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1. While Living Hearts Can Hear Us by ０４ Keely King (SILKCUT)

   Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Comicverse), X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), X-Men: First Class (Comics), X-Men (Original Timeline Movies)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • F/M, Gen, M/M, Multi
   • Work in Progress

   14 Oct 2022

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier
   • Erik Lehnsherr & Charles Xavier
   • Charles Xavier
   • Erik Lehnsherr
   • Raven | Mystique
   • Moira MacTaggert
   • Henry McCoy | Dark Beast
   • Sebastian Shaw
   • Emma Frost
   • Alex Summers
   • Armando Muñoz
   • Sean Cassidy
   • The Man In Black (XMFC)
   • Magda (X-Men)
   • Gabrielle Haller
   • Original Characters
   • Sharon Xavier
   • Cain Marko
   • Kurt Marko
   • Character Study
   • Childhood Trauma
   • Racial slurs
   • Nazis
   • Telepathy
   • Family Feels
   • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
   • Disturbing Themes
   • More Childhood stuff
   • Emotional Baggage
   • Prelude to shipping
   • Bookended Meetings
   • Implied Violence
   • mental health
   • Survivors
   • Aftermath
   • music therapy
   • Healing
   • Almost meeting
   • Ferrucio Busoni
   • Piano Concerto
   • First Love
   • Dreams and Nightmares
   • Angst
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • Emotional/Psychological Abuse
   • Astral Projection
   • Literary References & Allusions
   • Love at First Instinct
   • Unresolved Emotional Tension
   • Rage and Serenity
   • Trauma
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Generational Trauma
   • Child-selves
   • Bookends of the Same Soul
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Flashbacks
   • Unresolved Sexual Tension
   • Telepathic Bond
   • Brief Mentions of Attempted Rape
   • Childhood Memories
   • some detailed mentions of child maltreatment
   • Repressed Memories

   Summary

   
   "Each one shifts and weakens a little,
   Neither aware just how much they are brittle;
   Each one shifts and weakens a bit,
   Allowing the other to live and exist."
   

   
   Erik's mind wasn't a malicious thing. It was strong, stronger still in all its darkness and what little light that has survived, fighting with every last breath to never allow itself to perish. The ghouls feasted on the cracks where the wounds won't heal, but there is lush growth too, flowers on unmarked graves.

   Charles floated atop a field of corpses, with some of them of people this man never wanted to forget, and that love was red as the blood they shed; a love as vibrant as the petals of a rose worthy of the thorns that guard it.

   [Compiled installments of the CHERIK ALPHABET CHALLENGE]

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   52,566

   Chapters:

   5/?

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