Someone contacted me yesterday and asked me if I have published on of my fanfics under different username. Well, it turn out, my story just got stolen.

Someone had the nerve to take separate lines or even whole paragraphs of my "The shattered shaft" and changed the POV, bend and butchered the words and put them into their horrible, horrible piece of fic. Apart from the paragraphs stolen from me the story has terrible format, no interpunction and no plot what-so-ever.

It makes me sick to think that the story I have put so much thought to, so many hours of medical research could be so easily taken from me. You can't put a watermark on the fanfic. I know the story hasn't been updated in more then a year, but but it doesn't matter.

I don't know what to do. I didn't contact that person and I know from experience that admins at ff.net don't act quickly or even reply to most of the emails. I want that person's fic removed and them punished.

I don't want to delete my account on ff.net and close my LJ only to friends, but right now this thought had crossed my mind.

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EDIT:

Thanks to backup from some users from Livejournal the story was removed, along with the second one, which leads me to believe that might have been plagiarised as well.

I recieved an email from the 'author' who apologized, but also tried to justify herself with bunch of excuses I didn't believe in for one second (like having photographic memore, for once). It doesn't really matter, I guess. That monstrosity is gone, which is the only thing that matters now.