Hi!

Before you jump to conclusions, NO this isn't an AN about this story being abandoned, etc. I am NOT cancelling or stopping this story whatsoever!

The reason for this AN is actually to do with chapters 1-10 (or more specifically 2-10)

Now I am about 50% complete with chapter 11, it is a more action filled (and, well bloody chapter) without giving too much away, and you will see what happened to Jacqueline after she was kidnapped, in chapter 11.

The reason I brought up chapter's 2-10, is because I have come to a conclusion in regards to a certain plot element/storyline.

When I first published this story, I had a plot planned out for the character Coraline to follow throughout the season 1 and 2 arc of the story and in regards to Abigail.

I also had a plot planned out for Connor to follow in the story, in regards to Abigail (before you ask, NO it was not to ship them. I am not shipping them whatsoever, besides the fact I like Connor and Megan, Abigail is a lesbian )

However roughly around the time I posted chapter 8, I began to grow concerned as I saw the two plotlines (Connor's and Coraline's) begin to clash at certain points in the future arcs of the story, and saw that the ideas and scenes I had in mind (like far into the story even) were beginning to clash and take away from one another.

What I mean is, I saw Coraline's presence and interaction taking away from what I wanted to do with Connor, and vice versa.

And I decided for the good of the story, I would need to choose one to focus on, not both of them, as the nature of the plot lines and characters arcs were just too combative against one another.

So after posting chapter 10, I began weighing up which character to focus on, and it didn't take much to arrive at Connor's plot being the one to keep.

Now this did present a slight dilemma, as I briefly thought of going back and having to remove Coraline completely from chapters 2-10. which would have been a huge pain in the ass, and I would need to write a ton of new scenes to take their place, or rewrite huge huge chunks of scenes to fit around removing her.

But I came to a compromise, instead of removing her character entirely, I would merely tweak said scenes (and do some light edits and minor rewrites to scenes)

Now you may ask how this would work/change the story, well since I am changing the original plot concerning Coraline, and changing it. I see no harm in sharing the original backstory of how her character ended up living with Abigail.

For those of you who have seen the Coraline film, or even read the book, you will know about the main antagonist/villain of Coraline, namely The Other Mother/The Beldam, a dark horrific creature who takes the form of Coraline's mother (albeit with button eyes) and seeks to entice Coraline to stay in her world she created (accessible through a tiny door in Coraline's home) with promises of a happy and fun life.

In truth, the beldam wants to sow buttons into her eyes, and suck out Coraline's life and soul, and to feed off the young girl (Kind of like Pennywise from Stephen King's IT when you think about it) and has done so to children in the past, leaving them trapped as Ghost's in her world, unable to rest.

In the film, Coraline eventually discovers this, and refuses to comply, challenging the Beldam and eventually escaping her world, however the Beldam's severed hand is able to escape through the doorway and chase after her, leading to Coraline and her friend smashing the hand, and tossing it down a well with the key to the door, ensuring The Beldam is trapped forever, which would lead to her death via starvation.

Now! How this ties in with Young Justice Dark, It was going to be revealed in a flashback that shortly after her mother's death, Abigail wound up entering the Other Mother's world, while temporarily staying in the house that Coraline would years later also be in.

The other mother, would have taken on the form of Sindella, and like she did before with others, try and convince her to stay, so she could eventually feed off her and kill her. This would also lead to Olivia ending up their as well (as Olivia had also lost her own mother at a young age) However, Abigail and Olivia figured out something was wrong, and tried to escape.

They did end up escaping by the skin of their teeth, but were frightened and scared by the experience. (being younger than Coraline was when she did it) and made a vow not to speak of what happened (both afraid that if they told their father's, John Constantine and Richie Simpson, that they could possibly wind up hurt, or worse, dead like their mothers were)

(Remember, they were very young at the time, and this would seem like a real fear.)

This however later leads to Abigail venturing back there years later, shortly after Coraline defeated the Beldam, and upon meeting the young girl and sharing that she knew the truth, than magically sealed the well, making sure the hand and key would remain down there.

Unbeknownst to both of them, the hand had already reassembled itself and escaped, with the key. That night Coraline was horrified when the Beldam escaped, and cornered her and her parents, having reattached her hand, she than proceeded to kill Coraline's father, Charlie before turning her sights on the remaining two.

However Abigail appears to stop her, having sensed her breaching through into the normal world, but doesn't get there before The Beldam is able to mortally wound Coraline's mother, Mel who was protecting Coraline.

Abigail than proceeded to battle the Beldam, defeating the entity and killing her for good.

After the death of her parents, and having nowhere else to go, Abigail (after much deliberation) took the young girl in, as well as feeling somewhat guilty, over the fact that if she and Olivia had in fact revealed the Beldam when they were younger, it would be more than likely that their fathers could have defeated her, and thus Coraline would still have her parents.

THAT was the originally backstory for why Coraline was living with Abigail.

Now, as I said, I am going to be going back, and instead of erasing her from the story and having to go through the process of writing in all new scenes, I am going to tweak it slightly.

The new slightly edited backstory will be mostly the same as above, EXCEPT, that Abigail will have arrived in time to save both of Coraline's parents that day.

And in the present of the story, the edited scenes will have Coraline not living with Abigail, but merely staying with her for a few days while her parents are away on business.

This way I can tweak and edit the scenes slightly, while not having to completely rewrite them.

I am also going to be introducing a character (due to this change in Coraline's plot in the story) earlier than initially planned. The character in question is called Adaeze Midnite, and she was originally to be introduced in chapter 13, but I will be having her appear earlier.

Now, that was the main reason for this AN being posted.

I will be putting in the edits in regards to Coraline, before I go ahead with posting chapter 11, when it is finished, as said above I am about 50% through the next chapter, I am hoping to get it up soon, but no exact date can be given due to IRL commitments that take up my time.

This AN will also be taken down in future, sometime after I post chapter 11.