FILL: Getting By, 1/4, TW: Addiction, References to Abuse
anonymous
November 6 2011, 07:10:58 UTC
It’s Raven’s fault that Charles gets into the harder stuff. She doesn’t mean it but she can’t take it back.
She twirls around their bedroom, shared and disgustingly dingy but it’s also amazingly safe, safe from their foster father and his sudden alcohol induced whims. “I’m beautiful Charles, I’m finally beautiful.”
Charles looks lazily up from his joint, pinched between his thumb and forefinger. “You’ve always been beautiful to me.”
Raven flinches at how painfully genuine he is, smoothes at her sweatshirt with twitchy fingers and fluffs her stringy blond hair, staring down at Charles limp figure sprawled out over the bed. “Don’t joke.”
“I wouldn’t,” Charles insists, exhaling smoke slowly. He’s gotten good enough to blow circles when he wants to.
Raven preens herself in the cracked mirror, rubs at her inner elbow anxiously before dragging her fingers down the scars covering her left side. “Would you date me?”
“You’re my sister,” Charles says simply, as if that explains everything easily. Raven supposes it does for normal people,
( ... )
FILL: Getting By, 2/4, TW: Addiction, References to Abuse
anonymous
November 6 2011, 07:19:32 UTC
Erik knows the signs of abuse backwards and forwards. It’s fairly simple when you’ve been through it yourself. You begin to notice when those around you wear dark shirts (easier to hide the blood), long sleeved shirts (easier to hide the bruises), wince away when others move too close. Charles does all of this, goes quiet and strained, tries to make himself small, when people yell (only once, another client screaming about the price and Erik had made it quite clear to that man he was not to come again
( ... )
FILL: Getting By, 3/4, TW: Addiction, References to Abuse
anonymous
November 6 2011, 07:20:30 UTC
Sometimes Erik has a moral crisis - to sell drugs or not to sell drugs, that is the question. It’s all a convoluted messy thought process when it comes to Charles. One, there is no doubt he is as fucked up as Erik, and as far as Erik is concerned, drugs can be a magnificent coping mechanism. Two, as far as Erik knows drugs are also pretty terrible for you, at least that’s what D.A.R.E. told him in fourth grade. Three, Erik’s pretty sure Charles could find another dealer and another dealer would not hesitate to take advantage. In what way Erik is not sure, but his mind always cycles back to that thought until he shakes it unhappily away
( ... )
FILL: Getting By, 4/4, Complete, TW: Addiction, References to Abuse
anonymous
November 6 2011, 07:21:29 UTC
Charles sets himself to exploring, reaching up to feel his biceps and then stroking the base of Erik’s exposed throat. “You can touch,” he mumbles into Erik’s mouth, before rubbing his thumb against Erik’s adam’s apple curiously
( ... )
Re: FILL: Getting By, 4/4, Complete, TW: Addiction, References to Abuse
anonymous
November 12 2011, 03:17:57 UTC
author-anon here! as not-me-anon said before me, raven's comment was mainly based on the fact that charles properly introduced himself etc.
it's also meant to read as raven referring to charles as her "freaky nerdy brother" in a loving way - in reality she thinks of herself as entirely outside of society, as someone who is never going to fit in or be "normal", charles is just kind of geeky and weird and lovely in her opinion again, not sure if this read, but this is what i was aiming for
and thank you for the thoughtful comment, it meant a lot to me!
Re: FILL: Getting By, 4/4, Complete, TW: Addiction, References to Abuse
anonymous
November 12 2011, 03:27:58 UTC
author!anon here - UHHH ANYWAY YOU COULD LINK ME SAID FICS? i have not stumbled across them myself and i kind of filled this because of my own personal interest in the subject matter!
Re: FILL: Getting By, 4/4, Complete, TW: Addiction, References to Abuse
anonymous
November 12 2011, 05:00:33 UTC
there is only one other I can think of. It's a skins cross over, Erik is the kids' dealer. He isn't in it nearly enough but then the whole story could eb about him and I would still think that.
Please break my heart.
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She twirls around their bedroom, shared and disgustingly dingy but it’s also amazingly safe, safe from their foster father and his sudden alcohol induced whims. “I’m beautiful Charles, I’m finally beautiful.”
Charles looks lazily up from his joint, pinched between his thumb and forefinger. “You’ve always been beautiful to me.”
Raven flinches at how painfully genuine he is, smoothes at her sweatshirt with twitchy fingers and fluffs her stringy blond hair, staring down at Charles limp figure sprawled out over the bed. “Don’t joke.”
“I wouldn’t,” Charles insists, exhaling smoke slowly. He’s gotten good enough to blow circles when he wants to.
Raven preens herself in the cracked mirror, rubs at her inner elbow anxiously before dragging her fingers down the scars covering her left side. “Would you date me?”
“You’re my sister,” Charles says simply, as if that explains everything easily. Raven supposes it does for normal people, ( ... )
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it's also meant to read as raven referring to charles as her "freaky nerdy brother" in a loving way - in reality she thinks of herself as entirely outside of society, as someone who is never going to fit in or be "normal", charles is just kind of geeky and weird and lovely in her opinion
again, not sure if this read, but this is what i was aiming for
and thank you for the thoughtful comment, it meant a lot to me!
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http://archiveofourown.org/works/214974
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