Fragile

by slashhack

Chapter 5: Quick! Show of hands!

Summary:

I realize this is not the best day to ask a serious question, but I'm gonna do it anyway because THAT IS JUST HOW I ROLL

'Sup, ladies and... ok probably mostly ladies, but either way! Guess who's not dead? (Sorry to anyone who guessed 'Stiles,' as far as this story goes that could still go either way... Look the question was rhetorical, obviously I'm referring to myself and my extended disappearing act.)

So okay it's been a year and a half, and an extremely eventful two-part Season 3, since this fic has updated.

Oops.

I hit kind of a rough spot in life, actually worse than the rough spot I was exorcising by writing such a dark fic in the first place, and THEN my computer BSOD'd. (For those of you too young and/or lucky to know, it basically committed laptop seppuku.) Which means I lost all of my unpublished written chapters, as well as the notes and chapter outlines for the rest of this fic.

Which sucks.

I ALSO lost about 150,000 words of a final draft for the DCBB. And the revision draft, rough, and all of my notes and basically everything forever and ever amen. Which, in my inestimable wisdom, I had somehow not backed up. Which sucks SO MUCH MORE AUGH.

Adding my first-world dilemma to my 99-non-bitch-related real life problems resulted in me basically rage-quitting writing for a while. But life, as it frequently does, stopped sucking so much, and I actually have the time and inclination to write again. And THIS fucking story has been sitting in the back of my head for MONTHS, harassing me about letting it out.

I know exactly where I was headed, narratively speaking, and I actually think I can spin it out to be inclusive of Season 3. (And I wanna get on it before there's any more canon to contend with, because for a second there it looked like the actual show was gonna beat me to my own plot point.)

SO! To the actual point: can I get a show of hands from anyone interested in this fic being completed? Because I'd like to either put a warning in the summary that it's incomplete/abandoned (because HOLY DUCKS do I ever hate getting invested and then SURPRISE THE AUTHOR HAS VANISHED FOREVER! ( I'm looking at YOU, 'Chameleon'/Velvet Mace, and if you know what I'm talking about then you understand ))

Or

I'll pick up where I left off and we'll just ignore my mid-season hiatus.

I already know what happens in this story, so it ain't no thing to me, and I don't wanna invest too much time and work into something no one cares about. (Has everyone jumped the Sterek ship & gone over to Derek/Chris Argent yet?) But if there's basically any interest in this story, I'll do my very best to get it back on track and on a regular update schedule.

So let me know! Should I start updating? Should I delete my sorrowful works from the internet at large? Should I change focus and make this a Coach Finstock epic? I'M OPEN TO SUGGESTION. Leave me a comment, or hit me up by email at [email protected]

In closing, I think my rambling-ass author's note is longer than any actual chapter... wow, I suck!

Notes:

So. I'm planning on continuing this, but I'm pretty terrible at carrying out my plans, so: no promises. I would appreciate any feedback, because I almost never post chaptered stuff AS I am writing.

Also I've decided to split this up into separate stories, instead of chapters, because some of them stand alone, some can be skipped, and it'll keep the warnings a little lighter. So, if you want to get updates, you probably want to subscribe to the series rather than the story, so that you'll be alerted when I post the next parts as separate works.

Series this work belongs to:

• Part 1 of Fragile