This story blew up. This got more follows and favourites and reviews than I expected it to, and I love each and every one of you for it.

This story started off as a little daydream about how Nina Dobrev and Katherine Pierce could have thrived on The Originals, how the television series really isn't that bad, how Klaroline could have happened.

Now, I don't even remember how that day dream started, or how I wanted it to end. I've tried to take this story in so many directions that you haven't liked, and that I've gone back on. I've doubted myself, deleted chapters, changed things, rewritten things, all to please you, and now, I don't even like the story I'm writing. I'm becoming too critical of every chapter and it's not making me happy. The pressure to update with something everyone will like is too much because you all have such strong opinions.

I like feedback, I do. And I get some of the most positive and lovely reviews, but all I remember are the bad ones. It's affecting my writing with other stories.

I started this story two years ago, and since then I have designed a million endings. Unfortunately, not one of them will happen. I'm going to give this story up. It's not the same as the one I started and the one everyone liked - that one will live on in the first few chapters for any of you to revisit if you like. Hell, I might even re-write it from the start if I like. But this one will die here. I don't ship the same things I did two years ago. I don't like the same characters.

I love Hayley Marshall. I love Freya, even when I write her as an antagonist. I love Finn. Every character I include in my stories I have a heart full of love for. And it's so disheartening when even the nice reviews that complement my writing are hating on these characters. I didn't mean for you to start hating Freya, I just meant for her to have a journey of her own.

I loved making Caroline stronger and faster and more powerful, but when I made that decision all I got was hate for it. And when I made the decision to turn her back, all I got was hate for it. And everyone who liked that storyline? Only a few people told me they liked it. When you don't like something, you tell me, and when you do like something, only some of you speak up. And don't get me wrong, I am so grateful for all of you, but I'm just not the kind of writer who can do this on their own.

I have so many more daydreams, none of which I'm exploring because I'm putting all my energy into this one, which died a long time ago.

If any of you would like to know how this was to end, please feel free to PM me, and I'll tell you my ideas. If any of you have a drabble idea or a daydream of your own that you think I can do justice to, I'd like to try. In the meantime, I will be putting more energy into my new Klaroline/Kalijah/Kennett fanfiction "Somewhere Only We Know" which I invite you all to read if you wish.

This will be the last update of this story. Thank you all so much for reading. I'm sure I'll see you soon.

With love, Izzy xxx