not too sure if people still care about "True Mates" but if you see this, I have rewritten most of the story and reuploaded it onto Archive of our Own (link can be found on my profile), if you don't want to try navigating through the site, no worries, I do plan on updating the rewritten version here, I'm just in the midst of finishing my fall quarter so it may take a few weeks before that happens. Just wanted to pop in though because I do see all the notifications for this story about people asking me to update/continue (which i will, it's just going to take some time) haha thank you so much for all the love and i promise chapter 9 will be up eventually! <3