So we have finally reached the end. I will be honest, I never imagined that this story would end like this. But this fanfiction was first written as a way for me to heal small pieces inside of me.
This book started as a Charles Fanfiction but I will be honest, this was never about him. The story was Tatiana's to tell and in a way, Tatiana needed to heal and Charles would have never truly been able to heal her in the way she needed.
When I first wrote Gentle with Me, Max and Tatiana were never friends with each other, in fact, they didn't even know the other existed. However, I've always been a "the story is alive, I am just writing parts of it." writer hence why this story was all over the place.
I think, ending the story with Max and Tatiana's confession and kiss and then jumping to the marriage epilogue was something that felt right. Tatiana and Max got their happy ending and they got each other.
After all, Tatiana was a reflection of myself but also a reflection of a lot of girls and women. She was written to be relatable in some way, be it a healthy relationship with her family, be it her role as a sister, or the way she interacted with her best friends. Not to mention the way she completely stopped functioning while seeing and interacting with her crush.
Charles, however, was a reflection of the emotionally unavailable, already in a situationship/relationship, and distant men I've encountered.
Max, oh, it was never meant for me to be so endeared by him, but he won me over. He was written as a reflection of my book Boyfriends and the Max written in ii. Tatiana IV and the epilogue was a reflection of my childhood crush on one of my old friends and a small reflection of the guy I used to like.
Gentle with me was THAT story for me. With that, I mean that it was my healing journey. A part of me healed with this and it will also be the story that I will always see as my baby.
I want to thank you all for having followed me through this journey and I hope you all came to love Tatiana and Maxie in the same way I did. I also want to say a special thank you to teenwolfchic101 for having hyped and loved this story since almost day one. She's been my own personal cheerleader both as an author but also as a friend.
I hope I'll see you all in my next story when it gets published. Sending lots of love and appreciation to every reader who has taken their time reading this roller coaster of a story.
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Gentle with me | MAX VERSTAPPEN
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