The final chapter of "Directions," which is the final story in my "Only Time" series. Thank you totestdog65 for participating in the long, complicated beta-ing of this chapter, tovlredreign for all the commas she had to move, and to all of you who've been with me for this journey. I'm not sure I can ever describe what it's meant to me. And yes, I really do want your comments; they mean the world to me!

This chapter is too long for one post; just follow the link at the end of this part to the second part.

This is the seventh chapter of Directions -- the earlier chapters are here.

Thanks to my beta, testdog65, and to vlredreign for a final polish!

There is a banner for this story, and it's on its way, but we're having a HUGE storm right now, and I'm kind of worried our power might go out, so I wanted to get this posted before it did.

Thanks to everyone for waiting so patiently while my life fell apart and rebuilt itself, giving me the energy to actually complete this story. And thank you for letting me know you're reading!

This is the sixth chapter of Directions; the earlier chapters are here.

Thanks to testdog65 for being a patient and wonderful beta, and to roc_abs for the banner and icon.

And thank all of you for reading and commenting!

( Directions, Chapter 6, by Xie... )

This is the fifth chapter of Directions; the earlier chapters are here.

Thanks to testdog65 for the genius of her beta-ing, to vlredreign for comma patrol, and to roc_abs for the banner and icon.

And thank all of you for reading and commenting!

( Directions, Chapter 5, by Xie... )

Here is the fourth chapter of Directions. The first three chapters are here. Thanks so much to testdog65  for her wondrous beta skillz, roc_abs  for the banner and icon, and my darling little squishy honey bunch vlredreign  for slapping my commas around.

I apologize for the huge, long, endless delay in posting this chapter, but will make up for it by letting you know Chapter Five is already beta'd and ready to post -- I'll probably do it Thursday sometime, or possibly Monday if it takes you longer than that to read. You might want to let me know in the comments when you'd like the next chapter to go up.

Thank you for patience and thank you for commenting -- it makes me so happy to hear from you!

( Directions, Chapter Four, by Xie... )