Life is a bitch, and then one stabs you.

Title: Brief Lives (8/?)
Author: monstrousreg
Word count:  3339
Warnings:  None in this chapter. 
Pairing: Erik/Charles.
Summary: Erik thinks he's going to seduce, interrogate and murder some nondescript CIA intelligence agent, and winds up biting more than he can chew. Charles is not keen on being murdered, he doesn't favor interrogations, and he's certainly not willing to be seduced. That he's not cooperating is midly put.   
Notes:  Unbetaed, and stuff. So... This chapter might seem like little plot advancement takes place, but Charles does actually make a leap of faith fucking finally. I noticed more than one of you asked, so about Charles and Raven working for the CIA: it was their initiative, they weren't recruited. Being employed by the relatively powerful CIA gives them a rather strong shield against Shaw in the sense that they can't just disappear. Shaw would have to take one too many risks to kill them, expecially after Charles so kindly set the hounds suits on his trail.

( “He didn’t do it on purpose, I don’t think,” Ororo offers in a small voice. “He did feel terrible about it.”  )
Chapter 9