This fic took my breath away. Like getting punched in the gut. Repeatedly. However, that would not be possible, if you hadn't the skill to weave so much beauty in with the pain. Lovely. Thank you for sharing this fic.

Loved it! Very very bittersweet. Liked a lot the words you used to explain how Erik and Charles' relationship developed along the xmen first calss movie, and also the connection at the end, the flashbacks between future and past and, most of it, the last and definite sencente "Never". Thank you for a good drabble!

...Thiisss. This is unbelievably beautiful and complex. The flashbacks woven into the present circumstance is flawlessly done, treading the line of ambiguity perfectly. The rhythm is, as ever, clipped and choppy and wonderful, like the hooves of warhorses on gravel. Favorite line: ..."Because privacy is very important to this man, the only thing in the world he has left – his mind the only thing that has always been his."

Yes. Just...yessss.

And Dark!Despairing!Charles is my favorite Charles...those last lines dropped my stomach like a stone. WELL DONE MORE PLEASE!