round 3 overflow post

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Round 3 Overflow Post

This post is for Round 3 fills only. We ask that when a round hits 8500 comments, fillers begin moving their fills to this post.

Format:
SUBJECT LINE -- Round #, short description of fic (ex: "Alex/Hank, lab partners")
--- Link to the prompt
--- Text of the prompt

--- Link to the fill
OR
--- Entire text of the fill

EXAMPLE:
Prompt: http://xmen-firstkink.livejournal.com/6437.html?thread=1038472#t2038174

Charles/Erik -- Charles is a bakery owner whose most frequent customer is Erik.

Fill: http://xmen-firstkink.livejournal.com/6437.html?thread=0139482#t4502942

Charles started off the morning the same way he always did...

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Heat - Part 20b

[(Anonymous)]

Shaw stared at her, uncomprehending. He was not at all used to being refused.

‘I beg your pardon?’ he asked, frowning.

‘I’ve had enough, Shaw,’ Emma turned to look at him, her spine rigid and her face full of icy determination. ‘I will do this one thing for you, but then I am leaving.’

‘I see,’ Shaw was silent for a moment. ‘May I ask why?’

Emma inclined her head.

‘You may,’ she said. There was a pause. When she next spoke, her voice was perfectly calm but there was a note of something in her expression that surprised Shaw. ‘I found out today that I was completely wrong about you.’

Shaw raised an eyebrow.

‘Oh?’

‘You are not what I thought you were,’ Emma shook her head. ‘I don’t know why I didn’t see it before – my only excuse is that horrible helmet that you wear. But I saw into that man’s head tonight – your Erik’s.’ Emma’s hands clenched into fists. ‘And it was monstrous. You are monstrous.’

Shaw seemed genuinely shocked by this. Then, after a moment to digest this statement, he started to laugh.

‘Oh my dear,’ he laughed, clutching his stomach. ‘Is that a surprise to you? After all that we have been through together, after all that you have seen me do – that is what surprises you? That is what moves you? A few highly coloured memories in an overly-emotional boy’s head?’ He clucked his tongue. ‘Really, Emma, I had a higher opinion of you than that. Don’t tell me you are turning squeamish on me now. I’m almost offended.’

Emma shook her head.

‘It’s not squeamishness,’ she said calmly. ‘It’s realisation. I have been a fool. All this time I thought that you genuinely cared for our kind – that what we were doing was for the sake of all mutants. Now – after seeing into Erik’s head – I can tell that that was never your plan. That all you wanted was power and that you will step on anyone who gets in your way, human or mutant, to get it. That’s not what I want Shaw – that was never what I wanted. And now I have come to the realisation that you and I must part ways.’

Shaw was frowning again.

‘I see,’ he said coolly. ‘And what makes you think that I will let you go, just like that?’

‘I want no quarrel with you,’ Emma said evenly. ‘I will not go against you and I will not aid others in doing so. I merely want us to go our separate ways and to have nothing to do with you. That is all.’

‘And I refuse?’ Shaw’s tone was suddenly dangerous.

Emma gave him a scornful look.

‘I hardly think that you will be able to,’ she sniffed. And then, before Shaw could so much as move, she had reached out with her mind and snagged Azazel, forcing him to use his power to appear in front of her. In the time it took for Shaw to blink, Emma had grabbed Azazel’s arm and, with an ironic salute to Shaw, had disappeared in a puff of smoke, gone to god knows where. Shaw knew that, by the time Azazel returned – if he returned at all – he would have no idea what had happened or where he had gone or indeed, any memory that he had gone anywhere at all.

Shaw couldn’t help it. He laughed.

Emma always had had style.

Smiling, he turned around and walked away.

He had plans that needed adjusting.







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Re: Heat - Part 20b

[renuki.livejournal.com]

*gives Emma thumbs up* Getting away in style. :D

Re: Heat - Part 20b

[(Anonymous)]

I'm glad you liked! :D

Thanks for reading! x