Title: "Love Should Never Hide"
Author: Pirate Turner
Rating: PG
Summary: Rachel and Magneto share a lesson.
Warnings: Femme Slash, Slash, Drabble
Challenge: For a fill on a FemSlash100 LJ comm prompt table
Word Count: 250
Disclaimer: Rachel "Phoenix" Summers, Katheryne "Kitty" "Shadowcat" Pryde, Lockheed, all other characters mentioned within; the X-Men; and the X-Women are ﾩ & TM Marvel comics and Disney, not the author. Everything else is ﾩ & TM the author. The author makes absolutely no profit off of this work of fan fiction, and no copyright infringement is intended.
They'd been so careful, keeping their love behind closed doors, kissing in shadows, and holding hands only when nobody was looking, until the day that Kitty was almost killed. Phoenix'd been ready to kill by the time she'd reached the punks who'd taken her beloved Kitty, but Erik, the once-feared Master of Magnetism, Magneto himself, had talked her down. Now, as the girls clung to each other and continued crying, Erik looked at them and shook his head. "You're not fooling any one, you know, children."
Rachel blinked at him through her tears. "Excuse me?"
"Just go ahead and kiss her." The Phoenix flashed in Ray's green eyes; Erik nonchalantly waved her away. "Love should never be hid, regardless of rather it is shared by two women, two men, or a man and a woman."
"Maybe you should take your own advice," Ray shot back, but then she smiled as she looked back down to Kitty and gently stroked her face.
"He's trying to help, Ray," Kitty whispered.
"Then he should've helped himself and Charles," Rachel acknowledged aloud, reveling in the shock she felt radiating off of him, but then as Erik hung his head and wished it could have been as easy for him and his beloved as it was for the kids, Rachel did kiss Kitty again and again.
Much later, she took him aside and hugged him again. "I'm sorry. Thank you." He smiled but still couldn't keep tears from his eyes as he remembered his beloved Charles.
The End