THYME SHENANIGANS

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when the students get sorted sherlock calls out the house before the sorting hat

everyone hates it

except john

i am losing my mind

when john’s turn to be sorted comes he looks at sherlock instead of the hat 

with a big expectant smile

please forgive this fic intrusion, I came across this post and then blacked out and when I woke up this was in my word docs????

He sees Mycroft frowning sternly at him from the Slytherin table every time he does it, and he makes a horrible face right back, crossing his eyes and flaring his nostrils and sticking his tongue out, because he knows Mycroft is doing the exact same thing he is, only keeping it in his head; Mycroft has been trying to convince Sherlock to keep his deductions in his head too, but what’s the point of knowing things if people don’t know that you know? If no one knows about everything firing around in Sherlock’s head then they’ll think he’s just as bland and vague as they are, and he’s not, he never has been and he never will be. He cannot abide being thought of as ordinary.

“Hufflepuff,” Sherlock calls out. “Hufflepuff. Slytherin. Ravenclaw.”

He doesn’t shout all of them, so he doesn’t know why everyone’s getting so fussy, murmuring low and shooting him irritated glances every time a name is called. Not all of them are obvious, and he’s not going to make himself look stupid by just guessing, so he only predicts on the ones he’s absolutely certain of. It’s just that most of them are obvious.

When “Holmes, Sherlock” is called and he stands, he can hear the change in tone the murmurs take on, gazes flicking towards the Slytherin table. He refuses to look over at his brother because he already knows what he’s doing, that grating, self-deprecating “what can you do about siblings?” shrug-and-smile double act he has perfected ever since he decided to feign ordinariness with regular people and Sherlock had rejected the very concept. Instead Sherlock marches right up to the Hat and looks Professor McGonagall straight in the eye, declaring loudly, “Ravenclaw.”

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