...And i think that made me want 'em to get together even more!1 Poor Eclipse. He's ultimately the one whose brain gets turned into jelly (note, not Jell-O™ ;) by the logistics of things, and ultimately he goes "*shrug* Okay." I wanted him to get some nookie just to make up for all the crap he goes through. ;)
To answer your earlier question, swan_tower, i believe that if you can point to someone ripping you off wholesale--if, for instance, CassieClaire's next fic had a passage that came straight out of Doppelganger except with "Mirage" and "Eclipse" removed and "Hermione" and "Draco" in their places, well, that's copywrite infringement. If someone uses your basic plot in their own novel, that's copywrite infringement. If someone has a character who has a doppelganger, or twin of some sort...well, that gets fuzzy. And that's why we have big court cases to settle these things, because usually you *don't* have people straight ripping off others.
Re: get down with the quickness
To answer your earlier question,
But i'm most definitely *not* a lawyer.