Sabretooth in deep contemplation *g*.
Fanfic: Blackout by Jamie
Summary: Rogue never thought she’d be able to repay Logan for saving her life. She was wrong.
Logan and I headed for the kitchen without really talking about it. I started to mix up the hot chocolate, and he grabbed the bag of marshmallows. It made me laugh.
“What?” he said. “You can’t have hot chocolate without the marshmallows.”
“So I’ve heard,” I said. We were quiet for a few minutes. I could feel him staring at me, but I wasn’t sure how to say what was on my mind.
I poured the hot chocolate into two mugs, and we sat down at the kitchen table. “We’ve got to find this girl,” I said. “I feel like … well, she could be me. I mean, what would’ve happened to me if I hadn’t found you?”
Logan’s return to the mansion is complicated by an X-Men mission that gives Marie an unexpected chance to pay him back for rescuing her. Good fun, and I really like Rogue’s voice in this story.
Blackout
Fanfic: Let’s Do It by lady_krysis
Summary: He’s Darwin. He can do it all.
Armando sprouts wings. It takes getting pushed out of a plane. There might be a slight problem when he doesn’t find that unpleasant anymore. His mutation and all the crap that it does to him (and all the villains they’ve got to face) is so blasé that he’s not even phased. He does, however, consider this a new way of making the mile high club ‘cause that’s what happens when you narrowly avoid another death: thank God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, I’m alive! But with sex.
In which Darwin likes finding unconventional ways - not to mention locations - to use his mutation, and Alex Summers is along for the ride. I loved the references to comicverse canon, but you don’t need to know anything about the Danger Room or the Shi’ar to appreciate this sexy, hilarious story.
Let’s Do It
Fanfic: Hide a Hundred Girls in Your Hair by lilacsigil
Summary: Jean regenerates in the cold waters of the lake. She won’t wake up alone, this time.
“Are you okay?” The woman seemed concerned but surprisingly calm, considering that she’d just pulled a leather-clad woman out of a lake.
Jean peered at her. “Do I know you? I think I know you.” Her voice was still raspy, but now the woman was close enough to hear.
“Yes, you do. Are you in pain? Cold? Hungry? I’ve got a fire going.” She took Jean’s smooth hand in her own calloused one and pulled her to her feet. “Come on.”
Jean awakens in Alkali Lake, but this time she’s not alone. In it’s own way, I think this is one of the scariest stories I’ve read in this fandom, and I really like this take on Mystique.
Hide a Hundred Girls in Your Hair
Fanfic: Working at Cross-Purposes by Jai
Summary: He’s made himself a uniform, but he doesn’t wear it.
He flies with Moira just barely visible in the corner of his eye, existing mostly in the haze beyond the edge of his glasses. Her fingers grip the armrest, aware of her own mortality in a way the others don’t seem to be. He doesn’t look at her any more than he needs to.
Clever ficlet in which First Class turns out rather differently for Hank. A interesting possibility.
Fanfic: But Skin Deep by trascendenza
Summary: The absence of power isn’t what makes her human. It’s not in her genes, or in the crest she wears on her uniform, or in the political party she votes for.
She meets Carol outside the building on a rainy Wednesday night; between closing her umbrella and juggling her backpack, Marie can hardly see where she’s going, and they would have been a fast tangle of limbs on the ground if not for Carol’s hand on the small of her back.
I’m so sorry, she says breathlessly, straightening up.
Carol’s smile widens the more Marie tries to apologize, and Marie stops when she realizes that the woman’s hand hasn’t moved although she’s completely steady on her feet now.
After giving up her abilities, Marie learns something about power from Carol Danvers. An interesting twist on their relationship and an all too plausible future for Rogue.
