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boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (8/?)

[anonymous]

He's had lectures on genetics. He's read books, countless medical journals, but it's...not really something he'd considered. Not in his case, although he didn't have a name for it, either. An aberration in his brain, perhaps, some sort of abnormality that allows him to do something normal humans can't. An idiot savant, even. Some kind of biological mistake, something gone terribly, terribly wrong.

But Erik just looks at him when he suggests it, that narrow, calculating stare like he's trying to read Charles' mind, instead of the other way around. Raven, she just looks crushed. He doesn't need to read her mind to know that--how can you believe that, she thinks tenderly. That everything about you is so fundamentally wrong?.

She doesn't expect an answer. Charles doesn't give her one.

'We're mutants,' is all Erik says to him when he finally screws up the courage to ask how they know what he is, how they know he isn't just mad. Because he's thought it often enough, hasn't he, although he knows that can't be it. He can make people cry, for God's sake, he's not making that up, but sometimes...sometimes he wishes that was it. He really does. He wishes this was the sort of thing chloropromazine could take care of.

'Mutants,' Charles repeats. 'Mutants. That's...that's why I can do this.' He gestures vaguely in the direction of his own head. 'So, can you...?'

'We're not all telepaths,' Raven says with a flick of her hand and then a thousand flicks of her skin, and there is a naked girl standing before him. A naked blue girl, with ridged skin and cat-bright eyes and her jaw set, defensive, like she's just waiting for him to say the wrong thing. Like she's heard the wrong thing a thousand times before.

She looks inhuman and fierce and dangerous, and she is the most incredible thing he's ever seen. My God, he thinks, and she tilts her head, so he knows she can hear. Look at you. You're...that's amazing. He's rewarded with a bright flash of canines, a pleased gleam of golden eyes. Next to her, Erik relaxes and looks slightly less murderous.

'She's beautiful,' he snaps, though, and his eyes are like flint, like steel, like broken glass shoved into tender skin as they meet Charles', sharp and painful.

'She is,' Charles agrees. I'm nothing like her, he doesn't say.

(so short, so sorry)

Re: boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (8/?)

[anonymous]

'She's beautiful,' he snaps, though, and his eyes are like flint, like steel, like broken glass shoved into tender skin as they meet Charles', sharp and painful.

'She is,' Charles agrees. I'm nothing like her, he doesn't say.

Oh Charles. He's so broken. I love you so much for this fill. Keep writing it, please oh please!

Re: boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (8/?)

[nausicaa83]

Wow... this is so heartbreaking.

Re: boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (8/?)

[anonymous]

Everything about this story is perfect. I have never wanted to hug Charles as much as I do here. And your Erik is just so perfect.

Re: boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (8/?)

[anonymous]

This fic is amazing! Poor Charles. I can't tell you how much I want Raven to adopted him as her surrogate brother and for Hank to show up, so he and Charles can have a million equally enthusiastic conversations about their mutual interests. :(

Re: boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (8/?)

[anonymous]

more of this forever would set me up for... ever, i guess

Re: boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (8/?)

[grey_damaskena]

Excellently written, and that last line packs a lot of punch. Both Raven and Erik are spot on. Looking forward to Erik pulling his shiny tricks out of the bag, too. <3

Re: boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (8/?)

[takmarierah]

Oooh, I love it! I do hope you continue this soon! :D

Re: boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (8/?)

[anonymous]

This so great!!! I would really love to read other things you've written. ♥

Re: boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (8/?)

[allodole]

Amazing. <3

Re: boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (8/?)

[ascoolsuchasi]

This is so beautiful.

And bonus for the title, I love the Dresden Dolls.
:D

Re: boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (8/?)

[thedustwhispers]

My heart can't take this much self deprecation. Charles, why can't you see how gifted you are. ;A; Lovely update, can't wait for more!

Re: boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (8/?)

[blaesc]

Oh, please finish this. This story is so painfully lovely I just can't wait to see where it goes!

Re: boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (8/?)

[ss_ophelia]

This is so painfully beautiful.
I love the way you've drawn Charles' relationship to his telepathy, the way he treats it like an animal he doesn't want to hurt but doesn't trust. It's so deftly done, and so, so sharp.

Please say this hasn't been abandoned! It's one of my favorite stories on here, and I'm desperate to see where it goes.

Re: boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (8/?)

[anonymous]

Ugh. Me too! This story is so painfully lovely and I check this regularly and feel forlorn every time I see it hasn't been updated.

Re: boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (8/?)

[aaido]

Just found this, and I know you haven't updated in more than a month, but nevertheless, I beseech you - Please continue!!