Authors note

* I would just like to thank everyone for their positive comments towards my story as it means so much to me but I have gotten a comment for gleetard16 that I apparently stole their plot line so this note is dedicated to them.*

To gleetard16, I would firstly like to say that I don't know how this could be an exact copy of your story as I have only just started watching OUAT and reading the fanfiction within this month so unless you have uploaded you story within that time frame then I wouldn't have read it and I haven't even seen a story on a school shooting yet, if I had I wouldn't have done one myself :). I would also like to say that I got my idea from the season three finale of The Mentalist (which I probably should have mentioned in the summary) and agent Lisbon had a wound to her shoulder which was where I got Regina's wound idea from. I also got inspiration for the plot from a school shooting tribute that I found on YouTube that was supposed to be a fans music video for Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People. I said beat him with a bat because that was probably the most likely, heavy thing to find in a classroom with children around. I also didn't want to portray Emma and Regina to be fighting, I wanted them to have a love/hate relationship therefore making them bicker at each other in the first chapters and then making Emma worried towards Regina in later chapters.

(To other readers, while I am on the topic I have no intention for swan queen in this fanfiction.)

For Jeffersons motive, I wanted to have a character to play the part of the shooter that people wouldn't expect, a character that had something towards Regina but something that wasn't addressed to often in the show. I think it would also be typical for Jefferson to want Henry as that is the only thing close to Regina.

I hope that you see this message and realize that I had no intentions of stealing your plot ideas! But please, feel free to send me the name of the story you are talking about so I can read it and change mine so they don't sound similar! :)

Xx B

To gleetard16, I would firstly like to say that I don't know how this could be an exact copy of your story as I have only just started watching OUAT and reading the fanfiction within this month so unless you have uploaded you story within that time frame then I wouldn't have read it and I haven't even seen a story on a school shooting yet, if I had I wouldn't have done one myself :). I would also like to say that I got my idea from the season three finale of The Mentalist (which I probably should have mentioned in the summary) and agent Lisbon had a wound to her shoulder which was where I got Regina's wound idea from. I also got inspiration for the plot from a school shooting tribute that I found on YouTube that was supposed to be a fans music video for Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People. I said beat him with a bat because that was probably the most likely, heavy thing to find in a classroom with children around. I also didn't want to portray Emma and Regina to be fighting, I wanted them to have a love/hate relationship therefore making them bicker at each other in the first chapters and then making Emma worried towards Regina in later chapters.

(To other readers, while I am on the topic I have no intention for swan queen in this fanfiction.)

For Jeffersons motive, I wanted to have a character to play the part of the shooter that people wouldn't expect, a character that had something towards Regina but something that wasn't addressed to often in the show. I think it would also be typical for Jefferson to want Henry as that is the only thing close to Regina.

I hope that you see this message and realize that I had no intentions of stealing your plot ideas! But please, feel free to send me the name of the story you are talking about so I can read it and change mine so they don't sound similar! :)

Xx B