Me thinks there IS something wicked going on there at Dark's Pandemonium Carnival!

Whoooaaa......creepy doesn't even BEGIN to describe.....

I'm so entirely entrenched in your story, Joanne...you're an amazing story teller...can't wait for the next chapter!

WONDERFUL!!  All encompassing, enveloping...insidious even!  I was so totally ensconced by this story I almost didn't want it to end. The idea of the balance, "the corruption that eats the fruit to fertilise the soil"....the age old fight between good and evil, brought almost down to the celluar level...in each of us. Amazingly done, Joanne, going into my favorites for sure!

WOW...just...wow.

This was a great story and a wonderful example of doing the wrong thing for all the right reasons. And I agree with the Professor, he's getting soft in his old age!

Such a beautifully written story with a totally logical conclusion for the way Marie's mutation connects to someone. It's just one more layer, makes perfect sense to me.

GREAT beginning!! Now lets continue on with the next step of their journey!

Homo Sapiens/Homo Superior doesn't seem to matter much, both have the same downfall - emotions. All those horridly infuriating blips of careening thoughts, ideas, assumptions...all the stuff that makes being who and what we are such a royal PIA!!

Great job, Shadow, once again of really grabbing the reader by the throat and forcing us, along with the characters, to see what's behind the mask, under the facade, beyond the front we put up.

Shadow? Why didja have to go and ruin a perfectly beautiful story and bring the tight asses in at the end??? I know Logan and Marie had to return to the Mansion eventually, but why the hell did you have to do it that way?

Where's the Prof; and his ever intelligent insight on what goes on between Logan & Marie? Hell, Xavier is the only one that can reign in Mr. & Mrs. Pole-up-their-butts.....(whiney, patronizing, little tight-assed voice) "Oh Rogue, you're just too young, you just don't understand..."

Oh yeah? Well try this on for understanding, bitch!! The man I love was kidnapped, abused, brain washed and treated just slightly better than last week's refrigerator left-overs. Even the wonderful people here who managed to save him from the assholes that took him had no idea how to help him, but they had brains enough to know that I could!! So take your pity-soaked, condescending, bloody attitude and shove it where the sun don’t shine; ‘cause I ain’t leaving without him and he’s going nowhere without me!!

Sorry, guess I digressed there for sec...I just can't stand that pompous, arrogant, know-it-all attitude from Jean and Scott...it just drives me up a friggin' wall!!! But a great story, Scott and Jean not-withstanding.

Yeah! The old 'take the bull by the horns' attitude works every time!! Imagine! The Wolverine, groaning 'oh man!' and shaking his head like a scolded 6 year old!! Ha! Ha! THAT is a mental picture!!

Author's Response: I still chuckle over it and I wrote it. Somehow, I just got tired of Rogue being a wimp and waiting around for him to make the first move. Logan may be an asshole, but he is an honorable one! Thanks for the feedback.\r\n

"Jiminy Cricket had Pinocchio. I ended up with ShitForBrains.**

Need to add this to my personal list of 'Every damn time...' because that line always makes me bust out laughing!! Men can be so dumb sometimes, do ya think maybe his conscious is female?? After all, it noticed the creak of leather!

WHOA!!!  First time (I think) that the bond between Logan and Marie has take this sort of turn. Nice idea, interesting setting for it all to go down. Would like to see more of this story line....how does the hunt go??

WHOA!!!!! Leave it to Stephen King (yes, THAT Stephen King) to lead us into this sort of fic. Horrific and sad, yet with a strange string of truth runs thru it for this day and age...which in itself is ALSO horrific and sad. Great job, Amy, on what HAD to have been a helluva story to write.