ii.
In the reality Erik has created, he had never created the mirror room because he was scared of Charles. He had only made it recently to keep them safe. In this reality, he hadn't been in the middle of a war when the meteor struck and he and Charles had loved each other once again. (Or at least Charles had begun to love him, but let's not be too picky with details.) In this reality, the Psychic Death of 1964 never ended. Charles is dependent on him, and loves him completely. All they need is each other. In the reality Erik has created for them, everything is as it should've been.
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Charles adores him. He is always ready with a smile, whenever he enters the anteroom, always grateful and unquestioning of whatever Erik brings him. He is always ready with a kiss for him, always ready for Erik to take him, in any way he pleases, so eager to satisfy him it's almost unnerving. And Erik obliges.
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He hadn't found a wheelchair for him yet(really he hadn't!) so him moving around so far had consisted of him being carried, his head buried into the crook of his neck.
"And really you shouldn't bother doing all this, it's not as if I have terribly far to go." Charles protested but he was sick and weak and needed to be taken care of, just look at him, barely sitting up and still so frail and thin. Besides, Erik likes holding him, likes having him so close at all times.
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"What of the children?" Charles asks one day and the look Erik gives him is one of surprise. The thought had come to him suddenly, he has no idea why, but he can't help thinking that somehow, there had been children involved before all of this.
"Children?" Erik asks incredulously and Charles drops it.
It had been a rather absurd thought anyway.
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"Erik you must stop this!" he screams and that is all he has time to say before a metal bar slices through his neck decapitaiting him, Hank falling sideways as blood squirted from him. But he is responsible for Mystique dying, for mutants being infected with this cure, this disease, that stops them from being who they truly are. Angel looks at him in shock before moving past them. They must continue.
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"Do you think it will ever be safe to go back out there again?" Charles asks him one day or night, he doesn't know.
Erik pulls him closer, planting a kiss atop his head. "I don't know Charles.I don't know."
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a/n: eurgh. my writing will get better, I promise/hope. Party today.