It really really hurts,reading this story. Sometimes people get it wrong when they are dense, and we can roll our eyes at them and think opening theirs would make it all better. But here, there is just so much helpless pain, and if they did open their eyes and hearts there wouldn't be less, because to love is one of the most dangerous things we can do.
At least Rogue slowly matures, after all the growing up she has done she realises she might be Storm's friend. Maybe she has a chance to settle into herself after all. Maybe. I look forward to that happening, if I manage to continue reading.

Author's Response: Thank you so, so much for this lovely and detailed comment. It sounds strange to say, but I'm very honored to hear that it "hurts" you to read this story. If you do continue to reading, I hope you will find a few bits of hope. I know, they are few and far between so far, but they are (and will be) there. :) And I wholeheartedly agree, about the love. And yes, about Storm! I actually am as invested in the Storm/Rogue dynamic in this story as with the Rogue/Gambit/Logan thing. Or even the Storm/Hank dynamic. Or even Piotr/Bobby. I always like the side characters almost more than the main characters, it's an illness.

Well the cracks are getting deeper! Rogue’s internal struggle has stepped up a gear.

We got a great insight into Remy here, been given a closer look at the man/his background/the emotion/his reasoning for actions, been given a degree of understanding of his side of the coin/ where he’s coming from/where he want’s to go etc. He gets the sympathy vote for this chapter but..........Logan I feel hasn’t come into play yet, the why to a lot of questions as yet unanswered.

Who’d have thought you could get us all hooked on a threesome! It’s definitely a rollercoaster journey, a clever one too, my thoughts are changing each chapter as we get more info to what has already been.

Add another Gold star to your collection, great stuff as usual x

Author's Response: Thank you once again for your lovely detailed response, as always! Haha, yes, I know, this chapter and the one to follow will still be largely Gambit-centric, as we catch up on Rogue's POV, to the time where Logan's left off. But Logan will definitely come into play soon. Haha, threesomes; yes, I think a previous comment had it right; non-traditional love story. I guess it's all in the title, really. :)

I think Rogue is purposely pushing Logan away and for me it's not fair (not because this is WRFA but because I do treat story like they're real life) when she lets Gambit in.

And I know that she owes Gambit for saving her but she also owes Logan because Logan has save her too long time ago albeit reluctantly. For her to push him away like that when she has so much too tell him it's not fair.

And I see a pattern in herself, push away people when they got too close but I can help but feel that she's slowly falling for Gambit (even if she's denied it) and she feels guilty towards Logan, from all the secrets that's not her to be kept.

It's hard for me to read a very non-traditional love story because this my friend feels like real life. The choices and consequences. The "I don't want to deal with that now" attitude. It all fits nicely and I feel very uneasy, like having this heavy feeling inside me (because yes, I'm rooting for Logan) uneasy because like I said before I'm constantly worried what would happen to them in the end because I think you won't give us the definite ending. :)

TL;DR - This chapter is a one giant mess of emotions for Rogue and I loved it!

- alia

Author's Response: Thank you for your very in-depth response! I am definitely interested in all the ways in which we are not necessarily "fair" to each other, all the ways in which we fail to be fair to others, especially those we care for, to whom I think we can often be the least "fair." That said, I don't know that I agree that Rogue spends time with Gambit because she "owes" him for saving her, and I definitely don't think she "owes" Logan for saving her. And I think the Logan in this story would be even more adamantly opposed to that suggestion; he's not the kind of character that exerts debts over people for the sacrifices he chooses to make--and he definitely didn't save her reluctantly! Which is what's interesting, how unreluctant his actions were. And yes, the Rogue in this story certainly makes arguments "against intimacy." But I think what primarily interests me here is the question of how does the act of knowing someone affect us, undo us; and is it ever possible to un-know things. Finally--thank you so much again for reading this non-traditional story (it's all in the title!) and sharing your wonderful impressions. It might sound odd, but I'm very delighted that you feel so uneasy and worried; must mean something's going right. ;)