Nice and leisurely til now, but I suspect things are heading towards a fast boil. The chemistry between your Marie and Logan is exquisite, and the verse is an interesting one. Waiting with bated breath for the next chapter (and willing Logan to behave himself for Marie's sake!)

Author's Response: good suspecting! Things are definitely about to heat up.
I\'m trying to change up the writing style and try something new by adding more detail and histories instead of basically focusing on the here and now. It\'s a nice change of pace but I don\'t feel like I\'ve found my \'style\' yet. I guess I need to keep practicing with more stories? ;)
Thanks for feedback and wonderful compliments. I\'ll whisper to Logan to behave himself better... but I doubt he\'ll listen. :)

You certainly know how to threaten a review out of a woman :0

Enjoyed it immensely, even if I was somewhat uncomfortable with your Logan. His disregard for consent worried me; his selfishness appalled me. You redressed that a little in the last paras by showing something of his fear of losing her; before that, he came across as an obsessive brute. Sexy as all get out, though :(

Marie, I liked. Her vacillation between silly teenage Marie and a more grown up version was very in character, I thought - knowing she should be scared of Logan was wise. Knowing she didn't really WANT to say no, so should just try to stay the hell away, makes a lot of sense in that x1 verse.

Interesting that this started as a PWP, because your strongest moments describe emotion, rather than action. I'm not knocking the sex scenes, they're fine, but they simply don't compare with the few paras where you describe how they FEEL about each other:

“Is it time now?” she asks, desolate and hopeful at the same time. Because as much as she knows her future is with him, as much as she knows that she loves him with all her being, a little part of her is also scared. He doesn’t love her like she loves him. She loves him like ice cream on a sultry Mississippi day, like a rocking chair for 80-year-old bones. Like getting to know him and learning to love him and looking up baby names secretly but never telling him.

He loves her like he wants to burn her up and cover himself with her ashes. Like he wants to steal her away and let no one touch her and die with her because he can’t imagine living without her.

While she’s still muddling through ’want’ and learning what it means, he has sped his way through ’need’ and is somewhere much, much further."

.... truly masterful, and the true action in this story.

Author's Response: lol I\'m a review hog ... it makes my world go round. i stare at them on the screen and say don\'t need food when you have reviews! see, you get to read my fic and thin my waist at the same time!\r\n\r\nlol i know - sexy as hell right. although yeah ... i was a lil worried about how some would take the consent thing. he\'s rough and marie knows it - he only gets rougher in the 2nd part (soon to be posted), or maybe he doesn\'t. you can tell me once you\'ve read it. he\'s like a man with a 15 year olds mind at times, someone once said to me, cept since he\'s got a man\'s body that can be a lil ... dangerous? too strong a word? \r\n\r\nthanks, i\'m really proud of my marie. normally us girls love the guy and don\'t much like or care for the girl. but i put a lot of work into making her likable, otherwise this fic wouldn\'t work, so i\'m glad you did. yeah, she\'s very knowledgeable, she understands how people tick, knows how she ticks too.\r\n\r\nawww shucks ... thanks *blushes* sometimes i go through the crap i\'m emoting and think wther ppl will actually get it so i\'m glad you mentioned that. yeah, it did start out with the intention of being a PWP but i can\'t seem to write a story without delving too deep. just like i can\'t seem to write a bad guy without making him human, and flawed and kind of pitiable - an annoying habbit of mine.\r\n\r\nwell, i loved your review - shed a 1mm of the waist just gloating over it. see you soon at the next part hopefully

There? You're stopping THERE? *sobs*

Great chapter, lovely story so far. And the anticipation is killing me!

Author's Response: I like to leave my audience wanting. *grin* I\'m glad you like it. Bare with me for the next chapter, real life is interfering! Thanks!

Better and betterer. Loving this.

Author's Response: Thanks! This has been my favorite chapter so far, but I\'m hoping the next chapter will be just as good and just as much fun to write. -- Wendie

Just to let you know this is floating my boat in all kinds of ways! Loving the rawness of it, and the different take the characters. Loving the smut, too, but don't let it (him?) overpower you too much because you are taking us into such interesting new places with these characters. Nice work!

I started reading this last night and then had to break - to go and watch Ironman, would you believe! Weird, completely unplanned coincidence. So came back to the last few chapters with a different feel for Tony Stark, poor, misunderstood baby. He's just hurting on the inside ... :) He can keep his greasy paws off Rogue, though! I'm loving the plottiness of this, and the depth of the Stark Industries crossover ... your Paul Morrow character is really nicely done, as is Stark himself. I'm wondering though, about Rogue ... I'm not getting much of a sense of her as her own person? I get what she is doing, and why, but I want to know more about her motivations and her grief and her fears ... loving your plottiness, but I'm greedy enough to want plottiness and thinkiness too!

Whew. That's a lot of chapters to read in one fell swoop. Not sure why I haven't read your epic before now, possibly something to do with prisonerLogan stories not generally being my cup of tea. However. What a however. You have mastered the genre, and moved it forward. You do action incredibly well - seamless and convincing - and the emotional moments are beautifully drawn. (The sex too, but it's the emotion in your sex that made it so readable, I think.) I'll be sad to see this end, and I'll probably reread it slowly and leisurely once it does. Amazing job.

Author's Response: That\'s so funny...I spent a lot of last night reading your stuff too -- I\'m loving your writing! And out of curiosity, is that a real book you refer to in \"Tooth and Claw,\" and if so is it by Arnie Buss? If so, I know him. :-) I\'m part-way through \"The Bargain\" now. Thanks so much for reading and reviewing...I was on my phone last night, but now that I\'ve snagged the laptop back I can review your stuff too.

This is a fabulous read. It takes a lot of skill to build a story on purely second-hand accounts - you've done so well that we can actually see the action and envision it, even simply through Rogue's words? The events are taking a turn for the interesting, too ... the virus, John, and Logan coming home. Logan needs to step up his game if he wants Rogue, though ... you've actually got me thinking Ryro might work, right now!

Author's Response: Thanks so much! Some scenes are definetly harder than others and I cop out sometimes with longer letters, but over all I like the challenge of telling the story this way. \r\n\r\nAnd gah..the Ryro! Several people have told me that, and while I like the interaction that they have in the story (it sort of took on a mind of its own) I\'m a very much a Rogan shipper and probably always will be. :)\r\n\r\nThanks for reading and I hope you enjoy the rest!

And stars, you deserve them.

And there was another chapter. How much do I love that? This was very hurty, though. Poor Rogue. Poor Logan! Poor John ... poor, fucked up world. *Sigh* You, dear author, have a responsibility to make it all right. *nods sternly*

Oh, I adore this. I love it when really clever people can weave the various Universes together ... so much richness results, and a narrative depth that just the Movieverse doesn't offer. The moments with Cal and the other cured are just so poignant, and him flicking through her messages and knowing she has somewhere to go, and someone missing her ... that's so sad.

Not sad was my absolute favourite line in fic for a while: "No doctor ever vowed her case was hopeless, then turned around and left her with his dog tag, a promise, and really sensational suggestions to get herself off."

Yes. Amen. Poor mixed up Rogue. Now I want to know what was going on with Logan under that there tree, but I'm sure you'll get to that sometime soon *whistles idly*

Author's Response: I really don\'t know much about the comics, but I\'m ridiculously bothered by continuity errors and obsessive about fixing just because I\'ve been a fan of the movies for so long (has it really been ten years since X1 came out???) :D That line is one of my favorites, too, and the sentiment behind it will be explored in the next chapter (*smacks Logan*).

Oh, the three hags were just sublime. Beautifully written, perfectly paced, so incredibly visual. I could see it perfectly in my minds eye. With regards Marie's explanation of her music and the personalities etc, I would have liked a bit more detail, and perhaps a few more shades of emotion in that. I would imagine sharing like that would be a huge deal for her, almost a catharsis. It did seem a little anticlimatic after the potency of the hag scene. But a very minor quibble - still loving this.

Author's Response: Thanks for letting me know that the end of this chapter didn\'t settle right. I think sometimes I know the story so well in my head that I see all everything that is written between the lines but I don\'t always get it all into the text. Also, I think Marie was trying to make it seem like no big deal, so she was just playing it all off to the others and wasn\'t letting herself feel any of the intense emotions so no one else would see them. I think it\'s going to become a bigger deal for her later on. Either way, I greatly appreciate knowing what other people think towards my writing and constructive things are amazing to get. Thanks for taking the time to do it! Kiss kiss.