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Erik/Charles, There's always a price...; angst, AU

[anonymous]

I've always thought that using mutant powers is too easy and that human - mutated, but still - body is far too endurable, considering the fact that it's almost constantly put under a lot of strain.

I want to see AU where there is an actual prize for using mutant powers. So, for example - you go ahead and use your telepathy, Xavier - but be aware of the fact that you're making that hematoma in your head bigger; feel free to scream, Sean - but know that you won't be able to TALK at the age of thirty etc.

How the X-world would change if such price for using mutant powers existed? And how would you try to stop your loved one from, well, killing himself..?

Re: Erik/Charles, There's always a price...; angst, AU

[brokenbacktango]

I'm sorry, I read "I want to see AU where there is an actual prize for using mutant powers" and thought "Congratulations, Charles, you get a BRAND NEW CAR!" *confetti*

But seriously, this is a FANTASTIC prompt and I completely agree with the point you made. It's something I've always wondered about as well.

Re: Erik/Charles, There's always a price...; angst, AU

[tartary_lamb]

The OP has an excellent prompt idea and I'd love to see it written, but oh god...

"Congratulations, Charles, you get a BRAND NEW CAR!" *confetti*

laughing hysterically omg

FILL: Five Times a Price Was Paid (And One Time It Was Paid Gladly) 1 (slight Charles/Erik)

[anonymous]

This is actually the first time I've done a 5x fic. Huh.

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It’s not all sunshine and roses.

1. Hunger

Alex’s legs feel like jello after his first day of training. It’s not something that he is entirely unfamiliar with, but it’s the first time he’s felt it since he left prison. By the time he has a shower and pulls on clean clothes, his stomach hurts and he knows he needs to eat soon.

He pads his way to the refectory and almost weeps with relief at the piles of food on the table - casserole, bread, salad. He grabs a seat next to Sean and loads a generous helping of all three onto his plate, letting the chatter of the others wash over him as he digs in, refilling his plate as needed. Charles and Erik man the table head and end and it feels like being bracketed by responsibility, by calmness.

He’s vaguely aware of the growing silence around him, but it’s less important than getting more food right now. The casserole might be good, but that matters less than the fact it’s food and it goes down quickly and easily. It feels like the

Re: FILL: Five Times a Price Was Paid (And One Time It Was Paid Gladly) 1 (slight Charles/Erik)

[anonymous]

This is already amazing. Very nice, the way that Alex tries to play down his insecurity and Erik just...knows.

Looking forward to the rest!

Re: FILL: Five Times a Price Was Paid (And One Time It Was Paid Gladly) 2a (cost of mutation)

[anonymous]

Sorry, the header should have been Four Times a Price Was Paid (And One Time It Was Paid Gladly). Title fail. *facepalms*

I plan to have this finished tomorrow. Sorry for the delay, anons.

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Blurred - Raven

Thank god for Charles’ money, thinks Moira. Otherwise I would probably have been eaten by now.

Lunch is on the table, plentiful and steaming, with Sean, Alex and Hank circling like hungry sharks and Charles not far behind. It’s been a busy morning of training - with Sean gleefully breaking glass under her watchful eye (it seems he still takes a child’s delight in destruction), Alex working on his control (in the form of hitting everything but his intended target) and Charles and Hank running laps of the grounds (or rather, Hank running laps of Charles as Charles runs laps of the grounds). Raven had been in the gym last she saw, and Erik - well, she doesn’t actually know what Erik has been doing all morning, but unlike the kids, she trusts him to have control over his abilities. Perhaps a little too much control, based on

Re: FILL: Five Times a Price Was Paid (And One Time It Was Paid Gladly) 2b (cost of mutation)

[moonmip]

Raven is sobbing, trying to grasp the edges of the bath, to pull herself out, but her fingers can’t hold, they keep slipping because they revolve through an endless kaleidoscope of colors and shapes. Throughout the flicker and flare of her skin endlessly changing, her eyes stay a luminous gold even as her face stretches and contracts around them

Re: FILL: Five Times a Price Was Paid (And One Time It Was Paid Gladly) 2b (cost of mutation)

[moonmip]

And anon fail! *facepalm x 100*

Re: FILL: Five Times a Price Was Paid (And One Time It Was Paid Gladly) 3a (cost of mutation)

[moonmip]

3. BoundThe first thing he does when the shoes come off is flex his feet. There is always a flare of pain when he first stretches, and then it dies down to a dull ache that he has grown used to because he’s lived with it for most of his life. Larger-sized shoes limit the pain somewhat, but really, no matter what size shoes he wears, they aren’t designed for amounts to an opposable thumb on each foot

Re: FILL: Five Times a Price Was Paid (And One Time It Was Paid Gladly) 3b (cost of mutation)

[moonmip]

Hank lingers at the window and tries to imagine what it would have been like if Angel had stayed, if Darwin hadn’t died. Would Angel and Sean take turns diving around the grounds, assuming Sean ever gets off the ground? Would Angel give him flying tips? Would Charles have set up targets for her to spit at, like he does for Alex? How would Charles have challenged Darwin? He tries to imagine two more bodies at the mansion, but bodies always leads to Darwin, dead, and the deep feeling of betrayal that Angel could go with the man who did that. It hurts to think like that too long and he takes refuge in science, as he always has

Re: FILL: Five Times a Price Was Paid (And One Time It Was Paid Gladly) 3a (cost of mutation)

[gokuma]

"It’s worse in winter, when the cold makes his contorted bones throb with a deep hurt all day long. Or maybe it’s worse in summer, when the heat makes his feet swell a little, makes the shoes all the more constricting, and sometimes he wants nothing more than to run around in bare feet, to feel the cool tiles beneath him and to flex as much as he wants."

Poor Hank! ;___; His mutation is probably the worst, because he cannot interact with any other people outside the Mansion...