You know why you're here. You've seen the movie. You're asking yourself, "So where was the gratuitous Emma Frost as White Queen in a corset? When did Mystique totally make it with Beast? WHY IN HEAVENS DID XAVIER AND MAGNETO NEVER MAKE OUT
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bonuses for:
Raven shifting to visit Charles in the hospital (especially if it confuses Charles even more and makes things worse)
Erik somehow helping break Charles out
RAVEN BEING AWESOME
YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT
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NOPE. I DID NOT.
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also: this is fantastic, I am really enjoying it.
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(was at work, sorry! hopefully will also be updating this tonight at some point!)
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(and no worries; I don't even have that excuse. Also, hooray!)
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Charles spends most of the next two months with headaches. He doesn’t want to know what anyone is thinking, especially not about him, and when he tells Raven she just shrugs.
“I’d rather that than look like this,” she says, and holds up one blue hand for him to see.
“I’d trade,” Charles says, unhappily, and pushes his face into his pillow. James hasn’t stopped wanting to kill him since Charles said that thing about his parents. The other boys all think he’s some kind of freak and give him wide berth, but he can still hear all the things they’re thinking about him. Queer, and I bet he’s some kind of pervert, and no way am I ever - don’t leave me alone with him, and demon-worshiper, I bet -
“At least you like me,” Charles says, words still muffled in his pillow.
I’ll always like you, Raven thinks at him, matter-of-factly. You’re my best friend“You, too,” Charles says ( ... )
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The boy they room Charles with spends all night talking to himself. He paces back and forth by the ends of their beds, and tugs at his hair with one fisted hand. Charles lies on his back and stares at the ceiling, trying to reconcile the words actually coming out the boy’s mouth with the ones he can hear in his head. Charles wonders who he’s talking to.
Eventually the slide-drag of the boy’s footsteps lulls Charles to sleep, if only for a few hours.
He’s shown into the doctor’s office early the next morning. The orderlies don’t tell him anything, but he can feel how detached they are. He’s just another faceless kid, troubled and crazy and not worth caring about. He tries to push off the wonder how long this one is going to last and the two hours until my shift if over, but it gets underneath his skin like sandpaper. No one here really cares if he gets better ( ... )
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JUST- Charles and Raven being BFFs and Charles FAILING AT TACT and poor poor Charles oh my heart~ I'm terrible but I can't wait for Charles to despair.
Favoritest FOREVER
/rickrolls you ♥ ♥ ♥
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AND HOW HAPPY I AM THAT YOU ARE ENJOYING THIS FILL.
CHARLES IS GOING TO BE VERY SAD, I'M AFRAID. :( :( :(
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I love this. The angst, the despair... ughuu~! Poor Charles!!
Can't wait for the next update :D
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The grains of salt get caught underneath Charles’ fingernails, and he wonders if he’s past his thirteenth birthday yet.
The doctor says that the treatments aren’t working. He starts electroshock therapy in the morning.
They strap him down, ankles and wrists and torso, and push a piece of flat plastic into his mouth. So he doesn’t bite his tongue.
“You’ll feel better in a jiffy,” the doctor says, falsely cheerful, and Charles tries to shake his head, shake out the way the doctors words contradict his thoughts - this one might be hopeless - hopeless - non-violent at ( ... )
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You’re too slow, comes from nowhere in particular, and he realizes that she’s staring at him, eyes wide and angry and he tries to speak but no words come out.
Wake up, she says, without moving her mouth. Wake up wake up wake up“Charles ( ... )
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