The Greek Interpreter: Brothers

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Canon Story: The Greek Interpreter
Title: Brothers (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

I had imagined when Holmes first mentioned his brother that they were in some way estranged. However, relations between them were clearly cordial and as far as I could tell they were in the habit of meeting every few weeks. And neither thought it strange Holmes had not spoken of Mycroft up to this point, his existence presumably being irrelevant.

Comments

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Very odd arrangement to an outsider.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Partially they were so used to deducing things Holmes just assumed Watson would have deduced he had a brother.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

The Holmes brothers clearly have a very different outlook to the rest of us.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Watson didn't need to know about Mycroft, so Holmes didn't think to tell him.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

To be fair, Watson didn't tell Holmes about his elder brother either...

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

True - and why Watson assumed Holmes and Mycroft were estranged.

[debriswoman]

Neatly summed up.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this nice bit of background. Hope Watson occasionally got to use the Diogenes Club.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

He was permitted to, but it really wasn't his idea of a good club.

[sanguinity]

It seems to me that so many close, long-standing relationships -- marriages and siblings both -- are never fully comprehensible from the outside. The Holmes brothers make perfect sense to them, even if they leave Watson somewhat befuddled. :-)

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Exactly - it was just how they worked.