round 3 overflow post
Round 3 Overflow Post
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His only secret? Charles Xavier, the human he's kept locked in his bedroom ever since his right-hand woman, Mystique, came to him pleading for mercy for her stepbrother, who accepted her mutant form and protected her as a child. The human he started fucking after Mystique was killed in battle, despite the guilt he feels at contaminating even this last promise to the woman who was integral to his life's work and happiness.
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Everyday Love in Stockholm will continue from this post once Round Three fills up. Hope it's okay to put a placeholder here, mods!
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XIIBy the time Rogue comes in to work the next morning Magneto is already at his desk with the folders Mystique had brought him stacked in his out tray ready to be taken away and filed, a pen between his teeth as he flicks through a stack of paperwork that has accumulated in his absence, waiting to be signed. She bustles through the door and jumps about a foot when she looks up and sees him sat there, clapping a gloved hand to her chest and laughing breathlessly. “Oh! Lord, Magneto, you surprised me,” and she takes another couple of steps closer to the desk, stops just on the other side where she can peer at what he’s doing. “Guess ah got used to you being away! It’s good to see you back, safe and sound, if you don’t mind me saying ( ... )
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“You don’t want them?”
“No! I mean, yes, yes, I want them,” and the nearest pile is dragged closer to their feet as though Erik might try to take them away, Charles looking back up at him with eyes wide and a little bit desperate, hands clenched in the pages and crumpling them into sharp creases. “Where did you get all of this? I mean, nobody was publishing for so long, but I haven’t read all of these, and there’s so much research here that doesn’t seem to have come from a journal, which I definitely haven’t seen because it’s about mutants, Erik, mutant genetics, and where ( ... )
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Oh, God, did I just say normal?
Help me! Give me more! I need more of this now or the fluff will take me!!!
Mae
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They each have so much that they aren't telling each other, even if they can fall into something physical together, it's not a relationship. That emotional distance is going to be worse the longer they each play that game. It's like one step forward and another two back when they make some progress.
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And Charles is stuck there, no matter how well-intentioned, and so he's trying to make sure he doesn't fall for Erik just because Erik is keeping him there. It makes it difficult for them to fully connect without each of them worrying about the other.
Maybe you should give them both a slap anyway, see if it knocks something loose :D
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If you'd let me, I totally would. :D
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ErikAs we've already discussed, I adore the approach you take with your third person-limited perspective. I really do get entirely engrossed in Erik's perspective when I read an update from you. There's something dark about being in his psyche, with vague edges of brokenness. But I think the best part is the way that you use that. You show, you don't tell, and despite the fact it's from Erik's perspective we learn about Erik through those around him-particularly Charles and Raven, I feel. You never really write Erik just sitting there thinking about his past or his scars or his baggage, and that's believable. No one sits around thinking extensively ( ... )
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