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There was always something Charles loved about the casual way Erik used his powers. The steady movements, the casual, almost careless actions, but Charles knew it was anything but careless. Especially where Charles himself was involved.
That’s why he always enjoys it so much when he gets to say, “I think I need a shave, darling.”
Charles had always been good at finding a silver lining. After his accident, things had been different. Being a tetraplegic was anything but positive, really, or that was how it seemed to him. But, over time he started to find some things, no matter how small, that helped him look on the brighter side.
“Hands or powers?” Erik asks, looking over at him, a small smile on his face.
“Powers,” Charles replies with confidence.
That’s how Charles finds himself sitting back in his chair, the razor moving carefully over his face, suspended by Erik’s powers. The man himself is using his hands to shave his own face, the movement of one copying the movement of the other. Both of them face the mirror and Erik is keeping an eye on them at the same time, carefully tracking the movements.
Before, Erik had always used his powers when it came to shaving himself. He had offered to Charles, originally, informing him that he was much more sure of himself that way than with using his hands, it was easier, and more sensitive to what he was doing than his hands were. Because of this, he was more ready and willing to shave Charles with his powers than his hands. Over time though, he started to use his hands to shave himself at the same time as using his powers on Charles.
It is always nice, yet a little strange for Charles, feeling the razor sliding over his face, with no hand-holding to it. He tilts his head this way and that as Erik goes along, making it easier for the other man.
The whole time, Charles fights the urge to smile brightly at his partner's power and control.
The best part is, once they’re both clean-shaven, getting to pull Erik in close and kiss him, feeling the smooth skin sliding against his own, his smile finally showing into it.
They both know they find each other’s powers to be a turn on and it’s just one more way that Charles finds himself hopelessly in love with the other man.