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Could Have Had It All

Sep 20, 2011 18:08

CHARACTERS: Raven, Charles, and Erik
DATE: backdated (Day 10, Midday)
RATING: PG-13, given Charles and Erik are in the same room
SUMMARY: It took awhile for Raven to wake, but when she did, she rises to two people in opposition of each other. She's undeniably caught in the middle ( Read more... )

raven darkholme, erik lehnsherr, charles xavier

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token_vengeance September 21 2011, 00:09:08 UTC

"You're in the dorms." Erik had been keeping watch over Raven, only occasionally leaving to talk to some other arrivals, check on the other mutants...and take a break from Charles. The truce was there, but their friendship was still shaky and torn. A few days wouldn't change things that quickly, prisoners or no.

Shooting a look over at Charles for a moment, he gave her a tight smile but didn't touch her, his words coming out clear and crisp. "You need to learn to dodge better."

A cryptic answer, perhaps, but it gave her enough information without terrifying her, he hoped. This wasn't he Raven who had left with him; the future shocks would most likely be worse than the current injury.

oxbridgethegap September 22 2011, 17:50:34 UTC

Shock or no, there isn't anything Charles can do about his wheelchair; Raven would notice it before long. For the moment, however, Charles simply leans in, avoiding the option of wheeling closer until Raven regains her equilibrium.

"You took a nasty blow to the head," Charles explains, eyes trained on her face. "How are you feeling?"

meanttobemutant September 23 2011, 15:57:34 UTC

A hand came up to the side of her face at both of their words. Raven looked from Erik then to Charles. She gave him a soft smile. "And we're not home then." She replied before sitting up. This was just... surreal.

It hadn't crossed her mind that Charles was in a wheelchair, yet. Her brain took it only as him sitting. Rubbing her eyes slightly, she turned back to Erik, though either could answer her question. "Why're we here?"

token_vengeance September 24 2011, 03:30:43 UTC

"Experimentation. To participate in a little 'game' as they call it." Erik's words came out clipped and succinct; Charles and Raven knew him well enough to know exactly what his tone implied.

"They chose the wrong test subjects."

tense change! oxbridgethegap September 24 2011, 17:04:40 UTC

Charles glanced over Erik; the man had a right to be angry, of course, considering what had happened in the camps, but expressing that anger now would do nothing for Raven.

"It's as Erik said," Charles said, watching Raven cautiously. "You should have received a message of sorts before you were brought here. The President of KERNOS, the company that presumably owns this island, has decided we would be perfect for the game's test run.

We haven't found much yet, but we will find a way out together. Will you be joining us?" Though any accusation the question might have held was carefully omitted, it couldn't be more obvious Raven's decision to leave was weighing heavily on his mind at the moment.

meanttobemutant September 24 2011, 17:39:38 UTC

Raven hadn't known Erik like Charles had, but she could assume. She looked at him thoughtfully. He had a way of stirring up emotions. And here and now it was more than justified.

She looked over at Charles, his words connecting memories now. "Yeah. The message. How is it even possible to do that? Take people. Like that, I mean." She glanced at Erik.

Raven furrowed her brows at his question. He was being so callous with her, it was like an icy slap to the face. She froze, looking at him. Why would he ever need to ask? She stared at him for a long moment. Maybe it was about the fight? She felt completely justified in what she said to him.

But then--

Wait.

Her eyes scanned over his posture. A look of utter confusion crossed her features.

"Why are you in a wheelchair?"

token_vengeance September 26 2011, 01:20:08 UTC

Erik tightened his grip on the side of the bed slightly when Charles asked that question. It was obvious to him which part of the time line Raven was from--and it certainly wasn't the one where she had left with Erik.

When he glanced over at her, he gave a vague shake of his head, shrugging once. "We don't know." He hated that he actually had to say that, but there had been no clue as to how the actual extraction was occurring. Especially since it was crossing time in such a curious way.

He would have said more, but she had noticed the wheel chair. Erik couldn't bring himself to look at Charles them, but instead watched Raven's, his jaw set.

oxbridgethegap September 29 2011, 22:20:47 UTC

"No, we don't." The flatness of Charles' tone gave away his own frustration over the lack of answers; he disliked being in the dark as much as Erik did. Perhaps more than Erik did, being the telepath that he was. "Though not for a lack of trying."

What little time his cautious approach had bought was not enough, and Charles suspected he would never be prepared to give the answer to someone who should already know it. "I thought you would ask that eventually," Charles said slowly. A long silence followed as he struggled with a sudden flare of satisfaction at Erik's obvious discomfort and his lingering hurt over a choice that had not yet been made.

"I was injured in Cuba," he finally replied. "In short, our interference with the missiles went awry. We did stop Shaw, however."

Charles' gaze remained firmly on Raven. Whatever had happened on the beach--that was between him and Erik, and would remain so. There was no need for Raven to know if she did not remember already.

meanttobemutant September 30 2011, 15:46:54 UTC

Her jaw went tight at his words. There was something else, but if he wasn't going to say, Raven knew enough not to ask. Charles was a stubborn enough man. The fact that Shaw was stopped meant next to nothing in lieu of this information.

She looked back at Erik, expectantly like 'You better have killed the human that did this'. Because only a human could do that. It couldn't have been Shaw that did it, simply because it just couldn't have. Raven's own jaded views towards humanity had flourished enough, though she hadn't witnessed humanity's turn on mutants. Being forced to hide was enough.

"It didn't end well then. With Russia and America?"

token_vengeance October 1 2011, 01:53:25 UTC

Erik was torn. There was a large part of him that wanted to tell Raven everything; he hated keeping people in the dark, especially those he cared for. But Charles was most likely right; if she truly was from the past, it would be best if she didn't know.

Though even if he was right, it didn't make Erik any more comfortable with this conversation. The guilt was a pit in his stomach, hardened by his own convictions and beliefs.

Raven's piercing stare cause his eyes, and it took everything within him not to give anything away. He kept his face hard, his teeth baring slightly.

"They were taken care of. It was an accident, not a direct intentional act." The emphasis was thrown in for Charles, not for Raven.

"No, it didn't. Suffice to say they weren't very...appreciative of what we did for them."

There was bitterness in his tone, and he'll make no attempt to hide it. Why should he? It wasn't as if he and Raven had been proven wrong. Only Charles.

oxbridgethegap October 5 2011, 18:09:29 UTC

There was no way Charles could miss the deliberate inflection in Erik's tone. A part of him wanted to remind Erik that yes, he knew it was an accident, and no, constantly repeating that to him would not make a difference. It was what had happened after that kept Charles from forgiving Erik completely, and he had told the man as much their first day here. Much as Erik complained about Charles' inability to listen, he was much the same at times.

"Yes, it was an accident," Charles confirmed, with the barest flicker of a glance at Erik. Anger--at Erik or at the non-mutants for turning on them, he isn't certain--gripped him again.

"They were frightened." It wasn't an excuse for firing upon them after everything, but Charles thought he could understand their panic. Fear did strange things to people after all. Even while they had been working together against Shaw, the majority of the officials had been wary of them. He had just chosen to ignore it at the time, convincing himself stopping a common enemy would fix things. Charles could ( ... )

meanttobemutant October 5 2011, 20:08:48 UTC

Raven didn't like it. They were fighting. She knew it in the way he held himself, the way Charles barely glanced at Erik. But they weren't telling her and that only made her more upset. On top of the fact that Charles was injured, and the humans did as was expected.

Her brows furrowed at Charles' answer. It was an excuse. He was the same. "So if they managed to slaughter us then and there, that would be okay because they were scared?" Mystique countered. "How could you still think so highly of them?"

She didn't understand his stubbornness on the good of humans. Not after all the hiding and how much they had to protect themselves and the way the CIA treated them. She could see why Angel left.

And honestly it reminded her of the fight they had before. No matter how bad it got, he'd rather be one of them it seemed. She grit her teeth, too conflicted to comment any more. And it wasn't like either of them were giving her answers.

token_vengeance October 7 2011, 03:08:12 UTC

“Raven’s right, Charles.” Erik didn’t smile; Charles was already backed into a corner, and with Raven taking his side, he’d be even more on the defensive. He couldn’t help but feel some sick pleasure knowing that she had still chosen his side, despite not having gone through the same experience.

Leaning over, he brushed a hand through her hair, trying to calm her down, reassure her. It also gave him a reason to avoid looking over at Charles for a while until he had processed the united front against him.

“Fear leads people to do irrational things. Doesn’t make it right. The Germans feared the Jews, as well.”

oxbridgethegap October 21 2011, 01:57:56 UTC

Silence reigned on Charles' end for the longest moment. Distracted as he had been by Erik and Raven's obvious affection for one another and their teaming up against him, Charles had not expected Erik to lead the conversation in that direction. He should have, considering what had happened on the beach ( ... )

meanttobemutant October 21 2011, 18:15:01 UTC

Erik's attentions drew her away from Charles for a moment, and she smiled up at him again. He was the one person that accepted her unconditionally. And while he may have only seen her as her mutation, it was better than being shunned.

"And yet, they tried to wipe us out out of fear, and we should be a part of them?" She questioned. She didn't mean to "gang up" on him. Raven just couldn't see his logic. How was it ever going to be peaceful when humans didn't want them, just looked down at them?

token_vengeance October 23 2011, 21:15:23 UTC

"Raven's right." Erik looked over at Charles, catching his blue eyes with his own. "Thinking can coexist is a wonderful ideal, but it isn't reality. We need a place of our own, one where they have no chance of harming us."

He shifted, pulling away from the female mutant so he could face his former friend fully. "I don't find all of us like Shaw...but you do tend to think humans are like Moira. You were proven wrong on the beach, and still you refuse to admit it."

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