Days of Becoming, Chapter 16

[talktooloose]

Title: Days of Becoming, Chapter 16 - “Pumpkin Stew”
Author: Talktooloose
'Verse: X-Men movieverse
Warnings: Swearing, extreme fatigue, bad telephony and explict sex.

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: The night of changes continues as Bobby rushes to answer the call of destiny.
Betas: mofic and lux_apollo. Invaluable input on brownstones and drugs.
Disclaimers: Marvel and 20th Century own this stuff but they keep messing it up.

Notes: A big, fat glacier of a chapter named '16' calved off this smaller chapter and renamed the rest of its mass '17'. Yes, that means Chapter 17 is already written and should be posted very, very soon.

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Comments

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

Whatever works for you! I'm just juggling pieces of 18 around today. I have a bunch of scenes, but no spine for them to hang on yet.

[mandlebars.livejournal.com]

Ok I lied.

Bobby and John are made for each other everyone knows that much; but you write it like they have some spiritual connection or something along those lines-like an ancient elemental need to be together. Again since the only visible connection between to two is given mainly in the movies and nowhere else it's pretty amazing the deep back story you give the two, since you really don't have that much to work with. I think that's the most impressive thing abut this fic considering it's one of the more AU ones out there-yet one of the ones that somehow manage to keep very true to the X-Men story.

I'll admit this one isn't one of my favourites, mainly because f the brevity not that I'm complaining, it's just that it was unexpected, and it's the only one I had to read through twice to really feel comfortable with-though I don't know why. That said, the ending of this chapter has got to be one of your better efforts.

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you and Ayumie both expressed some discomfort and I can see why it's a strange chapter. I usually whip my froth up much higher before the payoff with multiple scenes and POVs competing. This time it's one through-line and very possibly too brief. There's also the weird structural flaw that, in a way, this is where Book 2 should have ended, so there is a hiccup feeling to my structure.

In real novel land, I would have reworked that in the second draft, I guess. Anyway, I'm back to long and involved in Ch. 17. heh.

I'm glad the ending works for you! I like all the individual pieces of this chapter; maybe they just aren't a chapter when put together.

I don't consider this an AU. I try to do nothing that contradicts canon (except Kitty, to a certain extent, but only because she's so unformed and contradictory until X3). it's just really, really expanded. I owe a lot of my backstory to the other writers in this fandom who have fleshed out B and J in their own ways. I've taken some of what they've written and reinvented it and I've created my own paths, too, but fic by Kuriadalmatia, Ashe_Frost, Lux_Apollo and others certainly inspired me.

Holy shit, I just realized that my boyfriend and I also have the initials "B and J". Weird, man.