Quakey’s “In The Balance”
What if Sabretooth and Wolverine wake up one day, in the middle of nothing, without any memory of their past?
Must read if you love: adventure, intimate encounters, roadtrips, self-discoveries, Victor Creed and Logan having a relationship not hate-based.
Rating: Explicit
Relationship: Victor Creed/Logan
Characters
Main: Victor Creed, Logan
Support: Forge, Scott Summers. Jean Grey, Hank McCoy, Jubilation Lee, Kurt Wagner
Additional Tags: Amnesia, enemies to friends to lovers speedrun, Road Trip, PTSD, Dom/sub Undertones, Size Difference, BDSM as Positive Behavior Reinforcement Training, Under-negotiated Kink, Bad BDSM Etiquette, Homophobic Language, Angst with a Happy Ending
Language: English
Status: Complete
Summary:
Logan and Victor wake up mindwiped and alone together in the wilderness, with no memory of anything including each other. They go on a journey of returning to civilization, finding out what happened to them, and of finding each other. And, in Victor’s case, learning to be a little bit less of an asshole.
(AKA, what could have been if Logan and Victor had skipped the roughly one century of animosity and just fucked about their feelings instead.)
Why read it?
There are stories that hit you on so many levels, this is IMHO one of them.
Quakey is a well known name in certain circles and when they started writing about Logan and Creed… Well, what can I say? They hit all the buttons that a comicverse Sabreine lover needs.
The fic starts with our heroes waking up in the middle of nothing, under the rain. Why are they there? They don’t know, but soon they realize that that’s not the only thing they don’t remember: they don’t even know who they are.
And that’s the key: if you don’t know who you are, if you don’t know your past, if you don’t have bias of any sort, what would you do?
They still have their personalities, and some echo of their traumas, and what material possession they had with them, but no more than that.
The story is a journey, their journey to find themselves, learning who they are, all carefully packed in a roadtrip. We follow them travelling in who they are, what they love, what makes them click, react and be who they are. They’re free from their past, from all the years of fighting and killing, even if the reader knows that it has to end, but meanwhile, there are two men walking free from their burdens.
All this neatly packaged with humour, a great writing style, heartaches and sadness and happyness. A must-read, if you like the Sabretooth/Wolverine ship.
PS: Don’t forget to read the Victor’s POV spin-off, it’s pure delight if you love Vic (and, well, you’re here after all, right?)