I am so loving this! But I am NOT a patient woman! I hope new stuff is coming SOON!! You had me with "Bite the Hand" and screaming about the injustice of open ended endings. (waving sign over head and chanting...) FINISH! FINISH! FINISH!

Author's Response: Chapter 2 is up...did you see? I promise I\'ll wrap it up soon. I\'ll wave my sign at the muse to get a move on it! :) Glad you are loving it though.

OMIGOSH!!! 10 years this has sat here?? This needs attention!! Please!?! You can't just leave us all hanging!

I simply LOVE this pair of stories! Wish you'd link them somehow, I always end up coming across them out of order!

So much passion and emotion, such a perfect pairing of their personalities. Great job!

(The Letter is the precedecessor this one)

I am a HUGE Titanic buff, and finding THIS story was like finding the last Snickers bar in the house when you're on a "it's that time" chocolate binge!!!

Wonderfully written with just the right amounts of X-men info, Rogan shippery goodness and historically accurate detail! A definite 10!! even with the sad ending.

"his shirtless back a leonine column of taut muscle simmering with repressed violence".....just WOW!! One of any number of fantastic lines I could quote from this piece; a true work of word art!

*heart thudding* Wow! Veerrrrrry nice! Definitely got to add this one to the Favs list!

Ya gotta tell me tho - what's with the tattoo? If it gets that reaction out of Logan, I want one too!!!

OH! But this BEGS for a sequel!! We've just got to know what happened!!

AMAZING back story! Please add my vote for a sequel!!

I can totally see this exchange taking place, just like this, with all the logic of HIS reasoning alongside HER reasons.  Nicely done, x, even if it took several takes to get here.

Oooooooh!! You are evil!! I don't s'pose you'll fess up and tell us WHICH was the 'real world' here, would ya?? Nah, didn't think so. So the optimists get to think the straight type was heat induced halucinations and the italics were real; while the pessimists go with the straight type being real and the italics being drug induced halucinations. You are an evil author, xbedhead! But I'll let it slide only because your talent eclipses your evil-ness!!

Author's Response: First off, thank you for the wonderful review - I\'m glad you enjoyed the story so much. As far as which world is real and which world isn\'t - it\'s all real, right up until the end. And THEN we find out that everything was taking place in her hallucination. The italicized parts actually happened and she was just remembering them in her dream. With the way that it ended, a lot of people took it like it was supposed to be sort of humorous, which I can completely see because that\'s the way it reads. I had meant it to read, however, like the whole \'dream\' thing Marie was experiencing (which turns out to be the bulk of the entire story) was more like a premonition. She woke up in the real reality just as she had in the dream and got the same response. She knew what had happened in her mind and was afraid b/c she thought it would play out the same way. The way I have it written made a lot of people think she was screaming at the hair being gone. :P

This was so absolutely beautiful!! Well written, heart breaking, tummy tightening...then the wonderful 'ahhhh' of it all coming together in the end. Just gorgeous, Sky!

Ohhhhhh myyyyyyyyy.....the hawtness!!! 

OOOooooooo!!!  This is sounding goooooood!!!  Does something wicked this way come??