Writing ramblings....

So I have gotten into a strange situation with vom_marlowe's kink meme. There are three unclaimed prompts over there that I've been working on--and since I'm a slow writer, they're still in various stages of completion. Only problem is, the one that I've been working on most (and is closest to done) got kinda scooped about a week and a half back by someone working on an entirely different prompt.

So now I'm not sure quite what to do. I *like* this fic, and really would like to finish it. I'd also like to post it on the off chance that the requester checks back in so that they find out someone liked their currently unclaimed prompt and wrote for it. I can't even contact the author of the other fic to see if they'd mind if I posted mine, since the other story is (of course) anonymous.

This really was an independent idea. The dialogue is different, the setting is different, the principle characters are somewhat different in that it involves a larger cast. But the premise that frames it, and also part of the ending, are both eerily similar. I'm sure this is due in part to the fact that there are really only a very few possible ways to get these particular characters to the same place at the same time. Nonetheless, plagiarism is a dirty word, and I really don't want to be accused of it--thus I have serious reservations about putting the story up anywhere. *sigh*