Introduction:

If you have not been "Cherik-ed" to death yet, I invite you to follow along with my perception of how and why Charles and

Erik's friendship became so "intimately beautiful" (to me). I tell their story in the 1st person point of view of both

Charles and Erik although admittedly it will mostly be through Charles.

I fell in love with the remarkable friendship that James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender as young Professor Xavier and young

Magneto had in the X-Men: First Class movie. The "friendship chemistry" they brought to the screen was absolutely amazing

which is why I have written this story in slash...I just can't seem to think of them in any other way.

At the end of First Class, I just could not see such a powerful friendship ending "just like that" which is one of the

reasons for me writing this story which is a continuation from near the end of FC. But the initial reason for me starting

this particular story is because of the early "rumours" that the sequel would "Magneto-centric" and virtually ignoring

Charles's own transformation storyline from who he was in FC to who he becomes in the original movies. He loses not only the

use of his legs, but two of his closest friends as well at the end of FC and I wanted to give him the chance to work

through/deal with his own issues. (However, more recent speculation about the "Days of Future Past" movie do sound more

promising...time will tell us on July 18th, 2014..).

Admittedly, as much as I love watching Sci/Fi/Fantasy/Action/Adventure, I have never written any at all before so please bear

with me. I am better at writing about relationships which is what this story will be based on. My own perception of Charles

and Erik and how and why their (slashly) relationship came to be. So if you are looking for 'action/adventure' you won't

find a lot of that in this story, just to warn you before you start reading. And also because of that, yeah, there will no

doubt be some sappy parts-another warning to you. I am trying to stay as true to the FC movie as possible, but of course

there will probably be the odd thing that gets by me.

For those of you who have read my "Becoming Jane" story and added me to your "Favourite Author" list, I'm sure you can

already guess that this story will pretty much be completely opposite of my BJ one (rest assured Tom and Jane are never and

will never be far from my heart and could very well be back again too yet. I just had to get this story down).

PS (I "tested the waters" with this story with some friends who gave me positive feedback, so I hope you enjoy it as well).