a little more than just a nap [emma, erik and charles]

[looking_forhope]

Sleep had been something quite foreign to him since before Ororo had found the fluid inside his head. A few hours here and there seemed hardly enough. When he was awake, he felt as though he could sleep for hours, though when he tried, he couldn't seem to go past two hours

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[no_equalchance]

Emma had sensed when Charles began to stir awake but she didn't move from where she was sitting beside him in his bed, reclined against a stack of pillows against the headboard. Wearing a long silk white dressing gown, she looked as though she were ready for bed as well and like it wasn't at all weird that she was there in his room.

As he grew aware of her, she didn't look at him right away but stayed focused on the worn little book between her hands. But finally, she looked at him, glancing at him out of the corner of her eye.

"Hello, Charles."

[looking_forhope]

At her words, Charles jumped.

"Wh-what are you doing? Emma. Wh-why are you here? Where's your clothes?" he stuttered, fully in shock and not knowing if this was really her or just her projecting.

He pulled the blankets up, checked to see if he was wearing his clothes and then pulled them back tightly over his chest when he realized he was.

[prefers_magneto]

Erik was sitting in a nearby chair. He'd put aside the book Charles had given him at Christmas once they started getting into setting up classes and training and everything else. His lessons with Lorna, the disciplinaries he supervised, Cerebro... a lot of things had eaten into his free time.

But, seeing as he had no intention of leaving Charles in an enforced nap under Emma's supervision alone, he'd pulled it out again, picking up where he left off.

He looked up when Emma spoke, a little relieved that this distasteful business was over.

[no_equalchance]

Emma raised a brow at Charles, glancing down at herself and then she looked at him with a hint of amusement though her features remained somewhat neutral. In truth, she was a bit drained and a touch on edge but she didn't let it show.

"I am dressed." Her tone had a hint of 'oh, come on now' to it.

She glanced at Erik, noting his relief which was a nice change from distaste he had over the whole thing.

[prefers_magneto]

Erik looked up to meet his gaze.

"I don't believe you," he said evenly. "You wave off my concerns all the time."

[looking_forhope]

"At the meeting, I told you I would rest. Just as you asked me to. Before that, I thought everything was fine, that the headaches were from doing too much, too soon." Charles replied.

[prefers_magneto]

Erik didn't have an answer to that. He still didn't think Charles would have allowed them to put him out for an entire day, but he didn't want to start a fight that would only wear Charles out again.

He didn't reply.

[looking_forhope]

Charles watched Erik for a long moment, then shook his head in disbelief.

"I would have. Especially after I saw how you looked, how you felt after your dream."