Fic Rec: Symbiosis

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Title: Symbiosis
Author: thinkpink20
Pairing: Mycroft/Sherlock
Length: 6149
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Consensual adult incest
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: It's a difficult relationship.
Reccer's comments: This is one of the quintessential takes on how Sherlock and Mycroft might have grown up together, so very alike and yet so very adversarial. Mycroft’s care for Sherlock is evident in every scene. I especially enjoyed seeing the little incidents that threaten to wedge them apart. Sherlock is pitch-perfectly petulant, and thinkpink20 does a great job of having Mycroft puzzle out how to relate differently to his brother as they both become adults.

When he goes home for the summer, Mycroft finds a new creature in Sherlock's place - sharper, harder, more independent than his little brother. He immediately stops using all of his past experiences as a reference and finds he's going in blind.