annabethbigbang | Mar. 2nd, 2010

Notes: written for

spn_j2_bigbang with grateful acknowledgement to

lietya and

jumpuphigh for beta'ing. I also owe a thank-you to Jen for ~~a lot of~~ hand-holding, to

kroki_refur,

fleshflutter,

lapis1961,

maerhys,

mourning_night, and

vicdesty for cheerleading, to my flist for rising to the occasion every time I panicked about posting it and telling me I would be awesome -- I'm gonna list the people who left me supportive comments, and I'm probably going to forget someone, so I'm sorry in advance:

smidgy06,

katharwen,

applepie_x0,

softbluebuddy,

deadbeat_nymph,

lucy_08,

ash48, and

jumpuphigh for listening to me panic over IM and then offering to read through to make sure it didn't completely suck. (And beta-reading it at the very last minute. She's a star, I tell you.) You guys are so unbelievably awesome &hearts -- thanks for sticking with me and kicking me in the ass and telling me not to flake out about posting. (Yeah, I had some performance anxiety, so to speak.)

All remaining errors/typos/screw-ups/plot holes are entirely my own.

And of course,

evenindeath who did such breathtakingly gorgeous art to go along with, and who absolutely spoiled me with the sheer amount of art she did. You are amazing, bb. &hearts Go tell her how awesome she is.

Finally, to

wendy,

audrarose, and

thehighwaywoman: thank you for running this challenge. It's a lot of hard work and you do such an AMAZING job every year -- and I'm already looking forward to next year!

Also: This is probably going to be Jossed come the season premiere (I hope!) but I figure this is the place to point out that I came up with this plot waaaay back in January, when on the phone with Jen. It went something like this:

Me: Wouldn't it be awesome if Sam turned out to be Lucifer? (pulling random ideas out of my ASS!)
Jen: Yes, you should write it, and if Kripke did that, it would be amazing.

So... cue me writing the idea for Big Bang, and THEN, heh, discovering that it was turning into a gen story -- and I'd meant to write slash!

And -- I had to include that here, because by the end of the season, it was starting to look like Sam really was gonna be Lucifer come next season, and I can't get over the fact that I thought of that before I had any clues to it. I think Kripke might be in my brain. *peers around anxiously*

And last but not least, thank you to everyone who took the time to read my Big Bang this year. Without the audience, there would be no point in posting -- so thank you!