Good morning! Or night, or afternoon, depending on wherever you may be. I was watching Days of Future Past a couple weeks ago and remembered a few things from First Class that had really made an impression on me. This is what it led to. I must confess that I have not watched First Class in a few years, so I'm a little spotty on exact details, but I believe I have the main points right. Tell me what you think.
Enjoy!
Erik doesn't think before he starts pushing the coin through Shaw's head, doesn't hear the desperate, pained scream of his friend, doesn't understand that Charles feels everything that Shaw is feeling. Every thought fading, every synapse failing, every twist of the coin inside his head tearing apart his mind, Charles feels it all. And yet, he doesn't let Shaw go, knowing that if he releases the megalomaniac, Erik will die. It doesn't matter that there is nothing that can save Shaw now – if he has the least bit of freedom he will make sure that Erik goes down with him. And Charles cannot let that happen. So he holds Shaw until he is dead, grasps his brain and body so thoroughly that he becomes him while that damned coin slides through skin and bone and brain tissue. He feels every organ shut down, every cell die, and if he weren't a telepath, the pain alone would kill him. As it is, his mind can still differentiate between them, can recognize that the damage is not occurring in Charles' own body. It doesn't save him from the agony.
