Reversal (158 - Destroy)

[tanager]

Title: Reversal
Challenge/Prompt: #158 - Destroy
Original Fiction or Fanfiction: Original
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Disclaimer: It’s all mine.
Summary: "Let me repay the favor."
Author's Notes: My first drabble. Thanks for the inspiration! :D


He’s wearing a gold-buttoned velvet coat, gold-threaded tie, gold cufflinks: a dragon’s hoard dumped on her dull floor. Even begging for rescue, his posture demands that she be grateful to breathe his air.

It’s easy to be arrogant, out-of-touch, delusional in his world of balls and banquets and games that frivolously draw blood. That was her world, until:

"You destroyed me."

He recoils from her thanks. His eyes mourn diamond wristwatches and caviar.

"Let me repay the favor."

She applauds him, if he can claw his way up in the real world; she expects to be delighted when he cannot.

Can be

[th3f4113n]

Title: Can be
Challenge/Prompt: #158: Destroy
Fandom: XMFC:
Characters/Pairings: Erik Lehnsherr & Charles Xavier
Rating: PG
Warnings: N/A
Disclaimer: I don't own Marvel, unfortunately.
Summary: Charles will never admit this, so he doesn't venture too far into it.
Author's Notes: Canon compliant. Takes place in Cuba.

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When he sees the helmet, feels the cold metal in his hands, he realizes everything what Charles can be, what Charles can do for him and to him.

With only a tap of fingertips to his forehead, Charles can suggest, twist and erase the core of his mind, obliterating and destroying his utter sense of self.

Only Charles’ morals (gray ones at that, at times, he knows, but Charles will never admit this, so he doesn’t venture too far into it) hold him back, keep him restrained and useless.

With that thought, Erik puts the helmet on and changes everything.

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