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Or maybe Hank needs to do some adjustments before Charles uses this new machine again.
Because when he pulls the cap down onto his head and gives Raven the nod to switch it on, the shock of being thrown into such a seething ocean of other minds and thoughts makes him bow his back and open his mouth in a silent scream, his eyes wide and sightless as he stares up.
He can see everyone. Reach out and connect to them all and see what they see, feel their thoughts and dreams and it’s too much, all at once, altogether and he’s
he’s feeling the heat of the savannah sun on his back and the crisp dust of the parched ground under his bare feet and he’s turning his face up to gathering rain clouds and he’s
running along the valley impossibly fast, the Verde river next to him and he hears the screeching call of an eagle high up on the cliffs and he laughs and
feels the pinfeathers ripple at his back as he shrugs at his father’s angry question and all he wants to do is spread his wings and fly, fly away and he clenches his fists and
..”charles!”…
the metal ripples around them and over them, covering his skin with shiny steel and срань господня, this is not good this is going to complicate things it’s
“..too much for him! We’ve got to shut-”
UP! ShutupshutupshutUP! Get out of my head, what are you doing in my head, I don’t want to hear voices I don’t I don’t I
“No don’t!” Charles manages to gasp, pulling back a little from the seductive call of the worlds minds “Don’t shut it off - I’m ok, I’m coping with it, I’ve-”
ALEX! That’s Alex’s mind there - rage red hot and pulsing and frantic worry mixed in with it and that’s Sean but he feels faded and sluggish, like Charles is trying to reach him through fog and there - there! Hank! Oh, thank god - that’s Hank and he’s alive, they’re all alive but Hank’s hurt, he’s in pain and the pain is linked to figures in Hank’s mind - someone is doing this to him, someone is hurting him and Charles has to bite his lip and concentrate on his own pain to move past the furious anger he feels at that and he tastes copper-red spill onto his tongue as he reaches out to the minds around his boys, the ones who are hurting them and he leaps in and snatches at information and knowledge and
He falls to his knees with a broken off cry as it all shuts down and his mind is his own again.
Erik is there, crashing to the ground before him and grabbing hold of his arms and Raven is running over to him too, away from the machine she’s just shut off.
“Charles! Charles, you’re bleeding!” Raven’s voice is frantic and Charles is just about to say that it’s alright, it’s just a bitten lip when he feels the drip of liquid onto his upper lip as well and the hand he wipes across his face comes away bloody. Ah… A nose bleed too. Definitely need to refine Cerebro before he uses it again.
Not that it matters now. He meets Erik’s worried eyes and grins, feels the smear of blood over his teeth - he must look feral and quite honestly he feels it.
He says, fiercely “I know where they are. I know who’s got them.”
And Erik draws in a harsh, thankful breath and replies, eyes burning into Charles’ “Then now we go and get them back.”
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