I'll get straight to the point.

Chain of Fate has been unresponsive for months now, which I can only assume means something happened, either to her or in her life, that has stopped her from contacting me or finishing the fanfiction. First off, let's all hope that she is alright, and that the reason isn't too drastic.

Unfortunately at this point, unless she returns, I have to cancel the reboot for "Trust". She has all of the re-worked plot and re-written chapters, so even if I wanted to continue without her, I couldn't. The reason I teamed up with her in the first place was because I had hoped I could see this fic live on without having to focus on it too much.

If anyone else wants to take it up, go ahead, I'm all for it. But I won't be doing anymore team ups, so I'm sorry to say you'd be on your own.

Here are the major plot points we were going to use:

- Toris spends a holiday with his friends, and they find physical signs of his past abuse

- Toris' flashbacks become more severe, his friends take notice

- Either Felix or Alfred would've become a love interest (we were going to have a poll, but you can just choose)

- Toris is mistaken for a girl by a group of thugs and is nearly taken advantage of (there's that scene from the last notice), but Alfred comes to save the day! (This scene exists whether he's the love interest or not, but it defines their relationship in different ways.)

- Lots of fluffy filler chapters that have to do with accepting yourself and letting others in

- Then (DUN DUN DUN) Ivan shows back up and wants to reclaim custody of Toris

- Lots of emotions and legal stuffs (and a necessary scene where Alfred/Felix punches Ivan in the face, teehee~)

- Of course, Ivan eventually leaves, and everything is rainbows again

- Skip to junior year and Toris is happily dating Felix/Alfred

- Then Toris' aunt (Ukraine) arrives with her two sons (little Estonia & Latvia) and wants to adopt him, so he can finally have a real family (she was too poor when he was younger to support him)

- Big touchy-feely epilogue where Toris is surrounded by people who love him~~~