gingerbbatch:

He said that he would acquire no knowledge which did not bear upon his object. Therefore all the knowledge which he possessed was such as would be useful to him. I enumerated in my own mind all the various points upon which he had shown me that he was exceptionally well informed. I even took a pencil and jotted them down. I could not help smiling at the document when I had completed it. It ran this way:

lordkirk:

sherlock coming home from his first day of school with a black eye and sits in the corner of his room with his knees up to his chest until mycroft walks in, not saying a word, and takes his little brother by the hand and leads him around to the back of their estate and shows him the beehive he got sherlock because he knew his brother might have a rough time at school and smiling at seeing sherlocks face go from sadness to confusion to pure joy and wonder

ughbenedict:

                    #he loses everything