A/N: Sorry, no new chapter :( I'm posting this as a response to a very insulting "review" I received this morning that basically told me I should go straight to hell for not updating this story. To the person who wrote that: I'm truly sorry you're so disappointed. I would love to continue this story, and hopefully will someday, but for a long time now I've had zero inspiration for it. None. The reason I keep the story up is so people can at least read what I have gotten done—I figure something is better than nothing. But for you to say that I'm lazy and imply that I'm somehow not working on this just to spite you and other readers is WAY over the line and preposterous at that. It really hurt to read that, and it's not the first time you've accused me of such. The first time I kept my mouth shut. This time, not so much…

I started this story partly as an experiment, to see if I could write short chapters based on people's story requests, and party as a silly story to work on when I was having writer's block on other stories. The problem is that I hit writer's block on THIS story and have never been able to get over it. So I stopped working on it. Then I began working on fic challenges over on Live Journal and that put this story on the backburner. THEN I decided I really needed to get back to my novel (since it isn't going to write itself!), and since another fic of mine, "Measure of a Man," was further along, I decided to focus my attention on that and get it finished. And as any readers of that fic know, I had long bouts of writer's block on it and am only just going to finish it this week, barring any further computer problems. (Don't get me started.) So my point is, this story has unfortunately just been pushed further and further down on my To Do List. I still want to work on it, but I have no inspiration and no time. But hopefully, someday, I will return to it. I still have a ton of ideas, including the ending! I just have no words at the moment. Very frustrating.

So that's the way it is. I'm not making excuses, just explaining how I got to this point. I know the person who wrote this and others will be disappointed, and again, I'm sorry. But I didn't do it to hurt anyone's feelings or because I'm lazy or mean or just insensitive to my readers! And considering how crappy my life has been for a while now, especially lately, reading such a scathing letter didn't help MY mood at all. So thanks for that :-P

I'll shush now. I hope you're all well and that this post will at least help clarify a few things. I do truly appreciate everyone who stops by and reads anything I write! I just can't update this particular ficcie right now.

Take care, all of you :)