Ok… first of all... I am sooo sorry. I'm ashamed of myself! I always hated it when authors just stopped writing… in the middle of a story. I told myself that I would NEVER do this, but it's just so incredibly hard to start a story up again once you've stopped. And believe me I have tried! I get the occasional review still and whenever one comes, I sit myself down and I force myself to write to please the reviewer, but all my original plans for this story have been long forgotten and I'm struggling to find not only new plans, but new inspiration. Because it's hard to write without actually wanting to. I really do want to want to write, but I just can't force myself to want to.

But don't think I'm giving up on this! I promise I wont! And I know I promised before that I'd update within a few weeks and I didn't, but I honestly will update as soon as I can. I'm slowly getting through this chapter bit by bit and I'm gonna have a sit down over Easter to think through where I want this story to go. And once I've done that it'll be A LOT easier.

Just one last thing I want to clear up before I stop boring you… I know I decided before that this is gonna be a Holly/Artemis story, and I'm still happy to do that if it's what you want BUT, I've acknowledged the fact that my WAY too long absence has obviously lost me some of my old reviewers and as much as I really hope that hasn't happened, it probably has. And my writing has to do two things. 1. Appeal to me and 2. Appeal to my readers. Since I don't particularly mind whether this is a H/A or not, I'm basing it on number 2. And if I have any new readers after posting this and my old ones have gone (hopefully not...), then I'm gonna have to write to appeal to them. So I just wanna know if your all still happy with it being H/A.

If it does stick as H/A then I'm gonna have to decide how to deal with the life-expectancy difference… I had a plan for getting around it before which I vaguely remember but it's just gonna be so hard to do. But I'm up to doing it so long as that's what you all want. So please, review so I know. I honestly will try and get this up within the next month – but I'm not promising anything because I'm not that reliable.

So once again, I'm so sorry for this and I hope you haven't all forgotten this story and that you won't all kill me now. I really do appreciate all the reviews you've sent me, and the support I've had for this so far. I know I've kinda let you all done but I will finish this, and I will hopefully make it good enough to make up for the long pause in writing.

So I'll speak to you all soon, and thanks everyone so much for your reviews. They really do make my day!