This is not a new chapter to the story. Instead, this is my final, or at least second-to-last, Author's Note for this particular literary work.
What does that mean?
It means, and it pains me to say this, that this story has been officially abandoned. No, I hadn't died and stopped working on it, I just lost the outline and rough drafts due to a computer virus, and I hadn't found the spirit to continue the story.
Not only had I lost all the preliminary pieces of the story, but I'd gone back and checked the length of each chapter and found them all lacking. My chapters were all a couple thousand words too short, as far as I was concerned.
Though this story may be up for re-write some unforseen time in the distant future, for the time being it will be labled as an abandoned work.
Should anyone like the continue this story on their own, send me an e-mail, and I'll let you know whether you can continue it. Only one person is going to be allowed to continue the story, so once I agree to someone continuing it, I'm ignoring all further e-mails.
I'll most likely name the new author in another update as my ending notes for the story.
Sorry, and good luck finding another story,
-Ayanami Rei
(P.S. I've got a new story on the way, and each chapter will be longer. It won't be written in the same train of thought as this story, but if you feel like it, check it out.)