Hi everyone!

Some of you might have seen that the Maximum Ride fb page posted a link to this fic, except not this one. I was plagiarized, unfortunately, well over a year ago. The plagiarized link was on figment .com, and I'm going to be nice and not mention the plagiarizer's name.

I reported this to figment a couple hours back, and people are commenting on facebook that the link doesn't work anymore, so I think that's that. I haven't heard back from figment, though, but I'll keep you all updated.

The plagiarized story was actually the pre-2012-edits story, by the way, meaning that it was posted a very long time ago, and I hadn't noticed. Guys, plagiarism is a big deal. It took me a while to figure this out, but I did, and I am eternally grateful to the fb MR page for that.

The point of this message: I want to leave something clear. This story is mine. It's my property because I thought it up, I wrote it down, I edited it. I read and answered the reviews, I re-read the story and cringed and decided to edit. I have a billion MS Word documents stored on my laptop to prove all this.

So to plagiarizers: you have a mind, meaning you have an imagination, and I assure you that human imagination is one of the more brilliant things this world offers. Use it! Yours might be loads better than mine, or any other author's. Write your own stories and feel proud of yourselves for it. It took me a year to notice, but I noticed. So will everyone else. Don't plagiarize.

To my readers: I want to thank you all for the loyalty you've shown over the years. People still favorite and still review. A couple of you also noticed the plagiarism fiasco and brought it up to me. Thank-you for everything, guys. This story is old, and pretty bad in some ways, but I love it because it helped me grow and it introduced me to you. To me, that's pretty frickin awesome.

I might take this AN of sorts down in a few days, or maybe I'll add some sort of story content here so that FF won't take it down.

See ya!

-DemiSpy.

Update:

Hi everyone! Just wanted to let you all know that the coast is clear (I think) and that the plagiarized story has been removed. Kudos to the people at Figment - very professional. Also, the MR page posted an amendment and a formal apology earlier this week, so that's a plus, and I'm just glad this is all over.

Thanks again for the continued support! I know it seems I'm not around much lately (which I'm not - school!) but I'm still alive, and I might someday decide to return to the MR fandom. But if I do, I assure you it won't be till winter break. Or next summer. You get the point.

Happy reading, everyone! Do your homework! (At least some of it... :P)

-DemiSpy.