Days of Becoming, Chapter 24

[talktooloose]

Title: Days of Becoming, Chapter 24 - “The Rain in Hadrian’s Soul”
Author: Talktooloose
'Verse: X-Men movieverse
Warnings: Swearing, sexual noises and references
Betas: mofic and lux_apollo. Thanks for making me clarify my ideas.
Disclaimers: Marvel and 20th Century own the X-Men, I own my original characters, and we have joint custody of the children.

Series Summary: This novel focuses 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: A girl named Rogue has arrived at the mansion and chaos has followed. Bobby has pulled back from John in the wake of Scott's discovering that they were doing it. He has been growing closer to Rogue, much to John's consternation. John and Bobby are still doing it. Magneto is in a plastic prison. Are his followers going to remain quiet? Mike and Andi's mutant youth tour is a go.

It's been a while, sorry. Chapter 25 is already complete and with the marvelous betas. I wish to post in two weeks. I have begun Chapter 26. All is moving forward. It looks like the whole thing is 32 chapters long.

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Here's the chapter!

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Comments

[lux-apollo.livejournal.com]

:-)

[nat-dimension.livejournal.com]

Thank you for this excellent chapter. I started medical school about a week ago, and suffice to say that the multitude of stresses this has brought are overwhelming indeed, so it was a genuine pleasure to be able to read this at such a time. Keep up the good stuff.

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

Good luck with med school! My dad is a doctor; he said the hard part is getting in. After that, it's just a lot of studying, but not the same pressure. Of course that was 50 years ago...

As always, glad to give you genuine pleasure.

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

Poor John! This is all so harsh for him! *big hugs*

The scene with Jean & Phoenix was really interesting too.

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

John attracts harsh, unfortunately. I will pass on your hugs.

I don't know why, but I've always felt a John-Jean connection and I will continue to explore it in the novel.

Thanks for reading.

[oxymoronic.livejournal.com]

You... did it again. Wow. Wowwwww. I reread that last bit three times and still didn't get over it. Complete pleasure as ever... maah. I'm still incoherent.

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Three times? Wow.