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Date: 02/22/2007 9:23:40 PM Title: Fumbling Towards Ecstasy

Wow. Their conversation at the end is incredibly intense, and yet at the same time, so little is communicated. What, in the end, does Rogue want from Logan? To be left alone? To tell him all that she is struggling with and have him understand? To depend on him? Understand him?

And what does he want from her? Addiction. Obsession. Hate. Burning. Love. Hmm...I wouldn't have said that, necessarily, from previous chapters. I'd have thought lust, possession, jealousy, and insecurity. He let her go once. He saved her, she came back, and he's struggling again. So maybe that accounts for his intensity, how he can be so giving and apologetic one second, so demanding the next. And only her instability seems to bring this out in him, because he was ignoring her the chapter before.

***He turns away from me, his breathing more composed. “You won’t come back.”
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Aww, my heart breaks for him.

***“See?” he hisses, averting the pain. “I’m not afraid of you. You need me. I’m the only one who can give this to you. I’m the only one who isn’t going to run!”
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Maybe, Logan. But I'm not sure, at this point, that that's what Rogue needs. But you're right, she needs someone that will stay right now. She's incredibly down on herself in this chapter--feeling out of control, unable to cope, destructive, a danger to everyone. I wish he was more stable, to help her.

But this was my favorite speech in the entire chapter:
***“Enough! Logan, I’m tired of this. I’m really fucking sick and tired of you. You don’t make any sense! You cross the continent to find me, accidentally stab me, and then save my life. But then you decide you don’t like the fact that I’m not so innocent anymore. So what do you do? You add to my confusion and self-doubt by treating me like a devious hooker. I’m not as scheming as you think, because in case you haven’t noticed, I’m not feeling too hot right now! I don’t know who the fuck I am or what the hell I’m doing! I can’t control anything, and I’m so afraid to even leave my room because I don’t want to hurt anybody!”
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So great, the language, the power, the desperation, the anger!

V. good chapter. V. angsty. I hope this resolves itself. But the drama, at the same time, makes it so good. And real.

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