Filled: Knowing (PG)yeomanrandJune 29 2011, 18:32:29 UTC
"It's about time."
"What?" Erik stared at the phone in his hand as though it had suddenly sprouted a tongue and blown a raspberry at him.
"You heard me," Raven said, voice languid down the line. "I said, 'it's about time.' Would it make more sense to you if I added a 'damn', there? Or perhaps schließlich?"
His mouth opened and closed.
"You're not surprised?"
There's a silence on the line, but he knows exactly the look she'd be giving him: hand on her hip, head canted to the side, eyes ever so slightly narrowed. But when she speaks, it's to answer his question with one of her own.
"Has anyone been?"
His laugh is dry, rusty with disuse, but still his own, and escapes because he knows she already knows the answer.
"Only Charles, I think."
"Hm," Raven answers, but there's amusement lingering in the back of her throat, too. It's gone when she speaks again. "Are you sure, Eric? Really sure?"
"Are you asking for me, or for Charles?"
"Both of you." She draws in a breath, lets it out. "All these years, and he's still naive. He'll still give them a chance when they don't deserve it. I'd think that might be a dealbreaker, for both of you. Not to mention that even though he said yes, there's still all the death between you."
He hesitates; he doesn't need Charles' gift to hear the genuine concern in her statements.
"All these years, my dear, and we know who we are. He knows who I am more surely than when we met, and I him.
"And knowing, I asked. Knowing, he gave his answer."
Re: Filled: Knowing (PG)upstart_crowJune 30 2011, 01:44:06 UTC
Wow. This made me just so happy when I read it today. Such a beautiful, sweet, perfect story and I LOVE that you included Mystique! Thanks for making my day at work today during what has been a truly brutal week.
Re: Filled: Knowing (PG)yeomanrandJune 30 2011, 02:31:07 UTC
Only one: Not What You Think, (AO3 link) for the prompt: Storm, leader of the X-Men.
I'm mostly an STXI or White Collar kind of gal (with digressions into Leverage and Fringe, and Harry Potter/Fringe crossovers, and Firefly/Serenity...you know what? I'm kind of a fandom slut, really.)
"What?" Erik stared at the phone in his hand as though it had suddenly sprouted a tongue and blown a raspberry at him.
"You heard me," Raven said, voice languid down the line. "I said, 'it's about time.' Would it make more sense to you if I added a 'damn', there? Or perhaps schließlich?"
His mouth opened and closed.
"You're not surprised?"
There's a silence on the line, but he knows exactly the look she'd be giving him: hand on her hip, head canted to the side, eyes ever so slightly narrowed. But when she speaks, it's to answer his question with one of her own.
"Has anyone been?"
His laugh is dry, rusty with disuse, but still his own, and escapes because he knows she already knows the answer.
"Only Charles, I think."
"Hm," Raven answers, but there's amusement lingering in the back of her throat, too. It's gone when she speaks again. "Are you sure, Eric? Really sure?"
"Are you asking for me, or for Charles?"
"Both of you." She draws in a breath, lets it out. "All these years, and he's still naive. He'll still give them a chance when they don't deserve it. I'd think that might be a dealbreaker, for both of you. Not to mention that even though he said yes, there's still all the death between you."
He hesitates; he doesn't need Charles' gift to hear the genuine concern in her statements.
"All these years, my dear, and we know who we are. He knows who I am more surely than when we met, and I him.
"And knowing, I asked. Knowing, he gave his answer."
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*revels in this*
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Thank you, m'dear.
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Anyways, I liked that you didn't gloss over the bloody history between them and that Raven was so unbearably smug. =D Thanks for sharing!
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She totally would be, you know it, I know it, and Wolverine's back hair knows it. :)
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(Thanks)
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Thank you. :)
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Have you written other X-Men fic, Charles/Erik or otherwise?
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I'm mostly an STXI or White Collar kind of gal (with digressions into Leverage and Fringe, and Harry Potter/Fringe crossovers, and Firefly/Serenity...you know what? I'm kind of a fandom slut, really.)
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