No, not the sex-writing part. The OTHER part I don't like: Editing

*girds loins*

Wish me luck, y'all, I'm going in.

As they're relevant to my Big Bang. Anyone who can answer these will have my undying devotion :)

Life Insurance: in the event of a death (auto accident, not the policy holder's fault), how soon would the named beneficiary receive the payout? Is it paid as a lump sum, or in installments? Are taxes taken out of it, or does the beneficiary have to take care of that?

Auto Insurance: how would this work, if it's the fault of the other party? Would that party's insurance contact the survivors of the accident, or do the survivors have to do the contacting? Presumably doctor bills, etc., would be either paid up front or reimbursed by the party at fault?

Medical: you have a 16yr old brought to your ER. Both parents are dead; nearest surviving relative is on the way, but not expected for several hours. Patient is bleeding internally, in addition to a broken leg and assorted contusions, etc. Would the doctors take the patient into surgery w/out a signed consent form, rather than risk patient's life further? Or would they be forced to wait? Could the emergency (non-relative) contact give prelim consent for the surgery?

Any help is greatly appreciated :)

Fic title: Out Of the Night That Covers Me
Author name: mickeym
Artist name: electricmonk333
Genre: Wincest
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Rating: NC-17
Word count: ~23,000
Warnings/Spoilers: Canon-compliant until about 2/3rds through S5; after that it veers off into a/u-land. Warnings for some dark imagery, and off-screen character death.
A/N: At the end of the story.
Summary: The apocalypse was stopped at the eleventh hour, and Lucifer was forced back into his cage. Sam and Dean survived, but now they have to learn how to deal with the loss and destruction, and figure out how to move forward. But how do you move forward when you're mired in the past, and caught up in a web of rage and pain?
Link to art: http://electricmonk333.livejournal.com/91466.html





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I feel like I should add: I started at 2p this afternoon with a word count of roughly 8100 words. So, y'know, I wrote 12,000 words in about nine and a half hours. *falls over dead*

I've waffled back and forth, and wasn't even certain I was going to get started...but I have. Did. Something.

Big Bang progress:




It's not much, but it's a start, right? And who knows, I might even surprise myself and finish it on time.

*crosses fingers*

I've now reached the stage in my Big Bang where I can't even tell if I'm still making sense, if it works, if it's ever going to be FINISHED, anything.

*stabs BB* *stabs self*

And in truly exciting (plz note the sarcasm) news, we got another person down in the property room today. (Y'all will remember that we get the injured, the ones who are on light duty, administrative leave, in trouble, whatever, right?)

Now we have Lt. Fifer. Who's currently being charged with (among other things) domestic violence.

Call me crazy, but I think it's a BAD idea to bring someone facing those charges into a largely female populated work place.

Sign-ups are here, for authors!

*boogies*

Now I need a writing icon!

*boogies some more*

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A/N and Thank You's: This story is sort of like the marriage of two of my most favorite things: history and romance. It holds a special place in my heart as being probably the only story I've ever written that I didn't at some point (metaphorically) toss into the garbage can while screaming "God, I hate it!" It's my favorite of anything I've ever written, and I think it's probably some of my best work to date.

I got the idea for it back late last winter, or early this past spring, when one of my Workday Email Posse (hee) linked me to an article about a Russian couple who were married at the beginning of WWII and then got separated a few days later -- and she believe he was dead, and he couldn't find her, and they ended up apart for sixty years. When they found each other again, they said it was like those years hadn't ever happened; they were just as in love as they'd been. The big ol' sap in me went "AWWW!" and then I started thinking about a Sam and Dean version of that. :)

I owe huge thank you's to a lot of people: thenyxie, cormallen and nu_breed for hand-holding and audiencing, and just in general being there. To rivers_bend and leighm for beta-under-pressure (seriously--I sent the story to them like, Monday night, and the reworked ending last night), as well as hand-holding, and being there. Awesomeness all around :) Also thank you to my flist at large for helping me find links, and information, and putting up with my 10938140891 questions and word-count updates. (I feel like I should apologize for those, because normally? I could care less what the word count is. But y'all, I wrote SO MUCH, it just blew me away!) I also want to say, though he'll never (I hope!) see this, thank you to Matthew. He fetched tissues and cool drinks for me when I worked myself into sobbing while writing, and just in general encouraged me. ("Are you writing? Shouldn't you be writing? You're not done yet are you? How many more words until you're done?" - the kid makes a great nag.)

Thank you's need to go also to wendy and audrarose for coordinating all of this, and making it a very awesome experience. *hugs you*

Finally, many, many thanks to mkitty3, for the incredibly fabulous artwork she did for this story. She brought it to life for me.

I have a couple of footnotes/credit things, because I am deathly afeared of ever being accused of plagiarism. So, for Sam's commencement speech, I got the core of it from here: http://www.dominik.net/thoughts/valedictorian-speech.php3 and of course the "A day which will live in infamy" speech belongs to FKR and his speechwriters.

I really hope you've enjoyed reading this story. I loved writing it, and I'm thrilled to get to share it with y'all. Thank you :)

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