The Heart Survives

Title: The Heart Survives
Rating: PG-13
Summary: There's a reason Ash didn't see Ellen or Jo in heaven.
Pairings: None.
Warnings: Character death.
Word Count: 170

( tell me, how many sleepless nights will you spend )

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Revelation: The convent in Lucifer Rising, either the Church sold it to someone who happened to be possessed by one of Azazel's or Lilith's underlings, or one of Azazel's or Lilith's underlings possessed whoever was managing the property after its abandonment. Either way, the night watchman was there because a demon was paying him to be.

Signal boost: crash this poll: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/08/04/decide-gay-marriage-judge-ruling-proposition-decision/

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1. Go through my fic index and pick out a sentence from one of my stories.

2. I'll try to guess what story it's from (and, if you want, I'll give you some backstory or DVD-commentary for the excerpt).

3. If I guess wrong, you get to ask me for a drabble (character, situation, prompt word, whatever).

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I knew, before today, that there have been times in history where armed people forced unarmed people on a cross-country march, and anyone who couldn't keep up died. The Trail of Tears, for one. I couldn't have named another, but I thought everyone raised in the US had learned about the Trail of Tears in school. It would never have occurred to me that anyone could be ignorant enough, unthinkingly cruel enough, to use the term 'deathmarch' in any context other than the Trail of Tears or similar instances of the worst parts of human nature.

I just read this, and then hit up Google because clearly I am lacking in knowledge about some of the worst things people have done to each other. I think I need to go be sick now. Not because of what ephemere tells us about the horrors that occurred on the Bataan Death March. I don't squick at descriptions of violence.

Because there are people who use the term 'deathmarching' to describe forcing themselves to finish writing a fucking novel. Because the I'm Feeling Lucky Google result for 'deathmarch' is about software development.

People really are that ignorant. People really are that unthinkingly cruel.

I've seen the phrase 'losing faith in humanity'. I must not have grokked it till now.