If you're looking for an update, I'm sorry to disappoint but I'm going to talk for a moment. If you want to ignore my ramblings and skip to what really matters, skip to the TL;DR at the end.

It's been a while. I know that. The last time I touched this story was on February 2, 2017. That was well over a year ago. Every couple of days, follows and favorites trickle in from this story. For that, I am so grateful and so happy with all of that, all the reviews, and everyone whose PM'ed me about aspects of the story they liked talking about. I'm grateful for all of it. Honestly.

However, the reason I haven't touched this story in so long was because I lost inspiration for it. As I did with a lot of stories. I contemplated deleting most of them, but when I said I was finishing this one in particular, I meant it. I just don't think I can finish it on the track it's going. I've re-read so many times it in the time I haven't been active, and I realized something: I could do better. I could do this story a lot better. It was going to be a max of give or take twelve chapters, but that would not do the story the justice it could have. There was potential for so much more, but I pushed myself to skip out on all of that to get chapters out faster. This didn't work in the long run, because I was still slow with updates and I lost more and more inspiration as I went. I've decided to re-write the story in its entirety and re-upload a new version. There are some things that are going to stay the same, but there are some things that are going to be different.

It was hard for me to choose between saying "fuck it" and finishing as is and saying "fuck that" and re-writing it, but re-writing it won out in the end. I'm sorry for those of you who have been following since 2014 when I started this and have been waiting for me to finish, but I just don't think I can. Not with the way it's going. I am truly sorry, but I feel like it's just better for everyone if I re-write it and improve it.

And before anyone tries to call me out or anything (because I've gotten a fair share of hate on this story as well and people telling me to abandon it), I'm not giving up nor giving in. I'm improving on it. I want this to be better. And that's exactly what I'm striving to do.

Once again, I am sorry for everyone who'd been waiting patiently for me to finish. It's just not in the cards. However, I do hope that maybe you'll click to the new story and see where I've changed some stuff, and made it better. But in the almost two years I've been gone, I haven't just been sitting around. I've been working to improve and I want to use that to improve this story. If you're looking forward to that, within the next two weeks is when the first chapter will be out.

Once again, I want to say thank you to those of you patiently waiting for a new chapter. I also want to say sorry for leaving for almost two years without word and sorry for everyone whose probably going to be mad at me. But I just think this is better for everyone. I'm leaving the original up for a little while longer, but once I get into regularly updating the new one, I might delete it. So, whether you're happy with me or pissed, come at me.

TL;DR

If you were waiting for an update, this isn't it. Instead, I've decided to release a better version of the story. In two weeks is when the first chapter will be out. The original will be up for a while, then I'm deleting it.

AG Out