Victor moved his iron grip to her hands as he pressed them against his face, forcing her to cradle him. When he spoke his voice came out hoarse and vibrating out of repressed fury.

"I'm not asking, I'm telling you! Give me pain. Hurt me and make me bleed, angel. I know you want someone else to hurt. You've wanted to make me pay for weeks so fuckin' do it! Give me all that anger and drain me. If it will make you feel better then DO IT!"

ok, that was amazingly insightful in a totally Victor angry, masochistic way. you have captured the voice of Sabertooth in a way i've never read on this site before. he's angry, shallow, cruel but you've given him a true voice in spite of, or maybe because of, all that.

bravo! god, i love this story!

One more thing, does anybody in the mansion know what the hell is going on? LOL.

Author's Response: We did think of that, and from the emotions in the team meeting that time, they know something is up. Well, that and the wrecked kitchen - but they don't know exactly. We're gonna keep them in the dark, because to write what they might think would have us at about 5 extra chapters ;) Let's assume there's a lot of "WTF?"s floating around the mansion. :)

What! Okay ladies, you have left us with some pretty mean cliffhangers but this one.....I cannot even figure out the outcome of this one.
Damn Logan! And I feel a lot for Victor and of course Rogue as well! Oh man, this just sucks for all of them. What a heartbreaking chapter. Please tell me things are going to look up in the next two chapters!! (or if not, you could always write a few more chappies after that. ;-)

Author's Response: Well things may look sideways in the next chapter then maybe up a little in the last one. We don't really do sad endings...but we also don't do "walk off into the sunset" endings - but I promise we won't leave you all heart broken. :)

I wonna know what happens! Both of ya'll are killing me here!

Author's Response: We don't wanna kill you! It's almost over :)