hey, just read this all in one go and am really looking forward to the rest... please update soon

hey, thanks for the dedication at the start of the chapter, really happy to see this fic updated. have to say i enjoyed finding out this marie's back-story, and i agree with logan that her grand-parents sounded cool. i can understand why you were worried about the word count, but it flows quite naturally and retains interest throughout. nice work...

Author's Response: Thank you for the feedback. I am really really glad to hear you thought the flow worked. The Grandparents thing grew completely organically as I wrote the chapter. I ended up with a scene that will come much later coming out as well. Its weird how a story doesn\'t necessarily happen for the author in order.\r\n\r\nStray is one of the stories I am always on the hunt for an update from so the dedication felt completely approperiate. :)

hey, i liked this. always liked pyotr, so it was good to hear from him. and the russian didn't sound too weird (i speak the language a bit, i would know). looking forward to reading more

Author's Response: Oh good! Not much Russian really used, of course; not more than he\'d usually speak in the comics. I don\'t speak the language, unfortunately. More up now, more on the way...

i just wanted to say thankyou for finishing this. doesn't matter how long it took, only that you did such a good job. i enjoyed this from the moment i started reading it, and i'm happy i had the opportunity to see it finish up. faith and its consequences are a funny thing, but ou managed to carry that sense of the numinous in life through this. tone of voice, storyline, characterisations, everything was spot on and in the end you managed to give a measured, believable portrayal of two people who've been to hell and back and can actually appreciate the consequences of the trip. again, congratulations and thank you,
hobbits away (and in awe), ho!

Author's Response: I\'m just very grateful for people coming back after such a long layoff. And, ooh, \'numinous\' is such a great word. Thank you so much.

aha, you have returned! and in fine form... to quote hannibal from the a-team (and possibly Marie) "I love it when a plan comes together..." more please :-)

and they say i'm good at torture... i don't normally go for jeannie whumping but just this one time? Gut the bitch... at least that's what my inner logan advises... update soon

Author's Response: Oh, Hobbit, I very much appreciate your support in the \'gut the bitch\' (just this once) camp. And left to his own devices, that\'s exactly what our dear Wolvie would do, however the professor may have persuaded him that death--even a painful, messy one--is too good for this Jeannie...Updates should be forthcoming later this week. Thanks for letting me know you liked this. --Wendie

i just have to say i loved this. quiet, elegantly written and beautifully realized fiction like this is hard to find and i'm very glad i found this. thank you for an intelligent, engaging read.

Author's Response: Thank you for this incredibly kind comment. I\'m glad you enjoyed your reading.

hey hun, just wanted to say how much i enjoyed this chapter. liked what you did with introducing the junior x-men and thought you got Storm down well. Am really looking forward to the next chapter :-)

Author's Response: I don\'t know if the choice of tense was any better than the previous chapters, but I\'m glad you liked this. The next chapter is already off to the beta! Thanks for reading & reviewing :)

hey hun, really loved the current chapter- it's nicely paced, i love the dialogue and i really want to know what's going on. like that you're taking time with your set up too. and i've said it before but i'll say it again: i love your version of professor xavier. hobbits away, hey!

Author's Response: *Bounces*. Yay, I\'m glad you like the pacing. That\'s something that I\'m constantly worried about (second to tense - I\'ve kind of put that one to bed...with a little Benadryl help). You love my Xavier? *Bounces even more*, *tosses candy at you & hope I don\'t hit your eye*. I promise he will never delve into Evil!Xavier, but I\'m more than willing to lay his humanity, faults & all on the table. Ye be warned.

hey hun,
liked this, as always.can only offer my cure for writers block, which is doing nothing on the story for a while and then coming back to it fresh. (if we readers have to wait, we have to wait). as for the piano scene, i though it worked well, it reads nicely and it's set up so that you get the feeling it's going to be important later on. the only thing i found a little jarring was the nature of the first flashback; you seem to be describing a fairly serious sexual assault (and death) and since none of the other references to rogue's past are this, well, graphic, the tone of it makes the whole chapter much darker than anything else so far. as i said, i found it a little jarring but that's probably just me. the story's going well however so give yourself a break. and if all else fails, get some red wine, some icecream and spend some time with your feral muse... i recommend the cage scene in X1 if you want to get your juices flowing, creative or otherwise... great chapter again, thanks for sharing and hobbits away, hey!

Author's Response: Yeah, I\'ve been doing a whole lot of nothing on the Loyalties front & that\'s all I\'m gettin\' - Nada. I was hoping to run into some inspiration in the wilderness, but no dice. I guess the beginning of the scene was my fault on a couple of fronts. I threw in a while back an exchange between Xavier & a pissed Marie about what she had to do to survive on the road & that she might rather die than go back to that kind of living - but it was subtle. I didn\'t explicitly say what it was that she did to get by. Also, it was a while ago & I take forever to update so it seems even longer. The plan the entire time was to make this part of Marie\'s backstory, but I suppose I should have either been a bit more explicit before, or put something like this in earlier (problem is I don\'t see Logan helping her out like this any earlier. Conundrum). At first, I did make the trucker die, but then I remembered that from the get go Carol was the only person that Marie had ever killed (I think that\'s in Chapter 1), so I had to amend it so that he was not quite dead - this is why I need a ton of time btw. writing & posting!

hi, so sorry to hear you were sick, didn't meant to come off as pushy. i was wondering though: would a story featuring logan dressed as Rocky make you feel any better? since you're not well and all? i know how horrible it is to be sick for a long period, so if a rocky horror mutant show could be a cure for what ails ya then i will happily write one. i too grew up watching the rocky horror picture show- i used to watch it in the cinema every friday, yelling abuse at the screen- so i'm sure i could come up with something... (whitles innocently) i'm just saying... i'm only stuck in RL's grubby clutches for another few days...

Author's Response: OMFG you will live in Rogan infamy if you can put Wolverine in some gold hot pants! Some hack with a medical degree might disagree, but Im damn certain that this would permanently cure me. *Bounces* *wheezes* *coughs* *hacks up a lung* *thinks about twisted plot bunny & does it all over again* Oh mess, hobbits. You\'ve created a hairy, growly, smexy monster.

consider it done ;-P

hey, just wanted to say i really loved this, but i wanted another chapter! i mean, not to sound like a perv, what you had was smutlicious enough and i thought you set it up really well, but please? if this is all the lady wrote however thanks for sharing it, i really enjoyed it. hobbits away, hey!

Author's Response: Hiya, hobbit! So sorry...I think ending fics is the hardest part (I hate how corny the ending to \"Into the Woods\" is but I just can\'t fix it). With this one I kinda like where it ended, so I\'ll just have to leave it up to your imagination to provide the reunion smut. ;-)