Oh mah gooshness! I can't wait for you to get back to working on this baby. I've managed to accidentally re-read it about four times since I stumbled onto it over the weekend. I really truly love the way you set up your dialog and the playful-and-not-playful interactions between Rogue and Wolverine&Logan, and the interactions between Marie and Logan. I'm an absolute sucker for ferals in any form, and I am head over heels fr both of yours. The details you have in here with respect to body language and "wolf-think" are just marvelous.

And please, do not berate yourself for the "Logan/Marie moments that turn into entire chapters", they are wonderful to read and really allow us readers to get into the heart and soul of these two people. Love what you are doing, just LOVE it! I cannot wait for more of this. Really lovely!!!!

~ommmm.... must-be-patient.... ommmm~
~ommmm.... must-be-patient.... ommmm~
~ommmm.... must-meditate-on-how-to-bribe-author-into-updating.... ommmm~

(dunno if that mantra is gonna help me or kill me ;) HAHAHAH!)

Love this story, but this (chap 16 - Instinct) is def my fav :) love your interpretation of feral Rogue.

Just gotta say, I really enjoy all your fics. Love the detail level you have and the characterization is great. Thanks for writing such good stuff :D

Author's Response: Thanks so much! I\'m so glad you liked it. I\'ve written a feral Logan a few times before, but this was my first attempt at a feral Rogue. Glad you thought it worked. Thanks so much for your review! :-D

Maybe it's your compulsive need to tie up loose ends telling you to write one more chapter, but my compulsive neediness to read more of your awesome story says you HAVE to write at least one more chapter! LOL! I wanna see how scott and jean reconcile themselves with each other. I wanna see how marie threatens to kick logan's ass if he ever does something that dipshit stupid again. i wanna see how ororo and the others manage to forgive jean AND logan for making a muckup of things.... oops, have i mentioned i'm having a problem with neediness? :D anyway, loving this baby, just like I love all your fics. Thanks for writing it and for feeding my needing :D

well all i can say is DANG i'm glad you DID do something about it, cause it sure makes ME happy :D

You're right about the variety of Rogues that are floating around out there. But my favs are the ones that I could actually see myself running into at the grocery store... or the military armory LOL! I mean, let's be completely honest with ourselves, people are a mix. We have things about which we are weak or compromising or just don't care, and we also have things about which we care very much and will put up a heck of a fight to protect. We also have moments when we let our yappers go without thinking fully through what is coming out of them, and then we have to deal with the consequences of those yappings. The fics that I really really love the most are the ones where the characters are developed and complex enough that they feel like people to me. I'm not a hugely emotional person (i.e. i don't generally cry at movies etc) but if I'm tied into their feelings enough that I smile when they do and get teary eyed when they cry, then I think the author has done his or her job of portraying their characters perfectly.

Yours fall into that category. I can't wait for more. Not that I'm putting pressure on you, god forbid, but... yeah... update soon please? =P

I like it, I like it! I love the interplay between Rogue and Victor. This is definitely a take on him that you don't usually see and I'm loving every bit of it. He's still an arrogant, full-of-himself asshole but you're showing him as a multidimensional person, and ALL people have crappy parts and not-so-crappy parts to them. Most portrayals of him are extremely one-dimensional so it's really nice to see this side.

I also love that Rogue is her own person. So many fics paint her as a person very dependent on the emotional support of another, usually Logan. Your Rogue knows what she wants, has taken steps to obtain it, and ain't about to take shit from anyone, not even Victor, about it. Not that there's anything wrong with an emotionally needy Rogue but it's lovely to see a different take on her from time to time, and yours fits that to a tee :D

No pressure but... can't wait for next update! LOL!

(And don't worry about the language thing, your writing works and it's perfectly understandable, so it's all good!)

Oh ho ho ho! I am looking forward to seeing where you take this one! All your fics take me places I wasn't necessarily expecting, but no matter what I love the ride. And heck, the journey is 99% of the fun, isn't it? :D

Author's Response: :-D Hope you liked what I did with the place. ;-) Thanks for being my first review, and sorry for being the last review I responded to!

ok i confess i totally cheated and peaked. it is ALL YOUR FAULT! I couldn't wait to see the next bit (and i LOVE it! Love this take!) LOL! You've got me addicted already. Can't wait for you to get more up :D

And here's hoping that this site gets sorted quick so ppl can go back to posting normally!)

Author's Response: :-) Peek away, my friend. Thanks again for fixing the site for us! And thanks for all the lovely reviews!

gravies, growly Logan is just.... :D yum yum! And poor Marie, now she gotta wash blood out of all her stuff again, she's supposed to be relaxing and skin-controlling! not being ms x-man! LOL!

I have to force myself to think about something else, and not manually check for updates "just in case the email didn't come in" SIGH! can't wait for the next update!

Author's Response: I\'m so excited to hear how anxious you are for updates. That\'s the best compliment ever! Thanks for reviewing!

Yowsers! I LOVE IT!!! This has to be the best chappie yet :D They're each SO sure that the other couldn't POSSIBLY care two bits for them, they don't deserve it, blah blah, and the way you just snuck it up them was delicious! And Marie is finally starting to achieve her goal of forgetting her skin, which is after all why she dumped her ass out there in the middle of nowhere in the first place! And throwing 'Desert Places' in just made it all the more awesome. If ever a poem sums up Logan AND Marie it's that one. And it's so easy to think of a desert in conventional sense, sand sun and no water, but really a desert is merely a 'place' where life cannot flourish. In their most fundamental incarnations, both Marie and Logan fit that bill to a T, they live in the physical sense, their bodies breathe and they eat etc, but their souls are a desert, they are bereft of life, they merely exist. I really think that is one of the most primitive appeals for me with this pairing, that it is a joining of two emptiness-es, to create a wonderful and vibrant fulfillment. Kiyaa, look at me waxing all philosophical LOL!

I can't wait for more. You're spoiling me, my dear, utterly spoiling me with the yumminess that is this story!

Author's Response: I\'m so glad you liked it. Yes, I knew right from the start that their actual interactions with each other would be kind of limited, so a lot of the character development (regarding how they feel about each other) has to take place through their inner monologues. A very different style for me. I was also really excited about \"Desert Places\" -- see my response to the other review, it was total serendipity that I ran across that (just looking for whatever poem was in the same first edition volume as \"Two Tramps...\") and I was so excited! Thanks again for your lovely review...you are definitely spoiling me as well!

Aiyayaiyai! I haven't had time to comment on the last two chappies so this one's a three-fer-one.

I really enjoyed the dinner and the haircut. It was the right mix of challenge and mundane, and Logan totally made me think of a ginormous puppy getting his tummy rubbed LOL! :)

I'm glad Logan is pushing, 'cause Marie is far too used to being Ms Ultra-Cautious, afraid and careful (and of course, who can blame her) to push herself more than a little bit. He's holding out this marvelous carrot and offering her a piece, and making her stretch like crazy to reach it. And each stretch brings her closer to him and closer to her goal. I am thoroughly enjoying the journey. And boy oh boy did I just KNOW where Ch 14/15 are going when I read him leaving into the snow storm. Silly Logan and your silly pride! Shoulda just asked for a spot on the couch instead of trying to commit suicide by snow!!!!

Can't wait for 15! Though honestly I'd rather have slow chappies than a sick Doc.... but since you are trying to be "productive" who am I to deny you? =P

Get well soon!!!

Author's Response: Awww...a three-fer! Glad you liked the dinner and haircut. Yeah, I think at the same time Logan comes across as all lusty-animal-rawr, simple physical tenderness is something equally foreign to him, and something he would just kind of revel in. And yes...he\'s a smart cookie, making Marie get over her fear of touching. I think they\'re both gonna be happy with the results. I did broadcast the freezing thing a little bit, but I don\'t think many people picked up on it. You did totally call it, though! I really don\'t think he knew what was going to happen, though. In my mind if something like that happened, he just woke up when he woke up and figured not much time had passed. Thanks for prioritizing my health over updates...hopefully we\'ll achieve both. Thanks so much for reviewing!

:D this was great! I hope you're feeling much better now!

Really enjoyed these two chapters. The tender moments, and how they are opening themselves up to each other, and yet how they always seem to instantly assume the worst when either one of them pulls back or says something lol! The bodies are trusting each other but the minds are still stuck in the habits of a lifetime. I really liked your take on how Bobby's constant nerves made Marie's nerves a hundred times worse. It became a self-fulfilling prophesy with those two. Thank goodness she found someone infinitely better for her >:D

Author's Response: Ugh, I keep hoping this damn chest cold is on its way out, but I\'m on week 3 and it\'s hanging around. Bleargh. But reviews cheer me up tremendously! ;-) Yes, you\'re so right about these two. They both know to trust each other implicitly, and yet their insecurities are lurking so close to the surface. And yes, we can all send up a big cheer that Rogue and Bobby didn\'t work out. Seriously, is there a single Bobby/Rogue fanfic? What would they even be -- Robby? Bogue? :-)

Boy this chappie had me sniggering like a teenager when the class genius gets the mental smack-down from the kid no one thinks can cut it. Assuming just cause he's Logan, just cause he's got all that fightin know-how he'll wipe the floor with lil' Marie. BWAHAHAH! Good job Marie, showing him not to be so damn cocky :D And LOLLERS at neither one of them fighting fair HAHAHA!

I like how Marie is trying to show Logan (since Wolverine already knows it) that he can be truly himself with her, that he doesn't have to lock part of himself away. She loves the light and the dark, the gentle and the fierce, and it's LOGAN that has to mentally come to gripes with that, not Marie. She knew it from the time she touched him, but he just can't get his human mind wrapped around the concept.

Thanks for the great pressie, and sorry I've been delinquent in the commentary. I been reading each time, just life been a bitch and smacking me with 10-12 hour work days and getting sick and all that fun and games, so haven't been doing the comments like I should. Bad me!

I love both versions, and both Rogues. One sweet and tender, one kick ass and still tender LOL! Thanks for a twofer (two for the price of one :D)

Author's Response: Thanks so much. :)