Never Regrets 'verse
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Erik had known Charles almost five days when they set out across the country together. They’d been on the road a week when Charles asked if he was attracted to men, already knowing the answer. It had been a week and a half on the road, ten days, when they’d started playing chess, an ugly plastic set Charles had bought in a store in a one store town.
It was more days than Erik was still counting when his senses stumbled over a glowing metal anomaly out near the walls of the Westchester estate; more days than it should have taken to realise that he was not the only one with long-buried secrets.
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- Part 1 of Never Regrets 'verse
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Charles had to come. Charles was necessary. Charles wasn’t safe alone, was soft, not soft but smoothed, glowing, open, vulnerable to that sharp darkness that hid in the hands of men and Erik was an idiot to expect him to think straight in these circumstances, sweaty and sandy and clearly in pain on a bloody and still patchily burning beach with a bullet just out of his back.
That was easy, then. Erik could take care of this. He could take care of this for both of them, for now.
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- Part 2 of Never Regrets 'verse
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Beyond a beach where Erik doesn't let go. With Charles subdued by pain it's easy to agree that he's not thinking straight, and Erik is an expert in keeping on when the world falls apart. In an empty safehouse in Argentina, Erik finds what needs to be done, and does it.
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- Part 3 of Never Regrets 'verse
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Erik is at war. He knows what humanity does to those who are different, and he will not see it happen again. But Charles...Charles won’t help him. Charles seems intent on fighting him. Charles has to be stopped, and stopping him is simple enough. He’ll understand, in time. That this is the only way to make him safe, to make them all safe. Even locked in a Peruvian safehouse, though, Charles knows that peace is the only answer.
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- Part 4 of Never Regrets 'verse
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A Never Regrets 'verse sidestory for New Year's Eve. The last day of 1962 is uncomfortably warm in Peru. Erik brings champagne and a radio, and doesn't deserve Charles's courtesy. They want 1963 to be a good year, but they don't share the same definition of 'good'. Neither wants to fight the other, but they lost that chance somewhere in the final weeks of '62.
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- Part 5 of Never Regrets 'verse