A/N: Hello, long time no see! Welcome to the first and only author's note until the very end of this story (unless something drastic should happen). If you want to just skip to the story, instead of reading this absolutely massive chunk of bold text then please skip to the next chapter.

I just wanted to explain myself and what is happening going forward with this rewrite. Yes, this is a rewrite and continuation of my 2011 fanfiction "A Future in the Past", and yes I have decided to change the name. I fell out of love with writing. I had been in a bad place for a long time and I was completely dissatisfied with everything I was doing. There was no drive in my life for years but, although I have the most awful track record for writing fanfiction, I feel like I'm finally getting somewhere now.

I have a little girl now; she's only five months old, but I feel like I need to start and finish things. I need to quit quitting things when life gets hard because I don't want to pass that on to her. I need her to do better than I have. And I feel like this might be a good place to start. If I can start with something like this fanfiction and finish it, then I might have the confidence to finish a lot of other things in my life. I might get some actual form of work ethic instead of going through the motions and letting things just happen to me, and that might be a good example to set to my daughter.

So I'm keeping the plot the same as AFitP, but I'm changing the name of the main protagonist (she was a self insert) and fleshing her out, so-to-speak, to make her a bigger and better character. I'm going to drag the story out and change the point of view so it has more than a 2-dimensional plot with actual solid characters and doesn't look like it was written by a 14y/o with no knowledge of the show she was writing about. UK Netflix finally brought back Merlin so I'm watching it all properly this time, in order, which gave me more inspiration to write this again. I was originally going to continue and edit AFitP and post new chapters but I want to keep it the way it is and just completely retcon it as I want to change so much of it.

I appreciate the support if you've journeyed over from the original because of my last published note, I hope I do you proud and there are no hard feelings if you don't fancy following this story. I completely understand. Almost 7 years have passed since the last time I updated and it's probably going to be drastically different in tone.

If you've just found me today, please DON'T take my track record with uploading into consideration. Like I've explained before, I was in a horrible place and I'm begging myself to do better this time.

The main thing I'm going to need from you, whether you're an old reader or a new one, is support. I have a constant need for validation, I'm sorry. I'm begging you (lame, I know), if you like this or have any kind of constructive criticism for this story, please leave a review. It would really help spur me on to complete this.

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

Beth.