[Cable & Deadpool] Let Slip the Dogs of War - Part 8

[rallamajoop]

Since I've consitently forgotten to mention it so far, belated thanks are owed to velithya for finding time to get whole monster betaed for me (in between making last minute arrangements for spending a couple of weeks out of the country, even). <3

Title: Let Slip the Dogs of War
Summary: War wasn't telling the whole truth about what happened to the

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[seiberwing]

Deadpool: So crazy he actually hits brilliant on occasion. I love it. And of course Cable has to take him home, he wouldn't be such an ass as to leave him.

(I do admit I'm a bit confused--would the "her" be Death?)

[rallamajoop]

*g* Taking "so crazy it just might work" to whole new levels, that's our Wade.

Cable has probably spent the whole trip making excuses to himself about how morally wrong it would be to assume he can take this Wade home at the end of it. Good thing Wade set him straight on the subject. ;)

(Yeah, he was deliberately vague about it, but that's who he was referring to - I couldn't very well conveniently kill off any version of Deadpool without giving him some kind of consolation prize. ^^; )

[alternatedoom]

This fic is made of awesome. I got no other words to say it. Thank you again for finishing this story.

I appreciated Deadpool's observation that he needed to make them all see red to keep them from thinking about the original plan to take War down. I had not even thought of that. Deadpool is smart. I love it.

Looking forward to the epilogues, and would greatly enjoy it if you did the War-Deadpool missing scene fic too. The brief interaction between those two in the earliest chapters was v charged.

[rallamajoop]

Thank you again for finishing this story.

Well, I had to, didn't I? All the important bits were at the end. ;) (And you're very welcome. ^_^)

I appreciated Deadpool's observation that he needed to make them all see red to keep them from thinking about the original plan to take War down. I had not even thought of that. Deadpool is smart. I love it.

Heh, much to the Avengers' horror, Wade had it all planned out. (Did I mention even I'm a little amazed how easy it was to justify everything I wanted to happen in this fic? Between the Facade Virus and War's telepathy the combined details from the original drabble and AU in the comic, I hardly had to invent anything that wasn't there in canon already. X3)

Looking forward to the epilogues, and would greatly enjoy it if you did the War-Deadpool missing scene fic too. The brief interaction between those two in the earliest chapters was v charged.I'm pretty sure I will, I've got enough ideas I really want to use in it. Only real question is whether it happens before or after a few other

[alternatedoom]

Well, you'd think, you know, the denouement is a really important part of any fic, but it always astonishes me how many stories never get finished. It probably shouldn't, because people do get distracted by other fandoms or RL stuff, I know. Possibly it's because I'm very much the finishing-before-posting type. I know not everyone's big on that. But it makes me sad how many great fics in kink memes get sort of abandoned.

As to justifying plot twists, I'm put in mind of someone's sentiment from the kink meme commentary--namely, that you write better plot than the canon in which your story is set. XD

[rallamajoop]

I suspect for a lot of fic that gets posted but never finished, we're basically stuck with fic the writer would never have finished either way. So it's a question of whether an unfinished fic we see the first few parts of is better or worse than none at all. :/

I used to be big on finishing fic before anything got posted, but the more I got into writing longer works, the more I found that getting feedback on parts I'd finished so far made a big difference to keeping my momentum going. But I've never had any serious trouble finishing any fic I've started since I started writing fanfic, so I'm probably a pretty atypical example anyway. ^^;

(That said, I really hear you on the kink meme thing. In a lot of ways I'm impressed that there are as many finished fics on it as there are, but there are still at least half a dozen others I'd *love* to see finished, all looking pretty much abandoned at this stage. :/ )

As to justifying plot twists, I'm put in mind of someone's sentiment from the kink meme commentary--namely, that you write

[rallamajoop]

Thank you! =D

Though I don't want to make any definite promises, I'm pretty sure all the tie-ins will get written eventually. But I'll probably wind up taking a bit of a break to work on some other projects first.

<3<3

[velithya]

OH YEAH I NEED TO BETA YOUR SECOND EPILOGUE AT SOME STAGE....

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*hides*

Re: <3<3

[rallamajoop]

Aha, but if you don't find time for it before you get back to Australia, you know I'll totally understand, right? <3

(Mind you, there'll probably be a couple more things on the betaing queue by then...)

[nope_de_plume]

Man, I didn't even realize they were having that conversation with everyone else around, and as soon as you said they were I choked on my soda. <3

[nope_de_plume]

Also, gotta say I hope Cable and Deadpool do something about the legacy virus before they do anything, it'd be a shame for them to hook up and then have the relationship suddenly end in meltingness.

[rallamajoop]

I did have some original plans to include a scene where other characters explain to Deadpool some of the restrictions on what it'll take for the Facade Virus to work - including a warning that his healing factor will purge it from his system completely within a few hours - but it wound up not being interesting or important enough to really fit in anywhere (might mention it in the side story, we'll see how it goes). Either way, they've got that covered.

Man, I didn't even realize they were having that conversation with everyone else around, and as soon as you said they were I choked on my soda. <3

Heh, I could've probably found an excuse to separate them from the rest of the group, but that wouldn't have been nearly as much fun, would it? Wonder how many spontaneous coughing fits happened in other parts of the room during that conversation. XD