mirror in the sky (prompts post)

[harborshore]

Because my WIPs are either full of brooding mutants or dramatic musicians.

Stolen from torakowalski. ♥

Below are some fandom cliches taken from the tropes meme that went around a while ago. Pick one and give me a pairing (and some details if you want) and we'll see what I can come up with.

Preferred fandoms are: X-Men: First Class, Bandom (you lot know what I write), BTVS, DCU and Veronica Mars but I'm open to others as well. AU and genderfuck prompts are always more than welcome.

Each trope can only be picked once; pairings and fandoms can be re-used.

1. genderswap
2. bodyswap
3. drunk!fic
4. huddling for warmth
5. pretending to be married
6. secretly a virgin
7. amnesia
8. cross-dressing
9. forced to share a bed
10. truth or dare
11. historical AU
12. accidental-baby-acquisition
13. apocalypse fic
14. telepathy
15. High School / College AU

ETA: 3 left! Genderswap, historical AU, and HS/college AU.

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PART 2

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

Charles and Erik show up in her room with a dark-haired woman whose arms are cuffed behind her back. Charles has a finger to his temple, so he must be doing something, but he takes the time to introduce the woman as Blindspot.

"Fix her," Erik says.

Blindspot smirks. "I need my hands."

"I thought you had her, Charles," Erik remarks, and Raven would like an explanation now, please.

"People with mind-related powers are a little more complex than most," Charles bites out. "But she does know what'll happen if she doesn't undo what she did."

"You did this to me," Raven says, then, because she's starting to understand. "You have a mutation, and you did this to me."

"Yes," Blindspot says. She looks a little sorry, suddenly, and Charles' forehead smooths out. Raven is fairly sure that means he made her see what it was like for Raven, because something tells her this woman doesn't ordinarily do empathy.

"Fix it," she says. "You need to touch me, right?" And she reaches out, touching two fingers to Blindspot's cheek.

And then there's a fire in her brain, everything filling up too fast, too fast, and Raven yells and she's falling, no, someone has her. Charles has her. He buries his face in her hair and holds on.

I was so scared he says in her head. I was so terrified.

She holds on right back, ignoring his "oof. " I'm strong, deal with it she thinks back at him.

You are, he says. It's marvelous. Everything about you is marvelous.

And that--she remembers that not being quite like that, before. She pulls away and looks at him, and he touches her cheek. Her--she's blue. Her true shape.

"I was wrong," Charles says out loud, carefully. "I was really wrong. You shouldn't have to hide. You may have to, because the world is an awfully intolerant and stupid place at times, but that doesn't mean it's right. You're beautiful." He touches his forehead to hers. Let me show you what I see he says, and she nods, and there's a flicker of images and feelings that--sister/beautiful/right/she's GONE/their first meeting and the joy he felt/sister of my heart/truefamily/beautiful/love.

--

"I missed you so much," he says later. They're on her couch instead of on the floor, but neither of them want to go anywhere else. Erik apparently removed Blindspot while Raven was passed out, because as Charles told her, "It's not like he must touch her to get her going while she wears cuffs, so it was perfectly safe."

"I was right here though," she says.

"No," he says, and his face is pained. "You really really weren't."

"Bet you didn't miss me fighting with you," she says, a little later, teasing.

"Even that," he says, grinning right back. "What am I without you around to tell me when I'm getting it wrong?"

"I guess I'll have to stick around then," she says idly.

"Please do," he says. "Please do." Always, he thinks, and she ruffles his hair.

"I love you too," she says. "Even though you're the most annoying person in the world sometimes."

"I don't think little sisters can give away that particular epithet," Charles says. "I feel as though they are the natural holders of that title."

"No," she says, squirming around until she has her head on his shoulder. No, big brothers are the worst.

Re: PART 2

[soundslikej.livejournal.com]

oh my god RAVEN. this is lovely - painful and sweet and so very THEM.

she keeps getting his eyes wrong, when she tries out his shape

;_____________;