Regarding Dark Heart, I have deleted the last two chapters. Why? Because it was plagiarized. Yes, the last chapter I stole from a story I can't remember anymore from a site that I can't find anymore. Although I can tell you it was a Buffy fanfiction site.

At the same time, I hope you can forgive me. I wrote Dark Heart when I was 12. Most of the story is my own. I'm not sure what really came over me in the last chapter; perhaps it was because the plot in Dark Heart was evidently thinning and weak, and I wanted it to end with an explosive bang. It was probably also because I did not want to write the story anymore, so I simply took someone else's. At 12 and 13, morals and taking pride in writing my own work did not mean very much to me. At any rate, I was very in the wrong. I had some other plagiarized stories on as well – they are all deleted now.

I am now 16. One may want to ask, why did it take you so long? It wasn't because I'd left fanfiction and was too lazy to return and delete the stories, because after the plagiarized fact I came back to post more stories, although I have pretty much left fanfiction as of maybe a year and a half ago. It wasn't because I'd forgotten – how could I? It also wasn't because I wanted to wait until I was a dinosaur on fanfiction, and the story mostly forgotten, so I could delete these shameful acts in peace. If that were so I would not be writing this note. I suppose there isn't really a reason I can rationalize, except that the other day I received an e-mail from a fan asking when I would update my Golden Sun story Silence, and I remembered and realized I had to return and try to make amends.

So, to any of you who read this: I am truly, deeply sorry. I betrayed your trust in me unscrupulously. All the same, I hope you can forgive me, and look beyond this when reading my other fanfiction, if you choose to do so. Everything still left on my account is completely and totally mine. And in the future, if the future entails me coming back to write fanfiction again, all work will be all mine. I have nothing to prove that to you except my word, but I hope that this time, you can trust my word.