Tombstone by Kaylee
Reviewed by Dannell Lites


Let me tell ya'll right off the bat:  I don't like this story.  Why?  Simply
put, it's too bloody well written, that's what.  It made me want to cry and I
don't like it when that happens.  I don't like it a'tall.  Crying makes you
vulnerable.  Just like the death of someone close to you does.

The premise of the story is a simple one.  Chrales Xavier has just passed
away after a hard battle with pancreatic cancer.  And late one lonely night
his grave has a visitor.  And someone is waiting for that visitor.

The story is a sequel to another story by the same author.  "Til Christmas"
is also a rather remarkable story.  Now, I am new to X-Fandom and the fanfic
it spawns but I'm an omnivorous reader.  I devour all in my path and if it
gives me a belly ache, why, Sugah I spit it out:):)  Sad to say that I've
found myself spitting out a lot of folks stories when they try to use
Cyclops/Scott Summers.  But not so here.  In both stories Kaylee has captured
Scott's quiet inate strength.  And without being at all obvious about it
shows us (not justs *tells* us!) that there is quite a bit going on
underneath that calm, practical exterior.  Now, I'm genrally not keen on
sequels.  They tend to be water down retellings of the original story all to
often in my experience.  Moi is seldom interested in storming the same
literary hill more than once.  But when they work (as this one most
definitely does!) a sequel can be a wonderful thing.  Scott doesn't say much
in either story but his actions, the things that he does, shout and scream
and weep because he cannot do it any other way.

And Magneto?  The parallals the author draws between the two men are
insightful and chillingly defined.  Neither of them is very good at
expressing themselves.  I can see ya'll goggling now.  Magneto not express
himself?  Absolutely.  Well what do Ah call all those outbursts of anger,
then, if not expressions of Magnus' feelings?  I call them sad.  It is
precisely becaue Magneto cannot express his true feeling that he so often
succumbs to his anger.  Anger and violence are the only outlets he leaves
himself.  His struggle to unburden himself at the grave of his friend Charle
Xavier is almost tragic in its failure.

No, not much action happens in this story.  Its a simple story.

No, really it is:):)


Dannell