I am hereby officially abandoning my efforts on chapter 5. I honestly hate the episode it's based on, it's been fighting me for months, it was stupidly short, and it doesn't add anything I couldn't add somewhere else.

I've been reading a lot lately, and I've realized a few things about how I've been writing this story, and they're not good. This was really just going to be a standard retread of canon except with added vampire, there were some storytelling decisions made that I thought were weird, and I went and followed the same path anyway. It's time I lived up to the summary and changed things dramatically.

so yes, I'm gonna start working on what was chapter six now. This is where everything changed in the original story, but I have decided that the way they changed was stupid and I'm not going to do that, so I have to come up with my own thing

what this means for you is a rather long wait because, as I may have said before, I have no idea what I'm doing, so figuring out where I want to go from here is gonna take a while, and then actually writing it is gonna take longer.

This ain't dead yet folks, it's just going on the back burner while I work on the things that are actually my own ideas