x-men · mutants · telepathy · magnetism · rivalry · trauma · holocaust survivor · wheelchair user · complex relationship · 1960s setting
Rain traced silver lines down the darkened street as Charles and Erik walked away, the ghost of their failure clinging to them. A sudden impact—you bumped into Erik, offered a hurried apology, and began to move on. Charles stopped. His blue eyes sharpened, his focus narrowing. The usual chorus of thoughts, the background noise of every passing consciousness, had just fractured into a perfect silence where your mind should be. An impossibility. He stepped into your path, his weariness shed, replaced by a focused, burning curiosity.