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...

Comments

Anon!author

[(Anonymous)]

No need to apologise, really -- I've been known to lose track of prompts I've left in various kinkmemes, so definitely no stones to throw there. ^^

I did ask myself "how much does Charles trust Raven with his plans?" as I was writing En Passant, and the answer seems to be: not very much. And I think to Charles that's almost the most horrible aspect of it all, that he can't fully trust the person he loves most in the world (aside from his children), and whom he knows loves him best.

In my head, on some level Erik senses there's something terribly wrong about what's going on between him and Charles, but it never occurs to him to do something about it because he hasn't even begun articulating it as a problem. Well, what else does Charles expect? And of course Erik is nothing like Shaw. And anyway there are more important things to be done, like the liberation of his fellow mutants. Erik loves Charles because Charles is beautiful, a powerful mutant, the bearer of his child, and maybe also because Charles is his, and thus -- despite Erik's wariness about Charles's telepathy -- will never be a rival for his position as a mutant leader.

When Charles presented him with the plan to pass a human child off as Shaw's, if Erik had come right out and said no, don't be stupid, any child of mine will be acknowledged or loved, things would be completely different. Even towards the end of the story, if Erik had only asked "may I?", with every expectation that he would respect Charles's choice, there would still be a slightly bigger chance of their relationship working out. But, well, that's not very likely now, is it? I mean, he doesn't even want to acknowledge the possibility that the mutants at the CIA facility could be there for any other reasons that what he thought.

I, uh, doubt I'll ever de-anon. I'm honestly happy being anonymous, ahahaha.