Break

[th3f4113n]

Title: Break
Challenge/Prompt: # 154: Break
Original Fiction or Fanfiction [Name of fandom]: XMFC (X-men: first class) 
Characters/Pairings: Charles Xavier (Professor X) & Erik Lehnsherr (Magneto) 
Rating: PG13
Warnings: Angsty, just the way thedeadorchestra likes it.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything by Marvel.
Summary:  A meeting at a park, two decades later...
Author's Notes: For both thedeadorchestra and for the prompt: break.

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A meeting at a park, two decades later and certainly not the first (and perhaps not even the last).

An old game of chess, black pieces humming and with a flick of a finger, moving on their own across the board. Another set of fingers, tracing the white pieces, moving them with ease.

Advance. Take. Surrender. Checkmate.

The same old arguments, stubborn voices, which have only grown even more stubborn over the years, trying to prove the other wrong.

“How many more deaths, Erik?”

That smile, too many teeth and not enough warmth. A predator’s smile. 

“Until I break you.”

-o-

Through the Door (#154 - Break)

[larathia]

Title: Through The Door
Challenge/Prompt: #154 - Break
Original Fiction or Fanfiction: Original: Jade
Characters/Pairings: Taran, Esvan
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Author's Notes: Jade is mineminemine.

The gateway was a natural formation, stone weathered such that it formed an archway. One foot rested on the rocky shore, one in the surf.

The Hierai built a fire as close to the edge of the incoming tide as he could. That done, he walked over to take Esvan's hand. "The path to the City," he said softly.

He walked Esvan through the stone arch that held nothing - and they found themselves in a new place. No sky, no earth, no sea, just night and stars.

And voices. Esvan's mind broke into a thousand pieces upon the universe.