So...

I'll be straight with you and not beat around the bush. There will be no chapter this week because of three reasons

1. I'm very tired (got an increased workload which leaves me little time to sift through the work that I've written and write the way that I like to)

2. General lack of direction or ideas, despite help from a few readers for ideas (TheBaz in particular was extremely helpful with his suggestion and I cannot thank him enough). I need some time to work out the direction I want the story to go in because I've really just been flying by the seat of my pants the whole way through (which is something you really shouldn't do for a story unless its a episodic or comedic).

3rd and finally is that I realised that after I'd finished the chapter I was supposed to post this week that it would work better with a buffer chapter before it and not after (by buffer I mean something to make the transition happening smoother and more believable).

I thank you for your patience and hopefully by this time next week I'll have the chapter ready and waiting alongside the second (finished) chapter posted a week earlier than schedule as an apology of sorts for the wait.