AnonGrimm

Hello again, OriginalCeenote! I admit, now and then, I want to slap Tabitha too, which I guess isn't fair, since I'm the one writing her this way. Technically, I blame canon - her abusive childhood and low self-esteem, becoming a thief, etc. has all molded her. You are spot-on about her having a touch of Stockholm Syndrome, though, and I'd agree about the bit of masochism in her, too, at least in the sense of sticking around where she's being abused. The real masochist in this story is Perrin, of course - he physically gets off on Victor giving him pain, as well as being excited by the danger and power Victor represents. I figured a true pain-loving partner would be just the sort to gravitate to Victor, so he has a few of them he's collected in my stories. Actually, your comment about wanting to slap Tab because she wasn't running away made me chuckle, because that's how chapter six got it's start. I pulled my head out and realized - hey, she is a survivor and rubs elbows with the X-Men; she'd try to run eventually, no matter how much he threatened her about it. Chapter six just happened to be the right time, plot-wise. It is such a pleasure to have you notice the back issues references! In my quest to be as canon as possible, I've tried to put as much legit canon Victor into this as possible. For me, one of the weirdest moments is when I'm writing Victor grousing about Wolverine or putting him down. I love Wolverine so much that it's weird, but when I get into Victor's head, I can really feel his hatred and condescending attitude toward the "runt". I can't hardly wait to start posting the sequel, though. There's a Victor/"Logan" bit in there that was very hard to write for me, but it's so Victor, it had to be there. Wasn't Birdy cool? Of course, the comics aren't going to show Victor in bed with her, but obviously, he wouldn't leave her alone in that department. For me, it would explain why she put up with his abuse the way she did, if she'd managed to get attached to him as a lover. Odds are, she'd have had a lot of the same background as Tabitha. I'm going to be referencing the Vancouver mansion he lived in with her here and there in the remaining chapters. Your comment about Victor not trying to hide his "not-so-inner" beast is probably one of the chief reasons I'm so enthralled with him. He's just as honest as Logan in many ways, although he enjoys lying, double-crossing, and tricking for the ugly fun of it at times. Otherwise, he's very up-front about who and what he is, without trying to pretend to be anything else. Also, in spite of that, is another fascination for me: his ability to do just that - pretend to be something else. He kept up the childlike act for Tabitha in the Danger Room, partly for evil enjoyment, partly for how he could use her to either escape or kill. Yet that ability doesn't (at least for me) lessen his tendency to usually be exactly what he is, and as subtle as a slash to the gut. That having been said, he is also a tragic figure. He's a monster who was made, though due to his feral mutant nature, one could argue he was partly born a monster, too, to a point. However, if parents like say, Jean Grey's folks had raised him, I believe he'd be a very different man. I'm delighted you like my moments of "sympathy for the devil". I've sort of always liked villains, though. Until I discovered anti-heroes, white hat heroes were rather one-dimensional and boring for me. The fascinating people almost always wore the black hats. Heck, that's why I love Wolverine - he's no Boy Scout. One annoyance I have (and yes, I know, they have to be "role models") is that comics don't give Sabretooth a whole lot of time in his own stories. Yeah, I'm greedy, I want more. But he's a villain, so he isn't given tons of issues to star in like Wolverine. Deadpool, however, has been exploding lately! Still, to justify his popularity, the first thing they do is have him "trying to reform and be a hero". *sigh* I like Deadpool wicked. They did the same thing with Victor in other alternate realities, especially the Age of Apocalypse version, where he's friends with Wild Child, treats Blink like a foster daughter, and fights the good fight with Magneto's X-Men. That Victor has gone on to have all sorts of adventures with and without Blink. (Can you hear the "but" coming?) But, haha, I don't want Marvel to compromise. I want more Victor in his own stories without him having to repent or change first. At least we got "Open Season", which I loved. It may be a long wait, though. Under Marvel's current leadership, no character can even smoke cigars anymore. No, I don't smoke, but for the sake of reality, people like Logan, Victor, the Thing, and Nick Fury would be smoking. Now they draw Logan sitting at a bar with a toothpick in his teeth. Ugh. It's like doing a Vietnam War film with Marines and not having them cuss; but I digress.... It's after midnight, so I'll stop and turn in. Thank you so much for sharing your insights and for the wonderful compliments, too! - Anon

Hello Gothicpug! I am so happy you are enjoying this story. As I've said before in here, for Marvel, Sabretooth is second in my heart only to Wolverine. The main difference is that Wolverine is All Over the place, and we Sabey fans have to dig deeper to find stuff on our favorite feral villain. For me, discovering that "Mary Shelley Overdrive" limited series was a revelation, and it's been influencing my Victor Creed stories ever since (I say "stories", because the sequel to this already has two chapters written). I loved the "Death Hunt" story, too, with Birdy, but Bonnie Hale showed us a side to Victor we'd never been allowed to see. I'm actually plotting out a reprise, fan fic style, of "Mary Shelley Overdrive", where I'll cover what that story does, but also fill in the blanks, so to speak. That story was the first X-related title to receive a "Marvel PG+" rating, but I think it deserves a fan fic NC-17 treatment! (Mostly, I want to play with writing Victor in the midst of that harrowing night instead of just the fallout from it). However, muse permitting, I will probably wait until this story and its sequel are finished before I start seriously working on that idea. My HP: Severus Snape story, "Mens Rea" taught me that the more enmeshed into actual play-by-play canon story events I get, the more work it ends up being to get it right. "Mens Rea" happens during the fifth Harry Potter book, and touches on and weaves around most of the events in that book. At times, it was a canon nightmare! Happily, a four issues only comics limited series shouldn't be quite as bad as that.... Again, thanks so much for reviewing! - Anon

Hi OriginalCeenote, and thanks for your wonderful comment! That may be one of the coolest compliments I've ever gotten in my life! As I was telling Gothicpug above, I'm almost through with an edits run. I found some accent typos, too, so I'm fixing those. I'm aiming at wrapping up edits and posting chapter six tomorrow (since it's 2am, and chapter six is lengthy). Thanks for reading and reviewing, and thanks for writing your stories, too! I've been reading them when I get the chance. Also, I'm considering adding a new mark for my time gaps. I use a line of asterisks to show a change between POV characters, but for those points where I've been spacing three lines down, I may introduce a symbol like: ~~~ to indicate the time gap. Mostly due to the final chapter in my Wolverine story, which has a few of them, to say the least; also, when I check for typos on my Blackberry, it mashes the paragraphs together so you can't see where the time gaps are. No biggie, really, and if I weren't OCPD, I probably wouldn't bother. However, it won't add any time to the planned updates, per se, so yeah - no biggie. Goodnight, all! - Anon

Hi Gothicpug, and thanks so much for reading and reviewing! I'm actually finished with chapter six, but it's getting its final once-over edit prior to posting. I'm hoping to finish and post it before the weekend. Typing Victor's accent, and Logan's on my Wolverine story, are a lot of fun, but also a real challenge in the editing phase. I get to writing fast and furiously, and accent mistakes go unnoticed the first time around. Now and then, I miss some and have to fix them after posting, anyway, but I try to catch them prior. Why do I bother with them? Well, I love doing them; also, I think it really makes the character's voice pop. I'm doing accents in my Texas Chainsaw fic, too, so maybe I'm a glutton for punishment. However, I've made Victor's accent more pronounced than the others, including Logan's; mostly because he's written that way rather consistently in canon comics. My main goal here (as in most of my fan fiction tales) is to be as true to canon as I can. Actually, this story may be the most canon I've done yet, except that its sequel will beat it for that title. Thanks again for reading, and taking the time to review! I'll try to finish my edits and get chapter six up in the next day or so. - Anon

Chapter 5 is now posted! Yay! They aren't getting any shorter, either. Hope you all enjoy it!

Hi OriginalCeenote, great to hear from you again! I'm afraid, as a horror writer, I tend to lean in a gross direction, but I'm so happy you're enjoying the story! I've been having fun writing Brys and Perrin. I needed someone for both Sabey and Tabitha to bounce dialogue and action off of, beyond each other, and I enjoy inventing OCs that are (hopefully) fun. Thanks for letting me know they are! I feel sorry for Brys, too, actually. I love Sabey teasing him about being a "saint" just because he'd never been in prison or the military. Perrin is the way he is to outline/define a main plot point, partly, and otherwise, he's a good way to show how Sabey treats different people in varying ways. Since he shows a vicious streak, Sabey is amused to cultivate it. As a result, he's a lot "nicer" to Perrin, verbally and otherwise. The snow leopard has been a ball to sprinkle through this story, and I loved doing the hunting scene with her and Sabey. So happy you liked it! As I've said elsewhere, in a sense, she's a walking plot point to get things rolling, but she also shows a different side of Sabey's nature (in a feral sense and in how he cares about her wellfare, unlike the people). Chapter 5 is well on it's way, with Tabitha's section already clocking in at 14 pages. I'm going to try to keep the chapters around 30-35 pages (makes life easier for me in the edits phase), and I'm going to try to split them more or less evenly between the two POVs. So far, this story is plotted out to be 12 chapters long, but I wouldn't be surprised if Sabey ends up squeezing another out of it before we're through (since it started as a ten chapter plan). After that, of course, I'll start posting the sequel, "Blood Song", of which chapters 1 and 2 are already written. Thanks again for reading, and for reviewing so faithfully! I greatly appreciate it! - Anon

New chapters finally got posted for my Wolverine and Doc Ock tales, so I've gotten back to the edits on this one at last, and I'm halfway through them already. I got sidetracked by my ongoing Sabretooth obsession, and I apologize for letting him "cut in line" as it were. I will start work on the new chapter for "Family" as soon as the edits are done. Thanks for your patience! - Anon

Hello Ishani Nara, and welcome! You registered just to review this story? Awesome, thanks! Your review arrived right when I was worrying that my portrayal of Sabretooth might be getting "too brutal".... I've taken your kind words as proof that I shouldn't have worried. Serious Sabey fans like him for who he is, after all. I've gotten you to agree with Sabey's thinking? Brilliant! Thanks so much for your compliments, too. Getting inside Victor Creed's head has been a treat for me. I've been a bit surprised at how much I'm enjoying writing Tabitha, actually. I've always been a Jubilee fan, and there was a time when I thought Boomer/Meltdown was a bit of a knock-off, being way too similar. Technically, after reading a lot more X-Force, I've decided their similarities are only skin- and culture-deep. Background-wise, they are vastly different, as well as their self-image and outlook on life. Jubilee thinks she's rad; Tabitha has a lot of secret self-hatred. Jubes lost her parents, Tabby lost a mom, but had an abusive father. Mostly what made me want to write a Sabey tale with Tabitha was all the rich canon story fodder Marvel sort of left on the floor. The whole "bringing milk and petting Victor in the Danger Room" situation was just too juicy not to play with it. Actually, I started writing the sequel to this story first. "Blood Song" has two completed chapters already, but then I got inspired to mess with the Tabitha angle, and the timelines of the two stories dictated that "Redemption" had to come first. I have to admit, I love Sabey so much, I'm already tempted to do more after these two. Running him into Psylocke could be entertaining, to say the least, and I've thought about Rogue, too. What do you think? I've gotten back to my sadly neglected edits on my Texas Chainsaw tale today, and I'm terribly overdue for a new chapter update on that one, but I'll get back to writing chapter five of "Redemption" as soon as that's done. Thanks again for reading, and registering just to review! - Anon

Chapter 4 is posted! Woo hoo! It's a longie, too (as opposed to a quickie, haha). It gets pretty brutal as well... good thing I have my bases covered in the warnings, huh? I hope you all enjoy it! - Anon

Hello MrsCreed, and thanks for such a great review! When I first read Mary Shelley Overdrive, I think I audibly gasped, and then I turned around and read it again about five more times in the same weekend. The Monty Python fandom is my favorite little detail given, and it makes perfect sense that he'd like that sort of thing (I love MP myself). Thank you for telling me I've got Creed pegged perfectly, too - that has made my day. I just edited chapter 3, and expanded it here and there, mostly in Creed's dialogue. I realized last night that I hadn't made his explanation of why the telepaths ignored Tabitha's pain clear enough, or made clearer the similarity he was drawing between Rogue's situation and Tabitha's plight. Got that fixed now. Onward and upward to chapter 4! Thank you again for reading and reviewing! - Anon

The new chapter 3 is now posted. Hope you enjoy it!

I needed a few edits in chapter 1, dictated by chapter 2, which is now posted. I hope you enjoy, and please review and let me know what you think? Thanks!

Hi OriginalCeenote, and thanks for reading and reviewing! Since I just posted this story today, I was prepared to wait awhile until someone found it. You're providing an awesome "instant feedback gratification" that makes an author supremely happy! I LOVE Sabretooth, have for years. He's my number 2 guy in Marvel (yes, Wolverine is number 1) and I don't know why it took me so long to write a fan fic tale with him. Watching X-Men: Origins again (and again and again, haha) got me into another mini-obsession with Sabey thanks to Liev Schreiber's fantastic portrayal of the character. However, when it came time to write, I knew I'd want to do my dear blonde psychopath as he is in the canon comics. He's wearing Liev's wardrobe a lot in tribute, but I gotta have the blonde version; that's my addiction. I was actually beginning another Sabey tale called "Blood Song" when I started re-reading some X-Force comics in research mode, hunting for Victor's dialogue details. Reading all that about Tabitha bringing him milk in the Danger Room after Wolvie lobotomized him got to me, and the next thing you know, "Redemption" was born. Then the timelines (a necessary evil when trying to do authentic canon Marvel tales) dictated that "Redemption" would have to come first. Therefore, I will offer up "Blood Song" as a sequel to this tale when it's completed (kinda weird, since "Blood Song" has two chapters written already, but oh, well). Incidentally, "Blood Song" is largely slash, though there is a lot of Het going on as well. That story deals with mostly original characters, though, and Tabitha won't be in it. Sabey as bi. Well, I agree with you that his misogynist tendencies makes it easy to see him as bi. Also, his physiological issues, too, and shear size. Sabey is 6'6, 375 lbs with adamantium bones, and pointy on most of his ends. I always believed that the reason he calls women "frail" is because they are - to him. A huge man can sometimes prefer a less petite lady due to wanting to have fun without worrying about breaking or hurting her (I have that on authority from a huge man I'm friends with, and he told me exactly that). So it's not so long a stretch for me to imagine that Sabey might romp with men to avoid having his toys break so fast. I tend to see him as not really caring about labels like "bi", "gay", or "straight", though. He takes what he wants, and if anyone teased him about being any particular label, well ... I wouldn't want to be that person. On the other hand, I think he'd be into his own masculinity, so I doubt he'd care to be called "gay" by anyone, either. That's why Perrin is "his type" (being the more feminine of the pair). I had fun with Sabey needling Brys, though; it's something he'd do for the gleeful ugly fun of it. On the "he's psycho, not just a jerk" notion, I agree entirely. He's even more brutal in "Blood Song", actually, with necrophilia in chapter 1 and cannibalism in chapter 2. Hee hee, I likes my Sabey nasty! In this tale, though, I wanted to explore how it is when he gets seriously damaged; hence the meat of chapter 1 of "Redemption". Enter the snow leopard: I needed a walking plot point, to be brutally honest, and I figured, why not put fur and a tail on it? Haha. Yeah, I like it when our feral boys make friends with predators, too. She was almost a Siberian Tiger, in fact, but I didn't want her to be too large. I adore proper canon, whatever fandom I'm writing in. Marvel canon is harder than most, because I know so much of the history of the characters (collecting comics since the early 80s) and I'm hyper picky about "getting canon right". As for switching viewpoints, I'm addicted to doing that. The biggest challenge for me in writing Wolverine and Sabretooth is their accents. I love doing it, but it is an eye-crosser in the edit phase to make sure I didn't miss one! :-) Also, while they are very similar, I've made them slightly different, too, so I can tell them apart one day if I ever write a tale with both of them in it at once. If you're a Wolverine fan, I invite you to read "Shattered Silence", my Wolvie/Jean Het fic. It's got a new chapter on it now, with only one chapter left to go before it's completed. Thanks again for reviewing! I've been working on these Sabey tales off and on for three months while I was updating Wolverine and Doc Ock, and it's a treat to get a review on this one on the same day I finally get to post it! It'll probably be about ten chapters, give or take. Then I'll start posting "Blood Song" as a sequel. Hugs, Anon

Title: Redemption Author: AnonGrimm Summary: Sabretooth runs into Tabitha Smith, a.k.a. Meltdown. After a difficult mission in San Francisco, the mutant group X-Force disbands, and Tabby takes the opportunity to strike out on her own, ending up in Seattle. Running out of money, she tries mercenary work, but balks when her client expects her to kill up in Alaska. He gives her the job of stealing something from a bad man out in the Yukon instead, and she reluctantly accepts. To her shock, her mark turns out to be Victor Creed. Her hang-ups about redemption lead her into danger again, but what game is Sabretooth really playing? Rating: Adult++ Pairings: Sabretooth/Meltdown Feedback: I'd love to hear from you. If you have a question or would like to discuss the story, I will check here periodically and reply as soon as I can. Please review the story in the review panel, too; but I can't reply to you there, so look here for a response afterward. Story URL: http://xmen.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600090727 Thanks!

The new Chapter 9 is posted! *whew* It's 30 pages long, too. Three more chapters to go on this tale, and then it'll be completed. I hope you all enjoy it, and please let me know what you think by reviewing? Thanks! - Anon

Thanks, Hanako Cinnamon! Actually, I've been laboring away at the new chapter 9 of this story all week, whenever I could snatch some time. It's 21 pages now, and 3/5th of the way done (each chapter having 5 sections, I've only got two left to go). Once it's done and posted, I'll have some minor edits to post in chapters 1,3, and 4, too. This story will have three more chapters to go after that until it's completed. Thanks again, for reading and reviewing! - Anon

Hi Kitty, Your review made my day, maybe my whole year! Thanks so much for reading, and registering just to review! I'm assuming you are a writer yourself? Your comments sound like an experienced writer's observations. Rammstein is my favorite band, and they actually got me started on writing fan fiction, too. I'd been reading some wonderful Rammstein stories by my friends, and wanted to play. That was years ago, now, and I've since branched out into mostly fictional genres. Maybe one of the others is a genre you're into? You can click on my name on AFF.net and see all of my stories on my profile. Most of them are completed now, except for my Wolverine, Doc Ock, and Texas Chainsaw tales. I'm actually plotting out a new one about Sabretooth from the X-Men, but I won't post it until I've got Doc Ock and Chainsaw updated with new chapters. Wolverine just got a new chapter after one of my trademark long dry spells. Please thank your friend for me, for their recommendation of Aus Stein Sein to you? I greatly enjoyed the "fangirl squee" review, and it was a treat to read the specifics of why you enjoyed the story. I've always been a fan of structure myself, and I love to try and connect the ending to the beginning when I can, in some way. That isn't always practical, or even possible, but I think it flows better if it can be accomplished, even on a subtle level. A funny thing about atmosphere: I'm not always conscious of doing that, but I just simply love realism. Intended or not, it tends to end up morphing into atmosphere before I'm done. For Rammstein, one of the best research helps I found was the band's keyboardist, Flake, writing his journal entries during the recording of one or two albums. He gave a great accounting of what went on, as well as how he felt about some of it. In fact, that bit of trivia in the story about Flake getting a ride with a fan from one city to the next to see the country he was in (and therefore inspiring Till in my story to rent the Porsche) is something Flake really did. Add to that songs like "Turn the Page" by Bob Seger, and a writer who has never been on tour with a rock band can get a decent feel for how it might go (as well as how it might smell, lol). As for the picket fence ending, I'm 60/40 on happy endings, in general (40% happy), which I guess is unusual. I'm a fan of literary tragedies (Shakespeare nut, all the way), and I love the gut-wrenching intensity that a tragic ending can bring to a story. In Aus Stein Sein, I actually had the opportunity to explore a melancholy non-tragic ending, which for me, was a nice change! Sooner or later, I will do some grammar edits on Aus Stein Sein, when I'm not super late in updating the current incomplete stories. Way back when, I was still prolific with the "and" and "but" stuff, and now that I know better, it drives me bonkers. Thanks again for such an amazing review. If you'd like to know what else I have out there, visit www.auntiemaim.com and check out the projects pages. My original novel about the Grim Reaper is on there. Hugs, Anon

*Happy Dance* The new chapter eleven is finally posted! Sorry for taking forever. It's a long one, though, so maybe that makes up for it a bit? One more chapter to go here, and it's already half written. I will probably update my Doc Ock tale next, though (those readers have been waiting even longer) and then Texas Chainsaw, before getting back and finishing this one. I hope you enjoy it (there's a lot of smut, too) and I'll return to finish it up before too much longer! As always, thank you all for reading and reviewing! - Anon

Hi Fanimegrl, Thanks for reading and reviewing! I'm delighted you like it even though it's sort of a tragic tale, but I unfortunately can't really see a Severus Snape story being overly happy. I like a canon Snape, as much as I can manage him, and canon Snape is an inherently moody and dire fellow. However, I also believe he is a very passionate person. We only see that in the canon series in his capacity as a teacher dedicated to his subject, and a man who takes proficiency in magic very seriously. Yet if a person is passionate in one area of their life, they tend to be capable, at least, of passion in all aspects of their life. Severus has always been a delight for me to write, and I'm so happy you like my take on him. As for my other fan fictions, they're all on AFF.net. My original horror novel can be found on my website, too, at www.auntiemaim.com Thanks again for reading, and taking the time out to review. It means a lot! - Anon

Hello Everyone! Another round of edits was needed in most chapters of this story, including adding bits as well as dialogue. The biggest adder to the story is in chapter 8, but most of them have something new in them. I just needed to fix some holes (stuff these X-Men can do or would do, and implying - if not showing - that Jean bathes). The new chapter 11 has begun, and I will post it as soon as it is completed. Thanks for your patience! - Anon

Hi CB13! Wow, you read over 300 pages in one fell swoop? I am impressed, and a bit humbled, but very happy. Thanks for reviewing, too! - Anon

Edits posted in chapters 1, 6, and 7 due to my geography research of Chicago being off. I'm afflicted with this "got to get it right" obsession (call it a branch-off of my OCPD, haha) that leads me to fix this stuff anyway, whether anyone but me ever notices the difference or not.... Yeah, right down to which bus line Otto should be jumping onto the roof of according to where he is at the time! (I confess unabashedly that I LOVE research. I know, I'm an über nerd). Also, this story just demanded another chapter during the edits phase, so there will be 4 left to go now; and yes, I'm trying to actually get to updating a new chapter. As always, dear readers, thanks for your patience! Thanks, Anon

Hi lemonade8, thanks for reading and reviewing! I am so happy you enjoyed the story, and you've made my day by saying my story sets up the HP series well. I was one of those people who suspected early that Severus had loved Harry's mother. For me, it was the best explanation for why he would "hate" Harry, and yet seek to protect him at every turn. Harry looks so much like his father, too, it must have tormented Severus terribly. In my other Snape tale, "Mens Rea" (there's a link in this section on its thread) I wanted to explore the idea of Severus being a virgin at the outset (not too far a stretch for a man who hates to be touched). However, in "Divergence", I think this is a lot closer to how Severus might have behaved, and certainly it's behavior in keeping with Slytherin habits (his and his students') of doing anything to achieve power and/or privilege. For the purpose of my plot, I took the liberty of Dumbledore not knowing about the Slytherin Tutor (at least as far as Severus knew) and used the logic that if they are all Slytherin girls of 18 years or older, Dumbledore wouldn't have room to gripe about it anyway, legally. In canon, I'm sure Dumbledore would frown upon and stop it before it started, but that's a change to canon I needed for this story to work. Again, thanks for giving me your feedback! - Anon

Update: I will soon be continuing work on edits for "Family". Currently, I am wrapping up the edits for my Wolverine story, after completing and posting the edits for my Doc Ock tale. I am working on updates right after that, but edits are a great way to re-immerse myself in the stories after a long absence from them. Thanks for your patience! - Anon

Update: I have just finished the edits for my Wolverine story, and now I can continue work on edits for my Texas Chainsaw tale, as well. Edits for my Doc Ock story are complete and posted. I am working on updates right after that, but edits are a great way to re-immerse myself in the stories after a long absence from them. However, I may work on updates and remaining edits in tandem as time allows. Thanks for your patience! - Anon