"No," Wren exclaimed. "You can't kill of Baz! Think about all the times you wrote about Bazmon… All of it will mean nothing if you kill him at the end!"
"You don't get it. I don't want to look cheesy. I mean, it'll be cheesier than parmesan if I give them a happily ever after. Something dramatic needs to happen - something that'll end the story with a punch." Cath was getting frustrated. She was right: Wren didn't get it at all. A happy ending would be the worst way to do it. It would disappoint people, Magicath fans. But of course, she was divided.
First of all, she wanted Carry On, Simon to have the ending it deserved, after two whole years of regular updates on . She'd wrote for hours almost every night, sometimes - although she wasn't proud of it - skipping homework for some Simon and Baz time. The book was already at least twice as thick as anything the G.T.L had wrote about them. There was really a lot of effort put into this one story. Now, if the ending somehow didn't satisfy, she would never be able to change it. She didn't have time, anyway. In nine days, the last book - the last installement in the original series - would come out, and none of the stuff Cath had ever written would mean anything. It would probably be a completely different ending from the one Cath was about to write. The blinking cursor was looking right at her, mockingly. Nobody believed she had the guts to kill her favourite character, including herself.
"But what about the fanfic? You said yourself that fan fiction is all about being able to stay in the world mages for as long as you like. You said that the stories never have to end, unlike the real books, since people can always come up with new plots, introduce new people, change the behaviour of the old ones. What is gonna happen if you kill Baz? You practiaclly influence every single fic that anyone ever writes about Simon Snow these days! If you kill him off, that'll be it. There'll be nothing left to the imagination. No leeway to dream up new dialouge. It'll be over, and the thousands of people that read our stuff will feel like they've reached the end of it - I'll feel like that. Because, for al those people, your story is the real deal. it's where they get their inspiration from. Just give them a happy ending, so that we can all keep imagining their future."
Cath didn't know what to say to what she'd just heard. Wren was close to tears over a bloody piece of fiction, but it made sense: they had lived their childhood with Baz. It'd be like killing a best friend. She brushed her fingers across the keyboard, soaking in all the letters, trying to morph them into words. Sigh. Nothing would be the same now. She didn't think she would want to live in the world of Mages anymore, after what she was about to write and upload.
"Sometimes," she said to Wren, "it's more about the journey than the destination".