Title: Handle with Care
Author: yellow_pomelo
Pairing: Erik/Charles
Rating: PG
For the prompt: "Erik is hurt (for some reason) and (for some reason!) Charles has to give him stitches. Hurt/comfort please!"
This is a quietly sweet story that really shows the depth of Charles and Erik's feelings just by seemingly skimming the surface. I love how Charles suturing Erik's wound leads to deeper discussions of Charles's childhood leads to the contrast between Charles's reaction to past cruelty and Erik's. Also, It occurs to Erik, then – quietly, like a secret whispered in his ear – that this is the first time in a long time that somebody tended his wounds just because they didn’t want to see him hurt - makes me want to give Erik a HUGE hug, and this makes me love him even more:
“Even if I did scar,” Erik says, voice hoarse and unfamiliar, “this is one mark I would gladly bear.”
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