Days of Becoming, Chapter 13

[talktooloose]

Title: Days of Becoming, Chapter 13 - “Raccoon Eyes”
Author: Talktooloose
'Verse: X-Men movieverse
Warnings: Sexual situations, swearing, snowcones.
Series Summary: This novel focusses mainly on the paths Iceman and Pyro take on their way to adulthood and how they discover and deal with their love for each other. It is a novel about what Joni Mitchell calls "the dream's malfunction" and how we can learn to make our own dreams when our heroes fail us. Other X characters and OC's play prominent roles and the action begins before X1, continues through the events of X2 and X3 and concludes in the aftermath of that movie.
Chapter Summary: Bobby and Kitty deal with their feelings in the wake of Lance's departure. Mike is fed up with Jubilee's new friend. What is Christian Turcott really up to?
Betas: kuriadalmatia and lux_apollo. Thank you for making me a better writer.
Disclaimers: Marvel and 20th Century own this stuff but they need us to make sense of it.
Notes: Rayen is liberally adapted from a character in Grant Morrison's 616 X-Men run.

This chapter was supposed to be easy—just a transitional bit between more dramatic sequences—but it turned into a beast (and no, Hank is not in it).

Unreserved and slobbery thanks to Lux and Kuria for insightful betas and brilliant suggestions. Bobby's Halloween costume is thanks to Lux and Kuria suggested one of Sam's lines as well Charles' unique memento. In addition, they helped me stay on track and true to my tale. Words fail.


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Comments

[sendthewolves.livejournal.com]

Go Kitty!
Man, I really loved the stuff with Mike, Jubilee and Rayen in this chapter. Damn, High School sucks and it is just like you wrote it. At least mine was. You really have me feeling so strongly for the characters in this!

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your kind words. I have little patience for cruelty and dislike the way high schools are allowed to descend into this kind of divissiveness. Schools should be a model of the kind of community we want to create. It is there that we can learn to work together to make our world a better place. Perhaps a world of competition and cruelty is exactly what some people want out of high school because they want the world to operate that way. Learn to be a "winner" or "loser" at high school so you can know where you fit in the social ladder later. I hate that attitude.

To a certain extent, Xavier's school is the model for a more communal, ideals-driven school, but then there are the underlying, hidden motivations. Bobby, especially, is disillusioned every time he is faced with this contradiction (e.g., with Kitty in the café in the chapter titled "A Measured Response"). He wants the world to be simple and kind. I can sympathize.