Merlin Holmes: The Secret

Chapter One: The Other One

"He's our brother." Mycroft said bluntly.

The words rung sliently around John's head while the Holmes brothers looked at John, waiting to see how he would react, however John stayed silent looking blankly forward not even blinking. Brother... How could I not see this? John thought. Merlin looks a lot like Sherlock, John had even thought so when they first met. The way Sherlock reacted should have made it a bit more obvious. I even noticed it. John thought back to how Sherlock reacted to seeing Merlin, Sherlock had gone into shock and stared at Merlin for a few minutes. John turned his gazed towards Merlin. Merlin looked as stunned as John felt staring at Mycroft, his blue eyes wide and his face had gone paler then what it was originally. Anyone could mistaken him for a corpse if he wasn't breathing. John's thoughts continued to race through his mind as he thought about Sherlock and Mycroft, who were talking as though John and Merlin wasn't in the room. It seems that Merlin didn't know. Poor kid.

"John." Sherlock snapped John from his thoughts. John looked up to see Sherlock staring at him with a puzzled look.

"Yes?" John asked, not quite understanding why Sherlock and Mycroft were staring at him as if he had said something strange.

"Did you hear what I said?" Mycroft asked, sounding slightly annoyed as if John was a small child throwing a tantrum. What did he say? Urgh. Great now he's gonna think I'm more of an idiot then what he already does.

John sighed and shook his head. Mycroft looked a bit more annoyed now, thinking that John didn't pay attention because he didn't care. John did care but he was more confused by the matter in which he found himself and by the looks of it so was Merlin.

"Uh. What did you say?" Merlin hesintly asked. Merlin didn't quite know what to make of the strange situation he found himself in, but something else was bothering him more - did they know?