Madman with a box
anonymous
October 6 2011, 12:40:05 UTC
Oh god this is the first time I fill a prompt I hope it's not too bad. Also English isn't my native language so just try to ignore the mistakes and awkwardness. It's Charles POV by the way. _________________________________________________________________
"And what do you think you're doing ?"
Every single persons on the beach turn around to meet the surprising image of a frowning man wearing a tweed jacket and a bow tie standing against a blue police box.
"It feels like there should be a young man somewhere in that sentence. Uhm."
And now he is mumbling to himself.
Charles wonder briefly why The Doctor always leave the TARDIS making this horrible wheezing sound if he can appear that quietly, before realizing that his first question should be "Weren't you supposed to be dead ?". He is still in shock after the thing with the coin and Shaw and he's telepathy is harder to control right now so he's sure The Doctor heard the thought but the man doesn't even look at him. He's back to trying very seriously to burn holes into Erik's -Oh God Erik- helmeted head. That's how Charles knows something is terribly wrong, The Doctor is rarely knowingly serious when he can prevent it. It occurs to him that he ought to have realized the seriousness of the situation before but he still feels like his brain had been cut in two with a rusty ax (which is kind of what happened). He knows better that to try to look into The Doctor's head thought, it's exhausting even in the best of days and now he might just mess everything up and stay trapped in the Time Lord's head forever with the Dream Lord for only companion. Alex's voice bring him back from his musing.
"What the hell ?"
"Now that's not right at all" The oncoming storm is frowning again. "The question here should have been 'Who the hell?'" And now he's smiling that crooked smile that makes you want to pat him in the back.
Ah yes actually Alex is right that's the question Charles should have asked himself first. Stupid Doctor, messing with his head. He already knows who the man is. Even if it's a little hazy right now. Charles pretty sure that the coin did more lasting damages that he thought because he's thinking process is usually way more collected than that. He feels a little surreal. He's thinking in feelings. That's just weird.
"I'm The Doctor." Creepy smile.
"Doctor Who ?" Erik. Bark.
"Exactly;" Blank "Ah. Not as much fun as before this." Disturbed. " You didn't think that you could just kill 200 peoples without anyone trying to stop you did you ? Now I'm going to give you a choice Erik. Because I don't want to have to stop you. Now let's talk, alright ?" Seriousness. Fear. Excitement.
Re: Madman with a box
anonymous
October 6 2011, 12:45:19 UTC
"They tried to kill us. We saved them and they tried to kill us when we're trapped on a island. Like rabid dogs. Even with one of them with us." Rage. Disgust.
"You don't understand what is going to happen, do you ? They're afraid of you so they try to kill you and you're afraid of them so you try to kill them. And it never ends. Trust me, I know. I've seen it all. I've been a part of it. It's a disease that will poison you and the people who will come after you for eras. The children will grow up in a world of hate. Erik. You lived through that. Do you want it to start again because of you ?" Old. So Old. Exhausted. Sad. Listen.
"We should just disappear because you don't want your precious humans to suffer ? I'm not going to hide or suffer for them. I'll fight back." Blank. Disgust. Pain. Fear. Hate. Determination.
"I'm not doing this for them. Or for you, Erik. Not for the mutants. I'm doing this for Charles."
Shock. And it's definitely his own. The Doctor is staring at him now and he feels inexplicably sobered. What happened ? What happened to me ? What did I ask you to do ? He's answered by a wave of Despair, Love and Helplessness. Charles' telepathy is too erratic to decipher the time lord's thought right now but he's pretty sure that the man is apologizing over and over again and Charles wants to yell at him to stop. Maybe he did yell because The Doctor looks away from him.
"There was a woman once. But it's always the women isn't it ?" Sad smile. Another story altogether. "Donna. The most important woman in the universe and god and she acted like she knew it. But she didn't, she thought she was useless. She couldn't be more wrong." Strong nostalgia. Love. Grief. Fascination. "She rescued me from a very bad place the day I met her. I was killing this alien's children because she was a murderer. And Donna, amazing, brave, Donna she asked me to stop. And she was terrified of me and for me. She made me realize what I was doing while reminding me that people still cared for me - and she thought she wasn't much." Broken laugh. "I didn't know at the time but I was at a crossroad. And Donna saved me, twice that day. She told me I needed someone to stop me and she was right. We all need someone to stop us." Love. Sadness. "Erik. You are at a crossroad right now. The decision you are going to make will dictate the rest of your life and the rest of thousands of others. You needed someone to stop you and I'm here. You won't kill those men. I'll stop you so you can take a decision." Certainty. "Will you take the easy path and continue alone or will you take the complicated one and stay with Charles ?" Uncertainty. Praying. Fragile hope.
"I..." Blank. Lost. Afraid. Fear. Comprehension.
"You have all the time you want Erik. Sometimes we don't, sometimes we have to decide right there and sometimes we don't have much of a choice at all but you Erik you have all the time you want. So take it. Please think of the consequences, all of them. Be sure of what you're doing. And for the love of tea, talk with the people who loves you. Look at them, they're aren't only terrified of you. They're afraid for you too." Triumph. Fear. Joy.
Nobody moves, they're all looking at Erik waiting for him to make the choice to make a choice. Charles can't even hear anyone breathing. Did he froze them without realizing it ? The Doctor looks like a little kid afraid of being rejected and Charles can only understand. Please. Please make the right choice. Please. He's not sure if it's his thought or everyone else's. He doesn't care. The Doctor is right, we all need someone to stop us. We all need someone. And that someone is Erik for him. There will never be someone else. He needs him as much as Erik needs Charles. Please. He has the distant impression of something separating. The phantom feelings of legs made of lead and losing everything. A possible future erased. A careful crack in time and space immediately recovered by something new. The Doctor felt it too and is now looking at him with that serious frown again because Charles was not supposed to feel it.
Re: Madman with a box
anonymous
October 6 2011, 12:50:01 UTC
Detonations reverberate. Erik released the bombs mid air. Charles can feels deep bones relief coming from two thousands men and distractedly realize that if he had felt their deaths he would have died with them from sheer pain. He'll have time later to feel horrified at that thought because right now Erik is facing an ecstatic Doctor and defensively crossing his arms.
Uncomfortable staring contest. Erik lose.
"What now ?" Silence. Charles almost forgot he couldn't hear Erik's thought.
"What now ? Oh, I'm sorry I was celebrating inside. It's so rare that people listen to me and I don't have to stop them." The Doctor is happily wiggling is fingers at Erik. Of course he is, he's back in charge. Charles snort. Madman with a box.
"Oi!" Ah. Apparently Charles said that aloud. "Why don't we get out of that beach ?" Charles know him enough to know that it's more an order than a question and stand up. He feels like it was years ago that he was pushed down there by a punch. Boy but Erik can throw a punch.
The Doctor put his arm on his shoulders and push him toward the TARDIS. He doesn't look back to check if anyone is following them. He doesn't have to. Those who want to will. "Charles have you got some tea ? What about Jammy Dodgers ? It's been some times since I ate some and I have been craving them lately but I was stepping back into the shadows for some times. I know it's uncharacteristic of me but you know 'Silence will fall' and all that. What, no ? No of course not you don't know. I'll have to tell you everything that happened after I said goodbye. I got married, and I escaped death. In that order. The usual." The Doctor poke him and smile. "And what about you Charles Xavier ?"
Charles feels all the tension in his body vanish.
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The End. Stupid character limit.
This is short but well. Erik still had to make his choice but right now, Charles was sure that everything would be just fine. He had all the persons he loved at his side.
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"And what do you think you're doing ?"
Every single persons on the beach turn around to meet the surprising image of a frowning man wearing a tweed jacket and a bow tie standing against a blue police box.
"It feels like there should be a young man somewhere in that sentence. Uhm."
And now he is mumbling to himself.
Charles wonder briefly why The Doctor always leave the TARDIS making this horrible wheezing sound if he can appear that quietly, before realizing that his first question should be "Weren't you supposed to be dead ?". He is still in shock after the thing with the coin and Shaw and he's telepathy is harder to control right now so he's sure The Doctor heard the thought but the man doesn't even look at him. He's back to trying very seriously to burn holes into Erik's -Oh God Erik- helmeted head. That's how Charles knows something is terribly wrong, The Doctor is rarely knowingly serious when he can prevent it. It occurs to him that he ought to have realized the seriousness of the situation before but he still feels like his brain had been cut in two with a rusty ax (which is kind of what happened). He knows better that to try to look into The Doctor's head thought, it's exhausting even in the best of days and now he might just mess everything up and stay trapped in the Time Lord's head forever with the Dream Lord for only companion. Alex's voice bring him back from his musing.
"What the hell ?"
"Now that's not right at all" The oncoming storm is frowning again. "The question here should have been 'Who the hell?'" And now he's smiling that crooked smile that makes you want to pat him in the back.
Ah yes actually Alex is right that's the question Charles should have asked himself first. Stupid Doctor, messing with his head. He already knows who the man is. Even if it's a little hazy right now.
Charles pretty sure that the coin did more lasting damages that he thought because he's thinking process is usually way more collected than that. He feels a little surreal. He's thinking in feelings. That's just weird.
"I'm The Doctor." Creepy smile.
"Doctor Who ?" Erik. Bark.
"Exactly;" Blank "Ah. Not as much fun as before this." Disturbed. " You didn't think that you could just kill 200 peoples without anyone trying to stop you did you ? Now I'm going to give you a choice Erik. Because I don't want to have to stop you. Now let's talk, alright ?" Seriousness. Fear. Excitement.
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"You don't understand what is going to happen, do you ? They're afraid of you so they try to kill you and you're afraid of them so you try to kill them. And it never ends. Trust me, I know. I've seen it all. I've been a part of it. It's a disease that will poison you and the people who will come after you for eras. The children will grow up in a world of hate. Erik. You lived through that. Do you want it to start again because of you ?" Old. So Old. Exhausted. Sad. Listen.
"We should just disappear because you don't want your precious humans to suffer ? I'm not going to hide or suffer for them. I'll fight back." Blank. Disgust. Pain. Fear. Hate. Determination.
"I'm not doing this for them. Or for you, Erik. Not for the mutants. I'm doing this for Charles."
Shock. And it's definitely his own. The Doctor is staring at him now and he feels inexplicably sobered. What happened ? What happened to me ? What did I ask you to do ? He's answered by a wave of Despair, Love and Helplessness. Charles' telepathy is too erratic to decipher the time lord's thought right now but he's pretty sure that the man is apologizing over and over again and Charles wants to yell at him to stop. Maybe he did yell because The Doctor looks away from him.
"There was a woman once. But it's always the women isn't it ?" Sad smile. Another story altogether. "Donna. The most important woman in the universe and god and she acted like she knew it. But she didn't, she thought she was useless. She couldn't be more wrong." Strong nostalgia. Love. Grief. Fascination. "She rescued me from a very bad place the day I met her. I was killing this alien's children because she was a murderer. And Donna, amazing, brave, Donna she asked me to stop. And she was terrified of me and for me. She made me realize what I was doing while reminding me that people still cared for me - and she thought she wasn't much." Broken laugh. "I didn't know at the time but I was at a crossroad. And Donna saved me, twice that day. She told me I needed someone to stop me and she was right. We all need someone to stop us." Love. Sadness. "Erik. You are at a crossroad right now. The decision you are going to make will dictate the rest of your life and the rest of thousands of others. You needed someone to stop you and I'm here. You won't kill those men. I'll stop you so you can take a decision." Certainty. "Will you take the easy path and continue alone or will you take the complicated one and stay with Charles ?" Uncertainty. Praying. Fragile hope.
"I..." Blank. Lost. Afraid. Fear. Comprehension.
"You have all the time you want Erik. Sometimes we don't, sometimes we have to decide right there and sometimes we don't have much of a choice at all but you Erik you have all the time you want. So take it. Please think of the consequences, all of them. Be sure of what you're doing. And for the love of tea, talk with the people who loves you. Look at them, they're aren't only terrified of you. They're afraid for you too." Triumph. Fear. Joy.
Nobody moves, they're all looking at Erik waiting for him to make the choice to make a choice. Charles can't even hear anyone breathing. Did he froze them without realizing it ? The Doctor looks like a little kid afraid of being rejected and Charles can only understand. Please. Please make the right choice. Please. He's not sure if it's his thought or everyone else's. He doesn't care. The Doctor is right, we all need someone to stop us. We all need someone. And that someone is Erik for him. There will never be someone else. He needs him as much as Erik needs Charles. Please. He has the distant impression of something separating. The phantom feelings of legs made of lead and losing everything. A possible future erased. A careful crack in time and space immediately recovered by something new. The Doctor felt it too and is now looking at him with that serious frown again because Charles was not supposed to feel it.
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Uncomfortable staring contest. Erik lose.
"What now ?" Silence. Charles almost forgot he couldn't hear Erik's thought.
"What now ? Oh, I'm sorry I was celebrating inside. It's so rare that people listen to me and I don't have to stop them." The Doctor is happily wiggling is fingers at Erik. Of course he is, he's back in charge. Charles snort. Madman with a box.
"Oi!" Ah. Apparently Charles said that aloud. "Why don't we get out of that beach ?" Charles know him enough to know that it's more an order than a question and stand up. He feels like it was years ago that he was pushed down there by a punch. Boy but Erik can throw a punch.
The Doctor put his arm on his shoulders and push him toward the TARDIS. He doesn't look back to check if anyone is following them. He doesn't have to. Those who want to will. "Charles have you got some tea ? What about Jammy Dodgers ? It's been some times since I ate some and I have been craving them lately but I was stepping back into the shadows for some times. I know it's uncharacteristic of me but you know 'Silence will fall' and all that. What, no ? No of course not you don't know. I'll have to tell you everything that happened after I said goodbye. I got married, and I escaped death. In that order. The usual." The Doctor poke him and smile. "And what about you Charles Xavier ?"
Charles feels all the tension in his body vanish.
____________________________
The End.
Stupid character limit.
This is short but well.
Erik still had to make his choice but right now, Charles was sure that everything would be just fine. He had all the persons he loved at his side.
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