Title: Mycroft's Future
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Rating: G
Length: 200
Summary:  A student Mycroft Holmes talks to 13-year-old Sherlock about his future

"What do you plan to do when you finish your studies?” Sherlock Holmes asked.  “Will you return to the country?”

Mycroft Holmes considered his younger brother and shook his head.  “No.  Life here would be far too sedate.”

“But you like a sedate life.  I’m always being told ‘Why can’t you be calm and stay still like your brother?’”

“It’s true I see no benefit in physically rushing around, but I have no wish to indulge in being mentally sedate.  One’s mind needs occupation even more than one’s body does.”

“Then I deduce you’re planning on going to London?”

“That is my intention.”

Sherlock gave a considered look at his brother.  “You could be called to the bar and become a Queen’s Counsel, and have mental jousts with the keenest brains of our time.”

Sherlock leapt up and began to act out a trial, alternating between the protagonists.

Mycroft chuckled.  “Those dramatics are far more suitable to you, little brother, than to me.  I have no wish to be noticed.”

“But don’t you want to be famous?”

“Not at all.  I intend to find a position where few will know me, but many will come to rely on my work.”