Well, well, well Miss atmd. You have been quite the busy bee since I've been gone! What is it with all the delicious updates and brilliantly funny mini story, hmm? You do of course realize that I expect this nonstop marination of yummy Roganness to be sustained, right? :) Now, I have saved this story for last in my catching up and woohoo, you do not disappoint. Lots of good stuff here, plenty previously mentioned in earlier reviews, but of course, this being you, there is many, MANY snippets to point out:

The guy smiled—thankfully without baring his teeth I love this. Feral is right and Logan is - to me - the sexiest when he is like this.

And she wouldn’t have cared one bit, as long as he followed her down. K. Now I melt at this. Holding her up with his body because her knees gave out on her? *swoon*

“Tip him, you idiot.” Ha! Thank you for this. There's our Rogue/Marie!

Marie followed at his heels, the instinct so deeply rooted that no amount of effort could bring her to walk by his side without permission. None seemed forthcoming. Which was infuriating, and more than a little embarrassing.

But she could look on the bright side, lemonade from lemons and all that. So she dropped her eyes to his very fine denim-clad ass and at least enjoyed the view as they made their way across the leaf-littered ground towards the Jeep. Eep. Funny and so freakin' hot...

But the last line was perfect, the visual (and audio) set so effortlessby by you:

The only sound for miles was the hum of the engine and the zip of tires on asphalt.

Masterful. On to the next!

Author's Response: Agh! I fear the updates may slip to once weekly as the course load begins to consume me. But rest assured, I'm not one to leave a story unfinished, and my lab reports will suffer before my fiction does ;). It was very cool to log on and see your reviews, which are always thoughtful and prolific and make me want to write. more. like. now. It's cool to see the chapter from the reader's perspective, see what lines stood out and made an impression. Hopefully will lead to improved chapters in the future =D. Good to see you back, btw, hope vacay was fun.

That bellboy has no idea how close to death he was standing. And thinking the growling was a cold. Hahaha. Either he was hoping that that was what it was or he is just that stupid. I'm going with the latter.

I really wanted Marie to try to delve into Rogue here and see if she could remember how to drive the stick, but I totally understand why she didn't go there yet. Great update.

Author's Response: Yeah. I actually came about *this* close to having Wolverine pummel the poor guy and then proceed to teach his mate a lesson she'd never forget . . . but alas, that will have to be a redux or something :). I'm glad you're liking the story so far. Marie is definitely going to start dealing with those repressed memories once she gets back to the mansion, hopefully with some interesting and entertaining results :).

the poor girl is soo confused she doesn't know which way is up and Logan isn't much better. I have been on vacation for two weeks and it was a great present to come home to two new chapters. I love how they are trying to start over - ain't gotten happen. Should be great fun to watch.

Author's Response: Thanks! I'm hoping it will be fun to watch. Nothing like seeing two lonely, emotionally guarded people struggle stubbornly against barely restrained animalistic passion while teaching some mutant kids and saving the world superhero style, right?