Title: Turn About
Fandom: X-Men: First Class
Characters: Charles/Erik
Rating: G
W/C: 100
Summary: It's up to Erik


Metal manipulation was power to Erik. Satisfaction, not joy. Joy was useless, distracting, dangerous. If traces remained of the boy who lost himself by the hour in the music of his father’s pocket watch, they were buried deeper than the memory of his mother’s hanukiah.

Meeting Charles is a revelation. Watching him abandon himself to his ability, laughing, eager, heedless of vulnerability, is terrifying. When Charles smirks at Erik from beneath Cerebro’s wires, Erik scowls and stands dogged guard.

But Charles will see the watch and hear the music in Erik’s mind. He will say, I can give you this.