A/N: These chapters are sequential and each will be 221 words or less. I love reviews and the people who post them. I don't own these characters, the magnificent Moffat/Gatiss and Arthur Conan Doyle do.

Mycroft is seven years old and laying on the couch reading tales of King Arthur. He wishes he could be like Merlin, the wizard who advises the king but doesn't have to go into battle himself. (Merlin's the one who's really in charge because he tells Arthur what to do.) Mycroft sits up and listens when he hears the front door open and grown-ups talking. From snippets of conversation, he knows that his parents have just brought home his new baby brother, Sherlock. After Nanny coos over the baby, Father and Mummy take him to meet Mycroft.

Mummy asks, "Do you want to hold him?"

He fidgets before tentatively nodding, and Mummy gently places Sherlock in Mycroft's arms. (He's so small.) Looking down at the fragile infant, Mycroft's greatest fear is that he will break his little brother.