Tomb It May Concern

Title: Southern Gothic
Act I: Blood - Scene I
Fandom: X-Men: Evolution
Author: Carmine LaCroix
Summary: A love story.
Rating: Teen
Pairing: Rogue/Remy
Warnings: AU
Notes: Rather than squander my time and your valuable attentions with a florid preface, I would much prefer that you savour this as you would a Sazerac warming in a glass against the palm of your hand. The content here has been tailored to suit a more mature palette, and may not read in such a straightforward and easy manner. Rather, it has been crafted in such a way to follow a very fluid, serpentine pattern of one of the strongest references I’ve found to summarize 1822 New Orleans. (I’ll give you a hint, it’s the italicised opening line of internal monologue from our protagonist.) Sip at it, please. Gulping is unseemly and an insult to the author when you blurt out an insipid and premature, “But I don’t understand!” You ought not, at this point, understand more than I’ve offered you. (And if you do, please send me the location where I can bake and mail you cookies, and the instructions as to how you may divine my own personal fortunes... I would be most interested in how you came about your psychic proficiencies. The exceptions being anyone already familiar with my particular… predilections, in which case… carry on. My apologies for being predictable. Or some such.)