Snippet Number Two - Story Idea
Summary: Erik holds on to Emma because everything hurts a little too much otherwise, but she's not the telepath he wants. Emma holds on to Erik because she can't have Raven. Raven holds on to Angel because Erik doesn't even look her way anymore. And Angel, well Angel lost Darwin before she ever had him and is just taking what she can get.
Yes, the relationships in the Brotherhood are all stable and healthy. Clearly. (AU)
Erik wakes up with his mind encased in diamond hard tendrils of though, feeling like his skull is filled with ice.
This isn't surprising considering that he doesn't wear the helmet while sleeping. Emma is, he notes, particularly displeased today. His best guess is that she saw Angel and Raven kissing again.
He wants no part of Emma's unrequited feelings, but appreciates the fact that the woman doesn't just enter Mystique's mind to force the Shapeshifter into love. (Emma insists that this isn't possible. Erik believes otherwise.) It would inconvenience the Brotherhood terribly.
Erik just hears Charles ranting about the moral implications of changing someone's feelings. Emma raises a brow. He ignores her.
He doesn't care for feeling Emma in his head and that is putting it mildly, but he honours their agreement. They empathically never speak about said agreement, but it exists none the less.
She gets a mind that she's allowed to rummage around in, he gets a good night's sleep when she's around. Mutually beneficial. (And built on the pretence that he trusts her. But then, she pretends to find him desirable.)
His forearm is itching again, just where the numbers are and he gets the feeling she might be causing that to annoy him. He glares at Miss Frost which has all the effect of putting a candle next to a glacier.
Comment: I liked this when I wrote it, now I'm not exactly in love with it anymore. But I thought "why not post it and see what happens".
