A/N: Hello everybody! This chapter is short, but some pretty important things happen and I thought I'd put it up while I wrestle with chapter three. *rubs hands in glee* I hope you like it!

It was late on a Thursday night when Nerys came across The Blog.

She was suffering from a very nasty combination of writer's block and the flu, and had moved on from wrestling with her article on Twelve Essential Tricks to Get Smoother Skin – as if she cared, or had any personal experience or wisdom to contribute – and had happened upon It.

Eyeing it suspiciously at first, she sat back with a hot thermos of tea and a buttered muffin she couldn't taste and read the entirety of the Case of the Speckled Blonde.

The sun was peeping in her curtained windows when she'd finally finished the entire archive of Doctor John Watson's blog. Her back was cramped in a slightly slumped position and her eyes felt fried by the laptop's screen, but her mind was whizzing. This was writing at its best. The stories themselves were brilliant, obviously, but the man had a gorgeous command of the English language that she envied desperately.

She thought of her own blog, dusty and unused in the furthest crevices of the cyberverse, and winced at the memory of some of her writings. She dredged it up again and read through some of the latest stuff – all about three months old now – and cringed inwardly at the dull sentences and the passivity of the writing style. She remembered crafting that sentence. She had thought it smart and witty and had hit the post button with bubbly confidence. Reading it now, she wanted to delete the whole thing.

Oh, Dr. John Watson. Teach me. Teach me what all those fool professors at uni couldn't. Teach me to put life back in my words.

Feeling drunk on lack of sleep and desperation, she quickly typed up the equivalent of an essay in the comment box on the Blog of Dr. John H. Watson and hit "Enter" before she could change her mind.

A/N: Thankee muchly for reading! Review, sil vou plait? And remember, I take requests for characters she meets or relationships she may form. Just leave your request in a review or PM.