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make me into something you can love by bakuGoAway
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), X-Men (Movieverse)
16 Sep 2024
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Erik Lehnsherr is not a good man.
He never has been. Any part of him that longed to do the right thing was swept away with a single gunshot in Shaw's office decades ago, and all that remains is a single-minded drive to reach his goals. If that requires betrayal, murder, terrorism, or any number of distasteful acts, that's fine by him. It's the only thing that sustains him, and he sometimes feels like he might drown if he doesn't have that to keep him moving forward.
But oh, how desperately does he want to stay when Charles asks him. Every single time, he considers melting the helmet into scrap and resolving to stay with Charles, goals be damned if that means he can stay with him forever. But he can't, he can't reconcile putting aside everything he's worked for up until now.
But what if Charles could make him?
And what if Erik wants him to?
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It's hard to see in the dark by sareyen
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
10 Sep 2020
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The aftermath of 'Turn off the light':
When people say that you see the light when you meet death, they should really say that when you die you take the light with you. Because Charles was dead, and suddenly everything was dark, and yet some things were made clear. In the darkness, the people left behind realise what it really means when they say to not take anything for granted. They realise their mistakes, their biases, the hurt that they unwittingly conjured - and what really hurts is that they only realised once it was too late. The light had already been turned off and taken away, and there was no power in the world that could turn it on again.
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- Part 2 of Light Switch
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Turn off the light by sareyen
Fandoms: X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
07 Sep 2020
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For some reason, people thought that Charles's telepathy was like turning a light on and off. That, if he wanted to rummage around someone's head, he would just flick a switch and dive in to his heart's content, and once he was done, he could tug on the switch and be just like everyone else.
But telepathy wasn't like a light to be turned on and off. It was more akin to breathing. Charles could hold his breath for a short while, but there was really only one way to stop breathing completely, wasn't there?
So, like that, Charles turned off the light.
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- Part 1 of Light Switch
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02 Sep 2024
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Saddest X-men fanfic I've ever read