I appreciate your candor and courage in posting and preserving the first fic you wrote. It's sad to see so many other authors who have taken their older stories down and refuse to share them any longer out of some sense of unwarranted "shame" that the stories aren't any good. The shame is that bits of our rich fandom disappear every day for no reason other than pride.

I applaud you for realizing that everyone starts somewhere and that all efforts usually have some value. I'll happily read this story and will look forward to reading others of yours to see your progression as an author and storyteller. I love stories written back in the years before the series ended and before we all knew how canon would shake out ~ they are fearless and creative in many ways that the post-Chosen/NFA stories written now refuse to be.

Thanks for sharing.

Author's Response: It's been amazing the response. I'm glad people appriciate a plot beyond cannon.

Hmm... curiouser and curiouser....

Looking forward to more.

Author's Response: Thanks, I hope you enjoy the rest.

To quote the Firebat from Starcraft:
"You got my attention!" "Slamin'!" "Turn up the heat!"
and so on and so forth.
So... when's the next update?

Author's Response: Thanks so much!! I've just aded 2 more chapters and there are more where they came from.