#this scene breaks my heart because this is mycroft mycroft who says caring is not an advantage mycroft who thinks other people are fools #because they care so much. yet here is he is broken apart by john watson because john gets at the heart of it #mycroft sold sherlock out because he needed information. and the thing is sherlock would probably agree with him #agree that mycroft just did what he needed to do he wouldn’t blame him. but john who is the heart who is sherlock’s heart #he shows mycroft the reality of what he’s done and the penny drops and the extent of mycroft’s feelings about sherlock are revealed #mycroft truly loves sherlock. mycroft had to watch his junkie brother throw away everything for years and he couldn’t get him to stop #and now when sherlock has finally turned things around when he’s on the side of the angels mycroft sells him out #he makes sherlock into something that he’s always been afraid of being what he tried to hide from with the drugs #he lets moriarty turn sherlock ordinary into a liar a fake. and mycroft knows he knows what’s coming #and that’s what hurts the most he knows that his actions what he’s done it’s going to hurt sherlock #sherlock who builds up his walls and acts like he doesn’t have a heart. this is going to burn him. break him. #mycroft gave moriarty the perfect weapon and it’s only when john spells it out that he realizes what he’s done.
I hated Mycroft after this. I still kind of do.