Final Author's Note PSA:

Dear Readers, I am truly sorry for those of you that enjoyed this fic. I cannot express how much I appreciate your kind words of encouragement and love. You kept me motivated up to the end and were the only reason I kept writing as long as I did.

The ones of you that were so invested you were willing to give such wonderful advice through PM about your personal experiences in life, your cultures, your knowledge of weapons, that would help me write a better story, thank you. You were amazing and helpful and sharing your (sometimes painful) experiences was such an amazing thing to me. I truly, truly thank you and if I ever write again I hope to have such wonderful people on my side. (You all know who you are, and I love you, thank you so much)

And finally, to the haters.

Congratulations. I hope you're happy. You have won. You have left such hateful, negative, spiteful reviews that I lost all motivation for this story, and any ideas I had were lost in the absolute virulent hate that I have received over a character choice that you perceived as out of character. I truly, truly despise every single one of you, with your blasé attitude and hatred. I sincerely hope you don't treat other budding authors this way. I can't help but wonder how many people, like me, that you have turned off of writing because you can't adhere to the rule of "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it." As well as "treat other people how you would want to be treated." I would like to say I hope no one ever treats you the way you have treated me, but I have no empathy for people like you in my heart, and I hope you have such hatred spilled on a story you have spilled your heart out for, worked tirelessly for, all for the person who hates you so much, that you, too, never want to write again.

I seriously will never understand why you couldn't just…quit reading, instead of making everyone else suffer, and hurting someone.

Please remember we give you all this content for free, that we wanted to do it because we love the story, and because we care about our readers. We owe you nothing but continue to give out of a pure need to create, something which you have stolen from me for this story.

So, in conclusion, and as a PSA,

This story will be deleted in a week's time.

The reason for this, instead of me just abandoning it like so many other stories, is because I am sick and tired of receiving the amount of hateful reviews that crop up every few weeks or so. It makes me feel horrible about myself, and just reminds me what a horrible author I am. So thanks.

I give you a week, for those of you that love it, that say it has inspired you, to save it to your desktop so you may peruse it at your leisure, and so you can never forget what being hurtful can do to a person.

I also give a week for the haters to continue to spew their vitriol and gloat if they so wish. Have fucking fun xoxoxo hope you get some of that anger out on me instead of some other, younger poor soul. Hope you stop being such miserable people.

I'm so sorry to those of you that enjoyed it.

Sincerely,

grednforgesgirl 3

PS: Yes, anon guest, you were the last straw. Hope you're fucking happy. Fuck you.