Old Habits
Title: Old Habits 5
Pairing: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier
Author: alanwolfmoon
Rating: Pg-13
Warnings: Not much.
Summary: Short conversation between Charles and Erik. Next chapter much longer, promise...
Disclaimer: MINE! ALL MINE!....uh, no. Not mine.
Feedback: Reviews and flames are welcome. (They make it look like I'm writing fast)
Notes: Fifth in a series of ten generally H/C themed ficlits following Charles and Erik for ~ fifteen years after First Class. Set around 6 years after FC.
Previous Chapters: 1 2 3 4
AN: The chapter after this is much lighter-and much longer : )
He was not expecting to feel the touch, here, his friend's mind, warm, calm,...but not today. Today he was in pain, and upset, and feeling loss, deep, deep loss. One of his students?
Following the contact, he ignored his own team's confused looks, heading off in the completely wrong direction, despite the fact they'd already finished their mission. Charles was in the room of the man he'd just killed's office.
"Did you know him?"
Charles looked up, shook his head, "he was the same as you, Erik. I wanted to help him. I wanted... I can't help you. I wanted to at least help him."
"He was nothing like me, Charles. He was a terrible person, he only wanted to destroy people who were different from him."
"Listen to yourself, Erik. Do you hear your own words? Something bad happened to him, a group of people hurt him, and he hated them from then on, taking revenge. All it ever does is create more hate, more pain, and more suffering. I thought... I thought I had a chance to stop that cycle, at least in this one man."
"Why do you care so much? You're upset, you're broadcasting it, even if I didn't know you."
"I've seen that pain, that cycle. If seen it in my oldest, closest friend. And I want, yes, my instinct is, has always been, to try and fix things. And I can't fix you. I can't save you, I can't do anything but pray for you. And I don't pray. I see that, I see that in this man, in other men, in people all across the world, and all I can see is you. I can't not love them. Because I love you."
Pairing: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier
Author: alanwolfmoon
Rating: Pg-13
Warnings: Not much.
Summary: Short conversation between Charles and Erik. Next chapter much longer, promise...
Disclaimer: MINE! ALL MINE!....uh, no. Not mine.
Feedback: Reviews and flames are welcome. (They make it look like I'm writing fast)
Notes: Fifth in a series of ten generally H/C themed ficlits following Charles and Erik for ~ fifteen years after First Class. Set around 6 years after FC.
Previous Chapters: 1 2 3 4
AN: The chapter after this is much lighter-and much longer : )
He was not expecting to feel the touch, here, his friend's mind, warm, calm,...but not today. Today he was in pain, and upset, and feeling loss, deep, deep loss. One of his students?
Following the contact, he ignored his own team's confused looks, heading off in the completely wrong direction, despite the fact they'd already finished their mission. Charles was in the room of the man he'd just killed's office.
"Did you know him?"
Charles looked up, shook his head, "he was the same as you, Erik. I wanted to help him. I wanted... I can't help you. I wanted to at least help him."
"He was nothing like me, Charles. He was a terrible person, he only wanted to destroy people who were different from him."
"Listen to yourself, Erik. Do you hear your own words? Something bad happened to him, a group of people hurt him, and he hated them from then on, taking revenge. All it ever does is create more hate, more pain, and more suffering. I thought... I thought I had a chance to stop that cycle, at least in this one man."
"Why do you care so much? You're upset, you're broadcasting it, even if I didn't know you."
"I've seen that pain, that cycle. If seen it in my oldest, closest friend. And I want, yes, my instinct is, has always been, to try and fix things. And I can't fix you. I can't save you, I can't do anything but pray for you. And I don't pray. I see that, I see that in this man, in other men, in people all across the world, and all I can see is you. I can't not love them. Because I love you."