I have a question for you, if that's okay. I'm wondering if when you began this story you had the Sam/Sarah part of the plotline--their romance, the existence of an armed resistance to the national order that was set on freeing the gestates and inseminates--already firmly in your brain, or if that just developed as you went along. I'm curious as to whether you just started out with an idea of "male pregnancy and Jensen being forced to have sex with Jared", and then as you began writing, the other elements flowered. Whether you ended up being taken with the possibilities in the Sam/Sarah storyline, and writing about it, rather then keeping the focus on Jared/Jensen.

I know it's not uncommon to find the story taking you in a direction you never expected. So I just wondered if you'd satisfy my curiosity as to whether that's what came about, here, or if this is the story you planned to tell, all along.