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Real name: Elizabeth Bales-Stutes
Member Since: 12/23/2010
Membership Status: Member

 
Favorite Stories
"It is harder to love than to find someone to love."

...The path of the Xmen has become much darker in recent years. Rogue finds her way to the mansion one night and meets our favorite surly Canadian--but has she been there before? And what exactly do they want with her?

Rated: R
Categories: AU
Characters: None
Genres: Angst, Drama, Shipper
Tags: None
Warnings: None

Series: None
Chapters: 11
Wordcount: 26484 - Hits: 58849
Complete?: No - Published: 02/27/2011 - Last Updated: 02/09/2018
Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Title taken from Beckett.

Rated: PG-13
Categories: X3
Characters: None
Genres: Angst
Tags: None
Warnings: None

Series: None
Chapters: 1
Wordcount: 3491 - Hits: 1936
Complete?: No - Published: 05/12/2012 - Last Updated: 05/12/2012
Roped into attending a conference in Alaska with the X-Geeks, Logan meets up with Marie under very different circumstances. They don't quite live up to each other's fantasies. But maybe that's a good thing.

Rated: NC-17
Categories: AU
Characters: None
Genres: Adult, Angst, Shipper
Tags: None
Warnings: None

Series: None
Chapters: 51
Wordcount: 25812 - Hits: 426576
Complete?: No - Published: 11/07/2011 - Last Updated: 12/13/2011
Before she could reach that fight bar in Canada, Rogue was taken in and raised by Mystique. Years later, she and Wolverine meet for the first time as fellow X-Men. Fate draws them together after a very unusual attack leaves Wolverine in a unique position to help. AU with movie/comicverse elements.

Rated: Adult
Categories: AU
Characters: None
Genres: Action, Adult, Drama, Shipper
Tags: None
Warnings: Animal Death, Not Beta Read

Series: None
Chapters: 20
Wordcount: 68600 - Hits: 159760
Complete?: No - Published: 07/01/2011 - Last Updated: 10/23/2011
Ultimate Comicverse AU Post-Ultimatum: The world believes Wolverine dead; killed by Magneto. But Rogue believes differently. Can she track down Wolverine or is his survival only in her head.

Rated: R
Categories: AU, Comicverse
Characters: None
Genres: Drama, Shipper
Tags: None
Warnings: None

Series: None
Chapters: 10
Wordcount: 26419 - Hits: 54336
Complete?: No - Published: 07/20/2010 - Last Updated: 09/22/2011
"...home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!" -Matthew Arnold

A Brotherhood Rogue is betrayed and finds herself in the middle of a very fractured team of X-Men after she kills one of their own. Now she has to figure out what Carol was & still is up to while juggling a tentative friendship with Jubilee, a growing resentment for the Professor, and a distracting attraction to the growling feral mutant who was sleeping with the woman she killed.

Rated: R
Categories: X1, AU, Comicverse
Characters: None
Genres: Angst, Dark, Drama, Shipper
Tags: None
Warnings: None

Series: None
Chapters: 12
Wordcount: 42049 - Hits: 86598
Complete?: No - Published: 12/28/2010 - Last Updated: 08/18/2011
Marie thought she needed a cure. Logan thought he needed answers. Turns out fulfilling a need is a lot less satisfying than accepting a want – but no less achingly complicated.

First part in the Use Somebody series. Post-X3, the architects of Marie's cure and Logan's amnesia conspire within the government. Only together can Marie and Logan break their cycles of self-destruction and stop a war they were never meant to start.

Rated: R
Categories: X1, X2, X3, X-Men Origins Wolverine
Characters: None
Genres: Action, Angst, Drama, Shipper
Tags: None
Warnings: None

Series: Use Somebody
Chapters: 13
Wordcount: 24694 - Hits: 77073
Complete?: No - Published: 12/16/2010 - Last Updated: 08/15/2011
Marie focused on dulling the pull of her skin, dampening her body’s desire to consume anything it came in contact with. That was the thing she hated about her mutation. Take, take, take. It felt selfish. She wished she had a mutation that was more suited to helping than hurting. Like if she could give away her own life force with a touch, rather than just steal others’.

Post-X3. A little angst and a lot fluff. Nothing especially original or well-written here, to be honest, but hopefully a fun little read.

Rated: NC-17
Categories: X3
Characters: None
Genres: Angst, Foof, Shipper
Tags: None
Warnings: None

Series: None
Chapters: 13
Wordcount: 10851 - Hits: 97268
Complete?: Yes - Published: 08/04/2011 - Last Updated: 08/07/2011
Sometimes love is the unrequited kind. Rogue is growing up. Logan is in love with Jean. And nothing is simple.

Rated: Adult
Categories: X1
Characters: None
Genres: Angst
Tags: None
Warnings: None

Series: None
Chapters: 5
Wordcount: 15101 - Hits: 29324
Complete?: Yes - Published: 07/01/2011 - Last Updated: 08/02/2011
Taking the cure was almost the hardest thing Marie had ever done. The hardest came soon after, when she left the X-men to build a life for herself in the "baseline" world. But years later, when her mutation returns—along with some unwelcome and unethical scientists—she has to turn to the X-Men once more.

That is, if they can find her.

Rated: R
Categories: X3
Characters: None
Genres: Adult, Angst, Dark, Drama, UST
Tags: None
Warnings: Not Beta Read

Series: None
Chapters: 3
Wordcount: 11832 - Hits: 10192
Complete?: No - Published: 07/05/2011 - Last Updated: 07/24/2011
My papers say Ann Doyle, to match the auburn tint and vaguely Irish lilt I’ve cultivated. It’s an art, truly, teasing preferences and inclinations from those I’ve absorbed, sculpting disparate parts into a single cohesive personality. My masterpiece.

Rated: NC-17
Categories: AU
Characters: None
Genres: Adult, Angst, Dark
Tags: None
Warnings: Completely OOC, Not Beta Read

Series: None
Chapters: 1
Wordcount: 4977 - Hits: 2349
Complete?: Yes - Published: 07/17/2011 - Last Updated: 07/17/2011
Just who came back from Canada...?

Rated: NC-17
Categories: X3, X-Men Origins Wolverine
Characters: None
Genres: Shipper
Tags: None
Warnings: None

Series: None
Chapters: 3
Wordcount: 4279 - Hits: 16917
Complete?: No - Published: 06/13/2011 - Last Updated: 07/13/2011
Post X3. Professor Xavier returns to the mansion. Tries to help, and be helped by, two people. About bodies, and how to live in them.

Rated: R
Categories: X3
Characters: None
Genres: None
Tags: None
Warnings: None

Series: None
Chapters: 2
Wordcount: 7085 - Hits: 5750
Complete?: No - Published: 05/07/2011 - Last Updated: 06/18/2011
He wanted her to be untouchable.

Rated: Adult
Categories: X1, X-Men Origins Wolverine
Characters: None
Genres: Shipper
Tags: None
Warnings: None

Series: None
Chapters: 1
Wordcount: 4811 - Hits: 6220
Complete?: Yes - Published: 05/18/2011 - Last Updated: 05/18/2011
And through the pain, through the pain she mourns it. Mourns the loss of the child she was, of the adult she thought she’d be. Back when things were simple, easy, linear. When life followed a logical course, and she could tell you where she’d be in one year. Five. Ten.

Rated: Teen
Categories: X1, AU, Comicverse
Characters: None
Genres: Angst, Drama
Tags: None
Warnings: None

Series: None
Chapters: 7
Wordcount: 25491 - Hits: 37060
Complete?: Yes - Published: 01/25/2011 - Last Updated: 04/06/2011
"We love to learn we are not alone."-C.S. Lewis. The Wolverine meets, saves, and reluctantly befriends a girl while undercover.

Rated: R
Categories: AU
Characters: None
Genres: Angst, Drama, Shipper
Tags: None
Warnings: Rape/Non-Con

Series: None
Chapters: 21
Wordcount: 56200 - Hits: 167443
Complete?: Yes - Published: 07/14/2010 - Last Updated: 02/09/2011
As the cure wears off, Rogue leaves for San Francisco, and after a series of unexpected encounters with a certain mutant in a similar situation, learns a little something about grief, vulnerability, loss—and the things beyond romance. (UPDATE: I've now divided this monster into three parts.)

Rated: R
Categories: X3
Characters: None
Genres: None
Tags: None
Warnings: None

Series: None
Chapters: 3
Wordcount: 19723 - Hits: 12692
Complete?: Yes - Published: 06/04/2010 - Last Updated: 06/14/2010
If life's a movie, Rogue didn't get to pick her genre.

Rated: NC-17
Categories: Comicverse, X3
Characters: None
Genres: Angst
Tags: None
Warnings: None

Series: None
Chapters: 6
Wordcount: 17025 - Hits: 31447
Complete?: No - Published: 01/16/2009 - Last Updated: 04/17/2010
“You tell me you don’t love me over a cup of coffee / and I just have to look away...”

Rated: PG-13
Categories: X3, AU
Characters: None
Genres: Angst, Drama, Shipper
Tags: None
Warnings: Not Beta Read

Series: None
Chapters: 1
Wordcount: 5095 - Hits: 3214
Complete?: Yes - Published: 04/07/2009 - Last Updated: 04/07/2009
retired featured story Marie goes looking for Mr. Right Now.

Rated: NC-17
Categories: AU
Characters: None
Genres: Shipper
Tags: None
Warnings: None

Series: None
Chapters: 1
Wordcount: 8007 - Hits: 10752
Complete?: Yes - Published: 03/31/2009 - Last Updated: 03/31/2009
"...It's her eighteenth birthday and she's using her duffel bag as a pillow."
Special days in Rogue's life.

Rated: PG
Categories: AU, X1, X2, X3
Characters: None
Genres: Shipper
Tags: None
Warnings: None

Series: None
Chapters: 1
Wordcount: 3420 - Hits: 4081
Complete?: Yes - Published: 03/22/2009 - Last Updated: 03/22/2009
"She eats everything in the glove compartment, and gets it all over her scarf and face, making stupid noises and talking about how good it is. It’s beef jerky. And fairly old. Logan isn’t sure whether he finds this repulsive, or really goddam charming."

Rated: PG
Categories: X1
Characters: None
Genres: Drama
Tags: None
Warnings: None

Series: None
Chapters: 1
Wordcount: 1156 - Hits: 1915
Complete?: Yes - Published: 12/01/2008 - Last Updated: 12/01/2008
"Somebody notices that Logan is staying around more than he used to, and they try to give him a job too; so he steals a motorcycle and rides to Oregon, and that settles that."

Rated: PG
Categories: AU
Characters: None
Genres: Shipper
Tags: None
Warnings: None

Series: None
Chapters: 1
Wordcount: 660 - Hits: 2124
Complete?: Yes - Published: 12/01/2008 - Last Updated: 12/01/2008
"If you run you can only take one person, and you have to be sure. They can’t break down and call their folks, give their real name, make a scene in front of a bank security camera and get on the nightly news. It’s your life. Right?"

Rated: PG-13
Categories: AU
Characters: None
Genres: Shipper
Tags: None
Warnings: None

Series: None
Chapters: 1
Wordcount: 380 - Hits: 2207
Complete?: Yes - Published: 12/01/2008 - Last Updated: 12/01/2008
Rogue examines her life, a philosophical concept, the span of two years and nine months, a baby diaper, a John Wayne movie, the power of positive thinking versus sleeping, her skin, and finally…a beautiful way to complicate things.

Rated: PG-13
Categories: X1
Characters: None
Genres: Shipper
Tags: None
Warnings: None

Series: None
Chapters: 1
Wordcount: 6213 - Hits: 3038
Complete?: Yes - Published: 05/19/2008 - Last Updated: 05/19/2008