Stretched Thin

[coquilleon]

Title: Stretched Thin
Author: coquilleon 
Summary: Charles is exhausted. He just needs a moment to himself, but it gets harder and harder as the day goes on.
Genre: Romance
Rating: R
Pairing: Charles/Erik (side Hank/Alex, unrequited Hank/Raven)

Comments

[zhadra_ahni]

I love. Your fics. So much.

I said it before, but there's such a sense of inhabiting the character you're writing-it's in the little details, it's in the perfect characterization, it's in the progression of pace, the steady build-up so that we're right there with Charles when he can't even handle Sean's interlude, that sense of a string vibrating, about to snap, but he just holds and holds that silence, and the tension is wonderful. I love the way you incorporate Charles's telepathy so smoothly; even as we're immersed in his struggles, input from the others is constantly coming in, and he's aware of it, reacts to it, receiving it both comes naturally to him and yet we can feel the overload building.

I love your Erik/Charles dynamic so much I can't even really describe it. Just, any time you write them, it feels so perfect and exactly what I want them to be providing for each other (before it all fell apart ;_;). Charles's need for comfort and Erik's need to be tactile-oh yes, that. ♥_♥ The way you write them touching each other, feeling each other, the littlest, most lovely things, is so beautiful and physical.

Okay I need to stop rhapsodizing before I embarrass myself further. *_* tl;dr, I LOVE THIS AND I LOVE YOU. And not just for the Erik/Charles, the snippets of story for the others in this were brilliant, too. Poor Raven!

[coquilleon]

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 X1000000