DISCLAIMER:
Pryde and Wisdom, the X-Men and Excalibur all are trademarks of Marvel
Comics. DV8 and other Image characters all are trademarks of Wildstorm
Studios/Image Comics. John Constantine and any other Hellblazer- and BoM-
related characters all are trademarks of DC/Vertigo Comics. This story
is an unauthorized work done purely for my personal enjoyment, and is not
intended to infringe on any of their rights in or profits from these
characters. But this story is copyright to me.
The song referred to in part 3 is "Shape of My Heart" from Sting's album "Ten Summoner's Tales", and belongs to whomever Sting belongs to.
WARNING:
THERE WILL BE EXPLICIT SEX IN SOME PARTS OF THIS STORY. I will mark any
section that has sex in it in the individual section header. The sex is
graphic but mostly loving and consensual, *except* in part 4, which is
definitely *not* loving and consensual. If reading sex scenes like that
would offend you, please don't read this.
NOTE:
This story is a sequel to "You Can't Go Home Again" and begins perhaps
a half hour or so after the previous story ended. The epilogue to "You
Can't Go Home Again" is the introduction to this story (so yes, it may
look familiar to some readers).
BRIEF EXPLANATION:
I started this series soon after Excalibur #92 (Pete vs Pete), and have
made no effort to keep this within more recent Marvel continuity. In
particular, I am ignoring the whole Onslaught/Dark Xavier mess, and Dark
Beast, also. Xavier in this story may be dark, but it's his own fault;
I don't accept Onslaught as an excuse for Xavier to act like a jerk. I'm
treating Logan as basically normal, I just don't feel up to writing feral
Wolverine. I'm also ignoring Betsy and the Crimson Whatever. And I've
also ignored a lot of little things Ellis has done with Pryde and Wisdom
since then, not because I don't accept them (I revere Ellis as gospel),
but because it would involve too much minor revision.
OUTLINE/TEASERS:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
I'd like to thank several people who've helped with this, Denise Keppel
for the idea of Pete's nightmares and Kitty-as-Belle in part 1, Linda for
the music scene in part 3, DuAnn for graciously allowing me to use her
additions to the Pete/Dom meeting in part 4 and her ideas for the source
of Domino's wealth in part 5, and Suzie for a lot of ideas for the temple
scenes in part 6, but especially Tina, Carolyn, Suzie, Linda, DuAnn and
Jeffrey for all their very helpful, detailed reviews and many suggestions
for incidents in the story.
MISCELLANEOUS:
This is one story in a series of loosely-plotted stories entitled
"Idylls of the Cat" that are mostly Pryde and Wisdom, and the others'
reaction to Kitty's new relationship. Most of the stories in the series
are not action or adventure, they're mainly sex and/or conversations,
like this one. Other stories in the series so far include
These stories are all very kindly being archived by Lori McDonald on her webpage at http://web2.spydernet.com/lori/x-men.htm
These stories can also now be found on my own webpage at http://home.att.net/~lubakmetyk/
If you want to comment, send email to <luba@lubakmetyk.net>
Continued in Prologue...