Days of Becoming, Chapter 19

[talktooloose]

Title: Days of Becoming, Chapter 19 - “Friends Like These, Part 1”
Author: Talktooloose
'Verse: X-Men movieverse
Warnings: Explicit sex, swearing, over-earnest hardcore, bondage, abuse of Classical literature.
Betas: mofic and lux_apollo. Thank you for making me a little less fucked up than I'd otherwise be.
Disclaimers: Marvel and 20th Century own this stuff but they fuck up everything. Like what's with this Young X-Men crap? And why isn't Josh Holloway going to play Gambit in the Wolvie movie?

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.

Previously in Days of Becoming: On Halloween night, John Allerdyce arrived at Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters where he began a passionate but clandestine relationship with Bobby Drake. John also found a writing mentor in Charles Xavier who once aspired to be a poet himself, before mutant concerns took over his life. While Bobby worked with the visiting mutant engineer, Forge, John visited the med-lab where Jean Grey tested him for any STIs he might have acquired in his brief time as hustler. After their appointment, he spent time with the comatose Jones whose condition had the staff baffled.

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Comments

[nat-dimension.livejournal.com]

Great chapter - I particularly enjoy the way that Mike and Bobby's storylines are physically separate, but interwoven thematically and in the development of their characters.

Fuck Marvel and their explosively bad decisions; this fic holds a stronger canon than any of the flimsy X-rags being churned out these days. Looking forward to the next installment.

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Hmm, you made me think about the ways in which the storylines are interwoven. I see that both Mike and Bobby are caught between trying to please parental figures versus following their hearts. To a greater or lesser extent, that is the theme of the whole novel.

Kind words about my fic vs canon. It's because I don't have corporate bosses looking myopically at ledgers.

[lux-apollo.livejournal.com]

Yay, it's up! I'm gonna give it a read-through in a few.

[lux-apollo.livejournal.com]

I think it turned out really well! The changes you made are good. :-)

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

It was a slog on Friday! I think the beginning works now. Thanks for pushing. I want to get 20 finished within a week to send you. "Oh, joy," I hear you groan.

[lux-apollo.livejournal.com]

Also, re: Young X-men, I'm supporting the claim that Anal Skrulls are pretending to be Cyke.

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

Word.

[ayumie.livejournal.com]

Yay, a new chapter!
I really liked the flow of this one, the powerful glimpses we get of even "minor" characters - Jean Grey comes to mind.
It's also nice to see that Bobby isn't quite as, I don't know, self-assured? mature? strong? as he pretends he is. The whirlwind of a new relationship, combined with the whole mutant/potential X-Men situation must be really difficult to process. He really needs somebody to hug him and tell him that things are going to be alright. Even if they aren't.

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

I like writing Jean and I have quite a few scenes planned with her, especially with her and John together. In X3, we never see them together at the camp in the woods, but we will in DOB.

For me, Bobby is all about the disparity of what he presents to the world and what's going on inside. In that way, he is the opposite of John.

Thanks for reading!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_profiterole_/]

I really love what you do with Mike. I'm impressed by his personality and his commitment. <3 And I understand both his anger at his parents' reactions and his parents' worry at his current behaviour. The eternal struggle between pretending to be something to be a part of the majority and fighting for the rights of minorities.

John's scenes were all made of awesome. ^_^

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

I get to live out alternate lives through my characters. If I could go back to adolescence, I think I'd aspire to be more like Mike: responsible and rebellious.

I've always been too good a good boy.

Thanks for reading!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_profiterole_/]

Eh eh! I've always been a good girl too. Nobody would think I read and sometimes write gay porn. ^^

[mandlebars.livejournal.com]

dude another awesome chapter

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

Dude, thanks! I split 19 in two when it got too long and now the second half has just split again. In other words, Mike's story from Ch. 19 has become his story from 19 through 21. Of course, I've put in other plot threads that I needed to get to but still... sheesh!

[mandlebars.livejournal.com]

I don't know how you do it, so much work and so much awesome >< I really love that you've developed Mike so much, I really love his character. I'mstill pretty much Bobby in this story |protects brain from your obvious mind reading power|

LOVED IT!

[asm613.livejournal.com]

""It was Jones who answered, turning to Scott with calculated innocence. “John switched on the TV for me. Then I felt better.”">>>I knew it and I guessed it right in one of my reviews.

Mike is back in a big way. You did some wonderful stuff with him this chapter. Is that stuff he said about Lincoln and slavery_doing it to ruin the South's economy true? I've never heard the theory--and being the puppet of society that I am never bothered to look for other views.

Liked how you mixed in the race issue with the mutant issue_The stuff Mike's mom said to him about not bringing attention to himself because of them being Arabic and 9-11. They so want him to play it safe and he so wants to play it real. I'm sorry that he didn't have any interaction with Bobby_he was Bobby's lifeline not too long ago. And now Bobby's banging and in love with a street kid/hustler (or he thinks-sounds like Scott wants to put some doubts in his head and remind him of his place before John arrived).

Liked Xeno trashing the lame rappers at the demonstration_that was my opinion as well.

This story is so BIG. Covers lots of topics, ideas, differences of outlook/choices/lives. And you are doing a wonderful job relating it all to us. I adored this chapter_your story just keeps on getting better and more entertaining. Thanks so much for sharing it with us.

P.S. The steam coming from Bobby's mouth after giving John oral_ that was really hot

Re: LOVED IT!

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

Yup, you guessed it. I gave a little, "damn!" when you made the original comment. lol.

Yeah, the Lincoln stuff... I didn't know either, but I knew I wanted Mike to write something negative so I asked a history major who was staying at my place and he told me how the anti-slave laws were a political tool. Now, that doesn't totally discount their importance; politicians make most laws at times when they are politically convenient. But, Mike's in a very all-or-nothing period of his life and has no patience for hypocrisy.

God, the story IS big. I thought I could write it in a year, but it will be closer to three from start to finish. This is frustrating as I have other novels I want to get to, but I look at DOB as my fiction apprenticeship. I love writing all these characters so much, but I now understand that you have to limit a novel more if you don't want it to be 800 pages.

Yeah, the steam! Reminds me of that old joke: "Do you smoke after sex?"

Thanks for your kind and appreciative words.

[(Anonymous)]

YOUR THE BEST!

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I strive to be at least good.

[underhardlove.livejournal.com]

Dude i love your writing i dont know where id be without it

[underhardlove.livejournal.com]

Any Chances im going to get a hypnotized scott, to work his way over to Bobby ;]

haha