Author's note: I am very sorry but I will be abandoning this story. Life got in the way and I didn't have the time or inspiration to see this project through. Now, I have a little time to write again, but I have moved on to other projects.

I would like to thank all my lovely reviewers. You were so supportive. I'm sorry I let you down. I'd especially like to thank luckyduck22 for your long, detailed, kind reviews. I appreciate the time you spent to give me feedback. It really validated me as a writer.

As I was going through old notes, I found an unfinished chapter six for this story. Since I won't be finishing the story, the least I can do is post that and a summary of my plan for the story.

To be honest, my lack of direction was part of the reason I didn't finish this story. I had vague ideas of where I wanted to go, but I should have planned a bit better. In addition my story lacked a central conflict. I'm had plans for each of the characters to have their own struggles, but one of the beautiful things about Wolfblood is that it manages to balance the central conflict with individual character arcs. Without a central conflict, my story was three separate stories about friends growing up, and it was difficult for me to keep my focus.

So here is the unfinished chapterr six:

Chapter 6

"So, Rhydian, how was your first day of school?" Emma asked. She was making an extra effort to be polite to him, after an argument between herself and Maddy the day before. The whole pack was sitting around the dinner table, Shannon included.

"Oh, it was good. Just, you know... school."

"Good," Emma replied, "So did you get a chance to talk to the housing office?"

"Mam!" Maddy exclaimed.

"What?"

"Yeh make it sound as if yeh can' wait t' chuck him out!"

"Maddy, just leave it," Rhydian begged, "I don't want to have another row about this. I'm choosing to move out, ok."

She glared at her parents.

"And it's not just because of them," he continued, "I don't have a car yet, so living in town is better for me anyway, especially since I'll be spending hours in the studio for my art classes. Besides, we'll see each other at school everyday, and I'll come back for full moons."

"And weekends. That's still on the table, you know," Dan interrupted. They were paying the kids to work on the house on the weekends. It gave them some spending money, and Emma and Dan really did need help with the house.

"Abou' that," said Maddy, "I'll be spending Sunday afternoon at the school. I've got a job. Well, it will be a job."

"That sounds exciting," Emma said, "What will you be doing?"

"Mam, it's not that exciting," Maddy shrugged.

"Yes it is," Shannon interjected, "She'll be on staff at the school newspaper."

"Shannon, I told you, I'm not on staff yet. This semester is a trial period. They won't even start paying me for my work until October. That is, if they haven't chucked my by then. Besides, they didn't pick me because of my talent."

"Of course they did, dear," said Dan.

"No, da', they want me because the paper comes out on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. I'm free to work on layout on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. It's more convenience than anything."

And that's where I stopped.

From here we have Rhydian moving out and dealing with obnoxious roommates. We're talking late night parties, hygiene issues and dirty dishes everywhere. Meanwhile he is trying to take school seriously. He knows he wants to be an artist, but understands how difficult it can be to make a living that way. He's wary of the corporate world (say, graphic design) because of his dad's experiences at Segolia, but he is constantly going back and forth between with the idea of passion vs steady paycheck.

Shannon initially bites off more than she can chew so to speak. Around the middle of the semester she goes on an amazing research trip to Yellowstone. She has a great week there, studying the wolves and other wildlife. She gets some great photos. She's the only girl on this trip and works hard to prove herself as a woman in science, especially outdoorsy science like ecology can be. She does well. (As have many women I've met who excel in all kinds of scientific fields.) I was also going to have her develop a friendship with the other lab techs, mainly Trevor, who is about as different from Shannon as a person can get. He's calm and pragmatic where she is passionate and throws herself into causes. He has a classic country boy attitude about hunting and guns, so there would have been a clash there. He's just as intelligent and academically driven as she is, so despite some conflict, they find that they work well together. Also, by this point, she and Tom are having trouble with the long distance relationship. I think she has a tendency to focus so much on what's in front of her that she ends up forgetting when they plan to talk and that takes its toll. So anyways, she gets back from this research trip and has like three exams and a photography project and manages to do well at all that, by missing tons of sleep and not eating well etc. As a result of that and because its the start of the illness season, she gets pretty sick for the next two weeks or so. Around this time, she and Tom break up.

Meanwhile, Maddie is living at home, going to school and having fun. She's trying to figure out what to do with her life, but when she gets really worried about it, she overcompensates by trying to have a lot of fun instead of think about the future. She's clashing with her parents (especially her mom) as a young adult in college still living with her parents. She wants independence, while her cautious mother is reluctant to let her little girl make her own way in life. And not only is she a young adult human, but a young adult Wolfblood. This causes more stress as she fights the biological instinct to mate and become a mother. This causes all sorts of awkwardness with Rhydian, especially because he has no idea what is going on with her because she kind of thinks she's going nuts so she doesn't really talk about it. So she is alternately all over him (when caught up in her instincts) and not wanting anything to do with him (when trying to overcome all that.). It makes their relationship difficult, as would any uncontrollable force pressuring someone to do something they're not ready for.

So when Shannon gets sick, Maddie goes to stay with her for a couple of days to take care of her. Then she has another fight with her mom and that few days becomes longer until she decides to be roommates with Shannon. This new freedom is good in some ways - it helps improve her relationship with her mom, but Maddie also makes some questionable decisions. Possibly a lot of drinking - that serves as an escape from all the maturing Wolfblood issues she's having. She has the most time out the three friends and gets bored a lot. She makes some new friends who do some questionable things - the drinking, maybe some dangerous thrill seeking ( not necessarily bad in itself but risks exposure for Maddie.). Her schoolwork slips but she is enjoying her new friends and freedom. This puts more strain on her relationship with Rhydian since he's trying so hard to be responsible (for their future, though that goes unsaid.). They may break up or they may just have a huge fight.

Meanwhile, Shannon has recovered and is working as hard as ever in school. But her arc from here is about finding balance and taking care of herself as well as accomplishing her academic goals. she learns how to say 'no' (even to good things) when she is spreading herself too thin. Her friendship with Trevor helps her learn how to balance life with school, because he's very good at that. As he turns up more and more around her place, there are some close calls with him finding out Maddie and Rhydian's secret. He eventually sees the wolves and is told (a la Maddie's explanation to her school) that they are pets. This fascinates him and he says he wants to go hunting with them. Shannon says they're scared of guns, but Trevor tells her he's a bow hunter. So he and Rhydian go hunting together, of course Trevor has no idea he's hunting with Rhydian. Anyway Trevor turns up a lot and he and Shannon begin flirting quite a bit. He is excited to learn she can sing, and tries to get her to sing country music with him. That is met with mixed success.

Meanwhile we've got something going on in the larger community that poses problems for our favorite pack. Maybe ranchers loosing cattle start hunting wolves. Maybe a change in the laws that means more danger for them. This is the part I hadn't really worked out. Anyway, Maddie and co get to the bottom of this. Maddie ends up writing an article that the school newspaper publishes. She realizes her tendency to get into trouble could be put to good use in investigative journalism, not to mention her super speed, smell and hearing. This helps draw her out the bad cycle she's in. And a chat with her mom and a special herbal concoction help deal with her Wolfblood instinct issues, and said concoction is the Wolfblood version of birth control so that's an added bonus.

Maddie tells Rhydian all about what's been going on with her and he's grateful for her honestly / tells her she can tell him anything, no need to be embarrassed. They come out of this issue with a relationship stronger than ever, but resolve to be patient and enjoy their relationship where it's at now, rather than jumping into anything monumental like moving in or marriage.

Shannon, meanwhile gets closer to Trevor after asking him for help sorting out the mess mentioned earlier. They share a kiss at the end. :)

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Well, that's all, folks. I don't think I'll ever get around to writing it, so I thought I'd share it with you in this form. Thanks again for your love. This fandom is so great!

PS: Y'all totally have permission to write stuff based on this story. And just let me know, I'll make a note of it here.

PPS, I wrote this from my phone, so I apologize for any grammar issues, missing wordsbor typos. Haha its pretty finicky, so if I try to go back and fix errors I end up inadvertently creating more.