Five Times 'Yes' Wasn't Enough, and One Time it Was

“So I suppose you wear that ring for another reason, then.”
Mycroft thinks ‘I wear it because it’s easier than an outright lie’, ‘it symbolises everything I’m not allowed to want’ or ‘it’s part of the disguise’ would likely ruin the companionable mood that’s taken months of effort to build between the two of them, so he opts for the simple and dismissive response.
“Yes.”



Or, in which Mycroft wishes that people would ask questions with simple answers, but with a certain Detective Inspector, the answer is never that easy. Except for when it is.