Lost Cause (Challenge 34 - Denial)
Title: Lost Cause
Prompt: Challenge 35 - Denial
Rated: PG
Word Count: 100
Characters: Erik/Charles
Summary: Sometimes the simplest things are the hardest to do.
Warning: Nothing
A/N: This is an AU (think Atonement-type verse).
Charles times his walk to breakfast to “accidentally” bump into Erik despite the awkwardness of the last year.
They’d been friends (surprisingly) since the Lehnsherrs started working at the Xavier estate but something’s changed recently.
Today he intends to pull Erik back into the close fold no one else ever breached.
All it would take is one word, one smile, but self doubt trips Charles’ tongue. Fearing rejection and being laughed at by the one person who has come to matter so much, he ends up brushing by Erik with barely a glance.
Some days Charles hates himself the most.
Prompt: Challenge 35 - Denial
Rated: PG
Word Count: 100
Characters: Erik/Charles
Summary: Sometimes the simplest things are the hardest to do.
Warning: Nothing
A/N: This is an AU (think Atonement-type verse).
Charles times his walk to breakfast to “accidentally” bump into Erik despite the awkwardness of the last year.
They’d been friends (surprisingly) since the Lehnsherrs started working at the Xavier estate but something’s changed recently.
Today he intends to pull Erik back into the close fold no one else ever breached.
All it would take is one word, one smile, but self doubt trips Charles’ tongue. Fearing rejection and being laughed at by the one person who has come to matter so much, he ends up brushing by Erik with barely a glance.
Some days Charles hates himself the most.