Thanks for the quick updates!
So.. Hold on a sec.. Did I misunderstand anything or did you make Bobby gay?? He was hot for Pyro??
I'm a little confused. But I loved the Bobby meeting Marie accidentally. I wonder how Logan's gonna make things right when Marie realizes Logan's just like Bobby!

Author's Response: Yep, Bobby and Pyro, sittin' in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G. I'll totally blame the fanfic world for that, I never really thought that about them from the movies but I've read so many fics where it was the case that I just assume now. ;-) Plus, I like having an explanation for why Pyro is so sullen. He's just hiding his wounded feelings, poor little firebug.

He is in sooooooooo much trouble! Marie is going to be one pissed of lady when she finds out what Logan was sent to do. Love love the story, great job!

Author's Response: I'm so glad you're liking it! Hope I haven't made you late to work again. ;-) Thanks so much for reviewing!

Can I just say that your fast updates totally rock?! I really enjoyed this. Good backstory with Bobby and Eric. Logan's going to have a really hard time getting her trust back when she finds out that she was set up again in virtually the same way as before.

Author's Response: Thanks! I'm glad you like the backstory. And enjoy the fast updates while you can, I seem to be hitting a bit of a block after chapter 8. :-D Yes, it is a hard road ahead for these two.

Oh, Bobby. That's so sad. :(

Your Magneto seems to me more evil than the one in the movies. Movie-Magneto believes in mutant supremacy, yes, and he's done some very bad things, but he's never seemed like a sadist to me, just someone who believes in victory at any cost. But for this story it works.

The tension you're building keeps ratcheting up. It's really going to hurt.

Author's Response: Yeah, it was a little more diabolical. But it never did make sense to me that Magneto was just willing to take it on faith that he could give Rogue exactly enough power to use her but not enough to permanently harm himself. I mean she almost took Logan out in a few seconds, and she put her boyfriend in a coma for three weeks, and yet Magneto is up and bouncing around minutes later. It makes more sense to me that he would try to get a feel for how long her mutation takes to suck someone dry. And if he is willing to sacrifice one innocent young person, it's probably not that different to sacrifice two, especially if the second is a "traitor".

Nooooo….not enough, just getting in to it and it stops! Love your guarantee though so I’ll be holding you to that and impatience at your posting is fine by me! ‘I'm actually writing faster than expected, so if y'all promise not to be stingy with reviews, I'll try to update twice a week if I can’ again fine by me – you post it, we’ll review it x

Was laughing my socks off at the roadside attractions which people obviously [For some reason I can’t fathom] actually visit! We have the real Stonehenge for those who want to stare at a bunch of rocks and these days you have to pay just to see them from a distance – If Missouri wants em they can have em, though maybe we should keep them as I don’t think we have any giant fruit or veg to compensate, though we do have quite a few giant chalk hillside carvings of figures and horses and no I don’t have a clue why!

Great set up – liked Logan’s observations and assumptions at the start, then we had Marie’s suspicions, Logan’s concern, mutual attraction - all the bases covered! Loved the text messages, I foresee the shit hitting the fan there ;) and in your words I think that means ‘Goddamn messy’ !!

Loving it so far, keep up the good work x

Author's Response: I'm glad you liked it! Yeah, the roadside attractions thing was two-fold -- I didn't want Logan and Marie to get to New York too fast, and also it was inspired by a trip I took with my college roommate to look at graduate schools, where we did that exact thing. We even went to a pecan farm, although sadly the World's Largest Pecan doesn't actually appear to be on one, I took artistic license there! I'm glad the beginning worked. It seemed artificial to me to have Logan just thinking, "Hey, I'm suddenly attracted to Marie!" but I really wanted to keep things moving along, and showing their attraction grow slowly over days and days just seemed like...a lot of work. ;-)

Wow, what a sweet chapter! I really love the connection they have with each other. Logan definitely has it bad for her. I'm glad that he told Xavier that he needs to tell her and I love how he corrected Xavier by stating again that her name is Marie when Xavier referred to her as the "target". I really love how he cares about her and is protective of her--how it disturbed him that someone tried to hurt her and how he wished he could have been there to stop it. The kiss and the "worth the risk" line were so sweet and perfect! I can't wait for your next post.

Author's Response: I'm so glad you're liking it, and that the attraction is coming across. And that you caught the reason Logan no longer wants to call her the "target." :-D

Me likes. Me *LOVES* it!

This story is sooo good. I like the way Logan acts around Marie, the way he feels so attracted to her.

I can´t wait to know what happened to her in the past, and of course, I can´t wait to see a protective Logan.

Keep going! This is very good. If reviews make you update this fanfic sooner I will write a daily review. xD

Desperate much? Damn right!

Author's Response: Aw, I'm so glad you're liking it. Yeah, I had a lot of trouble with the beginning of this chapter, it seemed lazy to have Logan just thinking, "Hey, I'm attracted to Marie now!" but I didn't want to make the reader go through a different million events where he slowly realizes it. Next chapter will answer all your questions about the past, I think. Thanks so much for your reviews! Considering I had no idea where this fic was going at first (or actually a lot of times in the middle), it's actually going really quickly. I just finished chapter 8, and I'm not very patient, so I should be updating every few days or so. ;-)

"But some things are worth the risk."

Gosh, I love that line! What a great little chapter! :)

Author's Response: :-D Thanks so much -- so glad you liked it.

Just came back to give you some stars. Because you deserve them.

Author's Response: Aw, thanks, darlin'! ;-)

Ooh, that's just mean. Poor Rogue, all manipulated like that. Loved the warm tone of the last two chapters, the slow trust that is building between them, even if Logan isn't being honest. He's going to pay. *nods* Really enjoying this!

Author's Response: Thanks so much for your review! Yes, he will pay dearly. Poor Logan, I actually just finished that chapter and I feel for them both. Hopefully the readers will feel the same.

I'm really loving this! Logan is a smooth operator, but is he getting a little too close to his "target"? BTW, I liked the twist with the bike. I wasn't expecting that. The "not Scott" line makes sense now. I loved the fact that he was able to get one up on Scott by having a legit reason for getting his bike torched. LOL! I can't wait for the next chapter!

Author's Response: I'm so glad that you're liking it. And that you didn't see the bike thing coming. :-)

I would NEVER have expected Logan to have lied to Marie about who trashed the bike. Marie is going to be way PISSED. This is going to be fun to watch. It will be interesting to see if the people who Marie referred to as looking for her aren't the baddy Brotherhood as we all assumed but our angelic little X-men. This is going to be really interesting.

Author's Response: Yeah, it's been hard, because I think Logan is not a sneaky guy by nature. That said, he is a professional badass, and I don't think it's like him to get squeamish if there's something that needs to get done to achieve an objective. I think in a situation like this, he'll play it as straight as he can, but if he has doubts he'll keep them to himself until it's time to act. As for whether it's the Brotherhood she's running from or not... Chapter Six will tell ya.