Days of Becoming, Chapter 15

[talktooloose]

Title: Days of Becoming, Chapter 15 - “The Yellow and the Black, Part 2”
Author: Talktooloose
'Verse: X-Men movieverse
Warnings: Swearing, misery, revealing hospital gowns.
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 (including ones from comicverse and elsewhere) 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: At the Turcott Clinic and at the Spiderhole, things go from bad to worse. And aren't you supposed to feel better when the heroes arrive?
Betas: kuriadalmatia, mofic and lux_apollo. Thank you for your precision and commitment.
Disclaimers: Marvel and 20th Century own this stuff but they need us to make sense of it.

Notes: I ret-conned the structure of the novel to divide it into books. Chapters 1 through 6 now comprise Book 1 ("Days of Awakening"). Book 2 ("From What I've Tasted of Desire") begins with Chapter 7 and ends with this chapter.

The betas, as usual, were immensely helpful and I've ignored a different strongly held point of criticism from each of them this time. Sorry guys, it's my funeral. Lux, especially may be disappointed that I handled his "that's too crude" criticism by making it cruder. *sigh*

In strange coincidence news, I'm publishing a Halloween chapter in the same week as Halloween. SPOOOOOOOOKKKYYYYYY!

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Comments

[lux-apollo.livejournal.com]

Crap. I really suck at doing this. Ha ha ha. This was the icon it was supposed to be... Sigh.

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

Imagine my confusion.

So, are going to kill me? I changed "his ass and legs" to "his fine ass and legs". LOL.

I'm sorry, but I thought about it and decided that it was really about separating his sexual attraction from any other feelings he might have for him. It had to be that way.

I sometimes find that when you are criticized (or criticize yourself) for a particular point, it's just as likely that you haven't gone far enough to make it work.

[(Anonymous)]

True.

I can see your reasoning. It's fine.

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

You can't hide behind anonymity, Lux! I know it's you!