do you perhaps have a fic rest list for the aftermath of the coin scene in FC?
XMFC COIN SCENE AFTERMATH
Hello friend,
Here are some great fics dealing with the aftermath of the coin scene - I hope you enjoy!
You want blood, and I promised by hllfire
When Erik kills Shaw with that coin, Charles doesn't come out of it unharmed.
Two Sided Coin Of Misery by BrightTerror
This is what would have happened if Charles had not come out seemingly unscathed after he felt the coin kill Shaw, what if after it he couldn't shrug it off that easily? How would Erik have reacted to it?
If I could walk back to yesterday, I would by sareyen
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...
Or: Charles loses his telepathy after Cuba, and all the pain that follows.
Maybe it’s that feeling, the sudden void where peace had been, fleetingly, or maybe it’s the way Shaw still hangs in the air, dying but not quite dead - but instead of lifting Shaw by his cuff links and dragging him into the the sunlight for all to see, Erik finds himself turning away; out of that odd mirrored room and back to the jet he had left Charles in.
For but a Measure by tirsynni
In which taking a psychic coin to the brain affects Charles more than planned, and not so much a fix-it as a possible new path opening.
The Better Men by VampirePam
Alternate ending: explores what would have happened after the beach if Charles had collapsed from the damage the coin did, Erik had relinquished his desire for vengeance to help him, and Erik had to reassure Charles that his vision of the original ending was only a nightmare.
Broken Down in Agony by mintedwitcher
Charles doesn't escape the coin scene unharmed. His mind is ravaged by pain; his telepathy is uncontrolled and unstoppable. The question remains: why does "mutant and proud" not apply to him?
