Fic rec: X-Men: First Class
Jun. 19th, 2011 06:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katikat"Say Your Fault" by seperis | Charles/Erik | AU, VERY dark | Charles hasn't spoken in twenty-two days. | ~5.600 words
Wow. What if Shaw detonated the nuclear bomb? What if Charles felt hundreds of thousands of people die? What if it made him a little crazy? One of the best fics in this fandom so far, but definitely not light reading.
Should, could, would, the conditional words that are crude constructions to reflect the potential of a different world, where there was no nightmarish journey to the basement of the mansion to huddle behind the barriers created by Charles' stepfather against the possibility of nuclear world with the four terrified remains of their team, an unconscious telepath and six weeks that were forever, unable to ascertain whether he would ever wake up.
Wow. What if Shaw detonated the nuclear bomb? What if Charles felt hundreds of thousands of people die? What if it made him a little crazy? One of the best fics in this fandom so far, but definitely not light reading.
