When Raven mentioned to the other residents that Charles was sick they'd immediately started taking it in turns to help the sick professor. Charles hadn't expected the attention and felt a little guilty about it. He knew what was wrong with him and was pretty sure the cure was simple enough. The problem was when he slept he had little control of whose mind he read, something he didn't want to do. This meant that 2 days after Raven and Hank had noticed he was sick, Charles was still not any better.
"You need to sleep." Raven told him and Charles nodded his head. He really did. Charles was used to sleepless night, a downside of studying in Oxford, but he hadn't slept fully in the last week. Sure he'd had the odd cat naps here and there but they didn't do justice to a proper night's sleep.
"I can't." Charles admitted, causing Raven frowned.
"How about sleeping pills? Will they help?"
Charles considered this before nodding. They had worked in the past after all, knocking him put so completely that even the voices in his head had died down completely. "There's some in the cupboard." Raven said nothing about Charles having sleeping pills in the apartment, which he was grateful for as she gave them to him. The effects took a hold of him almost instantly and soon he was completely unconscious and finally sleeping.
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Erik had heard from the kids that Charles was sick and Erik had been having an internal debate ever since deciding on whether he should visit his sick friend. The problem was that Erik didn't know if Charles would want him there. After their telepathic conversation, Erik had had the feeling that Charles was avoiding him. Again.
He was so engrossed in his own thoughts that when two men came up to the counter he didn't even notice until they started talking. "Are you Mr Lehnsherr?" Instantly, Erik's back went up. Anyone who actively asked him that was bad news in Erik's experience.
"Depends on who's asking." He stated, feeling the metal on the two men. They carried guns, which meant they didn't know who he was because if they did the guns would be plastic.
"We work on behalf of the Xavier trust fund." The first suit said, making Erik frown, remembering the suits Alex had mentioned. "We were wondering if you've seen Charles Xavier recently. His step-father sent us to check on him and to go over some paperwork regarding the estate."
Bullshit, Erik thought quietly. "Never heard of him."
"He lives in your building." Suit 2 said as if this would jog Erik's memory.
"Lots of people live in the building, I'm not exactly friendly with everyone." Erik replied, seeing that Banshee was eavesdropping from where he was serving coffee.
The two suits looked at him for a long moment and Erik seriously debated on just kicking them out. Instead they said, "If you do see him give him this." Suit 1 handed him a large brown envelope then the two men left the café. The envelope was heavy and Erik wanted to open it to make sure it wasn't a bomb but instead he put it under the counter, resolving to talk to Charles about it as soon as the Professor was better.
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Charles was out of it for over 12 hours and when he finally did wake up he was groggy enough to not be able to pull his shields around him. He cursed for forgetting the effect of the sleeping pills. "You okay?" Raven asked and Charles could clearly feel the worry in her head.
He tried to block it out, knowing that they wouldn't want him in their heads. "Why wouldn't we want you to supress your abilities?" Raven asked and Charles realised he must have projected that thought. "Charles, is that why you haven't been sleeping?" Charles blushed, ducking his head so he wouldn't have to meet Raven's gaze. The blue mutant had climbed into the bed so she was effectively pinning him place, not that he would have gotten far if he'd decided to run anyway seeing as he couldn't actually walk.
"I know my mutation can be…intrusive so I thought it would be best to block out your thoughts." Raven didn't say anything, putting an arm around Charles' shoulder and snuggling closer to him in a way that he had seen her do with Hank on numerous occasions.
"You idiot Charles Xavier. I personally don't think you would read any of my deepest thoughts unless I gave you permission so stop trying to block them out." Charles looked disbelievingly at her and Raven shrugged. "I haven't got anything to hide and its' not like you can see everything unless you go digging, can you?"
"No, I can only hear the surface thoughts unless I want to hear anything else." Charles explained, cautiously letting his shield's down. "What about the others?"
"They don't mind." Raven replied.
"And Erik?" Charles asked because he distinctively remembered what Erik had told him before.
"Erik? He told you not to get in his head didn't he?" Charles nodded meekly and Raven jumped to her feet, angry. "Ignore him. He's a paranoid prick." Raven told Charles earnestly.
"He told me to not read his mind." Charles told her, knowing from Raven's mind that she wanted to understand why he had blocked her out. "I thought that applied to you all."
"For a mind-reader you're not good at reading people are you?" Charles laughed because what Raven said was true. He really was terrible at understanding people. "You remember that other telepath Erik mentioned. Her name was Emma Frost and she worked for a guy named Shaw. Shaw killed his Mother and experimented on him, he's never really gotten over it I don't think and the telepath got inside his head and Erik didn't like it. She wasn't as considerate as you are." Charles frowned.
"If he doesn't want me in his head though…"
"I'll talk to him." Raven promised. "Now get some actual sleep, please." Charles nodded, closing his eyes and drifting off once more.
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Erik didn't know what to make of Raven standing in his apartment. He especially didn't know why she started yelling at him about him being the reason Charles was sick. "What do you mean?" Erik asked, completely confused now.
"You told Charles to stay out of his head so he's been exhausting himself to keep out of all our heads." Erik sat down, looking at Raven as he went through his conversation with Charles.
"I didn't realise he would take it like that." Erik replied. He'd meant for Charles to stay out of his memories not completely out of his head and he certainly hadn't meant Charles to get sick because of it.
"Then you had better sort it." Erik nodded, going to stand up and talk to Charles but Raven stopped him by saying. "Not yet, he's finally sleeping but you are going to be there when he wakes up and talk to him."
"So ambush him." This caused Raven to glare at him.
"Now." Raven walked him straight to Charles' door and Erik knew better than to argue with her so he did as he was told. Charles was in the bed, sleeping and Erik felt even more guilty when he saw the paleness of the younger man and the dark circles around his eyes. "You better not upset him any more than you already have." Raven warned him, before leaving him with a sleeping Charles.