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R3, Everyday Love in Stockholm - Human!Charles all cooped up

[tahariel]

Prompt: Magneto is the ruler of the posthuman world.

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.

Fill: http://xmen-firstkink.livejournal.com/3278.html?thread=3989710#t3989710

Everyday Love in Stockholm will continue from this post once Round Three fills up. Hope it's okay to put a placeholder here, mods!

Re: FILL: Everyday Love in Stockholm 131/?

[tahariel]

The photograph of Erik's house is from Part Three subsection XII (which was quite a while ago now), that I'd always intended to bring back this way, so I'm really pleased it worked for you on so many levels. It's pretty heartbreaking, I think, for that to be the only thing you have left of your family, and that not connected to them at all, on any real level. For him to show it to Charles is a really big step for Erik, and it shows in the way they come together after that - there's a new level of intimacy there.

The more comfortable he gets with Charles the better he'll be about personal space and knowing when he is and isn't wanted, but I think the main thing for Erik here is that while he is starting to get an idea about Charles, and knows Raven, he doesn't yet know where he fits into Charles-and-Raven. It's territory he has yet to discover.

I'm really pleased it all worked for you, anyway, and thanks for sticking with me :)

Re: FILL: Everyday Love in Stockholm 131/?

[afrocurl]

Oh man, I can just tell that the fall is going to kill me here. When it comes--when Raven is dead and Charles is alone--I'm going to weep.

But, there's so much here that I want to cling to. I love how they've given into each other, more fully. There's an odd sense of peace here--something I know won't last long--but it's gorgeous nonetheless. Opening up to each other, sharing bits of their respective pasts--it's progress. Hard earned, but worth it.

Re: FILL: Everyday Love in Stockholm 131/?

[tahariel]

I really wanted, here, to start opening up that emotional intimacy between them that they've been dancing around up until now, and to show that they can be together in a real way. I'm glad that worked for you, bb!

Re: FILL: Everyday Love in Stockholm 131/?

[levitatethis]

Love. Absolute love. That's what I feel after reading this update

Re: FILL: Everyday Love in Stockholm 131/?

[tahariel]

As ever, what a lovely comment - thank you, bb! I sort of want to elaborate on your points but you've put everything so well and so succinctly that sometimes I wonder if you've been hiding in my brain watching me write, because you're always so spot on. Are you secretly me from another dimension?

Re: FILL: Everyday Love in Stockholm 131/?

[levitatethis]

The cat's out of the bag, so-to-speak. I'm not you from another dimension but I suspect we've had this conversation (or one very similar to it) in a parallel universe. It's all just coming together now :-)

Re: FILL: Everyday Love in Stockholm 131/?

[db_mmxx]

Simply lovely. Not to mention heartbreaking in how domestic and happy they all seem, but then I remember the dark cloud hanging over their heads, especially Charles', and it all becomes bitter-sweet. I love this fic!

Re: FILL: Everyday Love in Stockholm 131/?

[tahariel]

Thank you so much! I'm so flattered and pleased :)

Re: FILL: Everyday Love in Stockholm 131/?

[disbelief11]

Your Erik is KILLING me with how fucked up and lonely he is, and how this life he's creating with Raven and Charles isn't truly real since he has to keep Charles hidden up in the attic, yet it's the closest to "normal" he's got.

When Raven is gone, it'll be like Charles ceases to exist for himself since there's no one there to know who his was before he was locked up.

For fucks sake, this is heartbreakingly beautiful.

Re: FILL: Everyday Love in Stockholm 131/?

[tahariel]

Thank you! I'm really glad you liked it. I think we really needed this interlude, here, to show how they can be and how they could have been, as well as opening them up a bit further to one another. I hope it keeps working for you as we keep going :)

Re: FILL: Everyday Love in Stockholm 131/?

[ext_794614]

such a happy, familial, beautiful update! I'm grinning like the Joker :D I think my body is ready for the upcoming storm (NOOOO!!!)

Re: FILL: Everyday Love in Stockholm 131/?

[tahariel]

Hee, hold on to your hats :D

Re: FILL: Everyday Love in Stockholm 131/?

[takmarierah]

Ahhhhh why do I feel like everything has to go horribly wrong soon. D:

What a tender update this was! From Erik's sort of panicked desire to share his own pain, thinking it was selfish of him; the reminder that this world is different because Raven had to protect Charles; all the reminiscing and the quiet, slow sex and these two lines:

...each near-catch of his fingernails like the way Erik imagines it would feel to try and harness lightning...

It’s like tasting Charles’ heart beating...

<3!

Re: FILL: Everyday Love in Stockholm 131/?

[tahariel]

Thanks - it means a lot that you like it, so I'm really pleased and happy right now :) I really wanted here to have a more intimate interlude of opening up, but there was never going to be a way to do that that wasn't more like reopening old wounds for Erik. He has to do it to let the poison out, but it means Charles gets to see in, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, so long as he's not squeamish.

Re: FILL: Everyday Love in Stockholm 131/?

[telperion_15]

That was so gorgeous! :D