Oh my. What have you done to my not-so-delicate non-Southern not-really-sensibilities?

Nice mix of smut & sweetness. Don't know if you were going for that, but that's what I got from it.

That & a case of the vapors

Author's Response: I do declare, your review is making me swoon! ;-) Thanks!

This is getting good. Without the right amount of build up this could easily slip into a toss away PWP, so I'm glad that you're indulging your muse and setting the stage like this. I mean, don't get me wrong - I love me some good ol' fashioned smexing, but the bit about what Marie wants is going to allow you to really...uh...ahem... explore your options so to speak.

So with that...Smut Away!

Author's Response: Aw, thanks so much for reviewing again. Glad you\'re not finding the slow build-up too onerous. The third chapter is also shaping up to be some very sloooow smexing, but at least I\'m getting there!

Your doctor skills transcend your real life. How else did you know that the best prescription for a research paper-induced headache was a Rogan break & closure to this story?

Is it okay if I pay my bill in the form of a Loyalties update later this week?

Author's Response: So glad I could help with your headache, but I am sorry our billing department didn\'t inform you that your Rogue Cross/Logan Shield plan is out-of-network with our office. In addition to the copay of one Loyalties update later this week, you will be balance-billed for another Loyalties update the following week. Please do not make us send your account to collections (i.e., telling RoseSumner to whip you into shape). ;-)

There are many things I liked in this, the primary one being:

"And Logan, a close friend of death but not half so familiar with its sibling grief, wondered bemusedly if four months was the traditional point when the dead were replaced and forgotten."

I have no idea how you come up with these things & piece them together so well. I've given up on trying to make my writing on level with yours. It just won't happen. I don't think anybody can. You've got too much talent and such a nuanced way of delivering these scenes and the words that make them.

Author's Response: It\'s sad, how unaware you are of your own supreme badassery in writing--though this did make me feel like I was standing on the top of the Empire State Building, beating my chest a la King Kong. Thank you, thank you, thank you for offering me this piece of a good day.

"Ashen, like the dead and embalmed too late into decomposition." I've been feeling morbid enough to appreciate this.

Again, teasing, but rich with beautiful descriptions. I always love your Logan & Rogue dynamics. This is no exception. Glad she's got more fire than The Girl & Heal Over Maries - but there's still a *hint* of something that's not quite right, just a bit broken somewhere that makes her Rose's Marie.

That doesn't make sense, sorry. Taco coma.

Author's Response: You almost always make sense when you say you\'re not making sense. Thank you for this, and for being so awesome I\'d split my zero bar with you...and give you the bigger half.

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.

So very many things I loved in this. Some I give reasons for, some I like just because.

"Everything Xavier has ever been able to hold onto, has never been something he could hold with his hands."

"Logan already looks like he doesn’t want to say a thousand things." Doesn't he really? Dead on with this one.

"I already know you—already vowing to protect a precocious young girl who’s crawled inside your heart, let me tell you how this not-love story ends, however much you think you’re already needed, it isn’t even half of what you’re going to end up needing—"

"The swiftness with which she looks away reminds Xavier of how twitchy she is, has always been. How when she had arrived Xavier had always considered Rogue the feral one, not Logan." Hmm, I can see this. Very plausible & a great new way of going back over those scenes with a different eye. That's one of the best things about fanfics - seeing the original work through someone else's eyes.

"older than everyone her age, exhausted by being both smart and old, trying desperately not to be so smart and old. That last part, at least, all three of them have in common." AHHH!! Even after all of these years of thinking about all things Rogan I did not make this connection. Consider my mind blown. Really.

I love how your exorcising X3 demons with this. Going back over the last conversation Logan & Xavier had. I never really placed much thought that their last exchange was an argument. I also love you simultaneous X1 references. Sharp as a tack is what you are.

So I looked up The Once And Future King & didn't realize that it made an appearance in X2! Apparently the comics also reference it. Awesomesauce! I always feel like I stumble upon the best Easter eggs in your fics. Did you include this work because it was used in the various X-Men works or just a personal preference you found fitting?

Author's Response: Hi sahara! Yes, I\'ve always liked how Rogue and Logan seem similar in that way, in X1. Both twitchy and defensive, trying to survive, just on the cusp of despair. And the colors they used for her, all that green and auburn and brown. She always felt like a kind of woodland creature, someone raw. The smart/old thing with the three of them really gets me. I think they, along with Jean, are the characters who are always trying to suppress what they know and how they know it and how that informs how they live in the world. And how desperately hard all that knowing makes their daily lives. It\'s moving. And that last conversation between Logan and Xavier in X3 just HAUNTS me. Because to some extent I think it\'s total character assassination for both of them, but at the same time, I think it\'s amazing, provocative, interesting character assassination. The monster that it makes out of Xavier, and the way Patrick Stewart, like a boss, just delivers these really disturbing lines, about Xavier\'s conduct with Jean, Jean\'s mind. The man it reveals him to be. What he\'s capable of. And the way Logan learns all of this, the distrust and horror that descend upon him. But also his somewhat annoying over-righteous indignance. I don\'t know, it\'s a very, very disturbing scene. Ah--and as for The Once and Future King--I\'m working it in because of it\'s relation to Xavier and Magneto in the movies. There are things in it that illuminate Xavier\'s character and way of thinking about education in particular, for sure. Thanks again for all these wonderful comments and observations! It\'s always a pleasure to hear from you.

I've gotten this question before, so I'm posting it here rather than emailing doctorg. On the main WRFA page there's a purple button link to the yahoo group for wrbeta.

According to the homepage for it "WRBeta is a discussion and fan fiction list for the characters of Wolverine and Rogue, in movie, comic, or cartoon form."

It's especially helpful if you're trying to find a fic, but can't remember who wrote it or what it's called. Most of the time someone knows what you're talking about & can find the story. It's also a good way to keep up on news of developments (i.e. the next Wolverine movie & whatnot), image manips, & general Rogan-y goodness.

"Love is... awkward." Oh man how I hate Jean. There's a special raging inferno just for her. I love and hate this explanation that she gives. I don't feel like the word "awkward" is the appropriate word for her to use here, so it makes me hate Jean all the more for her shitty response. It just sounds juvenile, which just compounds on my Jean-Hate. So props to you if this was intentional. If this wasn't, then I will still refuse to acknowledge otherwise because despite how nice she was to Rogue before take-off, I still think she deserves a good shove off of the blackbird. ;)

Author's Response: Heh - I\'d like to pretend it was intentional.. but it wasn\'t *g*. Although she is explaining it as if it was to a child. Poor Jean, though - she\'s not all that bad *g*. Put yourself in her position, Logan does all of the chasing in each of the three films, it\'s his fault a lot more than it is hers, besides, would you turn him down? I decided to cut her some slack in this fic. Give her the benefit of the doubt. Trouble it, it seems to have had the opposite affect & more people seem to hate her. Heh. That\'s a interesting technique I might try again!

Hells yes I want on this! I haven't been on this site in months, lost most interest to be honest, but when I saw that you had updated. Well damn, I had to pop in & boy was I in for a pleasant surprise. Up to your usual standards right from the get go. Love it. Glad you're back. :D

Author's Response: Hey chica! It\'s like the Godfather...just when we thought we were out, they pull us back in! Thanks for the welcome back (and back atcha) and will try and get some more up soon.