Hey everyone,

I do not know how many people are still watching this story but first I want to say that I am so sorry for leaving you all hanging for like… 3 years. That was horrible of me I know but a lot was going on at the time that I left fanfiction. I had just finished my first year of university when I unexpectedly had to move countries due to family reasons. Then I had to restart my life here and it was a stressful time. I basically dropped out of school, had to learn how to drive, had to get a job to support myself and help my family out. I thought multiple times about coming back to this story and I have been reading the reviews you guys have left me over the years. I'm sorry for not responding to most of them. I just did not have any energy or creativity left in me at the time.

However, I am in a much better place now! I am back in school and I have a job and I will be graduating soon! I miss writing and realized it was always one of my passions that I sort of just put aside to pursue other things in my life. I just applied to medical school if you guys can imagine that of me haha. I started this story when I was 17 and now that I am 22 I do not know how I can do it justice anymore. I am not the same person I was then. I truly want to finish this story but because it has been so long I lost all my plot diagrams and notes. Also, this story itself is so long that I need to read it again myself so that I could give it the ending it deserves – that you all deserve. I was also truly devastated when Avengers 2 came out in 2015 and they destroyed any hope of clintasha in the canon. Though Barton may be married off in the movies I still hold a flame that clintasha exists in our hearts and in their unexplored past. They have not ruined that yet at least.

Again, I am truly sorry for the long wait and I know you are all disappointed that this isn't a new chapter but another author note. It is going to be interesting reading my own work again from the beginning. I read the last few chapters and I know I was so close to the end of the Budapest arc if not the end of I dare you. I had a lot of big ambitious plans for this story. I want to keep writing this story – if any of you are still interested in reading it let me know!

Thank you for being awesome fellow clintasha fans! :D

- Shadowsontherun