A thought occured to me.

silentauroriamthereal:

batlock:

Remember when Mary shot Sherlock?

As he was dying, he brought up a few familiar faces. Molly, Anderson, Mycroft, RedBeard, Jim.

Now, they each represented different facets of his mind, all part of how his ‘mind palace’ organizes things. It’s very cool. And I would love to get into what they all are, but this isn’t about that.

Let’s focus on Mycroft for a minute. Now, it’s technically not Mycroft. It’s a part of Sherlock’s mind. This is key. Everything you see him say is actually Sherlock thinking, not anyone else.

He’s brought up Mycroft more than once.

Exhibit A:

And Exhibit B:

Both times

Both times, he was being used to focus on facts, logic. Mycroft is smarter than Sherlock (“Don’t be smart, Sherlock. I’m the smart one.”) and so, Sherlock uses Mycroft to help him organize thoughts when he needs help.

This is important to realize because it means that anything ‘mind palace’ Mycroft says is going to come from the purely logical part of Sherlock’s mind.

So, back to Sherlock being shot.

He brings up Mycroft to help him work through what to do. And what are Mycroft’s exact words?

(Full Credit to JohnFuckingWatson for the fancy moving picture. Lovely person.)

What was directly behind you when you were murdered?

Murdered.

Now, later on, Sherlock refers to what Mary did as ‘Surgery’ and says that she never intended to kill him.

What is important to keep in mind though, is that there are two people in the room with him when he says this and, therefore, he’d have at least twenty reasons to lie.

However, when he’s all alone in his own mind, what does he say?

MURDERED.

When no one is around, when it’s just Sherlock talking to himself, he calls it murder.

And murder is not just killing, murder is killing with intent.Despite what Sherlock told John, he truly believes Mary intended to kill him.

/mic drop

Exactly what I’ve been saying since the beginning. Excellent post. :)

Good catch. I agree.