I don't own any characters or references that you recognize from published books. :)

Also, I have read so much that I apologize if I unconsciously use an idea from your story. I assure you it's not intentional.

I am a willing beta. My best class was English, so I spot mistakes easily. If you write a fanfic based on a series I read, I will correct anything I see, whether grammatical or cannon. I do not do anything vulgar (lemons, cussing, I even classify excessive making out as vulgar. Not sure? go ahead and ask) If you would like a beta, pm me :)

Note for all my stories: Please review! Did you like it? Awesome! Please tell me! Did you dislike it? Bummer! How can I write better? I cannot better my writing if I do not get feedback from what I publish. What do you like about my stories? What can I do better? Am I detailed enough? Does the dialogue make sense? Does the story flow? I want to know what you think!

Note for Life of a Demigod and all in LoD Universe: Stories were written and published before Hidden Oracle came out and is only canon through Blood of Olympus.

Another note for Life of a Demigod and all in LoD Universe: I am wide open for plot suggestions! Do I have a plot hole? Have I left you with a question about something mentioned in passing? Is there a side of the story I haven't told but you think I should? DROP ME A PM! I'm itching to write but I don't have any plot ideas. Writer's block is a pain.

Sherlock Holmes series summaries:

Moving On: A look into how Watson learned how to move on from his war memories, without losing what they had taught him

Rekindling Hope: Watson spent several months completely alone, and losing everyone like that changes a person. Then Holmes returned, claiming he had no choice but to leave Watson behind. The hurt of abandonment can't be healed by a simple explanation. Holmes must learn the consequences of his actions, and Watson must learn to trust again

Chronological Order

Since I have joined the ranks of authors who write and post out of chronological order, below is a list of my Sherlock Holmes stories and the year they took place (or approximate year, as the case may be). Please note that this is not a reading order guide. Not sure how major the readers would consider any possible spoilers, but reading in chronological order instead of posting order may open the door to some spoilers :)

Watson’s Woes JWP #9: Friends - between 1881 and 1883

Watson’s Woes JWP #3: Questions - 1883 or 1884

Watson’s Woes JWP #17: Details - a few days after Fragment 9

Watson’s Woes JWP #2: Prank - April 1, 1887 or '88

Watson’s Woes JWP #6: Nighttime Demons - Before 1889

Courage: Before 1889

To Rest, Perchance To Breathe: Before 1900 but years after 1881. Likely before 1889

How Brothers Fight: Spring 1890.

Watson’s Woes JWP #15: Wake - late fall/early winter 1890

Watson’s Woes JWP #16: Sleep - shortly after Wake

Dreaming Reality: April 1894, Holmes’ first night

The Effects Of War: May 7, 1894.

Watson’s Woes JWP #10: In Search of Understanding - 1894. a few weeks after Effects.

Alone: Early 1895.

Words Unspoken: Spring 1895.

Home: Spring 1895.

Trying to Help: mid-1895. A few months after Alone.

Numb: mid-1895. Companion to Trying to Help.

The Gift of Music: mid- to late-1895. Several months after Alone.

Embers: 1897

Watson’s Woes JWP #7: The Coming of Help - Late 1897

Occupying A Detective: After 1897. Winter

Child's Play: After 1897. After Occupying

Of Memories And Languages: Late summer 1900.

Watson’s Woes JWP #4: Remembering Heat - a few months after Memories

Watson’s Woes JWP #8: Blooming Memories - well after 1894 but before Holmes retires

Phases of Life: 1906ish

Watson’s Woes JWP #11: Telegrams - a few months after Phases

Watson’s Woes JWP #13: Forget-me-not - Early spring 1915.

Doctors And Their Uses: Sept 1915.

Counting: Sept 1915.

Watson’s Woes JWP #14: Restful Silence - the day after Doctors

Watson’s Woes JWP #18: Tactics - 1916-1918ish

A Friend In Need: 1917ish.

I am Christian. I believe in the One True God and His Son, Jesus of Nazareth. I know He is real, that He loves me, and that God sent His Son Jesus to die for me on the cross on Calvary. He did it for you too. God loves you so much He sent His Son to die for you. If you're a parent, can you imagine sacrificing your child for someone else? If you're not a parent, go ask your mom or dad if they would be willing to sacrifice you for someone else. I already know the logical answer. No one on this earth would give their child for someone else. But God did. He loves you, and Jesus died the worst death possible for YOU because we can't get to Heaven on our own. To get to Heaven on our own requires perfection. The problem for us is that there is none righteous. Not one, for ALL fall short. You might be better than me, but that just means your splat is further away from the edge of the Grand Canyon that mine is. The only way for us to go to Heaven is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Believe that He lived, died, and rose on the third day as the Bible says. Believe that His perfect sacrifice paid for your sins, and trust Him as your Savior. He loves you, and He wants a relationship with you. It's not a religion, it's a relationship.

"He was born of a virgin one holy night
In the little town of Bethlehem.
Angels gathered round him underneath the stars
Singing praises to the great I Am.
He walked on the water, healed the lame and made the blind to see again.
And for the first time here on earth we learned that God could be a friend.
And though he never ever did a single thing wrong
The angry crowd chose him. And then he walked down the road
And died on the cross ...but three days later
HE ROSE!!!!!!!!
Three days later he rose!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foahYMqMfEg

Deck of Cards

It was quiet that day, the guns and the mortars, and land mines for some reason hadn't been heard.

The young soldier knew it was Sunday, the holiest day of the week.

As he was sitting there, he got out an old deck of cards and laid them out across his bunk.

Just than an army sergeant came in and said, 'Why aren't you with the rest of the platoon?'

The soldier replied, 'I thought I would stay behind and spend some time with the Lord.'

The sergeant said, 'Looks to me like you're going to play cards.'

The soldier said, 'No, sir. You see, since we are not allowed to have Bibles or other spiritual books in this country,

I've decided to talk to the Lord by studying this deck of cards.'

The sergeant asked in disbelief, 'How will you do that?'

'You see the Ace, Sergeant? It reminds me that there is only one God.

The Two represents the two parts of the Bible, Old and New Testaments

The Three represents the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost.

The Four stands for the Four Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John .

The Five is for the five virgins, there were ten, but only five of them were glorified.

The Six is for the six days it took God to create the Heavens and Earth.

The Seven is for the day God rested after making His Creation.

The Eight is for the family of Noah and his wife, their three sons and their wives -- the eight people God spared from the flood that destroyed the Earth.

The Nine is for the lepers that Jesus cleansed of leprosy. He cleansed ten, but nine never thanked Him.

The Ten represents the Ten Commandments that God handed down to Moses on tablets made of stone.

The Jack is a reminder of Satan, one of God's first angels, but he got kicked out of heaven for his sly and wicked ways and is now the joker of eternal hell.

The Queen stands for the Virgin Mary.

The King stands for Jesus, for He is the King of all kings.

When I count the dots on all the cards, I come up with 365 total, one for every day of the year.

There are a total of 52 cards in a deck; each is a week - 52 weeks in a year.

The four suits represent the four seasons: Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter.

Each suit has thirteen cards -- there are exactly thirteen weeks in a quarter.

So when I want to talk to God and thank Him, I just pull out this old deck of cards and they remind me of all that I have to be thankful for.'
The sergeant just stood there. After a minute, with tears in his eyes and pain in his heart, he said, 'Soldier, can I borrow that deck of cards?'

Please let this be a reminder and take time to pray for all of our soldiers who are being sent away, putting their lives on the line fighting for US.

The white man said, "Colored people are not allowed here." The black man turned around and stood up. He then said: "Listen sir...when I was born I was BLACK, When I grew up I was BLACK, When I'm sick I'm BLACK, When I go in the sun I'm BLACK, When I'm cold I'm BLACK, When I die I'll be BLACK. But you sir, When you're born you're PINK, When you grow up you're WHITE, When you're sick, you're GREEN, When you go in the sun you turn RED, When you're cold you turn BLUE, And when you die you turn PURPLE. And you have the nerve to call me colored?" The black man then sat back down and the white man walked away... Post this on your profile if you hate racism

Really Dumb Store labels:

Boeing 757: "Fragile. Do not drop" (This means you, Hulk! No airplane juggling!)

Earplugs: "These earplugs are nontoxic, but they may interfere with breathing if caught in windpipe." (Hmm…hey, sister, come here. Eat these. Don’t worry, they’re nontoxic.)

Hair coloring: "Do not use as an ice cream topping." (Yes, I’ll have a small vanilla in a dish with chocolate sprinkles. Oh, and throw some hair coloring on there, too.)

Komatsu Floodlight: "This floodlight is capable of illuminating large areas, even in the dark" (you’re kidding! Even in the dark?)

On a bag of Chips: "You could be a winner! No purchase necessary. Details inside." (The shoplifter special?)

On a bar of Palmolive soap: “Directions: Use like regular soap”. (Thanks, that’s real clear.)

On a Japanese food processor: "Not to be used for the other use". (Could someone please explain this to me?)

On a Korean kitchen knife: “Warning: keep out of children.” (Darn, that’s the best place to keep my knives.)

On a Myer hairdryer: “Do not use while sleeping”. (But that’s the only time I have to dry my hair!)

On a package of pasta after the cooking instructions: "Put on fork and eat." (Thanks, I wasn’t sure if I should use a spoon.)

On a Swedish chainsaw: "Do not attempt to stop chain with your hands or genitals". (Was this happening a lot somewhere?)

On an American Airlines packet of nuts: "Instructions: Open packet, eat nuts". (Step 3: Fly another airline.)

On artificial bacon: "Real artificial bacon bits". (So we don't get fake fake bacon. Oh no. We get real fake bacon.)

On Boot's Children Cough Medicine: "Do not drive a car or operate machinery after taking this medication". (We could prevent so many accidents if we could just get those sick toddlers off the dump trucks.)

On disappearing-ink pen for marking fabric. "The Vanishing Fabric Marker should not be used as a writing instrument for signing any legal documents." (But wouldn’t that mess with people’s heads? It would be funny!)

On Marks & Spencer Bread Pudding: "Product will be hot after heating". (No way. You’re joking. It’ll be hot?!)

On most brands of Christmas lights: "For indoor or outdoor use only". (As opposed to what, underwater?)

On Nanna's Tiramisu dessert (printed on bottom): "Do not turn upside down". (Well...duh! A bit late, huh?)

On Nobby's peanuts: "Warning: contains nuts". (Never would have guessed that one.)

On Nytol Sleep Aid: "Warning: May cause drowsiness." (One would hope.)

On packaging for a K-Mart iron: "Do not iron clothes on body". (But it saves so much time!)

On Sainsbury's peanuts: "Warning: contains nuts." (Talk about a news flash.)

On some frozen dinners: “Serving suggestion: Defrost”. (But that’s only a suggestion.)

RCA television remote control: "Not dishwasher safe." (Well how else am I supposed to clean it?)

Road sign: "Caution: water on road during rain." (Oh good, we’ve learned this. Now let’s move on to basic math.)

Scoopable cat litter: "Safe to use around pets" (Phew, I was worried.)

I blame the parents for this one: On a child's superman costume: "Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly".

If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world.

After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labor to reading six lines aloud.

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mold like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamor
And enamor rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangor.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, won't, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, mustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succor, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spiky?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

English Pronunciation (also called The Chaos) by G. Nolst Trenité

Creepy:

THE EYES: When you rearrange the letters: THEY SEE

THE MORSE CODE: When you rearrange the letters: HERE COME DOTS

SLOT MACHINES: When you rearrange the letters: CASH LOST IN ME

ELECTION- RESULTS: When you rearrange the letters: LIES- LET'S RECOUNT

SNOOZE ALARMS: When you rearrange the letters: ALAS NO MORE ZS

ELEVEN PLUS TWO: When you rearrange the letters: TWELVE PLUS ONE

DORMITORY:When you rearrange the letters: DIRTY ROOM

ASTRONOMER: When you rearrange the letters: MOON STARER

DESPERATION: When you rearrange the letters: A ROPE ENDS IT

GEORGE BUSH: When you rearrange the letters: HE BUGS GORE

ANIMOSITY: When you rearrange the letters: IS NO AMITY

A DECIMAL POINT: When you rearrange the letters: IM A DOT IN PLACE

THE EARTHQUAKES: When you rearrange the letters: THAT QUEER SHAKE

MOTHER-IN-LAW: When you rearrange the letters: WOMAN HITLER