This will be a combination of a rant and an explanation.

I will start with the rant.

I understand that many of you may have thought, or considered the possibility that this story is dead. I dont blame you for thinking that. However, that is not accurate. I've always kind of hated fanfic writers that say they don't owe the readers anything, because every writer owes their readers the choice of knowing the ending. If you don't want to owe your readers anything, than dont make your story public, keep it to yourself. Every reader deserves a chance to know how a story they are spending their time on ends.

With that in mind, know I intend to finish every story I start. Yet, we are all aware of the difference between intent, and actually doing. I want to say this now, if for some reason I decide to stop working on Timely, there would be one final update letting you know not only the reasons why (because you would be owed that), but also my intentions with the story. How I planned to end the story, ideas I had planned, but you guys would know the ending, I wouldn't leave you in the dark about it.

The reasons I have been unable to update Timely since 5/11/18, is because things got really hectic for me. First I got a new job about a week after that update, my dog was also sick around that same time and it required me to wake up at 2 am, then 4 am, to give her medicine. I also studied for a test in the summer that could give me college credits (I got 12 out of it!). I started school in August, and at the same time I got really sick (I'm not going into details on that just know that it was affecting me not just physically but mentally).

In between that I do remember pulling out my laptop to work on Timely, but I also remember not being able to come up with anything for the story. I would stare at my laptop screen wanting to work on the story but being stuck. Now, in hindsight, part of that may have been exhaustion, however once I did have a chance to breathe properly I felt kind of angry at the story for not letting me write (stupid logic I know).

I remember feeling really shitty about my writing and needing an ego boost, so I went and looked at the reviews for Beginnings and picked a story from those reviews to work on. I choose to properly work on Unexpected for a few reasons, the first being it's intended to be a short story, and from the moment I came up with the idea I knew how the story would go, how the characters were going to react. I just knew everything about it. Plus I also felt like people were more excited about that one than the other stories. The goal of working on Unexpected was to get me through my writers block, and it has, just not the way I thought it would.

While working on Unexpected I realized a few flaws in the way I had approached Timely. Due to it being the first ever thing I posted on here I uploaded it impulsively and nervously. I had no real intention with the story. Every action the characters have taken, every decision has been made impulsively on the spot, and I eventually wrote myself into a corner. When I posted the story it was more about getting over my nerves, not about sharing a story. That is only one issue though, I will be coming back soon to work on Timely, but things will be different.

I had initially separated the chapters for the sake of faster updates, and you guys saw how well that has worked out. This was done to not overwhelm me not just for you guys getting faster updates. Unfortunately this has made the chapter itself once all together feel disconnected (at least to me). It has also made me a lazy writer when it comes to updates, I give you guys so little and tell myself it's fine because once it's all together it adds up. That will no longer be the case. Not only do I intend on doing full chapter updates from now on, but I also intend to go back and rewrite the chapters I have up now and make them more cohesive. I plan on keeping the plot the same, however if I do change too much I will update you guys, probably with one more update like this one.

I never liked the title, maybe some of you do. That's fine. However I will admit I came up with it on the spot when I first uploaded the story, because I needed a title. I wanted a title that gave away what the story is about, Unexpected is about something unexpected. Beginnings is about story ideas I am working on, each chapter having the title they would have if they were to be multi chapter fics. Those titles, have meaning to them, and while Timely is a reference to not just the time travel, but the timing of events (that's the reasoning behind the title), I've never been fond of it. What this means is, that I am thinking of changing the title, but I really dont have one planned yet. I guess this is more of a warning of what could potentially happen. If you guys have any ideas, I would be happy to listen to them.

I also dont like the summary so that is going to change, it's not interesting and it is worded all weird. I still dont know why I changed it to that.

While this may make it seem like Timely will be worked on soon, that is not the case. I intend to finish Unexpected first, and it's not fair to you guys but Unexpected is halfway done already, and is all planned out. I also want to give my full attention to Timely and I cant do that if Unexpected is going to be on the back of my mind. Unfortunately, I'm not even going to be jumping into Unexpected anytime soon either. My sister is borrowing my laptop and when she plans on giving it back, I'm going to be out of the country right after. The only stories I will be working will be anything in Beginnings since I write those on my phone, in fact this was typed on my phone.

For those who read this whole update, thank you. For those who didn't, thank you still. I'm grateful for every one of you. For giving this story a chance, and for sticking with it even with how bad I am at updates.