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Date: 04/28/2011 2:00:15 PM Title: Victories
OK, this FB's gonna be written as I read along (rather belatedly; I apologise. Rogue wins against Logan? Good for her, in every possible way! And she has won, as odd as it may sound under the circumstances, a decent victory. And gets the respectful bow of the opponent that is due to her. She might even eventually learn that she does have a choice, and has become Logan's equal quite in herself, without the help of the other personae and against the insecure, victimising attitude of Marie. Will the girl get a chance to outgrow her teens, I wonder?
A leaping heart is certainly a prerequisite to life, once in a while. Oh, and it wasn't Logan she had won against with her tiny bikini, all those years ago. Now I AM curious to understand what took that victory away from her again... No, wait. This last scene is before she knew his darkest side, was it? But hadn't she long seen that he was grooming her?
Author's Response: Just coming back to clarify those few plots points - the scene in Havana DOES take place after Pasadena, when she absorbed him properly. Prior to Pasadena, she was pretty much Marie, damaged teenager. After Pasadena, Marie becomes embryonic Rogue, having taken in Wolverine. It takes Rogue AND Marie to face down Marie's demons (in Havana) just like it will take Marie and Rogue to face down Rogue's demons in the present day :D
Date: 04/28/2011 1:38:11 PM Title: The war without
Ooof. Can't quite remember if I've fedback (feedbacked?) before - sorry if I'm repetitive. This is one dark story altogether, and a great challenge to Rogan fans because the characters are so hard to like. A very good, much-too-often neglected exercise. Didn't like Jean and Xavier either, but am now wondering how reliable Rogue is in her assessments. Glad and intrigued about the different shards of personalities in Rogue and Logan. He knows her rather well - wouldn't have expected so much knowledge unconnected to his purposes, but maybe Rogue's assessment of his calculations was not quite right, either.
In any case, it's surprisingly sympathetic, and I wonder if he knows that.
As painful as this is to read, I hope you'll manage to keep the twisted souls. It's good to remember that there's people like that, without the release of clear categories.
And am really grateful for that unexpected spark of humour at the end. It was much needed and appropriately cherished.
Date: 04/21/2011 5:31:15 PM Title: Peace?
interesting, you always make it interesting. I can't wait to see who was watching though.
Author's Response: Not sure that is a dilemma that will be resolved soon ... therein lies the twistiness ;)
[Report This]Date: 04/20/2011 9:58:38 PM Title: Peace?
Bom bom bommmmmmm!
(That's the Ominous Music there. ;) )
I continue to think this story is pure awesome with awesomesauce on top. I like the hints of things to come -- Logan's mysterious client (Mystique, maybe?) and the mysterious job.
Author's Response: Awesome :D Glad you are enjoying it; promise there will be a new chapter soon :D
[Report This]Date: 04/20/2011 8:00:56 PM Title: Peace?
Dayum, woman. I don't know how you do it. In every chapter, you just hit all the notes. Hot as hell, so sweet it makes me "Aw...", intriguing plot points, beautiful language. I had to read it three times just to make sure I was catching it all.
Favorite lines:
That had been fucking coming home, and she knew it.
He didn’t say a word, didn’t move a muscle, but fuck it all, he prayed.
lips and teeth and stubble sensitising her so much that she felt like live current
she had let go completely, and he had seeped into her, just enough to share his awe, and tenderness, and the ferocious, hungry desire that always, always lurked beneath
Author's Response: I am too much of an egotist to post a chapter that doesn't have some good lines, or a high spot of some sort. Hence my lack of updates recently - I wasn't happy with what I had, so stuck it all in the misadventures file and started again. Hopefully I will finish it by the weekend. Thanks for sticking with me :D
[Report This]Date: 04/20/2011 1:44:06 PM Title: Peace?
Well let me do all I can to encourage you, food's overrated anyway. And besides if your kids are in Scouts they could get thier knot-tying badge.
Author's Response: Too young for Scouts .. but good practise! Thank you for reviewing, and I'm going to hope you are patient enough to come back, because there will be a new chapter soon, I promise!
[Report This]Date: 04/20/2011 11:48:13 AM Title: Target: Wolverine
Omigod, you just made me laugh SO hard!! This morning when I woke up, I fully intended to ignore my familial duties to read your update, but when the kids were sent off to school with what must have been, the most saddest bunch of lunches yet, I forced myself to go out and buy them some real sustenance!! Then I get to the end of your most EXCELLENT chapter yet, and lo and behind, we are in the same basket LOL!! Thanks for the solidarity comrade, its not just me then! K, now on to my review: Everything, of course, but this is my favourite:
he told himself he was holding on to his fucking sanity, not to her. I have officially fallen in love with your Logan. Surperb, as always! :)
Date: 04/20/2011 9:17:18 AM Title: Peace?
Okay, add me to the list of Rogan fans addicted to this story. I really love the intense, visceral and complex relationship that you have established here. I'm also very intrigued regarding the mystery of Logan's job, the woman (Mystique?) watching from afar and how it will all play out between Logan and Marie. Jean's feeling of doom has got me worried, but I guess that's because I'm a sucker for a happy ending. Regardless of how it ends, I'm definitely along for the ride!
Author's Response: I'm so glad you are enjoying it. I'm pretty much a sucker for a happy ending too, but as someone wise once pointed out, I do like to make them suffer along the way to the happy ending, so can't promise hearts and flowers for a while yet. Lots of plottiness to come - and fingers crossed, there will be something new to enjoy before the week is out.
Date: 04/20/2011 8:17:47 AM Title: Peace?
Loving this! I look forward to each update. Your children are obviously able to fend for themselves...you had no food so they got a cat. Which leaves you free to write for us Rogan junkies that depend on you. :)
Author's Response: I hope you poor Rogan junkies haven't given up on me yet ... hoping to post a new chapter on the weekend, the writing Gods permitting.
[Report This]Date: 04/13/2011 6:42:47 PM Title: Wolverine and Rogue
erm... ew! I ain't stroking your anything. I'll leave that to Rogue and Wolverine xXx
Author's Response: Stoking, darlink. Stoking. I leave it up to Wolverine to do the stroking ...
Date: 04/12/2011 1:06:00 AM Title: Wolverine and Rogue
Hey, I forgot to mention that I appreciate the more nuanced portrayal of Jean here. I'm not a Jean-hater (I guess that puts me in the minority on this site, huh? ;) ), so it's nice to see this.
Author's Response: Glad you approve! I'm not one for huge prejudices against any particular character, I tend to take it as it comes storywise, but I was surprised how sympathetic this turned out. She's horny, yes, but she is more than that, and maybe we'll see her rise to the occasion down the track in this story. But I reserve the right for her to be a total heinous bitch, too ... I'm not always in the driver's chair when the bunnies bite!
Date: 04/11/2011 11:00:20 AM Title: Wolverine and Rogue
‘That man, today – he had been a construct. Something else lurked underneath the smooth manners and cold efficiency – something so well guarded, so hidden, that she would have never known it was there. Fear prickled up her spine. What kind of man was he, to be able to control that? To be able to command it?’
loved how you wrote her thoughts at the beginning, working out and realizing everything she didn’t know.
‘She wondered how long she was willing to sit there, not waiting.’ Loved this line!! oh yeah, she wants him, and unlike skybound I can’t stand her, so really enjoyed the fact that she had to watch whilst Rogue got everything she wanted and handled the true Logan/Wolverine [double meaning not intended :) ] that she was scared of would not have been able to.
As for the smut – your too damn good at it to be asking for forgiveness – none needed.
Author's Response: The "not waiting" line was probably my favourite in the entire chapter. It just seemed so important to this character, to not admit to herself that she was waiting on a guy, you know? Glad you enjoyed the smut. I hope to be a little more even handed in the next chappy - plot, nicely leavened by smut ;)
[Report This]Date: 04/11/2011 8:40:04 AM Title: Wolverine and Rogue
Ya know, there is nothing better than coming back after a long stint of not being able to read your favorite fanfics, only to discover delicious tidbits like this chapter (oh, and the cage-fighting before hand ;-P).
For starters, I ADORE Jean (I know, I'm one of the few, but I really do love the woman!) so I always a appreciate seeing her portrayed as something OTHER than uber-bitch, so THANK YOU for this chapter. I think you've given some nice insight into her here, while giving a lot of fantastic characterization on both Wolverine and Rogue (not to mention hot, because it totally was). I really do like that she realizes in this chapter how much Logan is keeping hidden from them all, and I really like how the scene on the bench followed up from the scene in the cage. We knew it was going to end up there, but DAMN, it was still VERY intense.
And the flashback to how it was the first time Rogue kissed Logan, and his growled 'Do it again'? *shivers* Very easy to see that scene in my head. Can't wait to see the aftermath of this one, and find out more about what happened between the two of them.
Author's Response: So glad you enjoyed it. As I said for baybelle, I really enjoyed writing from Jean's perspective, and I suspect she'll be back in the not-so-distant future. And the "do it again" scene ... just finished writing Logan's perspective on that for the next chapter :D
[Report This]Date: 04/10/2011 10:51:14 PM Title: Wolverine and Rogue
Wow. Forgive you for the smut? I'll try. ;-) This was superb. Poetic, and raw, and sexy as hell. I love this:
a hot tide of honest appreciation, and the warm buzz of amusement
and
The type of man who would fuck you into the floor and not even offer you a hand up afterwards.
and
Rogue and the Wolverine. It sounded like music, and felt like a car crash. They were at terminal velocity, hurtling through the night, towards something inevitable.
and
the languor seeping into her blood was punctuated by the memory of his voice
And, well, just about every line in that description of their kiss. Bravo, my friend. Just awesome.
Author's Response: I used to have an ongoing argument with another writer (Laenwyn) about poetry. I know I can do raw and sexy, but she thinks that has its own poetry, whereas I'm still not sure. I'm generally happy with a few corker lines in a fic that bring everything to a head ... and yes, "the type of man" is another one I'm happy with, along with that entire flashback. Glad you enjoyed it!
Date: 04/10/2011 9:08:58 AM Title: Wolverine and Rogue
Goodness me, that was... steamy. :-) What a great chapter.
Author's Response: Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Date: 04/10/2011 1:39:13 AM Title: Wolverine and Rogue
omg lol at the end notes. your story is very, ahem, addicting. i almost spelled it addickting. oh jeez. well ill just be going now......
Author's Response: I'm glad you're enjoying it. Rogan addicts of the world, unite!
Date: 04/09/2011 7:05:02 PM Title: Wolverine and Rogue
I love this!! I especially like the little tidbit of Jean before we get to the good stuff, :).
Anyway, I am enthralled by this story and all of the undertones of Rogan. I can't wait to see a more intimate scene between Logan and Rogue, one I know might not be coming for a long time if the development of the story is to be preserved, wherein they are rehashing what it was that tore them apart (as friends, partners, and possible lovers) after an intense confrontation with the Brotherhood.
Update soon and feed US with deliciously written updates.
Author's Response: Jean surprised me. I started off writing her bitchy, but her curiousity about Wolverine took over, and her intellect became quite an interesting filter. So I am quite proud of those fews paras ... not to mention, as "back off, bitch" goes, it's quite effective! I'm not sure when Logan and Rogue will be able to regain intimate. There is a lot of plottiness to come, and it could be some way down the track. Or something might come along to help them cut through all the BS. I'm not a great planner, so I'm in the dark too!
[Report This]Date: 04/09/2011 3:15:00 PM Title: Wolverine and Rogue
...
Sorry, BRB. Going to take a cold shower.
(Girlfriend, if it's all going to be like this, you can indulge in smut any time you want. Damn!)
The last few chapters have been plot-heavy, so a character-heavy chapter doesn't go amiss. Or smut-heavy, as the case may be.
The mansion, looming like her future.
This image really struck me for some reason. I like it.
Author's Response: Glad you enjoyed it. I will be fairly likely to indulge on a regular basis, but I do have to take care not to let it take over. Smut is pretty easy for me to write, especially with these characters, and sometimes I get lazy and fill entire chapters with it. (OK - entire stories!!!) But this piece has more potential than that, and I will try to refrain. rnrnAnd I like that line, too. It suggests a reckoning to come, don't you think?
Date: 04/09/2011 10:17:24 AM Title: Wolverine and Rogue
*fans self*
is it hot in here or what
*glances at boyfriend*
...
Author's Response: Your boyfriend must just LOVE the Wrfa :D
[Report This]Date: 04/09/2011 9:17:41 AM Title: Target: Wolverine
Do it again,” he growled. And all of a sudden, practice looked like a fine thing.
Now, that, is Wolverine. Love it, your Logan and Marie are so powerful, when I saw that you updated, I had to settle in with my coffee first because I know I was going to savour each and every word.
Author's Response: I'm glad I'm not the only one who does that! (Poor keyboard. Too many immersions to count.) Thank you for reading and I hope I can maintain the quality for you.
Date: 04/09/2011 8:20:29 AM Title: Wolverine and Rogue
Wolverine and Rogue. Rogue and the Wolverine. It sounded like music, and felt like a car crash. They were at terminal velocity, hurtling through the night, towards something inevitable.
That sentence could be like 'ship manifesto in and of itself. Fantastic writing.
And you are hereby forgiven for any and all indulgences into smut. Yowsa.
Author's Response: tbh I thought that line was a bit trite, too many cliches, but I kept it anyway. Too prideful, I am. But you are right that it summarises the relationship quite nicely (well, the relationships I tend to write, anyway!) And thanks for absolution ;)
[Report This]Date: 03/27/2011 10:26:11 AM Title: Victories
:-D
xXx
Author's Response: Enjoying it, then ;)
[Report This]Date: 03/26/2011 5:53:46 PM Title: Victories
Definitely not rough! Past and present are fitting together nicely, liked Rogues pov here, how she’s almost [I was going to say on the outside looking in when actually she’s on the inside looking out but you know what I mean!] Really liked how you conveyed her internal struggle, how you’ve split them so it’s not only the outsiders in her head but 2 of her as well. ‘A clamour of protest, that was Rogue. Marie was quiet, though. Did she have nothing to say? No thoughts on this matter? She walked from that girlish room, smiled her girlish smile, and stood on tiptoe to speak in Rogue’s ear. “Trust you. Do this for me.” - loved this line.
Really enjoying this, keep it comin’ x
Ps hope your daughter has a great Birthday! It was my daughters today but the days of candles and cakes are long gone - its not so much fun when they get older just more expensive!!
Author's Response: I'm glad the chapter made sense, especially the last few paras - I admit to writing them VERY late on Saturday night immediately prior to posting! I'm glad you like that line - rereading it, I was pretty impressed with it myself!!! Party was huge fun, if exhausting - she's turning 4 (tomorrow, actually), so it was little girl heaven, with fairy bread, painting, bubbles to chase, fairy dresses, and birthday cake!rn
[Report This]Date: 03/26/2011 4:23:05 PM Title: Victories
I really like your pacing here. It feels very deliberate. Well-constructed! The backstory really soars. Looking forward to the next installment.
Author's Response: I'd love to admit to being that deliberate a writer. But I'm not - what comes out, comes out. My only decision on pacing is that this is a long-haul kind of job, so I'm in no particular hurry to get anywhere. There is a plot in the past, there is a moment in the present, and there are places to go in the future, so I need to move forward a certain amount, but am not in any particular hurry.
[Report This]Date: 03/26/2011 11:01:51 AM Title: Victories
Loved this chapter, the way you create a back-story for these two isalmost exactly what I picture when I imagine them not meeting the X-Men.
Author's Response: So glad you are enjoying it. It's interesting to see how many of us converge on the "what should have happened" stakes!