XMMF Fic: Ultimatum (Scott/Erik), rated Adult. For Ion_Bond.

[inathunderstorm]

Title: Ultimatum
Author: Sionnain
’Verse: XMMF, set pre-movies.
Pairing: Scott/Erik (Cyclops/Magneto)
Rating: Adult
Warning: Non-con, angst. Please be advised of the warnings.
Summary: Scott wants Erik to make a choice.

AN: My thanks to artaxastra for a wonderful beta, and to eldee for also reading a draft of this. This was written for the occasion of Ion_Bond's

Comments

[lux_apollo]

Wow.

[inathunderstorm]

Yes, it was rather horrible of me, huh?

*hides*

Thanks for reading!

[cyndrarae]

Loved it! Someone mentioned above this is very UltimateX and I agree. The angst in that universe and the lengths anyone would go to for their respective causes is bloody shocking. Your story does the same thing.. shocking and heartbreaking :) I love Scott.. your Scott is exactly the way I envision him and you know Erik/Scott is kinda hot! Even in this twisted scenario haha. Yep I'm a perv :D Thanks for writing hon.

[inathunderstorm]

I am very glad you enjoyed it! And yes, it's sort of Ultimate-Magneto, but I couldn't seem to help it. I really couldn't find any other way to hook these two up. Thankfully, darling Ion likes darkfic and angst.

Thanks for reading!

[lonelywalker]

Oh, man. Scott seems so young in this, and yet is being torn apart by the very thing he's trying so desperately to hold together.

The Professor said it’s because she had a traumatic childhood. Scott wants to remind him that he had one, too, but he doesn’t.

I wonder how young Scott was when everyone started thinking of him as the "fearless leader", of the one who would always be stoic and brave and would pull them all through. Because, really, who amongst them didn't have a traumatic childhood? And Scott's probably still going through his.

“You can’t have both,” Scott says, swallowing hard. “You can’t have us and be Magneto, too.”

This was just so disturbing and sad and gut-wrenching, for both of them. and it's the both that makes it worse. Erik's doing what he thinks he has to do, even though he doesn't want it.

Guh. If only we knew it was going to get better for either of them.

[inathunderstorm]

I know. I'd fell less awful if, like, something nice happened to him. I told someone earlier, "Oh, I'll just go write something happy with him and Emma...oh, wait."

It just never seems to get better for the poor guy, does it?

Thank you for reading, and for the comment. I'm glad you enjoyed the fic, as sad as it was.

[st_aurafina]

That's some insane logic on behalf of Erik. I think that's the part that worked really well about this piece; with Erik hurting himself as much as Scott.

I wouldn't normally read something this dark. Glad I did though.

[inathunderstorm]

I know, it's sort of crazy. My biggest worry about this fic was that it was OOC, but I honestly could think of nothing else that would make Erik touch Scott, and Ion wanted Scott/Erik, so...

Thank you. I know some people aren't a fan of darkfic, and it means a lot that you read it regardless. *hugs you madly*

[mrc0w]

This is a deeply provocative fic in more ways than the obvious.

The most interesting point for me is Erik's choice to rape Scott instead of Jean. He could have made the same point by victimizing Jean, but it would have felt wildly different... there is an enthrallingly perverse and repulsive nobility to his actions here, but if there'd been any indication that he might have gotten any prurient thrill out of his crime, it would have been vastly overshadowed by his monstrousness.

You could have changed the tone of the entire fic with only a handful of words suggesting that Erik was excited by what he did, but you resisted any such impulse, and left us with something profoundly more disturbing.

Very deft work. I am impressed by the emotional subtlety and I found myself continuing to think about your scenario long after I'd closed the window.

[inathunderstorm]

Hey, wow, thank you for such insightful feedback. This was hard to write, because (well, as you know, *g*) I find darker things erotic, and that SO wasn't the point of this, or it wasn't supposed to be at all.

It was supposed to be sad and disturbing, so I'm glad that you got that from it (though I feel bad saying that. "Hey, I'm glad my fic disturbed you!"), and hearing that it lingered with you is of course a very high compliment.

[mrc0w]

(though I feel bad saying that. "Hey, I'm glad my fic disturbed you!")

I like being disturbed, so that would be an entirely friendly thing to say to me.

[inathunderstorm]

Then I am glad it disturbed you, greatly :)