28 More Things You Don't Know About Jane Moriarty

1. Jane doesn’t drink much. She hates the taste of alcohol, and over the years she’s learned a few sips makes her sick to her stomach. So, she tries to avoid it as much as possible.

2. She likes music with lyrics as well as instrument. Her iPod is not genre-specific. She has a little bit of everything. However, there isn’t much mainstream music on there. She feels that mainstream music kills brain cells and lowers someone’s IQ.

3. Jane enjoys musicals. Well, a few musicals. She enjoys Wicked and Sweeney Todd and Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, but she has a hard time dealing with the happy, over-zealous musicals.

4. Jane loves watching the stars. She’ll sit and watch them for hours. She’s gone and watched the stars with Lestrade and Sherlock, and she gets slightly annoyed with Lestrade’s commentary. She feels that there aren’t enough words in all of the languages combined to explain just how thought-provoking, just how beautiful they are, and it annoys her that Greg Lestrade tries. It bugs her that he tries to make sense of the Universe, instead of just appreciating the unexplained wonders that this world holds. But she doesn’t say anything to him. To each his own, she supposes.

5. She’s gotten on Sherlock about his pompous behavior, and she doesn’t like it when she does. She usually doesn’t, she usually ignores it, but there are moments when an uncontrollable force overcomes her, and she has to get on Sherlock about his behavior. There are moments when he just strikes that chord, and the next thing she knows, she’s snaps at him, and the room is silent. She thinks what she doesn’t like about these moments are the hurt in his eyes afterwards, that look of a scolded child that he plays so well. And it hurts her too, to get on him like that. It hurts her to see the look in his eyes. It hurts to see someone she...someone she cares about look like that.

6. Jane doesn’t talk to Jim all too often. There’s usually a few month’s span in between the phone calls, but they’ve gotten fewer and fewer since she’s met Sherlock Holmes. She’s perfectly okay with that.

7. She was never close to her family. They always were too social, to money-hungry for her taste. They seemed as though they thought they were better than everyone else because they had money, and that drove her insane.

8. She resented her parents. It was definitely clear that Jim was their favorite, and they would never give her the time of day. Jim would always get more presents than she would on their birthday and at Christmas. She never seemed to pull in more than two presents a holiday, which she was fine with (she never quite understood the concept of gift giving, anyways). What she didn’t understand was why they spent most of their free time with Jim. Wasn’t she their child, too? After a while, she began to understand that she was last on their list of favorite children, though she had no clue why. It still hurts to think about it.

9. She is jealous of Greg Lestrade for being an only child.

10. She reads John’s blog. She finds it interesting, and he’s a fairly decent writer. If he brushed up on his vocabulary a bit, then he might have what it takes to become an author. She also follows Sherlock’s website, which she finds deeply thought provoking.

11. Jane believes that she is the only person in all of London (possibly the world) to find Sherlock’s analysis of tobacco ash interesting.

12. She reads Molly’s blog. Although Jane finds the amount of pink and the amount of cats on it is a bit disturbing, she likes to read it all the same. Molly doesn’t tell Jane a lot of things, so it’s a nice way of finding out how her day went.

13. She tried setting her phone up so that each person had their own ringtone. She got as far as John in her contacts, then gave up. She didn’t see the point. No one really called her anyways.

14. She likes to text. It’s very convenient, and each person’s way of texting is different. She can tell when there is a new person on the other line by they way they text, and you can tell about their personality from the way they text, too.

15. Jane considers Lestrade and Dimmock to be the best detectives at Scotland Yard. She and Sherlock have gotten into a few rows about this, but she would never change her answer.

16. It infuriates her that people don’t trust her.

17. Dimmock made her watch Supernatural once. She’ll never admit to him that she liked it, but she has a feeling he already knows.

18. Dimmock and Lestrade have compared her to Loki, because of her penchant for mischief.

19. She’s came close to punching Anderson and Donovan in the face a few times. If it weren’t for Lestrade, or John, or Dimmock, or even Sherlock holding her back, she probably would have succeeded.

20. She has a knack of quoting things. There are times when she is at a crime scene, or talking to someone, and she finds herself quoting something that she has read or seen. Not a lot of people catch on, though.

21. She’s a master at board games. She’s noticed that Sherlock has stared at her in amazement when she’s won a round of Cluedo in just a few turns, and John as an incredulous stare whenever Jane has beaten Sherlock at chess in three to five moves.

22. She plays the violin. She used to play it when she was younger, and she was fairly good at it, but for some reason, she gave it up in order to learn how to play the guitar. Once she went to Cambridge, she picked it up again, and hasn’t stopped playing.

23. Life is sad. Life is complicated and indifferent and you don’t have a say in whether or not you want to live it in the first place. They sell it so it’s brilliant and fantastic and wonderful, but in reality it’s awful. No one knows it like Jane Moriarty, and she feels the fact that people sell life as glorious is the worst part.

24. She’s thought about death a lot. She wonders what happens when she dies, or she wonders what life would be like if she wasn’t really born at all. Some days, she paints a terrible picture in her head of what it would be like if she was gone. On other days, she thinks that it would be a blissful utopia without her. She finds herself believing more in the last one than the first.

25. She is close to Greg Lestrade. Though it may not seem like it on the outside, they are almost like brother and sister, or like father and daughter, depending on who you ask.

26. She has a feeling that Dimmock is in love with her. Then again, she thinks that she be wrong.

27. She sort of enjoys the cold. Mainly in her room, when she’s trying to sleep. She will set it so her room is quite cold, then curl herself in the blankets and let her body heat warm her.

28. She’s seen Lestrade and John cry, and it breaks her heart every single time, because they’re supposed to be the strong ones; the ones that never break. She figures that’s why she doesn’t cry in public because she may be somebody’s “strong one”, and it would crush them to see her cry. And she refuses to subject someone else to that.