Hello everybody. I'm afraid the dread that every reader experiences when they see the words "Author's Note" isn't unfounded. I'm unfortunately here to announce that this story is going on hiatus for the foreseeable future.

For those of you who want to leave now because you've gotten the important news, go ahead. But for those of you who want to stick around to hear explanations (and I know that I'm one of those people so I don't doubt that there are more of you) keep reading.

A few months ago, my beta and best friend, KatsatheGraceling, was having some issues writing one of her stories. I gave her what I believed to be the best advice I could- Write for fun. If you're not writing because you want to, what's the point? However much you may believe so, your readers don't control your life and, though it hurts to say, you really don't owe them anything. They are strangers reading a stranger's work.

It wasn't until a couple days ago that I realized that the same philosophy applied to me. It hurt to admit that for nearly half a year now, I really haven't had any fun writing this story. I had so many great plans, ones that I still hope get written eventually, but that I can't find myself writing at the present time. I would reluctantly begin a new chapter every afternoon, but I realized that my writing became choppy, uneven, and uneventful (this was around the time that Kaylee, Simon, and River were stranded on the planet. I'm sorry for those absolutely horrid chapters. I plan on going through later and fixing so many things in this story). I tried to give myself a bit of a break, especially as I got involved with One Act and AP exams coming up. When I tried to get back into the story more, it was with a clearer head and way better writing thanks to writing a couple other fics during that break, including Possessed (if you've read it) which is a work I'm extremely proud of with a sequel that I'm working on as well.

Anyways, those well written chapters were hard to get out on a weekly bases and I found myself slipping from my promised Sunday posting again. I had hoped that my trip to Europe (which was absolutely incredible!) would give me the time to just think and plan the story without feeling pressured to write the chapters themselves. But then I come home and I can't write any more than I could before hand.

I also found myself facing real life. Considering I'm average aged for this site to be writing (and while we might all be a little crazy, I doubt many creeps come to a fanfiction website to find people. Especially not in an author's note twenty-some chapters in), I don't have a huge issue saying that I'm going to be a high school senior next year. College applications open in a week, which is INSANE. I also have marching band starting August 3rd (because we're crazy in America, foreign readers). I'm taking five AP classes as well as a Dual Credit class this year. No sane person would put that on themselves, but what can I say?

Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that not only am I not finding any will to write this story, I also have ready-made excuses for not doing so and I'm afraid that all this story would be reduced to is a chapter every month with a million excuses in between. I don't want to drag it out for you guys.

When it occurred to me that I should put this story on hiatus, I talked to Katsa. She reminded me of the same advice I had given her and told me to think about myself for once. I'm the sort of person who felt immensely guilty at not giving you guys a chapter every week and she reminded me that as much as I feel like I should, I am not required to write on a given schedule. I need to write when I feel like it, or I'm not going to be happy.

And so we come to me writing this note, explaining my thoughts in the small hope that at least a couple of you will understand. Please believe me when I say that I don't want to leave this story as it is. If I realize in a year or so that I really have no desire to finish, I'll post an outline of how I imagined the rest of the story going. On the other hand, if somebody gets really impatient for that and thinks that they can do a better job themselves, PM me and we'll see if we can work it out so you can finish writing it so that everybody can enjoy. However, I don't want some half-assed job. I'd only accept somebody finishing this story if they truly want to and are willing to at least listen to what I had intended (although if they have better ideas, I'd be happy to hear them).

This story has been one of my biggest projects ever and I hate to leave it on this note, but I feel that for my own mental health, I have to. I'm sorry for disappointing you all. I'd like to make a final thank you to everybody who has followed, favorited, and reviewed over the course of this story. I'm especially sorry to Fortune's Choice, who followed and favorited, as well to Wildelven Pathfinder and Church 017 for following since the last chapter. I'm sorry that this is that first alert that you guys get. And one last thank you to DarowdrynofArcadia for being my last review.

Till the next time

Pointeofdance