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Fill: Keep On Walking (NC-17) 1/3nevcolleilJuly 22 2014, 23:35:04 UTC
Logan watches as Charles presses the needle of the syringe to his skin, red lips bunched in concentration. His breaths are pants shaken by the shudders that wrack his whole body, even in the warm, stuffy air of the mansion. Logan won't spare himself this, even as Hank looks away.
Watching his mentor shoot up is the smallest price Logan can pay for failing the man so badly, Logan figures. And this is Logan's failure - Logan believes that, no matter how the odds seem to have been stacked against him.
How was Logan supposed to convince this Charles to take up his cause? Logan's never been good with words, and he can barely wrap his mind around the fact that this Charles exists, bitter and broken and wrong.
Even as Charles's thumb hesitates on the plunger, Logan might have wondered if Charles could listen to anyone. Charles is too stuck in his own head right now - in his own pain - to hear. (Logan knows the look; he's been there.)
Except-
Except Charles keeps hesitating. He looks up at Logan... he looks over at Hank's bowed head.
( ... )
Fill: Keep On Walking (NC-17) 2/4nevcolleilJuly 22 2014, 23:38:12 UTC
They don't actually get stoned in Charles's study. Logan and Charles drink Hank under the table in there - or as close to it as Hank will let himself get before he stumbles off to his room, alone, waving away Logan's offer of help. But they've only smoked two joints between the three of them by that time.
It takes a lot more than that to make Logan feel something even remotely like what someone without his healing capabilities (and metabolism) would feel after so many hits.
Apparently, it takes a lot for Charles, too. He seems only a little less coordinated than Logan feels as he rolls their final roach.
Then again, Logan can't be sure that it's the drugs and alcohol that have made him this lightheaded - almost giddy. They might not have indulged all that much. They've moved back out of the study, and onto the massive stairs in the very center of the mansion's great room - but Logan can only vaguely remember half-carrying Charles part of the way, and watching him crawl across the other
( ... )
Fill: Keep On Walking (NC-17) 3/5nevcolleilJuly 22 2014, 23:41:05 UTC
"That's... my line," Logan says back, heart pounding in his throat. He's still trying to catch up to what's happening when Charles takes a long, deep drag from the joint, grabs Logan's face with the hand holding the joint, and seals his mouth over Logan's.
Logan's lips part on reflex, and he sucks in the smoke Charles breathes into him.
Then the smoke has to come back out through Logan's nose, because Logan's mouth is too busy to fuck with it, and suddenly he and Charles are kissing.
No-
Logan's fucked with less desperation than he puts into the slide of lips and tongues and teeth that goes on between him and Charles - he doesn't really know what to call it. Just that the feeling seems to be mutual for the telepath. Or else Charles is feeding off of Logan's own arousal and projecting it back at him
( ... )
Fill: Keep On Walking (NC-17) 4/5nevcolleilJuly 22 2014, 23:42:05 UTC
"I think we ought to just get you to bed," he says, not thinking about the phrasing of his words until he feels Charles - the cocky little shit - smirk against his skin
( ... )
Fill: Keep On Walking (NC-17) 5/5nevcolleilJuly 22 2014, 23:43:00 UTC
If the mansion stands for another fifty years - and Logan's around to see it - he knows he'll never look at the staircase in the center of the mansion without remembering Charles's flushed, pale skin, as he'd seen it in the moonlight that night that Charles had ridden him.
When he wakes up to the year 2023 - the new 2023, the one he'd had a hand in changing - Logan wanders the mansion's halls, feeling a new thrill each time he sees a face that he'd thought had been lost to him forever. But he stops at the stairway. Even when he sees Jean and Scott turning down a corridor, from a distance - and his heart lifts when he sees them (both of them) - Logan feels frozen in the moment.
He's lived for a long time. He'll live for a lot longer, if nothing stops him. 'I want this while I can still have it,' Charles had said. And isn't that the biggest, sickest irony of Logan's existence
( ... )
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Watching his mentor shoot up is the smallest price Logan can pay for failing the man so badly, Logan figures. And this is Logan's failure - Logan believes that, no matter how the odds seem to have been stacked against him.
How was Logan supposed to convince this Charles to take up his cause? Logan's never been good with words, and he can barely wrap his mind around the fact that this Charles exists, bitter and broken and wrong.
Even as Charles's thumb hesitates on the plunger, Logan might have wondered if Charles could listen to anyone. Charles is too stuck in his own head right now - in his own pain - to hear. (Logan knows the look; he's been there.)
Except-
Except Charles keeps hesitating. He looks up at Logan... he looks over at Hank's bowed head. ( ... )
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It takes a lot more than that to make Logan feel something even remotely like what someone without his healing capabilities (and metabolism) would feel after so many hits.
Apparently, it takes a lot for Charles, too. He seems only a little less coordinated than Logan feels as he rolls their final roach.
Then again, Logan can't be sure that it's the drugs and alcohol that have made him this lightheaded - almost giddy. They might not have indulged all that much. They've moved back out of the study, and onto the massive stairs in the very center of the mansion's great room - but Logan can only vaguely remember half-carrying Charles part of the way, and watching him crawl across the other ( ... )
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Logan's lips part on reflex, and he sucks in the smoke Charles breathes into him.
Then the smoke has to come back out through Logan's nose, because Logan's mouth is too busy to fuck with it, and suddenly he and Charles are kissing.
No-
Logan's fucked with less desperation than he puts into the slide of lips and tongues and teeth that goes on between him and Charles - he doesn't really know what to call it. Just that the feeling seems to be mutual for the telepath. Or else Charles is feeding off of Logan's own arousal and projecting it back at him ( ... )
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When he wakes up to the year 2023 - the new 2023, the one he'd had a hand in changing - Logan wanders the mansion's halls, feeling a new thrill each time he sees a face that he'd thought had been lost to him forever. But he stops at the stairway. Even when he sees Jean and Scott turning down a corridor, from a distance - and his heart lifts when he sees them (both of them) - Logan feels frozen in the moment.
He's lived for a long time. He'll live for a lot longer, if nothing stops him. 'I want this while I can still have it,' Charles had said. And isn't that the biggest, sickest irony of Logan's existence ( ... )
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