xmenfirstkink | round 3 overflow post

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round 3 overflow post

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

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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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“Yes.” Charles looks away, ahead, keeps walking down until they break past the last of the trees and out onto the lawns, the grass soft and springy underfoot. “Can you blame me? I had to be sure. But I do.”

“I…” Something like hope is filling him up inside, burning like whisky on a split lip, and he stops again, plants his feet and refuses to move so that Charles has to stop, has to draw to a halt. When he reaches up to pull off the helmet Charles makes this tiny sound of protest, and then it is easy to drop it to the loamy earth, to ignore it rolling down the hill away from their feet, and lean down and kiss Charles, there on the lawn, catch his face between his hands and lick at his mouth until Charles’ lips part and he’s kissing Erik back, hard and desperate, clutching at Erik’s waist as though he’s never going to let go.

When they finally break apart for air, dishevelled and flushed, Erik clings to Charles’ shoulders to stay upright and leans his forehead against Charles’, unimpeded by the helmet and out in the open in the middle of the Palace of Versailles where anyone could see them, tangled up in each other. “I know this doesn’t - I don’t expect you to - ” He takes a fresh breath, starts again. “Charles, I - don’t deserve it, probably, but I would like a chance to start over.”

The human looks at him with searching eyes, mouth pulling tight and uncertain. “Just because I love you doesn’t mean that’s a good idea,” he says, but he doesn’t step back. “There’s - a lot of history, here, Erik, that I can’t, won’t backslide into. Just because I love you doesn’t mean it’s real now. It might still be artificial. These things don’t go away overnight. And I won’t go back to living like that. I’d rather die.”

“Just because it might be artificial doesn’t mean it’s not real,” Erik says, and he is the one to move back and away, one foot then the other, pulling loose of Charles’ grip. “I just want you. I - look. It’s very nice to meet you, finally, Professor Xavier. I’d like very much to take you to dinner and get to know you better.”

There is a long pause, where neither of them says anything, just stand across from one another, caught on an inhale while Erik waits for an answer.

And then Charles smiles, slowly, and when he leans back to meet Erik’s eyes his own gaze is warm. “Alright. I would like that. Very much.”

II

Magneto delivers his speech that evening to a crowd of hundreds of people, but he only has eyes for one.

That one applauds him when he’s finished just as loudly as everyone else, but his is the only approval Erik needs.

END

*CRYING*

I'M SO SURPRISED AND HAPPY THIS HAS A HAPPY ENDING YOU HAVE NO IDEA!
I had to stop reading it and go read some fluffy stuff before bed so I wouldn't cry myself to sleep. BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you very much! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

(And yes, I am a sneaky happy ending ninja :3 )

What a magnificient journey you took me on. Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful story with me.

Thank you so much for reading along with me, and for such lovely comments - I really appreciate it and I'm so happy you enjoyed the ending :)

Thank you so much for your story. Specially for so reliable happy ending. While I was reading this fic I wanted it ends in a good way so badly but I did not see how could it be. But! You managed do it in a best way! And this is so right that you gave Eric so long period for changing. He had time to understand that Charles could servive without him and that if he wants get Charles back he needs to do something better than just locking him in a room.
Eric needed this punch in stomack which Emma and Azazel gave to him. And he definitly deserved it. And I think that if he let Charles to go by himself Charles would not take a risk back to Erik. Just because he would not be sure that Eric will unhand him once again.

My god, this is my longest comment in English and probably on my own language as well. And I am a bit shy to say it, but some time ago I made a collage inspired by your fic (the moment than Charles escaped, but could not make the last step and betray Raven and Eric. In that moment I did not beleive that the fic would have happy end:-). Hope you will like it. This made in scrapbook technics.
http://pics.livejournal.com/pomadka/pic/00005aay/

Anyway, thank you for your fic once again:-)

Thank you so much for such a lovely comment! I'm really pleased you enjoyed it - the long wait between Charles leaving and returning was so important to me, so I'm glad you liked it :3

And the collage is beautiful, thank you so much! Can I link to it elsewhere? I would like to show it off!

Of course! It is all yours:-)

I am sorry for so many mistakes in my previous comment. I was very nervious, as I said it was the longest:-)

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