Hey, everyone.

I know you guys have been waiting a long time for an update. Someone PM'd me a while back asking for one, and honestly I didn't know what I would say.

So here I am, months later, with an answer.I started this story, as most of you know in 2011 at the age of 16 after just having binged through the Darkest Powers trilogy for the first time.

It's now March 1st, 2020 nearly 9 years later. I'm 24. I've grown a lot as a person and a writer and I've clung to this story like a life line during my hardest moments, even when I wasn't writing.

TDP was my favorite book series from the moment I read it. I wanted to do it justice with this fanfiction. I wanted it to be the best it could be. I put my heart and soul into what is here, into planning the rest of the story, the mini stories, and a sequel that I had planned.

From this story sprang quite a few OC's, some of which have become my favorites.I mentioned in a previous update that this story had taken on a life of its own...

What I mean by that is, somewhere along the line, Mason and Lucy spun their own story. I've got family notes, original lore, complex back stories, plans for an actual published book.Marlee, Dylan, and Marigold are going to be featured in Mason and Lucy's story as well as plenty of new characters.

This is it! I'm going to do the writer thing!For a long time, my goal was to keep working on this because this fanfic meant so much to me. It still does, but Mason means more to me than anything else I've ever written in my entire life. His story deserves to be told in full, in something more than a fanfiction.

But I didn't want to quit. I didn't want to let my followers down. I didn't want to give up on something that I poured so much of myself into.

So I've been trying to figure out how I can keep fanfic Mason and canon Mason (and all of my other OCs) separate so I can continue Afterward.And I've been unsuccessful.

So much of Mason and Lucy's story is wrapped up in this fanfic that taking them out of the equation means coming up with an almost entirely new plot. Changing Mason and Lucy to fit the story means changing the plot and the characters themselves and that's not something I want to do.

After thinking about this long and hard, with a heavy heart, I'm making the decision to discontinue this fanfic. Abandon is too harsh a word and something I don't feel I'm doing. It's still mine. I'm not throwing it in the garbage. The Darkest Powers, Afterward, will always be a part of me and a part of Mason, Lucy, Marlee and the others.

I feel like I'm letting you all down, especially those of you have have been following since the beginning. If you feel that way, I am truly sorry.

If you would like to know more about what was going to happen to Derek, Simon, Chloe and Tori in the fanfic please, please PM me and I will be happy to give you a detailed run down of what I had planned.

If you've grown as attached to Mason, Lucy, and Marlee as I have, please follow me on twitter (@denver_underly) for writing updates, blog posts, and more. I'm trying to build a following there because apparently publishers want prospective authors to have a social media following of 2,000 or more. Feel free to DM me there as well and I'll respond ASAP.

Thank you so much for supporting me and this fanfic this far. It has meant the world to me.

I love you all.

Best wishes,

Kit