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[grandstanding]

Who: Erik, Charles, Hank and Raven
Broadcast: nah
Action: the Blameless. warning for injury treatment, probably.
When: June 7th, shortly after this

[This is the second time in the span of seven days that Erik has had to pilot a shuttle while his vision isn't a hundred percent. It's almost a pattern, he thinks blearily to himself. Different causes, though. As the shuttle docks with the Blameless, he can't help but blow out a breath.

First step done. Now to get out.]

Comments

[beathach]

[he feels the same way, honestly, like he doesn't deserve her and yet here she is, close enough that he can say these silly little earnest things to her. That he can make up for ten years of nothing and a fateful night one moment at a time, show her he cares, that he loves her in so many ways that those three little words, despite hearing them minutes ago, aren't really necessary. It felt too good to be true when they first met - Raven was beautiful and he was this nerdy little scientist, and he could never understand what she saw in him, even with their shared feelings on their mutation, and even now he sometimes falls back on that. How could this brave, strong woman who saved the president ever feel the way she does for him, a man who hid away for years because he could no longer stand the world? She could have anyone she wants, he thinks, and yet she's chosen him again.

They're both too tired for the kiss to be anything more than that but he returns it just as gently, fingers tangling again in her hair. For all that the day has stressed them out, for all that they've stood everything thrown at them, he knows they both needed this. This quiet moment to find themselves again, to depend on each other to strengthen themselves before they head back in there and are reminded of what happened.

He doesn't say anything, he just lifts his free hand to push some hair out of her face and press a kiss to her forehead]