Days of Becoming, Chapter 25

[talktooloose]

Title: Days of Becoming, Chapter 25 - “Revenge of the Red Widow”
Author: Talktooloose
'Verse: X-Men movieverse
Warnings: Explicit sex, swearing, dubious pedagogy
Betas: mofic and lux_apollo. Thanks for questioning me in all the right ways.
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: Mike and Andi's mutant youth tour comes together, with a launch party planned at the mansion. Acclaimed mutant trip-hop performer, The Dazzler has agreed to join the tour. Meanwhile, John's life has started to lose its stable foundations. Everything he thought he had is slipping away. Bobby and Rogue are growing closer, and Xavier has told him he can't submit his poems to a journal as this could bring the authorities down on him and the whole school. Bobby, for his part, is drawn to the normalcy of having a girlfriend and terrified to be associated in any way with John who seems not to care if he's perceived as queer. After John reads a homoerotic poem in class, Bobby asks Rogue to be his official girlfriend.

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Comments

[lux-apollo.livejournal.com]

Will read the final version and finish the edit of 26 tomorrow morning. For now? Bed.

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

I wonder if you actually made it to bed or crawled back to the lab!

I hope you got some sleep. I won't post 26 for two weeks (so I buy myself some writing time on 27), so if you need to wait a week, go ahead.

[lux-apollo.livejournal.com]

Lol. I just got back in an hour ago. My parents internet was down, otherwise I would have had it to you. This is as much as I can give for this chapter. Still haven't had a chance to take a look at the updated 25. Will try sometime this week, if I can squeeze an hour.