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Date: 12/01/2011 1:54:22 AM Title: The Snag
I so look forward to Marco's imminent demise...Slow and painful, right, just like Logan promised... --Wendie
Author's Response: Well, we didn't actually see Marco's demise, but we can just assume that he'll suffer agonies trapped in Marie's head. And even if it was fast, her mutation still seems like a pretty painful way to go.
Date: 12/01/2011 1:45:53 AM Title: The Questions
Oh, you do love a good twist, don't you? You end the chapter THERE and still expect me to stop and review before I tear into Chapter 3...Well, oh Cruel One, here you go...FANFUCKINGTASTIC! Now, let me get back to my reading... --Wendie
Author's Response: Yay, two reviews for the price of one! I'll take it. ;-)
Date: 12/01/2011 1:45:08 AM Title: The Questions
Oh, you do love a good twist, don't you? You end the chapter THERE and still expect me to stop and review before I tear into Chapter 3...Well, oh Cruel One, here you go...FANFUCKINGTASTIC! Now, let me get back to my reading... --Wendie
Author's Response: Aw, thanks so much for taking the time to review. :-) Happy reading!
Date: 11/30/2011 10:12:09 PM Title: The Wave
Oh my goodness. Between you and atmd, I'm dying here.
There isn't a single thing I don't love about this story. Phenomenal. Award-winning. Everything was just so clear, so visual...
I hope Logan's ok.
Author's Response: Aw, thanks so much for such a lovely review! And I'm thrilled to be considered in such exalted company as atmd. Hope the subsequent chapters live up to the positive impression you have so far!
Date: 11/30/2011 9:40:26 PM Title: The Snag
Oh my god!!! The torture was absolute agony. The eye? Not the eye! Eesh. I got this update the other day, but had to steel myself to read this chapter. AMAZING story. The setup is incredible, the imagery is insane...just wow. Really awesome.
Author's Response: Aw, sorry I traumatized you. ;-) I think I went a little overboard in trying to show that Wolverine really does feel pain, and can be in mortal danger. I think we're so used to seeing him stand up to atomic bombs or whatever that it's hard to realize that he can be killed, especially with his healing turned off. Thanks so much for your review!
Date: 11/30/2011 7:51:00 PM Title: The Wave
gotta say i'm loving this. i like it when the story is action-packed, gritty and has a healthy dose of the aul rogan- and this story delivers. really looking forward to finding out what's happening next. thanks for some good reading :-)
Author's Response: Yay! So glad you're liking it. Thanks so much for reviewing!
[Report This]Date: 11/30/2011 10:53:23 AM Title: The Wave
Aw, thanks for the dedication/apology. Neither one was really warranted, but hell, I'm greedy and won't say no =D.
Jesus Christ! A slap to his face and who the fuck would dare?
Okay, this made me grin ear to ear. I love how you've got us following Logan up into consciousness, kind of dazed and disoriented . . . I could really feel it as a reader.
This Marie is *awesome*. I love her hassling a half-dead Logan to get his ass in gear, and isn't he a cop? Can't he like, call for backup or something? Hahaha!
Aww oh my gosh. She was sweet, so painfully sweet. Poor Logan. I hope she gets him to the school. She seems like the kinda girl who knows how to get shit done.
You've left me with soo many questions here. I can't wait to find out more about Marie's backstory and how the hell she got sucked into this situation in the first place. Great writing, as always. And I can't wait to read the next chapter. (Um, and I mean, I literally can't, you evil tempter *sneaks off to Google docs*)
Author's Response: You deserve much more than that, but since I don't have book contracts to scatter at my disposal, you'll have to settle for a mention in the author's note. ;-) Yeah, I think it pretty much sums up this Marie that a.) She would slap Logan in the face and threaten to leave him there if she has to b.) That she would try to take him with her in the first place. In my conception she *is* tough, and she talks even tougher, but there is hopefully a sweetness to her underneath that will show up despite her best intentions of trying to act like she doesn't need anything or anybody. Feel free to pop into the Google doc any time...just be glad I haven't caught you there to hound you for advice!
[Report This]Date: 11/30/2011 2:36:45 AM Title: The Wave
Oh no Logan keep fighting. Yay strong Rogue, please update soon.
Author's Response: C'mon, you know I wouldn't kill Logan off *ever*, let alone in Chapter 4. :-) I'm liking Strong!Rogue too, just trying to keep her on the right side of the line so she's not RandomlyBitchy!Rogue in upcoming chapters!
Date: 11/30/2011 2:26:33 AM Title: The Wave
I seriously lol'ed @ the first line of your an. Because I just finished horrible amounts of japanese homework and fell into bed, exhausted. Then proceeded to wonder if you had updated and blindly reached out for my cell on the nightstand after 5 minutes of wondering if I was too tired to check. look what won (you). So I'm so happy that there was actually a new chap to make up for the crazy amount of schoolwork. thanks!! ugh, I hate typing such long things on cells. Will give a better review next time- promise!!
Author's Response: Aw, what a compliment. I know exactly one sentence in Japanese, which is the most useless sentence ever. "Do you speak English?" (I won't even try to spell it out in Japanese). Which is ridiculous, because if they do speak English I could just ask in English, and if they don't then that's as far as the conversation goes, unless I want to point at random things and call them "kawaii." XD Thanks for leaving a review, as tired as you were and on your cell phone to boot!
Date: 11/30/2011 1:02:54 AM Title: The Wave
ohh Marie Saved him. that is awesome! I always love it when she does that! Can't wait for the next chapter
Author's Response: Yeah, I have to say, when it comes down to it Marie rescuing Logan is my favorite plot point. :-D I will post the next chapter this weekend, if I can even hold out that long. ;-)
Date: 11/29/2011 11:40:23 PM Title: The Wave
Find a phone Marie, find a phone!!
We are obviously not near West Chester since Logan added the state when he told her where to go. The question is how long is it before Logan's 3 hours are up and the team starts to worry about him missing the rendezvous. He should be healed about the team they come looking for him. How ironic is that!
Logan's initial thoughts made me laugh. Who would dare wake him? Well I tell ya Wolvie, her name is Rogue and you won’t' ever be the same after this. :)
The plot twist about the suppression collar taking time to wear off is an interesting one that I don't think I have ever seen before. And that Marie would feel guilt about having to wait because her mutation wasn't active is characteristically Marie. I like it a lot. I wonder if she thought about it enough to bring it with them????
The last line was heart wrenching and beautiful all at the same time.
I hope this means that chapter's 5 and 6 decided to behave.
Author's Response: No kidding, not just wake him but to *slap* him awake? I can see how that would get his attention. I can tell you the suppression collar will play a very large role in what's to come. And chapters five and six put up a fight, but they got done. Chapter seven is being an outright motherf*cker, but we'll see.
[Report This]Date: 11/29/2011 10:50:11 PM Title: The Wave
Woo, kickass Marie gets to rescue Logan! Again. :D So great to see her collecting herself and making things happen.
(And aw, thanks, that's really sweet. You're the best.)
Author's Response: Yeah, I don't seem to have a plot device that doesn't involve Logan and Marie rescuing each other, sometime several times in one scene. :-)
[Report This]Date: 11/29/2011 7:11:24 PM Title: The Snag
Eek! Gore. Thanks for the nightmares. But you get muchos props for realism, there. As a reader I could really *feel* Logan getting tortured. Yay him for holding out. God, I just want to cuddle him or something.
He watched helplessly as the light of hope died from her eyes, replaced by a look of utter betrayal. She began to fight like a dervish, kicking her stockinged feet against his legs, turning her head to try to bite his wrist, jerking against the cuffs until the scent of her blood tinged the air.
Whew, badass Marie is right. It would take some serious guts to put up that kind of fight when you're so clearly at someone else's mercy. She and Logan are perfectly matched in this story! I can't wait to see them bring down the baddies together.
Overall, this chapter was grisly and disturbing and actually quite difficult to read at times--which is exactly what it was supposed to be, I expect. Here's to hoping Marie drops that Wolvie-torturing bastard and saves the day =D.
Author's Response: Aw, sorry for the gore. I think I overcompensated...I think we get so used to thinking of Logan as invulnerable to all harm, we forget that he actually even feels the pain. I wanted to make it clear that he still feels pain, and that without his healing he is as vulnerable as anyone. I also wanted to make it clear that time was passing (because I knew I wanted a lag before powers kick in after the collar comes off) so it went on a bit.rnrnIt's funny, I just went back and made edits to make Marie a little more tough/prickly in subsequent chapters. If I'm going to live up to the inspiration (Matilda in "The Professional") she's got to be that weird mix of street-toughened and gutsy but underneath kind of innocent and sweet. I haven't seen that movie in awhile, but I keep thinking of that scene where Matilda walks right past the apartment where her whole family had just been murdered and stands in front of Leon's door, appearing cool but frantic inside. I think that's what I want for this Marie -- someone who acts smart and tough when she needs to, but it does take a toll on her.
Date: 11/29/2011 2:49:21 AM Title: The Merchandise
Agh, gah, I'm so sorry! I spaced out and didn't even think about the issue of non-con, just about the bad guys being, well, Bad, and the fact that you're successfully showing them as such. By "don't flinch" I just meant that I believe we should never, ever completely sanitize (love your word choice) something as abhorrent as human trafficking or rape, because to me that completely disrespects and belittles the suffering and pain that victims/survivors go through. I don't mean "make it as horrible and awful as it can possibly be," because every writer has her own flinch point and there's nothing wrong with that--but it really does a disservice to the world if we try to paint human trafficking as "not so bad." Because it really, really isn't.
tl;dr OMG I FAIL AT FEEDBACK. >.
Author's Response: Not at all! I totally know what you meant. It was my own insecurity talking. I went back and forth with myself about this issue before I started writing sentence one. For Marie it makes at least a little sense with the whole "untouchable" thing, but it does strain credulity to think that Kitty and Jubilee also would be taken by Very Bad Guys and kept relatively unharmed. For that reason I almost shied away from the whole plot device, and then tried to think of a way to write it without Logan looking for Kitty and Jubes, but in the end this was the plot I had and I figured it was better to just keep that level of implausibility rather than to not write the story at all. It definitely is flinching, and I completely cop to it. I'm doing the same thing by hedging and writing Marie "young" but then making her adult, just because I can read about underage Rogan and acknowledge that those stories are very well-done, but I can/will never write it. Hazard of my profession, maybe. Anyway, a lot of babbling to say I totally understood what you meant, and you're totally right, and I just focused on the non-con angle because I already knew that was a weakness in my plotting of the story. Makes sense?
[Report This]Date: 11/28/2011 11:21:52 PM Title: The Snag
Im hooked but i hate cliffhangers, please update soon!
Author's Response: :-D Hope you liked the updates!
[Report This]Date: 11/28/2011 6:40:05 PM Title: The Snag
OMG.
That is crazy intense...or just tense. And a horribly cruel place to end it. :(
Marie to save the day! Okay, I really like that twist. It's kind of like they're saving each other. Without him, she wouldn't have gotten free and now without her he won't. I really, really hope that they don't both end up in a lab somewhere or something. I'd love for them to go on a quest to find Jubilee and Kitty. And OW. Oh, Logan. What a horrible man Marco is. ::shudder::
I know you said it'll be slow going and I'll try to be patient, but I hope the next chapter squeezes its way out swiftly. Otherwise I'll just imagine all manner of horridness that I hope won't happen.
Great story, btw!
Author's Response: Aw, sorry for the cliffhanger. I just can't figure out where to end chapters otherwise. I think you'll really like the next chapter, it's my favorite so far. ;-) Just for you, I promise I'll post it tomorrow at the latest.
[Report This]Date: 11/28/2011 3:18:39 PM Title: The Snag
Yikes. Hey, Patch, nice to see you again. Good chapter.
Author's Response: Ha, I had to look that up, but so true. Logan does look very rakish in an eyepatch...
Date: 11/28/2011 2:55:27 PM Title: The Snag
Wow, that was intense. I wonder how Marco knew it was a set up. I wonder if there isn't a telepath helping him somewhere. The text seemed to correspond with Logan formulating his return plan. Marco must be letting Logan heal some while he is passed out.
Hopefully Marie can drop them both and get some information about the organization while saving Logan.
I am really enjoying the way you are playing this out. I am interested to see who ends up having Kitty and Jubliee and if this group leads Logan to them or if Marco is just a middle man. Good Luck with chapters 5 & 6.
Author's Response: Yeah, sorry, I didn't want to be too gory for gory-ness's sake (nice word, huh?), but I did want it to make it clear that Logan was very, very injured and in mortal danger. I think we're all so conditioned to think that he's invulnerable that it takes a lot to drive home the point of his vulnerability once his healing is taken away. I think it'll be clear in the next chapter that poor Logan is getting no breaks to heal. He's just one tough motherf*cker. My husband very kindly supplied me with the Big Bad for this fic, so hooray for having *some* idea where this is going!
Date: 11/28/2011 2:11:44 PM Title: The Snag
Aaah, horrible cliffhanger! Can't wait for more. :D
Author's Response: Sorry! Thanks so much for reviewing!
Date: 11/28/2011 10:36:49 AM Title: The Snag
wow. wasn't expecting that. I feel bad saying I loved it. But it was great. exciting and fun (in a twisted way). I can't wait to see what happens next! More please.. soon!
Author's Response: Yeah, poor Logan. It's amazing how vulnerable he is once the healing gets taken away. You know me, I'm sure I'll get the next chapter posted way earlier than I should. ;-)
Date: 11/27/2011 7:14:45 PM Title: The Questions
colour me intrigued... and do i sense a cameo by my two favourite logan's angels in the offing? i look forward to reading the rest. hobbits away, hey!
Author's Response: No idea where the story is going after chapter 6, but you pretty much know Jubes and Kitty are going to play a larger role than they usually do in my fics. Thanks so much for reviewing!
[Report This]Date: 11/27/2011 8:49:43 AM Title: The Questions
Gah. I am totally digging this badass Marie. I hope he's fat and slow hehehe. She and Logan both seem to naturally keep a cool head in a bad situation.
Also, the little movie throwback with Logan's "I'm not gonna hurt you, kid" was perfectly done. Not over the top, just a nice little easter egg moment =D.
That's so sad about Kit and Jubilee! I have a feeling Logan and Marie are gonna get them back, and there will be much asskicking along the way. Awesome.
Must confess I allowed myself to peek ahead a little into chapter 3, just because that cliffhanger ending was unbearable! I can't wait to see the rest of this, and I am going to resist the temptation you've placed before me by waiting to read until you post. Um, at least trying to. So nyah.
Author's Response: Yeah, I think half the reason I wanted to write another story so quick is that I needed a really tough, spunky Marie to counterbalance the "weaker" Marie from "The Rogue." You're welcome to read the doc anytime! I'd welcome your input. But, on the other hand, if keeping you away gets me more of your stories faster, then I'm all for it.
[Report This]Date: 11/26/2011 11:43:24 PM Title: The Questions
OMG!!!
How can you leave it there???? Man, I so can't wait for the next chapter!
Oh no! Kitty and Jubilee!! :( I know you weren't quite sure where this was going, but damn. It's amazing so far. Really, really love it!
Author's Response: :-) At least you didn't have to wait long, right? Yeah, poor Kits and Jubilee. But, they've only been peripheral characters in my stories so far, maybe they'll get more of a leading role here. Thanks so much for reviewing!
Date: 11/26/2011 11:36:48 PM Title: The Merchandise
Whoa, what an intense start.
I've been admonishing myself, telling myself not to start reading a new story- too much homework, too much work, too much everything left undone. But when I came to catch up on some things, I saw your name in the byline and had to do it. There was no resisting. Of course, the start is just as good as I could have expected. Off to read the next chapter!
Author's Response: Aw, what a compliment! So happy to have you on board. Thanks for taking the time to both read and review!
Date: 11/26/2011 9:50:11 PM Title: The Questions
Intrigued! :D I hope there is more blood/gore/angst coming soon! :D
~Anji
Author's Response: Glad you're intrigued! Hopefully the next chapter was plenty bloody/gory for ya!