Glass Elevators and Spears

Last night I slept wonderfully and I think convinced whatever sickness that was hovering around me to go away. Though I need to wash my winter sheets and put them on as its too cold for the other ones, and that requires getting change. This past week ended up much longer than I expected but I was able to go grocery shopping and now have supplies and on Thursday night, I had a wonderful phone call with all of my family. My sister has discovered Charles de Lint's books and is asking my advice about computer stuff, she's much older than me so I always feel kind of weird when I know more than her. Also one of my older brothers had lots of job advice, which is helpful and when a job place let me know they got my resume, it made me feel so much more hopeful. I know its only one but I think there's something out there for me.

Now last night I had a strange dream that I want to write out, because so many of the images from it have stayed with me. I'm pretty sure it what I remember was a blend of many different dreams but I'm going to write what I recall. It began that I was working in I think Washington DC, a city with lots of light and open space and my parents were visiting me. We had to go back to my apartment to get something and my mom wanted to see the helipad on the top of my building so we went up in the elevator. It was a glass elevator and they always make me nervous and we went up and up so much that suddenly there was nothing around us. Then when we got to the top, it didn't look like the top of a building, but more like a ruin in the middle of a forest. There was a hunter and lots of wild animals leaping towards us, this became a theme in the later part of the dream, things coming towards me and trying to hurt me. I don't recall my mother in the later parts of the dream in the ruin as I was trying to figure out what was going on and at one point dodging spears thrown at me by a large group of warriors. When I woke up, I didn't feel like I'd had a nightmare but a little shaken. I wish my brain wouldn't keep finding new and exciting type of anxiety dreams for me to have.

The Soul Under Your Skin

One day when I was walking home from work, the start of an X-Men: First Class story about what books does Charles Xavier read and return to came into my head. That was about a month ago and its finally finished.

Title: The Soul Under Your Skin
Fandoms: X-Men: First Class 2011
Characters: Charles Xavier, Erik Lensherr, mentions of Raven, Alex Summers and Sean Cassidy
Pairing: HInts of possible Charles/Erik
Rating: PG-13
Summary: The books we return to define us, this story looks into how Charles' library helps to explain how he approaches the world. Erik finds him in his library and they talk and Erik persuades him to leave his library. There's a hint of sexual tension but nothing is acted upon in this story.
Disclaimer: Characters aren't mine but belong to their creators.
Many thanks to ashen_key for betaing.
You can read here or at Archive of our Own

( Now I can see what you read when you don’t want anything else in your head. Watson and Crick, T.H. White...do you consider yourself an Arthur? )