Kink Fill: Protector
Reply to kink meme: Erik is not a man easily given to sentimentality, but sometimes, when he’s in a particularly good/relaxed/tender mood, he calls Charles ‘liebling’ in private.
"You could have killed him Erik!"
"Sometimes fledglings need a little push."
"Fledging would have been pushing him out of a second story window-"
"Which I note you didn't do."
"-not off of a 2 kilometer tall radar dish!"
Watching Charles flail in worried frustration was endearing, he took to mothering the whole ‘brood’ of their team with focus only rivaled by true maternal instinct. Even Moira was not immune as she jockeyed between the training teens and the bureau.
But then who was there to care for their great protector?
“Do you know how much metal was on that suit of his?”
Charles stopped mid rant in which it seemed he was likening Erik to a pigeon, and wasn’t Erik just glad he’d zoned out for most of that?, and looked up at him in befuddlement. “What?”
Erik smiled, pulling the mildly resisting form of Charles into his arms. “One might think our mad scientist had designs on the little mouth breather with all the buckles and useless rings on that rig.”
He gently turned Charles to face the window so he could watch the impromptu water fight that had started on the sidelawn with Hank and Alex on one side and Sean and Raven on the other.
“The landing might not have been comfortable, bruises and scrapes, but he wouldn’t have died.” He said softly into Charles ear, as he smiled down at the battle below. The tense strain in Charles shoulders eased, and a little giggled laugh escaped him when Moira joined the fight, and the teams split again, men vs. women.
He would be the one to care for their wayward protector. To the one who opened his home and mind to them without a second thought. The one who took in Erik’s tattered soul, and scathing wit with little more than a blink. He would care for Charles, for him and for every mutant. So that they may know the feeling of family and acceptance that was blooming in even Erik’s hardened chest.
“I will never let any one of ours come to harm…leibling.”
Charles spun in his arms kissing him soundly smiling through the whole thing.