Wormwood and Asphodel

by MournfulSeverity

Severus hadn't expected this. Hadn't expected the fulfilment of the prophecy, the fall of Lord Voldemort, and certainly not Lily returning to his life. But, as time drags on they learn that war has a cost that demands to be paid. A price of blood, of lives, of family, and not all of them can be spared. Abandoned

51. Chapter 51

Unfortunately this is not an update, but an explanation. The lot of you have been such loyal readers and followers that I feel you deserve as much.

I've thought about this for sometime now and it was a decision I never wanted to make, but the fact of the matter is I am not the same person I was when I began this story or even when I last updated it. I had it planned out, but I simply feel I can no longer continue to write it.

I did in fact have surgery last June, but that's not where things ended for me. It happened just shortly after the final straw for my marriage and the months that followed brought divorce and the realization that I have spent the last seven years being abused. That I don't know what love truly is. This is where I'd say I don't know who I am anymore, but I think the more accurate way of putting it is that for the first time I'm finally discovering who I am.

I have so much trauma I need to heal from and so much I need to learn and relearn, and right now this story feels like a part of me that no longer exists and I'm too broken to reconnect with it. I've tried so many times in the months that have passed. Maybe one day I will come back to WAA, but right now, and for the foreseeable future, I'm considering it abandoned.

Thank you all so much for your continued support and love over the past two years. It has meant the world to me.