Series Title: Past and to Come


Author: Mo

Characters and Pairings: Various characters appear in this series, both canon
and original. The main pairings are Scott/Logan and Jean-Paul/Adam Greenfield
(an original character).

Summary: Alex joins the X-Men and it’s a bumpy ride. Jean-Paul and Adam adjust
to changes in their relationship; Scott and Logan adjust to Scott’s new
responsibilities; everyone is trying to adjust to the loss of Charles Xavier.

Rating: This series is intended for an adult readership. It contains graphic
descriptions of sexual activity and deals with adult relationships and concerns.

Format: A story series of 10 stories. Total length is about 25,000 words.

Scenario/Sequel/Series: X1 Movieverse, although much has happened since the
movie. This series was written well after X2, but does not attempt to include
the events portrayed in that film. I attempt only to be consistent with the
first movie and my previous fiction.

Past and to Come begins several months after the events depicted in What's Past
is Prologue. In my timeline, the “not so distant future” of the movie (released
in 2000) is the year 2006. This series takes place during 2013.

Brief biographies of the main characters, both canon and original, are
available, to make it easier for those coming in well into the story. They can
be found in the biographies section of the home page of the Mofic web site.

The characters, situations and events in Past and to Come are consistent with
those portrayed in my previous stories and series:
Anything Can Happen
I Know What You Are
We’re Not What You Think
Canadian Nights
What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been
Night and Day
Foreign Correspondence
Adult Education
Continuing Education
Safe House
Different from All Other Nights
Commencement
Chips Cashed In
Taking Chances
Trials
Unexpected Occurrences
Reminiscences
A Time for Every Purpose
What's Past is Prologue
All of these are available, with illustrations, on my website at
http://mo.fandomnation.com/fic/

Note on Character Origins: As covered in some of my previous fiction, my version
of Cyclops has neither the origin story of the comic books nor that of the movie
novelization. His back story is one of my own devising. It is covered
extensively in Canadian Nights, Commencement and Chips Cashed In, and is
revisited and expanded upon in What’s Past is Prologue and here. It preserves
the comics convention of the Summers brothers having a complicated and difficult
relationship, but the reasons for both the complexity and the difficulty are
specific to this story and are not an attempt to reproduce their comic book
history.

Disclaimer: The X-Men and Alpha Flight belong to Marvel. The movie belongs to
Fox. Adam, Miriam, and Ezra, and assorted other characters are the products of
my fevered imagination. Scott and Logan feel a little bit like they're mine,
too, since I've been borrowing them for so long.
Feedback: Oh, yes! I love feedback. Please comment on the chapters as published
in my livejournal, review the stories on my website, or send me email at
mogbrg@...

Archiving: Sure, just ask. Alternative file formats available upon request.

Additional Information: Most of my characters — as Magneto points out in the
movie — live in a school. My version of Cyclops is an English teacher and tends
to think in literary terms about events around him. Consequently, my fiction
includes a lot of literary quotes and allusions. It has been my practice to
publish a literature guide providing supplemental information on literature
quoted in each series, along with URLs for the complete works, if available. The
guide for Past and to Come will be posted after the stories themselves. It
contains spoilers so should be read after the series. As is my occasional
practice, the file contains information not only on literature referenced but
also on some issues raised in the series.

Acknowledgements: Thanks to my very helpful and insightful betas —
Kestrelsparhawk, Ann Marie, and Vision — for sticking with me on this one and
offering many suggestions for improvement. Their assistance was invaluable.
Mistakes are mine alone.

Mo
Mofic Website: http://mo.fandomnation.com/fic/
www.livejournal.com/users/mofic

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