if that group of rescued mutants doesn't give rogue their undying loyalty, i'll be pissed. i mean, she went back in the compound after escaping, broke them out (with logan's help of course) and saved all their lives with her shield. seriously impressive right there.

i liked bolt from origins, plus dominic is adorable. and damn, it's kinda cute how wolverine has fanboys. i can imagine them trailing after him like ducklings... ;-)

i wonder what creed's going to do with rogue...? will he be feeling selfish and want to keep her, or will he give her over to magneto? i'm guessing magneto wants her for his machine. will the x-men help logan rescue her? or will they write her off since she's only one mutant? i hope some of the able bodied mutants saved from the lab will offer to help get rogue back.

loved the chapter and i'm eager for more as always!!!

ps i can totally see why rogue was distracted by sabertooth and wolverine fighting, too bad she can't have both... ;-)

Author's Response: Wolverines groupies came out of the blue, just sort of appered on the page as I was typing but I love the idea of them so much now they\'ll have a big part in the rest of the story and they will fit right in with the final chapters I\'ve already written. Still a bit to go between here and there though :) and I was distracted just by writing about sabertooth and wolverine fighting lol so I don\'t blame rogue in the least. :D

oh how exciting! things are really speeding up! i'm so glad victor is looking after rogue, even if it's somewhat stilted and awkward for him. oh and the last line about being an animal but keeping his promises was perfect! so well done!

i can't wait for logan and his fanboys to arrive, though i have faith rogue could take care of herself. (loved the bit where sabertooth was admiring her stubbornness!) great job!!!

Author's Response: Thank you! I got such a soft spot for Creed at the end of the day. I guess b/c him and Wolverine are so much alike, but on two different ends of the same spectrum. If you change a few different events in history and Wolverine could have easily ended up like Sabertooth or Sabertooth could have ended up like Wolverine. So its hard not to at least have a little soft spot for the guy. He\'s like the bad guy you don\'t want to like but have to because every now and again he does something heroic that makes you think, well he ain\'t so bad. \r\n\r\nI would love if someone who was good at writing like fluffy/funny/happy W/R fan fiction would write one about Rogue, Logan and his fan boys, cos I could see some hilarious stuff going on b/c of them.

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! :)

aw, this chapter was so cute and funny in parts. i loved the back and forth and rapport between rogue and logan. i can totally see why rogue would be pissed (and scared) by what logan did, but i'm glad she thanked him.

but wtf is going on with the virus and them? are they ok? are they infectious? what's gonna happen?! as always, can't wait for the next update, great job!

Author's Response: Thanks :) Sometimes I get really nervous writing some of the back and forth dialogue with them because I don\'t want anything to come across as out of character or too cheesy, but that being said, some of the stuff in the comics is extremely cheesy so I guess I shouldn\'t be too worried. Next chapter is up and answers all the questions. :D

beautiful story, i really like it! thanks for sharing!