Fic: The Rose Bed (3/6): Sherlock, Mycroft, Mummy

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Title: The Rose Bed: Part Three
Characters and Pairings: Mycroft, Sherlock, Mummy Holmes, Father Holmes, various OMCs and OFCs; background Mycroft/OFC
Rating: R for the whole piece
Warnings: Minor character death, explicit depiction of suicide, serious drug abuse, unhealthy family relations, and other angsty unpleasantness. (Note: Warnings apply to the fic as a whole, and thus may not all appear in this part.)
Word Count: 1,960 for Part Three only, probably around 15,000 for all six parts together
Betas: Thank you stardust_made, zipudding, and the221armada
Spoilers: None, really, unless you haven't seen the series at all.
Summary: A unexpected death in the family means Mycroft has to take time away from work. Complicating matters is the fact that Sherlock is off on a bender and cannot be located. Takes place in 2007, two years before ASiP.

Author's Notes: The entirety of "The Rose Bed" should be posted by the first few days of November. And while this piece works perfectly well as a standalone, I do intend it to be a sort of lengthy prologue to a novel-length series I'm calling the "Tree of Life" arc, which will include several slash pairings, and which you can read more about in my post here.

Read Part One
Read Part Two

Or on to Part Three:

“Oh, my father could bully you, certainly,” said Mycroft, glancing casually down at his fingernails. “I, however, can threaten you."