Title: We're The Better Skaters.
Pairing(s): Erik/girl!Charles (Charlotte)
Summary: Drabbles on how Erik and Charlotte's relationship bloom in a skating rink. Teenagehuman!AU and genderbent.
It all happened in a indoor skating rink.
Charlotte had came to fetch her sister, Raven, back from working part time at the rink. While she was waiting for her sister to finish her shift, she looked into the rink through the glass wall that separated the insides of the rink from the outside. The night was young, and there were a lot of people skating. Most of them were skating in groups and having fun. But one particular lone skater caught her attention.
He was young, and had brown, neat hair, a contrast to most of the teenagers on the rink, who had spiky, colorful hair. He skated quietly, sliding in and out between group skaters, a neutral expression on his face.
"What're you looking at?" Raven asked, already finished packing up her stuff, and looked out at the rink with Charlotte. "Let me guess, you're looking at boys, right?"
Charlotte only nodded.
"Which one?" Raven continued pressing on her sister. For all she had known, Charlotte had never being really interested in a guy before. She flirts, but never gets serious. Following Charlotte's gaze, she immediately picked the odd one out without second thoughts.
"That one, isn't it? The one with the black turtleneck?" Raven asked, and Charlotte found herself blushing as she nodded once again. Raven smiled to herself. Her sister was always going for the ones who stood out. Charlotte looked at the boy, and waited patiently for him to skate to her side of the wall so that she could wave at him.
"His name is Erik Lehnsherr. Frequent customer every day. The shortest time he hung out here was at least a good 30 minutes. Seemed to me that he had a lot of time on his hands." Raven continued, and looked at her sister, whose gaze never left Erik. "Everybody here knows him. I should have introduced him to you earlier, but you never noticed him until now, so..." Just as Raven was going to continue, Charlotte hastily waved a hand at her. The blonde haired girl stopped, and saw that Erik was skating towards Charlotte's direction.
The brunette waved her hand at Erik when their eyes met, and the boy stared back at Charlotte, a confused and startled expression on his face. He slowed down, stared at Charlotte, who was still grinning broadly, and skated away without second thoughts.
Charlotte froze when she saw Erik's reaction. Raven didn't even bother to stifle her laughter.
"That's the first time somebody looked at you and not move an eyebrow, right?" Raven asked between laughters, and Charlotte's cheeks turned a huge shade of flaming red. She puffed up her cheeks, and turned towards Raven.
"I'm coming tomorrow." Charlotte announced. "I'm going to learn how to skate!"
To my newest obsession, Erik/Charles :)
~Velonica Sushi