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I incited a bit of confusion with my Author's Note at the top of Part 24 (the last scene), confusion I wish now to remedy.

First and foremost, 'Part 24: Memorys' was the final scene of "When Dawn Comes" as I, the author, had intended and planned from very near the beginning.

For those of you who felt it was a "cop-out from an author who is bored with their story and just wants to get it over with" or that I "became bored with the piece and decided to kill off the character for no apparent reason" I'd like you to know that the final scene was written some four months ago (it was the scenes in the middle that remained to be written over time). It was not rushed, it was not forced and it was certainly not written to just get rid of the story. I had put FAR to much effort into this story to merely throw it away on an ending I did not think was worthy of it. I am in-fact highly offended by such accusations; wether or not offence was intended.

Still reading? Good.

As I stated at the beginning of 'Part 24: Memorys', "This is where I intended the story to finish" (once more I apologise for the confusion this statement caused). I'm going to have to ramble a little here to explain this sentence.

While I was nearing the end of the story I realised quite obviously that I would receive a very negative backlash for finishing it where I had always planed to. And the thought of writing one of those 'happily ever after' epilogues wormed it's way into my mind. Since then I have been battling with some very annoying voices as I tried to decide on wether to writing this scene or to leave it.

I do not have a proof-reader, I do not have anyone I know who reads my story, I do not have anyone else's opinions to rely on, which made the dilemma much harder to deal with for me.

I liked the original ending, it adds something to the story that I as a writer wanted to display. But as a reader I would have thrown things at my computer screen, or at least left with a feeling of irksome discontent, this made me want to post an epilogue. And unfortunately by the time I was ready to post 'Part 24' I had not yet decided which path to follow. This is what prompted my very confusing Authors Note.

Now my final decision. And maybe none of you will agree with this, but in my endeavour to make up for that stupid Authors Note I've made a compromise.

My compromise stands thus:

'Part 24: Memorys' is the ending to "When Dawn Comes" as far as I, the author, am concerned. This will remain the official ending to this story.

'Part 25a: unnamed' is a possible epilogue to "When Dawn Comes" which I have written.

'Part 25b: unnamed' is a different possible epilogue to "When Dawn comes" which I have also written.

And for the fun of it, since I'm putting up multiple endings I invite anyone to write another ending to this story and I'll post it up as well (there are plenty more letters in the alphabet) and I'd love to see how other people wanted it to end.

Now I've said all of that, I'm going to disappoint you. Neither epilogue will be posted for a while... my computer was stolen while I was away, along with both already written epilogues and I must wait for a new computer before I can retrieve the files. And trust me I didn't plan to have my computer stolen and I'm sure I'm more upset about this then any of you.

Kimra

And just quickly a very very big thank you to those people who despite the imperfect ending still liked it (and some of you even went so far as to compliment it and my writing... What are you people on?). It mean's a great deal to me that some of you liked this ending or at least didn't chose to criticise it.

Mar's Fire, Moonlit, Angelgirlie805, Innocent Dreamer, Jo-Jo, SailorSpectra, Bluejello, LilMoonGoddess, Chibi-Sugababy, Tina E. Telford, Marni, and anyone I missed (because it's late and I probably missed some of you... gomen)