bakerstreet | it's groundhog day all over again!

So, it's Groundhog Day. You check in with a rodent to see how much longer winter is going to last, hang out with friends, have a few beers, watch a movie, call it a night.

So, it's Groundhog Day. You check in with a rodent to see how much longer winter is going to last, hang out with friends, have a few beers, watch a movie, call it a night.

So, it's Groundhog Day...

Prompts
1. FIRST LOOP! Oh shit, this is your first time repeating everything. What do you do? Assume you're insane? Wonder if you're psychic? Go for help? Curl up in a corner crying? Your choice.

2. IT'S ALL ROUTINE NOW. Well, you've been around the block a few dozen times now. There are no surprises left. In ten seconds, that guy is going to trip over that cord. See? Called it. Sigh.

3. DO ANYTHING. Holy shit! There are no consequences anymore! You can literally do anything you want, and all the consequences will be erased within 24 hours. What do you do? Random sex? Shopping spree? Borrow a million dollars from the bank?

4. FUCK EVERYONE. Yeah, this is getting old. Living without consequences was fun for a while, but now you're ready to move on. Maybe it'll help you to cause a little mayhem. It's not like they'll remember tomorrow, anyway, is it? And misery does love company...

5. A LITTLE STIR-CRAZY. A bit like a do anything day, except now you're just going insane. Do out-of-character shit, anything to shake it up and relieve the tension.

6. GIVE UP. Maybe the only way out of this loop thing is to kill yourself inventively. Who knows?

7. LEARN SOMETHING FOR THE HELL OF IT. Might as well make use of your time, right? Maybe you should learn to play an instrument or paint a mural. You have all the time in the world to practice, after all.

8. TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS. Instead of screwing everyone over, maybe it's time to use your knowledge to make everyone else's day a little better. Someone should be happy, right?

9. LAST LOOP. Whatever it is you needed to learn, do, or accomplish, this is the one where you finish it. This is the day that counts. Don't screw it up.

10. THE DAY AFTER. Is that... is it tomorrow?! HALLELUJAH! Now time to start dealing with consequences again. Right after you finish dancing on that calender.

11. WILD CARD. Make up your own day or pick one of the other ten suggestions.

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[probably a meta or a speed force thing.]

[Pretty much canon. Link can be a helpful guide, or just someone else who gets it.]

[Let's be honest he's probably the one causing it. Or it's some sort of punishment made by a more powerful Q.]

{ let's be honest. he may not even notice. }

((He's certainly not the type to pull a 4 - not as his normal self, at least. Open to all other options))

((can either be kiddie or adult))

((Please help her before she totally flips out))

((...at least he didn't cause it. At least there's that small comfort...))

It always starts with the jet. They climb in and all hell breaks loose. The first time Erik crashed the plane. Charles remembers screaming at him as free fall took over and zero gravity flung him across the plane to crash face first to the rear end and everything went black.

He thought it was a strange daydream when they boarded the jet next time. But he was so worked up over it that he didn't say the things he did the first time and they stayed mostly in brooding silence the whole flight. He died instead in Paris, diving in front of the bullet meant for Raven. He didn't have any trust for Erik and things went bad straight from the start.

Third time he wasn't sure what was happening. The memories of the earlier times made him avoid discussion in the plane and he went for the gun before Erik could have it. Erik instead killed her with a piece of metal ripped out of the table stand. Things went bad from there, Logan next, then Hank, Charles lost consciousness when Hank landed on him, probably breaking his neck.

That was maybe a life time ago. It goes to show how much they trust each other at this point given that it took them at least twenty takes to confess to each other that they were going through the same thing.

But it had happened on the verge of yet another inevitable death scene. Erik had muttered it wouldn't matter anyway because they would be seeing each other in a few hours in the jet again and Charles' eyes had gone wide just before a bullet was fired and this time Charles went down without any pain.

Only to find himself on the airport, saying goodbye to Peter, yet again.

He turned, saw Erik's back as he disappeared into the jet and realised that he was yet again, living this moment. But so was Erik. And they desperately needed to figure out why because Charles just couldn't keep doing this.

He clapped Peter on the arm and then turned to jog into the plane ahead of Logan. He went straight to Erik and grabbed his elbow.

"We need to talk."

Erik remembers that first time, red so strongly obscuring his vision that he lets it all burn down, sparing a single moment towards the end as he sees Charles for the last time, about to be encased in a tomb of steel cage and shrapnel. Erik thinks, they were lucky to have survived each other the first time.

The rest is a bit of a blur, but he falls into lockstep quickly enough-- is this intervention then, a last-ditch effort made by the Erik and the Charles in the future who are desperate to make amends? Perhaps they have enough power to keep the last twenty-four hours going, but not any more than that.

He's stopped thinking that, as the weeks go on. He thinks he's stuck by himself, because he's asked Logan-- Logan, who doesn't know what Erik is talking about and who thinks they might have picked up the wrong Magneto, their resident time-traveler who isn't the cause of whatever is happening here. And so, he's resigned himself to thinking he's alone. Surrounded in an endless loop of killing the former friends who now hate him, and for good reason, as he reloads his guns and thinks for another way out.

Of course Charles would interrupt this. He still believes that he is all alone in this, that whatever he says to Charles would be inconsequential. And yet, oddly, he doesn't have any words. He did, ten years ago, and nine and eight and seven, and as the numbers dwindled down to the present, he had less and less of them. And now, he has only two. "What about?" he asks, expression flat.

Charles steers Erik to the back of the plane. Not because he doesn't want to disturb Hank and Logan, but because he doesn't need the distraction for it. They'd ask questions that would just slow him down. Hank did the first time he approached him with this. Hank had spun a whole theory about parallel universes and time paradoxes that Charles didn't want to think about lest he could avoid the headache that it resulted in.

He looks up at Erik when they have questionable privacy of a curtain drawn between them and the rest of the jet.

"You are stuck in the loop too," he says quietly. "I thought it was only me."

His eyes go wide. "Why?" he asks, immediately. "I mean, why us two? I asked Logan," he explains. And then, he's wondering when Charles figured it out, when he realized that the two of them were there together, when-- "You let me kill you," he says.

He doesn't explain which time.

"But it doesn't matter," Erik resolves. "We're stuck here infinitely. As long as we're here, it means the world won't end. Trask never debuts the Sentinels. Everyone is safe."

He'd already resigned himself to multiple lifetimes of solitary confinement like this. He'd already served ten years, what's another thousand? As long as things stayed still, that meant nothing would happen. And that was better than the alternative.

[Maybe she's going through it too. Or maybe Piper is the witch you go to to fix your time loop.]

it's groundhog day all over again!

Foggy Nelson | AU Daredevil | ota

Barry Allen | 63!Flash | ota

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Q Junior | Star Trek

Zaphod Beeblebrox | Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | ota

Varian | Tangled TV series

Mitsunari Ishida | Sengoku Basara

Mamoru Chiba - Sailor Moon - Open to Anyone

Right - Ressha Sentai ToQger - Open to Anyone

Natsumi Hikari - Kamen Rider Decade - Open to Anyone

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Piper Webber | OC | OTA