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    When Irene Adler contacts Mycroft Holmes with some shocking information and instructs him not to share it with Sherlock, he believes it to be a calculated power play against him. In some ways he's right, but the truth is more complicated, and personal.

    This is an AU sequel to 'Neither A Soldier Nor A Gentleman' (http://www.ao3.icu/works/338793/chapters/548227) and so I suggest reading that first, but this work is also a study on the relationship of the Holmes brothers.

    The POV switches between Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes, and Irene Adler.

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