The Cost of It All (Challenge 27 - Love)
Title: The Cost of It All
Prompt: Challenge 27 - Love
Rated: PG
Word Count: 100
Characters: Charles/Raven (non-romantic)
Summary: There was a time when they meant the world to each other, but even that's never a guarantee.
Warning: Nothing
There once was a boy who was smart, friendly and utterly alone.
He could hear everyone’s thoughts clear as his own; dangerous to admit, debilitating to ignore-so he lived in his imagination and traded on dreams.
One day a young girl appeared who was scared, lonely and as fantastically different as him-she could become anyone but had to hide to survive.
He vowed to protect her as best he could from the world.
And then they were no longer children but adults on opposite sides of a familiar line, learning the hardest lesson-that love meant letting go.
Prompt: Challenge 27 - Love
Rated: PG
Word Count: 100
Characters: Charles/Raven (non-romantic)
Summary: There was a time when they meant the world to each other, but even that's never a guarantee.
Warning: Nothing
There once was a boy who was smart, friendly and utterly alone.
He could hear everyone’s thoughts clear as his own; dangerous to admit, debilitating to ignore-so he lived in his imagination and traded on dreams.
One day a young girl appeared who was scared, lonely and as fantastically different as him-she could become anyone but had to hide to survive.
He vowed to protect her as best he could from the world.
And then they were no longer children but adults on opposite sides of a familiar line, learning the hardest lesson-that love meant letting go.