I DID IT!!! February 22, 2007

I have officially begun my fan fic career…well maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration. But I posted the first chapter of my story. Yikes!

I feel all shaky inside but really excited. Following is the first chapter. RRR, you are probably right. I’ve edited it so besides the darker tones of Logan’s memories, it’s family friendly. Hope you all enjoy.

Here’s the link if you want to read it in it’s entirety

http://www.xmmff.com/stories/viewstory.php?sid=696&chapter=1

Oh, and ** denotes emphasis (italics)
and // denotes thoughts

And for those that don’t know or remember, Logan is Wolverine. Super fast healing, indestructible metal skeleton, 12-inch retractable claws-3 to each hand, keen sense of smell (like an animal), Bobby controls ice, Storm the weather (doesn’t come into play here) and Rogue takes people life force or in the case of mutants, their power first and then their life force.

Logan’s Virus

by Becky Walker

“Bobby, he said we had forty-eight hours!”

“We do, Carlee. We have forty-eight hours until Logan’s dead. He never said we had forty-eight hours with Logan conscious.” Bobby looked at the students. They were scared. Hell, *he* was scared. This routine practice run had been anything but routine and anything but just practice.

“What do we do now?” Carlee asked, her voice shaking. She was Team B’s environmental mutant controlling plant life, making it grow hundreds of times faster and stronger than nature alone could.

Bobby looked down at Logan’s pale face. His body lay still but for the occasional twitch. “We take him home. We get the doctor working on this. We follow protocol. When someone goes down, we get ‘em home.”

He ignored the burning of his eyes and the lump in his throat. “Tony, Cash. Get Logan to the jet and be careful. Any more bruises or cuts are not going to help him.” Then he turned to Joyce, the team’s telepathy mutant. “You got everything recorded?”

“You know it. Let’s get this team home and get Logan…better.”

Bobby noticed how she hesitated over the word. Logan had been injured before. He’d been in a coma for almost twenty four hours after nearly killing Rogue and had been near dead when they’d brought him home from Liberty Island, but this? This was different. Bobby shuddered. He didn’t like the way this was looking.

The team moved quickly through the passage way, where they had so recently been ambushed. Ahead of the others, Tony called back to them, “Which way do we go up here?”

Joyce ran up to the guys and closed her eyes. She pointed. “This way.” They took the left fork and were soon in daylight again. The jet was not far from the entrance.

Bobby watched his team settle themselves. Tony buckled Logan in while Cash readied the jet for take-off. Cash had been the team’s pilot for over six months but his heart still thrilled when he talked to her, for that was his mutation. He could talk to machines and understand their inner workings. He knew before they broke. He knew just how much he could get out of them and could talk them into giving just that little bit more.

Bobby sat in the copilot’s seat and silently thanked Xavier for putting such a useful man on his team. Cash caressed the instrument panel. “Come on girl,” he said. “You’ve got to get us home super quick. We’ve got a badly hurt man here and he’s friend to us all. Fly like you’ve never flown before.”

In response Inora’s engines roared to life and the jet left the ground.

“Buckle up, guys, this is going to be one fast trip.”

Then the jet shot forward and they were on their way.

The team was silent on the flight home, but Bobby knew what they would be thinking. Joyce would be replaying the event in her mind, keeping it crisp and clear. Carlee would be thinking of home and how far away it seemed from all this. Tony would be flexing his biceps under his leather uniform and trying to think of nothing at all. Cash meanwhile, radioed ahead to alert the medical team and gave them a rundown of what had happened.

And he? Well he sat beside Cash and tried not to think of how his first mission as team leader had gone. He glanced back at Logan. He looked older than he had before.

Bobby mentally kicked himself. He was supposed to be a Team Leader and he couldn’t even run a practice. As his face sank into his hands he choked back tears. Logan was more than a friend. He’d been like a brother, and now he’d failed him. Failed him big time.

They arrived at the mansion in record time. The medical team was waiting at the landing pad and they rushed on board to put Logan onto the stretcher, hurrying him to the med lab. The rest of the team followed, subdued and worried.

They reached the infirmary just as the doctor was about to start an I.V.

“NO!” they shouted as one.

The doctor jumped back. “What? Why?”

“Joyce, would you show the doctor?” Bobby stepped back and allowed Joyce to move into the center of the room, acknowledging Storm as she walked in the door. Bobby nodded seriously. As leader of the school it was good she was here to see this. Storm nodded at Joyce to continue.

Joyce had, as all mutants do, a unique mutation. She had a videographic memory and could download it to others in the blink of an eye. Time appeared to stand still but it took a mere second for her memories of the last hours into everyone’s mind.

Offended? February 22, 2007

I have written an X-men fan fiction and I plan on posting it online soon. I would like to put a link here to it but I have a poll to take first. The story, were it a movie, would be rated PG-13 for language. Now I know most, if not all, of you will watch a PG-13 movie but it’s so much different to read it. So here’s the poll. How offended would you be by the use of the F-word once and other minor swear words throughout a story?

And I can’t see who votes what, only what the final tally is. Thanks.

Writing February 21, 2007

Human emotions and motivations are strange things. I want to write. I want to write well. I want people to read the things I write and to enjoy them and maybe even be inspired by them. But I don’t want to work at it. I want it to just magically happen with no effort or exercise on my part.

I know there are things I can do to improve my writing. There are lessons and drills and practice stories but I don’t want to do any of that. I want to write what’s in my head and have it be great.

I had my first fan fiction beta read today. I was uncomfortably shocked at how much tweaking my story needed. There were so many little things I need to do to make my writing more polished. They are all things I should have seen but didn’t. Was I just too close to the story? Is that why you have others read your work? Do all writers have this happen? Is it something I can fix? Will practice make perfect?

I don’t know but I aim to find out. I want to keep writing. I want to improve, even if I have to work at it. I will probably write some real stinkers over the years but hopefully I will come through it all with better writing skills. I guess we will see.

Eyebrows February 20, 2007

I got my eyebrows shaped today. It really hurt. I was surprised. They burned for a couple of hours after. Weird. Anyway. It was fun and they look nice. Just thought I’d let you all know.

Nothing else happening. I am getting packed. My house is moderately clean. I babysat a friends son tonight. Not to bad; he and my daughter just played and kept each other out of my hair. Not a bad evening at all.

Entry for February 18, 2007 February 18, 2007

Well, I can’t really think of anything to write. Not much has been going on. I have been doing some fiction writing…fan fiction really. Like I said in my “Mutant” blog I recently watched all three X-men movies. Since watching them, my head is just full of ideas for stories and what not. I just recently finished a short story called “Logan’s Virus”. It is getting test read. I would like to post it online on a X-men fan fiction site, but not sure if it’s good enough. I will just have to wait and see what everyone thinks.

I am getting things packed up. I packed a box of kitchen stuff today and a couple of other boxes as well. I think I’ve backed 24 boxes. I know there’s tons more but, hey, it’s a start, right?

My beautiful daughter is driving me bonkers. She misses her daddy a lot. Today she was being a punk and I was starting to get mad at her and she starts crying and says, “I miss my daddy.” I grab her in a hug and with tears in my voice, whisper into her hair, “Me too, baby. Me too.” She starts laughing and I ask why she’s laughing. “Cuz, it’s funny,” she answered.

I look at her and ask, “Did you just use your father to manipulate me?”

“Yes,” she answered while continuing to laugh.

I removed her from my lap, spanked her lightly on the buttocks and told her to go play.

She’s wonderful and smart and beautiful but I just want to put her in a pie. “A blue pie like Thomas with blue and black like this,” she requests.

6 more days. 6 more days and my love will be back in my arms and available to discipline his daughter. Just 6 more days.

Mutants February 8, 2007

I have been watching the X-men movies and it has sparked some questions in my mind. Say it happened. Say humans began mutating in the same manor of the X-men. How do you think we would respond? How would the government respond? How would the Church respond? Would it be like in the movies? Would we treat them as outcasts and as “dangers” to us all?

Would kids fantasize about developing mutant powers or would they dread it? Would mutants take over the world or would they be just like normal humans, some good, some bad? Would the good ones fight the bad ones and destroy whole islands? Who would pay for the stuff they broke? Where did Charles Xavier get the money to build the mansion, the X-jet, and Cerebro? Why didn’t they just kill Magneto? Would there be a scale, like if you are a level 4 and up, you must be registered or somehow contained?

Would the church recognize them as “humans” that is, with a soul? Would the church even admit there were mutants or would then say it was just “environmental”? Or maybe they would claim it was demonic.

How would you respond? Would you accept them? Would you let your kids go over to the mutants house? Would you let your child go to a school where they were taught by mutants?

What would you do if you developed mutant powers? would you use them for evil or for good? Would you try to be a normal person or would you try to do more good since you have been given more ability?

Oh, and by the way, I am totally serious. This isn’t supposed t be a funny blog. I really want you to think about how you would respond if your next door neighbor could mow his lawn with out touching the mower. Or if your pastor could read your mind. Or if your thirteen year old son could walk through walls. How would you react? Would you support them or suppress them? Think about it. It is more applicable to our lives than you may realize.

Polygamy February 2, 2007

I don’t think polygamy is a sin. God didn’t say it was a sin. He didn’t rebuke any of the many polygamist in the Bible for having multiple wives (he rebuked based on quality and not quantity). When Miriam and Aaron got on Moses for marrying the Ethiopian, God rebuked Miriam. and gave her leprosy for a time. Paul says an elder must be the man of one wife. Okay, so those with multiple wives don’t lead the church. When would they have the time anyway? “Then a man shall leave his mother and father and cleave to his wife and the two shall become one flesh.” Yup, and the three persons of God make one God. Many members make one body of Christ.

Polygamy is a sin in the United States because of civil law. Lust is a sin and if that’s your reason for pursuing polygamy, you are in sin. If you pursue marriage in general for lust, you are in sin. Lust is the sin.

I don’t know why this is such a big deal. It is only our traditions (be careful about taking our traditions and making them Law) that say polygamy is wrong. Anyway. Hope this generates some interest.

Oh, and if I am wrong (I have been wrong before…once or twice I think), I am open to being taught.

And please, don’t yell at me. I will take it personally and I will feel bad. I have no shoulder to cry on right now so please be gentle. Oh, and I have no desire whatsoever for my hubby to take another wife. We have talked about it and have decided that even if it were legal, it wouldn’t be something we pursued. Just wouldn’t work for us. So rest easy all. This has just been a though experiment from me.

Oh, and something I added to my other blog but forgot to add to this one…I think polygamy is a really crappy idea. I don’t think it’s God’s best in the vast majority of situations. I think God’s perfect plan is for one man to be married to one woman. My only point here is it isn’t always a sin.