A/N:

I'm sorry everyone but this is not, as your inboxes would have you believe, a new chapter. Really my deepest apologies, but I am having major writer's block on this story. I'm almost entirely certain I bit off more than I can chew.

First off, I'm truly paranoid about getting characterisation wrong. I know Raito's character, and Near's character is easy all I have to do is bleach the majority of emotion, and I love Mello's char so much that there is no way I can't get him right... unless of course I make him more awesome than he is, which I doubt is possible. But Wednesday's character is more complicated, mostly because I've never written her before, and also because if I take her to the full extreme that is her personality, I just know she's gonna get caught somehow.

All of that however, I could work past. No, the real problem is the timelines. They are seriously getting in my way.

The thing that I've realized is this: I brought Wednesday in way too soon. Her character, as I see it, would want to respond immediately to the information she obtained, but that simply doesn't work. There are several years worth of a gap between the deaths of L and Watari, and the battle between Mello, Near, and Raito. So introducing her into the Deathnote timeline put me at a distinct disadvantage.

I can either have her and Raito battling it out for the next few years, which doesn't work that well for me since they're both geniuses and would be bound to make progress on one another that would be dangerous for the later plot. Or I can take her out of the picture somehow just until Mello and Near enter it, which I have no idea how to actually do.

So that's the long and short of it.

However I do not want to give up on this story just yet, so instead I'm putting it on Hiatus. Hopefully I will be able to work my way through this eventually, but it doesn't look like it's happening anytime soon. I can't say I'm sorry enough, because you have all been so completely wonderful even though it's only been three chapters, but I really need to put this off. Indefinitely.

I'll understand if this angers and annoys you all, really, but I just can't see any way around it at the moment.

So thank you all, so much, for reading. I hope I can see you again when I come back to this. In the meantime, I will still be posting/updating plenty of other stories, so feel free to go check those out.

Love ya all!

-Lady Ali