Brief Lives (14/?)

[monstrousreg]

Title: Brief Lives (14/?)
Author: monstrousreg
Word count:  2576
Warnings:  Sexual situation. 
Pairing: Erik/Charles.
Summary: Erik thinks he's going to seduce, interrogate and murder some nondescript CIA intelligence agent, and winds up biting more than he can chew. Charles is not keen on being murdered, he doesn't favor interrogations, and he's

Comments

[oonaseckar]

I feel like I'm being put through a wringer. I'll just whimper here quietly in the corner, then.

[monstrousreg]

*hugs* I know, it's all awful right now, but don't worry--not all is lost.

[tea_and_trifles]

I am not sure I was able to take a breath during this whole chapter. I cannot believe how this story spirals deeper and deeper and deeper... it's just fascinating. Shaw is horrible, so spot on character there. And Erik knows how to push his buttons. He is incredibly brave -- Charles' projection is right, when Erik obsesses over something, no pain will stand in his way.

I wonder why Charles meant to use Erik as a dam. I knew that he had meant to use Erik as a weapon/bait all along, before his feelings for Erik, but I cannot wait to find out the mystery, and how Francis Xavier fits into it all.

I don't know how your imagination comes up with these original things. How does it? Seriously.

[monstrousreg]

Ehhh, my mind is a weird place, that's all the explanation I can give. I probably think waaaay too much on the implications of powers of fictional characters in comic books.

When Erik first brough up the subject of allowing Charles to copy his mental patterns by forcing a bond, Charles imagined that Erik's natural tendency to repress (something he talks about in Paris at that cafe) will fortify his own repression of his father's memories. The walls he'd build were beggining to fracture, as it tends to happen when you repress something for a very long time--you can;t hold it back forever. So Erik was meant to be a dam, but that's where Charles made a mistake--Erik doesn't repress at all. He embraces and moves forward, only he does it in much more intense a way that Charles, thus developing obsessions.

...I think too much of myelf, clearly.

[avictoriangirl]

WAGH. Evol cliffhanger of DOOOOM. *bites nails*

[jen_chan13]

ZOMG where did you get your icon????? *goes hunting*

[avictoriangirl]

Aww, thank you! No need to go hunting, I made it and you can find it here. :D

[monstrousreg]

I knoooow, I hate that I have to use cliffhangers but damn LJ has space limitations!

[blackrosefire11]

Oh god. I was so worried that Emma had somehow destroyed their connection. I love this, I love Francis, I love Erik being a tough little shit, and I love Shaw. And I think the fact I love Charles goes without saying.

[monstrousreg]

Erik being a tough little shit is what I like the most of his character. No one cand estroy their connection except Charles and Erik, so don't worry. Thank you!

[telperion_15]

I don't think I breathed at all while I was reading this! Your Erik/Shaw dynamic is fantastic!

[monstrousreg]

Thank you! I'll update soon, promise.