Timeline Chapter 25: Deleted Scenes, a code lyoko fanfic

The Future isn't Written was the first fan fiction I wrote. I published the first chapter February 8, 2006. I had wrote the entire thing before I made my account on FF so I published the whole story fairly quickly and I released Past Present and Future fifteen days later. Two months later I published the first chapter of Time Line. Three years later I finished it. Now here's the question, what the fuck was I doing? I'm just lazy to tell you the truth. But finally the series is finished. Not my most reviewed stories ever, and not my personal favorite either. It does get boring reading about characters that I made up instead of sticking with the characters I had available with it being a fan fiction and all.

One reason I slowed down dramatically was because I over published. I was working on way to many stories at once. At one point, maybe even ten at one time. I have twenty published at the moment. Not the mention I'm working on my own novel. It's finished and now I'm in the editorial process. To once and for all end the series, deleted scenes. I've also been trying to find something else to call this chapter besides deleted scenes. Maybe 'things I didn't type?'

Deleted Scenes(things I didn't type) for Time Line.

1. The beginning was drastically different in the original outline. Travis died in childbirth, not Angela. The story focused more and Xi and Angela's relationship after the tragedy. Xi moved on, Angela didn't and they eventually divorce. The title was different too, but it was lost in the notebooks.

2. Even in the last outline I changed some things. The ending wasn't as happy for one. Xi went back to comfort Angela only to never arrive back in his time. The reason being that Angela and Travis both died in childbirth, and Xi had killed himself sometime later. The ending is narrated by Odd jr who was the one who received the blueprints for the computer in Hoppers will instead of Xi. He's had the plans for years but never thought of using them, till he wakes up again, remembering two time lines, but ultimately burns the blueprints to never repeat Xi's mistake. I came very close to publishing this instead, and part of me still wishes I did.

3. The reason some characters died was because they were supposed to die. Jean died before the war happened in both times. The methods are different but the fate is the same. Though some people live longer this time. Did anyone notice that Jean was named Jill in the last chapter. Not a mistake, just a subtle example of a different time line. Surprised no one commented.

4. There was supposed to me more light on the character Justin in the story. Justin is Xi's and Keiko's younger brother but for some reason I completely forgot about it, and the role he would play.

5. Xi and Carla toward the end when Carla was his secretary, there was originally supposed to be some romantic involvement. After they had the fall out in college though, I knew I wanted her back in, but not romantically. So she was written as a friend.

6. Xana was supposed to make some personal appearance, not just mentioned. I changed my mind so early in the process, it never happened.

7. Even in all of the drafts, Xi never went back to save Melinda.

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I've spent the last three years on this trilogy. The majority of it on one story. Chapter one was published April 30, 2006. The last chapter was published April 3, 2009. I got really lazy if you hadn't noticed.