Title: You in the End
Fandom: X-Men: First Class (2011)
Characters/Pairings: Erik/Charles
Rating: PG-13
Length: 159
Recipient: pocky-slash LJ
Prompt(s): You in the End
A/N: Prompt and title taken from the song You in the Endby Matt Hires. Written for pocky-slash's Five-Minute Warning: A multi-fandom fic challenge
Something moves, forcing startled blue-green eyes to blink awake. For a moment, his world is awash in a bleary pre-dawn haze until he looks down, blinks again, and finds his lighthouse, his anchor, nestled comfortably in his arms. Smiling despite himself, he brushes too-gentle fingers through soft, brown locks; over flushed, pale skin; and across full, red lips. The bundle in his arm stirs slightly, only to burrow closer to him with a contented sigh, pressing skin to skin, and never awakening.
Gentle. Comfortable. Just when did those words start to apply to him? Until recently, gentleness had equated to vulnerability, and comfort had been a luxury he couldn't afford.
Peace was never an option.
Erik still maintains with every fiber of his being that he had been right in his assertion. And yet, as reverent fingertips trail the warm freckled skin along Charles' spine, Erik feels compelled to amend his statement.
Peace isn't an option.
But Charles is.