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[Report This]Date: 01/02/2016 1:06:15 AM Title: Chapter 5
You need not beg for reviews, my dear. You earn every single word ever written in praise of this work.
It's a sin for me to skip reviewing some chapters, I know, but I am that anxious to get to the next one and the next... Onward! -- Wendie
Author's Response: The fact that you would spend any of your time on this needy writer is a treasure. Thank you so much!rn
[Report This]Date: 01/02/2016 12:50:03 AM Title: Chapter 7
I was so happy to see this story updated. Very good and hope you have more in story for us.
Author's Response: Thank you so much; that means a lot to me!!!
Date: 01/02/2016 12:45:19 AM Title: Chapter 1
Omg, you updated!!!!! I squealed when I got my notification about the update. We appreciate any updates you can give us. I reread this fic and am so glad to read more. Thanks for a surprising, awesome start to 2016!
Author's Response: I can't even begin to tell you how sweet that is or how much these simple, considerate words of support mean--in this message, or in the last review you left, which I was too sheepishly Writers Blocked to answer. Anyway, it's very kind of you. Thanks for taking the time to make a stranger smile in the new year!
[Report This]Date: 01/02/2016 12:34:29 AM Title: Chapter 3
'Helping us gather intel. It's what she's here for.'
Sweet Jesus, that hammer to the noggin is so beautifully written and so slyly played that I actually welcomed the blow, brain-splitting as it was.
I'm too busy reading now to berate myself for not reading past Chapter 1 of this fic when you originally posted it, but rest assured I will be mentally and virtually lashing myself to a bloody pulp after I get caught up. -- Wendie
Author's Response: **blushing, giggling, bouncing in my slippers** I forgot how good this felt, Moviemom!
[Report This]Date: 05/05/2013 6:38:37 AM Title: Chapter 6
Oh, please don't give up on this. This has so much potential with the way you're going so far. I can't wait to see how Logan and Rogue handle this start to their relationship. Please, please come back to this as soon as you can!
Date: 07/10/2012 10:25:04 PM Title: Chapter 1
I just read this fic. Amazing! I know its been over a year, but please update?
Date: 07/10/2012 5:51:13 AM Title: Chapter 6
Hey now, you are being too hard on yourself. No forgiveness is needed, life happens. I appreciate the fact that you took the time to post a response.
I'm sorry that something "drastic" happened, that sounds ominous. Hopefully "drastic" is really something more positive than it sounds.
I just wanted to thank you for sharing your stories. You have clearly touched a lot of people with your writing. I know that I for one will be rereading your work and I'm sure others will do the same. You are an exceptionally talented writer and your contributions have made this site the better for it.
And who knows what the future brings. Someday your muse might grab hold of you and drag you back to this site. There are some movies in the works (Wolverine and X-Men First Class sequels) that might inspire you. But even if that doesn't happen, we have been truly fortunate that you have shared these gems with us and they will continue to be read and enjoyed. Thank you again and I wish you the best.
[Report This]Date: 07/06/2012 1:47:51 AM Title: Chapter 6
this is such a powerful story...logan finally gets at glimpse at what rogue does, will he find out the extent? how will he help her right now? cant wait to find out! thanks :-)
Date: 04/17/2012 2:13:28 AM Title: Chapter 6
Just wanted to drop you a note to let you know that I haven't forgotten this story or your incredible writing. I hope you are doing well. You have been missed.
Author's Response: There's a special place in hell for me, for taking so long to answer your kind words. Please, please forgive me. You're words are very generous, and very much appreciated..... I'm afraid something rather drastic happened, and it drew my attention away from this beautiful, wonderful site and the fanfiction I enjoyed so much. I don't believe I'll be able to go back to it, but I will always be thankful for the encouragement I found here.
Date: 11/14/2011 6:35:41 PM Title: Chapter 6
Hope you are doing well and I look forward to seeing you back here with a bright and shiny update.
Date: 07/12/2011 2:18:44 AM Title: Chapter 1
Ohmygod,whythehellaretherenospacesinmylastreview?I'msosorry!!
[Report This]Date: 07/12/2011 2:16:58 AM Title: Chapter 6
So,Ijustreadthisstoryentirelyonmycellphone.At2am,inthemiddleofaheatwave.Why?Becausemythreaiyear-oldinsistsonsleepinginherewithme(andthefan)andI'mtooawaketosleep.
Ican'tevenbegintosayhowmuxhIenjoythisone!Somusterious,Ijustloveit:)here'shopingallthebesttoyou,lotsofinspirationandyummyLoganness!
Also,don'tmindanytyposorbadgrammar.TheboxloadedwonkyandIcan'tseewhatIamtyping!!
Anyway,yay!Awesomework,ofcourse!
Date: 06/13/2011 7:28:52 AM Title: Chapter 6
Wow, fantastic update and well worth the wait. I think you are equally as good at writing this kind of scene as the bedroom scenes lol. Hope to see an update soon!
[Report This]Date: 06/12/2011 1:45:34 PM Title: Chapter 6
Aw, I'm sorry you're having a rough time of it. I hope it gets better.
As for your writing, there is no need to apologize. RL gets precedence. And your writing is as beautiful and seemingly effortless as ever. You have a wonderful way of wording something. It's like creating poetry in a scene. I am glad Logan is starting to get more of the puzzle pieces to form an accurate picture of what is going on. I can't wait for the next chapter, though really take as much time as you need (as long as months don't cross into years...lol). Thanks for the update!
[Report This]Date: 06/12/2011 12:51:11 PM Title: Chapter 6
Rose, Rose, Rose. The only thing I didn't like about this chapter was the Author's Note -- stop apologizing! Good fic is worth the wait. :-D
This chapter was amazing, so acutely heartbreaking, the connection and pain between Logan and Rogue that has been glimpsed in previous chapters so fully, starkly revealed. So many great lines in this, it would be ridiculous if I quoted them all, but I'll try to weed it down.
His voice was warm with the pleasure that came from denying Logan something, anything.
Dealt with quickly because Scott like to maintain the element of surprise, that grey and tense calm for as long as possible.
There was Scott, saying, "Enough. Enough, Logan," though not half so insistently as usual. The young team member who'd accompanied them, trying to look brave and and not to puke with an equal lack of success. A hand that reached out as if to restrain the bloodier, clawed one, but knew better than to actually do so.
Thin and distinct as a line of thread, cutting through all the space and material that separated Logan from it's source. A thought, no firmer than smoke. Intuition, that was considerably stronger. Realization, recognition of what should have been obvious.
(Yes, I'm cheating by quoting multiple lines as one. Wanna make something of it?)
All this he saw in a moment's forward shadow, that special breath of silence before the opening note of a song begins.
Jean was livid, enraged...but underneath, underneath ran a current of shame that the harshness of her voice could not hide.
...blinking in a way that spoke of glasses crushed somewhere in the room-...
She was curled in a ball, huddled against the forever motionless legs of friend--still warm, of course, because what felt like ages passing in this room had only been a span of minutes
[Report This]Date: 06/12/2011 10:15:55 AM Title: Chapter 6
Will start off with 3 bits that particularly stood out to me.....
“And it didn't matter how little he knew her, how even less he understood of what was going on. It didn't matter that his interference was resented by even the subject of it, that such nosiness was a quality he deplored, would loathe in any other case but this. It didn't matter that he wouldn't have been interested, may even have approved of what was going on if it had been anyone, anyone but her.”
“All this he saw in a moment's forward shadow, that special breath of silence before the opening note of a song begins.”.
“Logan's own alarm mingled with appreciation for the violent for of a fellow artist. If it hadn't been her, hadn't been Rogue, perhaps the latter sentiment may have prevailed. If he could have seen the wet trails sparkling over her cheeks, perhaps only the former would have.”
…..but then we had the last two lines, which you more than nailed, and every favourite bit I thought I’d read went right out the window. Now then, from your end notes you seem slightly uncomfortable with this one. Don’t be, I’ve said it before but I’m going to say it again, I still think this is the best writing from you so far, there is such eloquence in your words as you read, with a hidden depth to nearly every sentence. I really don’t know how to put it into words and I really don’t care if I’m the only one getting it, I am and therefore you have to continue! This chapter was well worth the wait and I’ll quite happily wait as long as you need just so long as it continues! x
Author's Response: I wish I knew how to thank you in a way I haven't already. You are absolutely fantastic, and I am beyond thrilled that you feel that way. Thank you, thank you so much for your unbelievable generosity.
Author's Response: I wish I knew how to thank you in a way I haven't already. You are absolutely fantastic, and I am beyond thrilled that you feel that way. Thank you, thank you so much for your unbelievable generosity.
[Report This]Date: 06/11/2011 8:18:53 PM Title: Chapter 6
Still loving this story, but could wish for quicker updates. You have such a way with words, I simply love to be transported by them.
Author's Response: Oh, thank you so much. It would be my greatest pleasure to grant that wish.
Date: 06/11/2011 7:15:46 PM Title: Chapter 6
Was the repetition of "there" deliberate? Because I liked the effect.
There's too much to like here - if I were to copy/paste my favorite lines, I'd end up highlighting the whole damn thing.
I missed your wonderful way with words. So much detail without beating us over the head with anything or dragging the readers down in plodding exposition. You always, *always*, manage to keep a consistent, deliberate tone that says as much as the content.
Can you mail me a little smidgen of your awesome abilities? Perdy puh-leeeease? With a nekkid Wolverine on top?
Author's Response: Yes, it was. So glad you enjoyed that, so glad you enjoyed this in general. Thank you, thank you so much. You are absolutely incredible, like amazing coated awesomeness drizzled in fantastic.
[Report This]Date: 06/11/2011 6:06:31 PM Title: Chapter 6
I have NOT forgotten this story.
I devoured each and every word. I can't cut and paste my favourite lines of your delicious chapter - I don't think this tiny review box could handle it - but I'll choose one (though many, many others run parallel to it for top spot):
Vague pity, but no particular interest in doing so. This was nothing, after all, but the casing of a bullet that had long been discharged.
I am so glad you are back.
Author's Response: Oh lord. There is no way for me to express how happy this made me. I wish I could hug you, wish I could give you a pony. Would you like a pony? Thank you for your kind, wonderful words. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
[Report This]Date: 06/11/2011 6:02:30 PM Title: Chapter 6
Hi, Rose! I'm so happy to read a new chapter from you, and glad that things have settled down enough that you were able to pick up your story again. Please don't be too hard on yourself; you don't owe anyone any excuses for the delay.
As for the chapter, I like it! Events are building toward a real blowup among the X-Men. Conflict is always more interesting. ;)
I did notice one sentence that seems to have a word missing:
The enjoyment of this activity seemed reciprocally related to how important the matter seemed: like now, with the walls meekly absorbing every snarled statement like a .
Should there be something at the end there?
Author's Response: I can't even begin to tell you how much your words mean to me. I bounce up and down every time I read this. Thank you, thank you, thank you. And you are absolutely right about that sentence. Whoops! The analogy there was supposed to involve a battered wife, but that felt uncomfortable and I trimmed it.
Date: 05/14/2011 12:49:33 PM Title: Chapter 5
Okay, so I know you have a life. Like, you know.. other things to take care of. And you don't have much time to post awesome fics. But hey.. I got a heart? I want to know how this ends! It has almost been a month. Will you update if I return your Wolverine-hug? Cause I got nothing else to offer :(
Author's Response: Ohmygod, heartbreak!! I am so, so sorry. I've been going through a horrible period of distraction--completely my fault. But tonight I am going to stay up until it is almost or all complete. Please, please, please forgive me for a lateness I never, ever expected to apologize for.
Date: 04/27/2011 8:09:21 AM Title: Chapter 5
See? You've made me read along in one go. Glad you got over the Nabokov. Like the balder, starker voice as the story comes along; glad to see how that's stil coupled with careful language a few registers above its subject matter. Find myself hoping she can find a rest with him, and he with her by providing it. Have they know each other way back? Somehow I get the ompression that she remembers him, though that shouldn't be possible unless he's suffered another amnesia in the last 15 years. Anyway, glad the story and its author are around!!!
Author's Response: Please forgive me for taking so long to reply. I'm glad you enjoyed this, and I hope the future chapters will answer your questions.
Date: 04/27/2011 7:18:08 AM Title: Chapter 2
And I did mean to say that there's a few tense-issues (present tense sneaking in where there should be simple past) that mar an otherwise relievingly well-executed story. Uhm... and now I'll actually go and read this chapter.
Date: 04/27/2011 7:15:56 AM Title: Chapter 1
There I had managed a Lent cleared of sitting around wasting my time, and now this storymust come and remind me that not all reading of fan-fiction is wasted... Ah, well.
Love the thoughtful Logan, even more the Rogue whose dead-pan snarkiness is ingrained beyond weariness to erase. Rich, full texture of sensual impressions; great especially in contrast with the taciturn outward demeanour.
Tantalising how the setup of this story ('Ro gone, Jean there) is only slowly revealed.
Too much Nabokov, methinks though, to the point where the flowery expressions become a veritable jungle of poetic shoots and vines the seem pretty unconnected to occasion or character at times.
And of course, I should review aftert the last published chapter, or at least check that these observational gems have not yet, by some strange and unforseeable coincidence, been uttered by some other reviewer, but if we wait around for that to happen, another age is likely to swing past. So here you go. :-)
[Report This]Date: 04/23/2011 5:33:54 PM Title: Chapter 5
Okay, let's take this in order.
1. Darlin', please stop apologizing and stressing out about updates! People like me who update regularly are painting a house, and you are painting a Rembrandt. Do it at your own pace. I know people are supposed to suffer for their art and all that, but I also know if this stops becoming fun we are going to miss out on all your wonderful future work. So, deep breaths, take care of yourself, and we will happily accept your work whenever you can supply it!
2. A lovely chapter, and the idea of Rogue as an addict is so intriguing.
3. So much beautiful language in this, it's going to be enormously difficult to narrow it down. Is there a character limit on reviews? I guess I'm about to find out.
a quiet that filled his ears like sun warmed wax
Rogue looked up at him, a slow and almost lazy sweep of her vision, down, away, and back again
was the tall glass her request, or did the bartender see something in her face, and deem it and her too delicate for a bottle?
she made a sound incredulous and aghast, like one who has been saved from drowning only to find a the rescue boat has sprung a leak, like discovering the character of a book she didn't like in one she did.
Her voice was a stack of unweighted pages in a sudden wind
Rogue set her glass down on the counter--carefully, as if there was some designated and important niche