Dear Readers,

Many of you probably won't bother reading this last author's note but for those of you who do, thank you. This is probably going to be really sappy but eh, whatever. I'll try to make it short.

So I'd like to start by just full out thanking all of you, each and every one of you for taking the time to read my story (wow this sounds like an award speech). I can't express how much it means to me that you gave my story a chance.

I started this fanfic almost a year ago (I can't believe it's already been that long!) and I started it for a reason.

Now I came across the Percy Jackson series back when I was in elementary/middle school and I was hooked right off the bat. I loved everything about it especially the growing relationship between a certain Seaweed Brain and Wise Girl. That's when I started reading fanfiction.

Now my 13 and 14 year old self would read for hours on end without stopping while waiting for Uncle Rick's new books to come out. I was happy just reading the stories for a while. I liked reading AU's the best. But then I started wondering what it would be like if I were to make up the story. I remember thinking that one day I wanted to be as good a writer as the other people on this site. I wanted to write my own stories but I never thought I was good enough. It took me three years to gather up the courage to finally publish a chapter on this site. The response I got from you guys was incredible.

I wrote this story initially thinking "maybe I can get like 20 reviews on this story, I hope so." The fact that I got OVER 400 reviews on my story brought me to tears. I didn't just write this story because I wanted to though.

My life outside this wonderful website is…well lets just say it's not sunshine and rainbows. I have a lot of stuff going on and I wanted kind of like an outlet, a break from everything and when I started writing I found it. When you guys review, favorite or follow me it makes me feel like I'm actually pretty good at something and I can't thank you enough.

I also want to thank the people out there who don't review, follow or favorite but read this story nonetheless (yes, I know you're out there, I was one of you a long time ago). You read my story and if you enjoyed it then I did my job.

Big thanks for those of you who reviewed ideas for this story. I couldn't use them all but I did incorporate a few and you guys were a big help when I had writer's block (which happens a lot).

This was my very first story and I can't believe it's over. I'll admit, some of the chapters I'm not too happy with but I'm not changing anything because this is always going to be the first big thing I've written.

This is getting really mushy so I'll try to wrap it up here. So again, huge THANK YOU to everyone and if you ever want to PM me for anything or just talk I'm always here (I just finished the second Trials of Apollo book and I need to rant so if you wanna talk about The Dark Prophecy please PM me cause I have no one to talk to!)

I have another story called The Rink so if you haven't yet check it out. I'll hopefully be posting more soon I'm just super busy right now (like I should be studying but I'm writing this…oops).

I have like a trillion more AU's I've been wanting to write but I know I should stick to just one story at a time (stupid school, taking all my time!) So this is only the very beginning for me. With that being said…

The Marine and The Veterinarian is now complete.

Thank you and I love you!

-M