"We will not go silently into the night"
Well, they never do for *long*. 's the thing about being stuck in a story machine. There are no happily ever afters, but there are no sadly ever afters either...

Erik is still comfortable having Charles floating around in his mind.
It probably helps that they don't have anything left to fight over, at the moment. (Although I'm sure they would have found something, if Charles had stuck around longer! ;)