To the readers:
First of all, let me apologize for my long absence. I hadn't been doing well with my studies, and I guess it was only appropriate to take time off from fanfiction writing in order to pull up my barely surviving grades. Well, as anyone can see, the finals is done and I am back, though I can say that the long period without writing just worsened my **writer's draught.

If anyone is still interested in this story, please let me know which from my three 'plans' is best for you:

1) I'll continue writing Shades of Gray (since I already have a clear idea of what would happen and how the story would go) but I'll post it much later on in the year, when Christmas would be near, after all, this IS a Christmas fic...
2) I'll continue writing Shades of Gray, and I'll post the chapters as soon as Tiy proofreads them EVEN IF the timing would seem badly chosen...
3) And if I don't get any feedback, I'll assume that no one is reading this story anymore, therefore, I am free to delete this from my file and FF.net profile.

Thank you for your time, and again, I'm terribly sorry for taking so long.
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Rach
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**The term 'writer's draught' was used because it has been so long since I last wrote a decent story.