up to, but the fact that he was careless enough to let other people know is just disappointing.

"And this Lenny? You know this person from back home?"

[sandhu_kids]

"Yes. He used to be in my HF class, but he's a senior now." Fry says. "He hacks things."

[not_yourproblem]

"Then it seems to me that you should be more concerned about him than the actions of my son, who as it happens, can do next to nothing to affect what happens where you're from."

[sandhu_kids]

"Lenny isn't stupid enough to release a computer program that goes viral and interferes with computers around the world, potentially endangering people in hospitals or causing plane or train crashes." Fry says. "He only hacks things to see if he can, he doesn't change anything."

[not_yourproblem]

"And is that what Jackson said he was going to do?" asks Mycroft simply.