It made my heart ache and my stomach clench. It made me cry. I can't put any more than that into words, except to say that your skill shone with the different voices and made me wish to experience what Storm saw between them, even if only a pale shadow. Beautiful.

Humbly and respectfully yours,
Melanie

Author's Response: I\'m the one humbled by such generous praise. I\'m very happy to hear that you enjoyed my story--you readers are what make it all worth the work. Thank you so much.

It's bittersweet in every sense of the word: it's bitter that Logan and Marie couldn't find each other and just *be*, but also sweet how Wolverine found his Rogue and came to that stunning final conclusion.

Now I'm just waiting for the sequel in which Rogue finds her own true amalgamation of self (somehow, Logan and Marie together was really missing for me at the end, though that was more of a function of Marie's dormancy; I hope she melds), they go back to New York to kick some more ass because no one does it like they do and then go off back to Canada to have cubs.

As a fellow Dark Angel fan, I loved the little cameo! And might I add this one little critique: Laughlin City is in Alberta and too far south of the territorial border to be close to a cabin in the Northwest Territories, to say nothing of being too far east to be close to the Yukon. (Swear, I live there.)

Thank you for the three-dimensional version of that alternate future.

Melanie

Interesting, the way you bring out his animal-tendencies, but not in the usual obvious way. I was also intrigued by the way there was no development - one day they weren't together, and the next they were - but I was even more fascinated by the way it just worked. While unexpected, it wasn't really particularly out of character. It was just there, the way their feelings for each other always have been for anyone who cared to look.

Kudos. Seriously.
Melanie

Okay, that was just plain depressing. Not that it wasn't plausible or logical, but it was mighty depressing. Not just a mite, mighty. And so very sad.

It's just damning somehow that it's also well-written. I hope to whatever gods there are that you weren't writing from personal experience.

Much love,
Melanie

Well. Let me just finish ...*ahem*... digesting that lovely interlude for a moment. Interesting how you made it not just about Marie and Logan, but also about Rogue and Pyro and then about the three of them together. I was skeptical, I'll admit, but I also couldn't stop reading, because somehow Marie and Logan's wildness together rang true.

This was masterful (pun intended). I very much enjoyed this. Thank you for sharing it.

Melanie

This was painfully bittersweet, and poignant. It made me cry and it made my stomach clench. It made my heart sigh when he filled the space between.

Beautiful.
Melanie

Hee! This was so funny; the way you added bits of the movies and just plunked everyone down in a real-world porn studio was perfect. Still, in the end it as all about them. And Craig woeful misconceptions ;-)

Loved it, loved it, loved it.
Melanie

Oh, well done! I thought it was a little light on the parts of the story not pertaining to Rogan, but that's also understandable, since that wasn't your primary aim. But the way you dealt with the cure and the mutations was quite plausible and really worked for me. I really liked your original characters (the twins' speech patterns were friggin' hi-larious) and your twist with Toad (though I missed Pyro a bit) and Mystique. I did find Logan a bit out of character, but somehow it worked for me anyway, since you seemed to explain that with the effects of the cure and the effects of the mighty Wolverine ;-)

Thanks again for the pleasant hours.
Melanie

It's different. Not bad, but different. Most stories don't go this far into the future, which makes this intriguing. I'm not sure how things worked out with the dead people from X3 and didn't feel it was every quite explained enough, but the War rang true for me. Somehow, in their world war seems inevitable.

Their actions and reactions, especially Logan's worked well for me and I'm so glad in the end, they found each other. That they won't lose 'them' too soon because of Marie's shorter lifespan. They're lovely together and the ease of their marriage, without becoming old and stodgy (yay, sex appeal!) is a beautiful thing.

They really do get lifetimes together. I'm glad.

Melanie

So, you know those sequels you talked about for making this into a series? Could you please get on with it, because my heart's just bleeding for Logan right now.

Please put me out of my misery!
Melanie

Isn't it always that way when we're stuck in denial? I understand her fear, but she's also really being a coward. Interesting, I didn't that that would ever work for me, but somehow you make it work within this characterisation.

Looking forward to the denouement!

Melanie

Author's Response: \"I understand her fear, but she\'s also really being a coward.\" She really is, isn\'t she. That\'s why I needed Scott to kick her ass into line a bit! She\'ll sort herself out though... eventually... promise!

Guh. Yummy! Now I can't wait to see what happens with Scott, her family, and hopefully find out what Raven really does :-)

Feed me please!
Melanie

Author's Response: hey, melanie! thanks for the feedback. i\'ll probably have the next chapter up and ready monday!

How...eloquent. Marvelous snap-shots to detail her life and explain so much. In spite of how short and stilted it was because of the format (not in a bad way, mind you), I came away with a complete picture of Marie and a pretty good one of Logan too.

Well done.
Melanie

Author's Response: Thank you very much!