[Prompt #294: Liar] XMCU - A Matter of Perspective

[southernmedicine]

Title: A Matter of Perspective
Fandom: X-Men/XMCU: First Class
Rating: G
Notes: It was never really about ideology, was it? Very thinly-veiled Cherik.


I want you by my side. We want the same thing.

The anesthesia releases him slowly. A white tiled ceiling. Spots of warm light shine above him, clean beige walls wherever he looks. Charles does not immediately remember he is waking from his first experimental surgery, but a mind like his rebels the void, and it all comes flooding back in a torrent so powerful that it brings moisture to the corners of his eyes and threatens to choke him.

He recalls the weight, the unbearable burden of his reply.

I'm sorry, my friend. But we do not.

Comments

[misbegotten]

Splendid!

[southernmedicine]

Thank you!