Title: Beloved
Fandom: X-Men Days of Future Past
Characters: Charles/Erik, Kitty
Rating: G
Length: 100
Content notes: No warnings apply
Summary: Charles and Erik at the end of the world
Notes: inspired by this amazing art and clarasteam’s lovely drabble


Willing hands had wrangled a bed into the dank room, square, featureless, like a dozen others in this cold ruin. A thin mattress was laid atop, makeshift sheets smoothed carefully over worn ticking, mottled with nameless stains. There is even a pillow, miraculously acquired.

Kitty hovers in the doorway, unwilling to intrude and unable to turn away. Two old men curl together on the anomalous bed, Erik’s thin lips a breath away from a furrowed forehead, Charles’s full ones smiling gently in sleep. Their bodies yearn towards each other but do not touch, their intimacy more perfect than an embrace.