holy shit!!! another heart pounding chapter! the bit where logan and victor were searching for rogue was so poignant, it said a lot about how she's affected both of them. and i so adore the parts where wolverine gets control when he's separated from rogue, very squee-worthy. ;-)

i also like how marie gave the info to creed, it was a nice acknowledgement of his efforts for her. i loved how you described him as an animal, but not in a disparaging way. he's just more primal and connected to his instincts than nearly everyone else. 'course he's still wicked dangerous, but he's more like a wild creature than a serial killer. great depiction.

and now rogue's infected and logan's touched her, dun, dun, DUNNN! i hope that at least they end up in the same boat, so to speak- they're either both infected or both cured.

anyhoo, enjoy your new comics (and that new comic smell!), can't wait to see what you have planned!

Author's Response: Yeah, I think one of the reasons both Wolverine and Sabertooth feel such a connection with her is because she really understands them, at the base of it, and whether its just because she's that understanding of a person in general or because of her time in the lab or if its because of the feral part of her it doesn't really matter. She knew that Sabertooth would want to know who was behind everything, she'd understand his need for revenge and she wanted to give him what help she could because she understood if the roles were reversed, she would want someone to do it for her. I just couldn't see her NOT telling him, because when she took Wild Child's memories and saw all the plotting, she probably got really pissed off, as she does, and it would have been one of things foremost in her head, "If I survive, I need to tell Sabertooth this, because if I knew someone had backstabbed me and tried to kill me I'd want to know everything so I could kill everyone of those bastards." In my head, when I think of the feral mutants and animal instinct, I just think that trust, honesty, honor, those sorts of things are very important. It's why Sabertooth and Wolverine respect each other as much as they hate each other, its why Wolverine coming to find Rogue was such a big deal for her, its why Sabertooth hated to see Rogue being drugged, its why Wolverine and Rogue hated seeing Wild Child torture Sabertooth and why Wild Child gets no respect b/c hes a sneaking sneak who plays dirty.. its just a huge part of their dynamic and while Sabertooth is in no way the good guy, I mean ripping Logan's throat out is not really nice guy behavior.. at the same time he isn't just like, this mindless killing machine who has no thought or anything. He just doesn't have any control, which I mean, I doubt most animals do. I can't see a lion having an intense internal dialogue contemplating the qualities of life and death and morality before attacking its dinner (or maybe they do). I know my cat sure as hell doesn't lol. Survive. Food. Eat. Simple. Least that's how I picture it anyways. Logan's a bit different because he's retained more of his humanity, and I think his feral part is more of a side mutation to dominate claws/healing, where as with Sabertooth, I think the feral is the dominate mutation, and the healing/claws is more of a side effect of that. Least in my head that's how it all plays out and that's how I think of them when I write. :) And that turned into a HUGE long ramble that I didn't really intend lol

And I love my new comics! Yay new comic smell! Especially the free ones, but I mean who doesn't love a big bag of free comics (even if none of them are X-men). I think my favorite though is the X-Babies comic I snagged. I've read bits of it before online, but not the whole thing and it was just screaming at me to buy it because I mean honestly, who doesn't love an itty bitty Wolverine and itty bitty Rogue running around kicking butt! :)