One of these days Sherlock really would make good on the promise he'd made at Boxing Day brunch 1986 and feed Mycroft his own tie.
"The only thing John will tell me is that it's all due to a master plan of Moriarty's. That he somehow publicly discredited me and exposed me as a fraud."
The regurgitation of what little John had told him wasn't for its own sake; he watched for Mycroft's reaction through that passive mask.
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Date: 2012-06-30 01:56 pm (UTC)"The only thing John will tell me is that it's all due to a master plan of Moriarty's. That he somehow publicly discredited me and exposed me as a fraud."
The regurgitation of what little John had told him wasn't for its own sake; he watched for Mycroft's reaction through that passive mask.