Literature
X-Men First Class: Bittersweet
Warnings: alternate universe, hurt/comfort, family
It was like losing a limb.
There was really no other way to explain what he was feeling right now, other than those six simple (not simple, never simple, wrong, wrong, wrong) words that he couldn't bring himself to speak. And not only because of the macabre fact that, to be frank, he had technically lost a limb. Two limbs, if one wanted to be picky.
The fact remained, however, that that was exactly how it felt to not feel Erik's presence any longer.
For some two, three, four months, from the moment Charles dove into freezing water and at the same time into the other man's mind, Erik had a