Thanks for a great story in which Logan makes the right decision from the beginning...a rare thing here.

I read the wonderfully creative fiction on this site for enjoyment and a welcome diversion from the nastiness of the world because I have become obsessed by these two characters. I have been reading too many stories lately which feature my beloved Marie and Logan as mean-spirited, hateful, and vicious to each other, each trying to top the other in cruel, callous words and treatment. It turns me inside out, even though I don't particularly want to read about them as a couple of mooney-eyes lovebirds all the time. While I know it's ridiculous to hope for a reconciliation after all the set-up our great angst author has established for us, I am really hoping for some light at the end of this train ride -- the light in their eyes. (Yeah, yeah...I know...if you can't stand the bitch and bastard they are here, stay away from the story. Sorry, it draws me and tortures me like a drug, and I can't back away!) Write on, rawrave...for writing's sake, write on!! more...more...more

Beautiful, sad, sweet, but not without some ugly things that unfortunately, happen all too often to those too young to understand or make better. Marie sorting through the buried memories she absorbed of a young Logan that he now can no longer remember. Wonderful writing from one of the earlier writers of this board. Where has Green Owl gone?

"Don't be afraid to remember, Logan."

I suppose this is from Logan's POV...it's so hard to tell? Any other thoughts on jenn's Illusions series -- amazing, yes, but unsatisfyingly unfinished.

So how exactly did he "let her down" this time that they've arrived at this scene? What is he "so, so, so sorry" for that she's ready to throw him out for good?

Let's just deal with three years of change together. Nice story...should get more reviews.

Awwww...may I clamor for more? A beautifully, evocative piece.

This is such incredible writing, and such a different characterization of Marie/Rogue. She's becoming a drunk because it's the only way she can get relief from the warring voices in her head of the people she's absorbed. Then, she's on the road to drug addiction when she discovers that her mutation turned off with an undetermined coctail of pills. Logan still thinks he's a perv, but she's quickly outstripping him in the kinky sex department (I do want to see him get over that and just take what he wants...especially since she so obviously wants it, too). The last scene with snarky Jean, taking advantage of him in the elevator when he's vulnerable ruins them both...is there no redemption for them in this tale? (Not that I care all that much for the Scott/Jean story -- the X-men and Xavier here are well-intentioned, but ultimately are really to blame for the downward spiral in Rogue and Logan's lives from here on out. Tremendous story...I would just love to see more of the road back...as they finally get to leave the Mansion...in "Coping Mechanisms." There HAS to be more...just cannot end the chronological story with Logan's final line, "Some things change, Marie. You really don't know me at all." That's too devastating a line to just end this terrific series on. Please, jenn, somebody...anybody....

I found this series difficult to follow until I read the 4 segments in chronological order - 1)Only In Mind, 2)All the Lights of the Soul, 3)Sometimesd, 4)Coping Mechanisms. The images of addiction, abusive desperate sex, and deepening despair have made this story one of the most psychologically advanced of anything in "fanfic." Still, read in chronological order, the series has a flat ending. Even after all the years since jenn wrote this, I would encourage her or any of the talented writers here to revisit this story and add one more segment that follows Logan and Rogue on that 6-month road trip that Logan wanted to take her on for so long. Is there anything left of marie from an alcoholic, drug addicted,manipulative, bitter Rogue? What of Logan. There's another part of this story here, folks, and it just has to be one more chapter. Can/would jenn or anyone take it on? Not asking for a neat package, just more insight into this aspect of these great characters.

While the consequences of his actions here would not be without its own set of problems in their future, it certainly would have derailed the devastating events which plague them in the 'Illusions' series. What if...and if only.... This is a great story.

Aww...so good! Love this story.

Fine, tense story...great characterizations of both Logan and Marie. Love his anxiety when she doesn't get there in time...he does love her...and she, him.