hello all my wonderful blood honey readers and colette lovers <33

i just wanted to write a thank you note to everyone who read, commented, and voted on this. it truly meant the entire world for me and motivated me so much to finish colette's story (even tho I seriously did not want this to end at all).

my ghost reader, allweseeislight read the last chapter for me and edited it to perfection (thank you so much) and she said things I hadn't even thought of before.

Colette was always going to have this ending but my darling pav said this "I just really liked the whole concept of Colette wanting love so badly and not even realizing the love she was showing to others."

This was something I hadn't even realized when writing because majority of Colette's story had been improvised because i didn't know where I was taking her until I was there. "Like yes, Colette has wanted to be loved, but I think there's a power in the sense that her love for others drove her to make the decisions she did (like how she made sure elena had her blood) so I think keeping her dead makes that sacrifice mean something." 

Everything Colette did was for love. Her love for her friends drove her to make sacrifices, her love for Damon, Rebekah, and Klaus meant letting them go because she saw what the future held and they were happy. While her love for Naya was different, she killed her bc it was the only thing she could do for a friend so corrupted. She still even loved Tommy, after everything he had done. Her love was bigger than her life and i love her for that <33

Colette's end was always going to be this way (but still suggested that there may be things to come bc i love her and cannot let her go i simply cant). 

I wanted Cole's story to be longer, I even considered keeping her going until season 4 and later but I liked the idea of her story ending when Elena and Alaric's did too. It made sense with the season 3 plot and with how I'd driven the character so far. She was always meant for more but not now.

I really hope you guys enjoyed this fic and come back to it now and then and see all the foreshadowing hehe <33 esp in the act i and act ii pages LOL

<33 don't forget colette pls, she was meant to be remembered <33

maybe one day colette will find her true love, whoever that may be (shes with whoever u want her to be and maybe ill write bonus chaps of her with them WHO KNOWS i just cant let her go). ill go through and fix any errors i see fit with plot/grammar at a later date but until then pls pls message me about this fic or anything at all, im always down bad to talk about my girl colette 

with much much love from me and colette copeman 

xx day

this fic was 722 pages in the format i was using to write. 

it was 242,000 words.