Okay. Here it goes.

Since I know no one probably will (or has) read my profile, I figured I'd be one of those jackbutts who psychs you out by making an author's note a chapter, dismembering your expectations of a longlonglong awaited update. But I do have an important announcement concerning this story!

So basically, right at the start of the year, I put a little paragraph up on my profile saying that I was officially taking a break from this thing. That was in hopes of finding proof in the saying "absence makes the heart grow fonder". I decided that the best thing would be to walk away, pig out on Teddy Grahams and Animal Crackers for a couple months while developing a strange fetish for Norwegian pop-rock music, and return when the birds started singing to find that my romance with Renji had been rekindled and ideas for this story had popped up from the frozen earth as a mosaic of vividly colored tulips.

Spring is now upon us (well, us in the northern hemisphere, anyway) and it's time to test out this theory. But I'm not jumping right into Chapter 26. No, no. I lost track of my vision with this story a long time ago (if I ever truly had any at all), so I've decided that a sort of re-write is needed. It's like the Industrial Revolution, really; I'm gonna go back and pave those rocky dirt roads with shiny black tar, and hopefully by the end of it we will all be going at full steam ahead. I'm honestly really anxious to get going on this; I've missed writing Mikita SO UNEXPECTEDLY MUCH!

There probably won't be any major changes you need to worry about. I'm not very good with a crystal ball, but from what I can see I'll just be plucking out a bunch of weeds and adding in some minor doses of Mircale Grow to help things progress.

(And by now I've both exhausted and become annoyed with the garden allusions, so they end here, dammit!)

The point of this not-a-chapter-chapter is, then, that you should disregard the multitude of emails you receive alerting you of new chapters being posted. They are not new chapters. They are me sawing and hammering and Gorilla Glue-ing this thing into something presentable. (I'm actually not one hundred percent sure if those of you who are subscribed to this story will get emails alerting you of new chapters when I'm just replacing existing ones, but I figured it was better to be safe than sorry.)

My vague plan is to spend the latter part of May and June patching things up and be ready to get a-vroom'in on with new stuff for the full-heat of summer. Unless otherwise stated there's no need to re-read everything just because I'm re-writing it. (Then again, you might need to just to remind yourself what even happened in this story, eh?). I'll alert you if I end up taking things further than I intend to at this premature moment. Promise! Until then, hang in there with me a little longer, please. And thank you for hanging in there with me for as long as you have! Seriously. If I were any one of you, I would have given up on my a LONG time ago. I'm completely and totally and deliriously aware of how undeserving I am of such loyal followers. (...If I even still have loyal followers DX)

-fTm