Family of Blood

Title: Family of Blood
Author: pentre_katblake Pairing: Erik/Charles, but really gen
Rating: I want to say R for the initial concentration camp stuff, but PG-13 probably also works...

For the prompt: "... I would love the see a fic where Charles meet another survivor of Shaw “experiments”, except this mutants isn’t on a path of revenge, nor hating humans, because it’s very clear in his/her head that the worst part of her life was inflicted to him/her by a mutant and not by a human..."

I apparently have a kink for living survivors of Erik's family. This story is... I don't even have words. The character of this story isn't even Erik or Charles, it's Ruth Lensherr, Erik's younger sister, it's her life and the lives of the X-Men as told through her eyes, and it is amazing because you take Erik and Ruth, you put them both in the same circumstances (Shaw trying to get more out of their powers), but when they both get out Ruth gets love while Erik doesn't, and that really shapes the people they become and the ethics they have. The story brought me to tears more than once, there are so many places where I just want to snatch Erik up and hug the living daylights out of him (well and Charles too), because it's not just simple and easy and happily-ever-after, it's life in the truest form, and I adore it ::snuggles up to the story and gazes into it's eyes::