Blue of the Darkest Shade. – Introduction.

Hi fanfic familia,

Have I lost my mind to start ANOTHER story? Why, yes... yes I have.

This is a new story that I am working on. A fanfic author, Deaconlost, pitched the idea of an AU to my story 50 Shades: Darkness to Light. If you have not read that story, don't fret. I'm going to give a small synopsis here to give you the premise along how this story will be different.

Darkness to Light

Christian Grey is a 30 year old multi-billionaire who has been struggling with the BDSM lifestyle for a few years. Anastasia Steele is a 24 year old, recent college graduate, determined to create an identity away from her family after years of trauma.

In Darkness to Light, Raymond Steele marries Nita (real name Noor) Karim, a Kashmiri-Indian woman when Ana is only 10 years old. Nita's family comes from money and they embrace Ana as their own. At the age of 17, Ana and Ray are involved in a car accident where Ray loses his life. Ana survives and goes through a grueling recovery, which causes her to defer college till she is almost 20. However, the weekend before she goes off to college she is brutally raped in a club with no memory of who did it until a few months later. Even after finding out, she keeps it from the family for fear of tearing the family she loves so much, apart along with the fact that she has no proof. When she meets Christian, she starts to gain the strength to slowly tell her family and confront her rapist once and for all. However, we find out later in the story that Christian happened to be at the club with Elena that night she was raped. D-R-A-M-A.

Blue of the Darkest Shade

What if Ana wasn't raped, what if Christian saved her just in time? How would that all play out? We're talking about CG and AS from 5 years prior to Darkness to Light. This story will be taking place in the year 2015 in both Seattle and San Francisco. Both characters would have slightly different personalities. Ana for one will not be how she was in Darkness to Light and Christian will be what I like to call, supremely irritable... Would they immediately fall in love or would it take some time? Who knows? This story will have triggering themes in the first few chapters but then it'll be relatively smooth sailing.

There is some information and themes that will be repeated in this story from Darnkess to Light but of course will manifest differently. Hopefully for those of you who have read the other story, won't find it boring.

I was listening to this song called Flames by the girl duo BOY when writing out the plotline to the story and it kind of helped me get into the mindset of how AS and CG battle their demons in their mind.

I'm listing the characters below and how they are all related for those of you who are new to this story. For my Darkness to Light familia, y'all know the drill so feel free to skip ahead. However, unlike the other story, I am including pronunciations in this little intro... so you may want to check it out.

Christian Trevelyan-Grey

Grace Trevelyan-Grey

Carrick Grey

Elliot Samuel Grey

Mia Antoinette Grey

Jason Taylor

Luke Sawyer

Elena Lincoln

Phoebe Richmond (CG's current sub)

Anastasia Rose Steele

Raymond Steele

Noor 'Nita' Karim-Steele (Ray's second wife)

Ana speaks 4 languages. English, Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi. She has no real contact with Carla for the most part. She does not know who her biological father is.

Nita's family is South Asian. The family is Half Muslim and Half Hindu. They follow a moral code but fundamentally are not traditionally conservative, at least not the younger generation. However, general south Asian values are definitely prevalent in terms of traditions and respecting elders etc.

Nita's parents are Aisha Hasan-Karim and Abdul Karim. Karim is pronounced as 'kareem'. Ana calls Aisha, Nani (pronounced as Naani) which means maternal grandmother and Abdul Karim, Nana (pronounced as Naana) which means maternal grandfather. They will be referred to in the story as Nani and Nana for the most part.

Alia Karim-Kapadia (Nita's sister). Alia is pronounced as 'aaliya'. Kapadia is pronounced as 'kapaadiya'

Ana calls her Alia Khala. The world Khala means mother's sister or sister like cousin/friend in Urdu.

Rish Kapadia (Alia's husband)

Vishaal Abdul Kapadia & Kiran Kapadia. Kiran is pronounced as 'keerun'.

Ana calls Vishaal – Vishaal Bhai (pronounced as bhaayi or bhye. It means brother in Urdu and Hindi.)

She calls Kiran, K-apa. The word Apa (pronounced as aapa - means elder sister in Urdu and Hindi.)

Kiran is dating Daniel Wetherington.

Vishaal and Kiran are Alia and Rish's children. Ana looks up to them as her siblings and they are extremely close.

Rania Karim. (prounounced as raaniya). Rania is directly related to Nana. She is his late sisters granddaughter. Ana calls her Raniapa Rania is engaged to Raees (pronounced as Ray-eece).

She also has two younger siblings. A brother named Ahad and a sister named Priya, both are younger than Ana but might not make an appearance in this story. They did briefly in Darkness to Light.

Karan Kapadia and Aashu Kapadia. These two siblings are Vishaal and Kiran's paternal cousins. Their dad's brother Arsh Kapadia's children.

(Karan is pronounced as Curren, like current without the T.)

Vishaal is the oldest cousin. He is 28. Occupation: Lawyer/Mergers and Acquisitions AHAK and KGI

Kiran is 25. Occupation: Lawyer/Mergers and Acquisitions for AHAK and KGI

Rania is also 25. Occupation: Lawyer/ Internal Legal counsel for AHAK

Karan is 26. Occupation: Lawyer/Mergers and Acquisitions for AHAK and KGI

Ana is 19. Occupation: College Student English Literature

Aashu is 18. Occupation: College Student Pre-Law

Ahad is 18. Occupation: College Student – Pre-Med

Priya is 15. Occupation: Highschool

Ana calls them all of them her cousins. They are all close not just because of being closer in age but also due to the nature of the family businesses. All the older cousins have been involved in the family businesses from a younger age.

The Karim's are into hospitality and real estate and own a company called AHAK International based in the USA and Europe for the most part.

The Kapadia's are into a little bit of everything. They own a company called Kapadia Global Industries, KGI is based in India and mostly South East Asia.

Additional characters; Katherine Kavanagh and Jose Rodriguez. I'm going to try and bring them back. I have some ideas.

Hit me with any more questions you may have. I will update this chapter with responses for the missing info if anything.

I'll post the first chapter in a few hours or tomorrow. This could also be a disaster of a story so buckle up friends.