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1. If I could walk back to yesterday, I would by sareyen

   Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)  

   • Mature
   • Major Character Death
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   04 Jan 2022

   Tags

   • Major Character Death
   • Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier
   • Erik Lehnsherr & Charles Xavier
   • Charles Xavier
   • Erik Lehnsherr
   • Raven | Mystique
   • Moira MacTaggert
   • Hank McCoy
   • Sean Cassidy
   • Alex Summers
   • Mutant Powers
   • Loss of Powers
   • Angst
   • Heavy Angst
   • Angst and Tragedy
   • Hurt No Comfort
   • Post-X-Men: First Class (2011)
   • Pre-X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
   • Movie: X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
   • Charles Xavier in a Wheelchair
   • Charles Xavier has a Ph.D in Adorable
   • Charles Xavier Needs a Hug
   • Charles You Will Be Drunk
   • Erik Lehnsherr Loves Charles Xavier
   • Erik Has Feelings
   • Erik Logic Is The Best Logic
   • Erik has Issues
   • Hurt Charles Xavier
   • Implied/Referenced Self-Harm
   • Sad Ending
   • I am so very sorry

   Summary

   Charles had braced himself for the pain. He knew that when Erik would push the coin through Shaw's head that he would inadvertently push it into his. He knew that he would feel the slow, torturous drag of metal through his skin, his brain tissue, his mind. He had even prepared for the heartbreak and the betrayal, because once Erik had put on Shaw's helmet, Charles's heart had already shattered to pieces.

   But when Charles's mind was fractured by the coin, he hadn't been prepared to lose a part of himself he could not bear to live without.

   Because without a mind he had no telepathy, and without telepathy, Charles was...

   Human.

    

   Or: Charles loses his telepathy after Cuba, and all the pain that follows.

   Series

   • Part 1 of All Too Human

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