I've done this once before, dear readers, and I hope you will not think me crass for posting nothing but an author's note here in place of a chapter, but I needed a place to explain why it appears this story is suddenly short two chapters.
My cowriter knittycat99 and I wrote a story last year about Finn and Blaine and how they met in Irene's coffeehouse. At the time I did not think much of Blaine, but in the course of writing the story, I fell in love with these two together and their intense connection. It made our lives a little crazy, revising the entire scope of the Donutverse in light of this new relationship, but that's what often happens in poly families. Thus the Coffeehouse story was born.
Originally we were going to include one chapter of the Coffeehouse between episodes of Fingers of Your Fire, but as I began writing the story, it became clear that there is just too much going on, with too many people, for anybody to notice how awesome Finn and Blaine are. So, we're relocating the Coffeehouse interludes and giving them their own story. You'll see that posted this week as There's an Awful Lot of Breathing Room, But I Can Hardly Move.
I don't want to spoil too much, but as it turns out, Blaine is exactly what Finn, Puck and Kurt need. You'll see more of Finn and Blaine, and also Puck/Blaine (and Kurt/Blaine, kind of!) in the next Donutverse story, Dying in America to Come Into Our Own, set in the summer of 2010 after sophomore year.
By moving Finn/Blaine into their own story, I expect to be able to focus more on the three boys' relationship here in Fingers of Your Fire. I hope that helps you, dear readers, to follow the story better. In the meantime, please do give Breathing Room a try. Also, if you like Irene, you can see a 16-years-younger version of her in my side story, Plant Your Love and Let It Grow.
Thank you to those of you who have stuck with the Donutverse through my months of inactivity. There's so much more story to tell. Here are my promises:
- The three boys will end up together.
- While I'm invested in a happy ending, there is lots and lots of angst to come.
- I will continue to follow canon and scripts as closely as possible, and to turn canon On Its Ear with joy and abandon. Yes, this means Finn will propose to Rachel, so keep that in mind - but also keep in mind that is many years away.
- I won't ever just give up writing in the middle of a story. It just might take me a while to get back to it if I'm in the middle of My Complicated Life.
If the discipline bothers you, please consider reading something else. I won't apologize for my kinks, and this has a Mature rating for a reason. Gold Mine, Road Trip, 1000 Sarahs and Terrific, Radiant, Humble have zero discipline.
You can get lots of spoilers and clues about what the hell we're doing by reading the futurefic Dance on A Narrow Ledge (ostensibly Finn/Kurt/Mike, but all Donutverse relationships are intact there!).
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-amy
