You're evil. Because I got all hot in the office.

Gosh, who can be angry with Logan if he jump you in the shower?

But I really hope Marie won't give it to him easily even though she has lotsa forgiveness in her bones.

Lovely as usual - alia.

Dude, that was harsh. Like seriously I want to stab Logan's eyes so because he was so preoccupied with Jean's memories that he didn't even recognized Marie and the he fucking left!

OMG I really want to kick his 'nads. Seriously.

Marie shouldn't be treated like that.

And I like the touch of the Prof's study.

I... am very sorry I only read this today. And I read it on one sitting and through out the time I was reading it, I felt scared for Logan and Rogue but not Gambit. And I don't know why. Maybe because it's centralized more on Logan and Rogue but I know Gambit is important too.

Anyway wow you're a very talented writer. I only felt like this when I read another Rogan story by thatcraftykid but you and your characterizations and your plots, you made that feeling came back.

It left me feeling on edge. Constantly wondering what's the ending will be like. You don't give away what will happen to them and I sorta love it/hate it.

And gosh, I am really a fan of Rogue/Logan but you made me kinda want to jump into the Rogue/Gambit bandwagon. Maybe that's why I'm not scared for Gambit because somehow maybe in the end he will end up with Rogue.

But only you know about that :)

Sorry if I'm being rambly. Looking forward for another chapters.

-alia

Author's Response: Thank you so much for this incredibly kind and thoughtful comment! No apologies, please: comments, rambly or no (and yours wasn\'t, at all) are much very appreciated around these parts. The \"on edge\" and \"love/hate\" observations have particularly left me tickled pink; that\'s generally the kind of response I like to hear! :)

Hands down, this chapter is the hardest chapter ever for me to read because I'm scared. I am truly truly scared for Rogue and Logan and Gambit especially Rogue.

And I don't know how Remy knows about Rogue's feelings towards Logan but what he said about "It's not your fight." strikes her to the core because even if she did say that she wants to exorcise the memories that don't make sense to her, Gambit is right, it's not her fight. She can choose to ignore them just like she ignores all feelings related stuff. But why couldn't see let this one go?

And Remy, saying that he loves her all the way now? /sigh

It's hard okay to read that part because I don't know. It's like real life. You love someone a long time ago and then you buried that feeling and then that someone is in love with you but then there's someone else and you just don't want to deal with any of them. And I'm scared that Rogue is not gonna end with Logan. There. I said it. I'm a sucker for that endgame even if the ride is a total bump.

"And now there is a look on his face that she has never seen; that reminds her of no other look."

And that part? Is where I start crying.

I'm sorry if I don't make any sense. But I think things will get harder for them in the next chapters yes?

More soon.

-alia

Author's Response: I always feel equally overjoyed and guilty reading your lovely detailed responses, with all the fear I appear to be causing you! Yes... I am definitely interested in all the messiness that comes with caring about people, knowing people. And thank you, thank you for your tears; they are much cherished by me--though I apologize for them, as well!

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I cried so hard it's not even real anymore.

I thought chapter 8 is the hardest chapter to get through, but I think this chapter is mother of all hardest for me.

Oh Rogue... there are too much that I want to say about Rogue but all I could think of is that, she's scared and she's growing up too fast. Knows secrets that she's not supposed to know and she knows answers that she thought she's ready to handle but couldn't in the end. And then when her images of how Logan now was tainted, she gets angry and upset and I think I know why she's crying at this part :-

"Carefully and gently repairing and renewing everything she had destroyed."

Maybe because she knows what Logan is capable of doing and his previous life was all about destroy destroy destroy but in this life, he's all repairs and renews and that somehow makes her sad how Logan used to be only one dimension and now he has more sides of him that Rogue has seen.

And Remy... omg never have I feel conflicted by whatever he's trying to shove down Rogue's throat.

I know he wants Rogue to know the truth about Logan and him and asks for her to understand that something cannot be avoided and were Logan to remember what he had done in his previous life, he too would regret them immensely.

For that I applaud Remy's persistence for Rogue to forgive them (maybe to forgive Logan more because somehow he knows that Logan is the main concerns here.)

But maybe I'm wrong in my observations.

Hey, you made me cry but you should be proud of yourself for this exceptionally amazing truly beautiful writing.

- Alia.

Author's Response: Thank you again for your always detailed and extensive reviews; and thank you especially for your tears! I think your observations are apt... I think absolutely, that for Rogue there is something heartbreaking about knowing who Logan used to be and who he is trying to be, now; that in some way the way he is living his life is already about an atonement for a past he doesn\'t even fully know yet. I don\'t know if Gambit wants Rogue to forgive them; I think, for him, he doesn\'t believe either of them should be forgiven, and he certainly doesn\'t forgive himself. (Some shades of the comicverse Gambit/Marauders/Antarctica thing.) But I think (I\'m speaking as an objective reader, not as the author) what he hopes for--what we hope for from the people we love or wish to love us--is to be seen, truly seen; known and truly known. And I think he wishes the same thing for Logan. Particularly because Rogue is so adamantly against knowing anyone. Thank you again for this wonderful comment and for your emotional reactions--they move me each time you respond.

That was a very beautiful ride.

Even if Rogue doesn't end up solely with Logan but hey she's Rogue. Normalcy is not something that is cool in her book.

Thank you so much for this story. Oh look a lone tear running down my face. Haha.

I hope I will see more of you in this fandom soon. :)

- Alia.

Author's Response: I\'m glad you enjoyed the \"ride.\" Yes--Rogue is a rogue, after all! I\'d like to see her interpreted that way more often. Last tear for a while, hopefully! See you next story. :)