Erik/Charles Recs
[X-Men - Erik/Charles, Logan/Marie] Yahtzee – The Winter of Banked Fires
Title: The Winter of Banked Fires
Author: Yahtzee
Rating: NC-17 || Status: Complete
Summary: Charles Xavier has returned from the dead — but is lost within his own mind. Rogue has cast aside her own power and doesn’t know where she fits in the world any longer. The production of synthetic Cure means mutantkind itself is newly at risk. And Magneto, turned human against his will, is in despair until the day he feels a familiar consciousness tugging at his own —
Set after X-3 (with much desperate fix-it applied), during XMFC, and every time in between.
Archive:
AO3
[X-Men - Erik/Charles] alaceron – Conspiracy of Kisses
Title: Conspiracy of Kisses
Author: alaceron
Rating: G || Status: Complete
Summary: Seven-year-old Erik needs to keep his telepathic best friend Charles from finding out that he wants to kiss him. But that’s okay, because he has a plan – he’ll put on a tinfoil hat.
[X-Men/Inception - Erik/Charles] Anonymous – Every Piece of You
Title: Every Piece of You
Author: Anonymous
Rating: PG || Status: Complete
Summary: For prompt: Someone hires the Inception team to target either Charles or Erik. It’s years post-divorce and no one really considers the fact that Charles and Erik were once friends. But whichever one of them (Erik or Charles) the inception team is dreamsharing with, the other (Charles or Erik) is the security for and completely BAMF.
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Kink Meme
[X-Men - Erik/Charles] introductory – Selfish
Title: Selfish
Author: introductory
Rating: NC-17 || Status: Complete
Summary: Charles always makes Erik do all the work, so maybe Erik shouldn’t be indulging him now.
Archive:
LJ
[X-Men - Erik/Charles] Yahtzee – Enigma
Title: Enigma
Author: Yahtzee
Rating: PG-13 || Status: Complete
Summary: For prompt: Erik dies, or finds a reversey-time mutant, or a magical time travelling device, and wakes up in the past. This time, though, it’s before he ever met Charles – in fact, it’s before his mother died. He can save his mother that one time (thanks to his mastery over powers carrying back), but what does Erik do after that? Does he stick around, or escape and run to find Charles again (and hope everything doesn’t go wrong)?
Archive:
AO3
[X-Men - Erik/Charles] tawabids – Sunrise in Beantown
[X-Men - Erik/Charles] tawabids – Show Me Your Teeth
Title: Show Me Your Teeth
Author: tawabids
Rating: R || Status: Complete
Summary: For prompt: Erik is the new leader of his werewolf clan, convinced of his people’s innate superiority to humans. Frustrated by humanity’s fearful rejection of werewolves, who have pushed werewolves out of their ancestral hunting grounds and forced them to live in barren territories, his methodology is to fight fire with fire: to fight the humans for what is rightfully theirs. Charles is a werewolf hunter, determined to protect humans from werewolves and the threat they pose. Unexpectedly, they fall in love.
[X-Men - Erik/Charles] zarathuse – I Guess I Should Say Thanks or Some Shit
Title: I Guess I Should Say Thanks or Some Shit
Author: zarathuse
Rating: NC-17 || Status: Complete
Summary: believe it or not, charles has a well-thought-out moral philosophy. he doesn’t follow it. but he has thought it out. alternatively: charles and erik douche it up in amsterdam.
[X-Men - Erik/Charles] manic_intent – Some Assembly Required
Title: Some Assembly Required
Author: manic_intent
Rating: NC-17 || Status: Complete
Summary: For prompt: Alex and Hank were two teenagers who frequently fight in school. One fight got so bad that the principal called in their fathers (as both came from single-parent families)/ guardians for a conference. This was how Charles and Erik meet.
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AO3
[X-Men - Erik/Charles] temperance_k – Desperate Measures
Title: Desperate Measures
Author: temperance_k
Rating: PG || Status: Complete
Summary: The inhabitants of Charles’ estate (Charles, his conniving younger sister Raven, his adorable but mischievous adopted children, and their live-in handyman Erik) have been growing restless. To keep the children (who range in age from kindergarten to fifth or sixth grade) from destroying everything in sight, Charles comes up with a scavenger hunt of sorts. The objective? To find his “heart” (which is actually a heart-shaped photo of everyone).
Archive:
LJ
[X-Men - Erik/Charles] smilebackwards – Date Night
Title: Date Night
Author: smilebackwards
Rating: PG-13 || Status: Complete
Summary: Erik thinks he would be more touched at the children’s obvious investment in his and Charles’ relationship if it didn’t imply such a lack of confidence in his abilities.
Archive:
LJ
[X-Men - Erik/Charles] smilebackwards – Humane Society
Title: Humane Society
Author: smilebackwards
Rating: R || Status: Complete
Summary: Once Erik finally allows himself to decide that Charles is pretty much the best thing since sliced bread, he spends the next week being incredibly bitter that he’s Charles’ cat and not his boyfriend.
Archive:
LJ
[X-Men - Erik/Charles] Xris – Snapshots Of A Reconcilliation
Title: Snapshots Of A Reconcilliation
Author: Xris
Rating: R || Status: Complete
Summary: Rebuilding what they’ve lost isn’t going to be easy. Then again, when has anything between them ever been easy? (Sequel to Progression Of A Family Portrait)
Archive:
AO3
[X-Men - Erik/Charles] Xris – Progression Of A Family Portrait
[X-Men - Erik/Charles] ohmydarlingdear – When Two People Become One (Is It Real Now?)
Title: When Two People Become One (Is It Real Now?)
Author: ohmydarlingdear
Rating: PG-13 || Status: Complete
Summary: Erik decides to purchase a mail-order bride to help around the house. He’s expecting a pretty little blonde woman or something, but what he gets is Charles Xavier.
Archive:
LJ
[X-Men - Erik/Charles] brilligspoons – I Got a Little Fight
Title: I Got a Little Fight
Author: brilligspoons
Rating: PG-13 || Status: Complete
Summary: In which they’re not mutants, they’re all in college and in a band, kind of. Erik doesn’t know whether to rue or celebrate the day he met Raven Xavier.
Archive:
AO3
[X-Men - Erik/Charles] clocks – The Art Of Flirting
[X-Men - Erik/Charles] cimorene – Excellent Judgment
Title: Excellent Judgment
Author: cimorene
Rating: NC-17 || Status: Complete
Summary:
“Your friends go to school while dating,” says Charles thoughtfully.
“Lots of people do that, Charles. You’re just a workaholic who owns a speed-dating business.”
Charles waves that away. “Speed-dating doesn’t take up any time at all. Once per month. Moira spends more time than that watching Clint Eastwood movies.”
Raven sighs. “Everybody dates. You used to date!”
“That wasn’t dating, Raven, that was drinking,” explains Charles.
“Excuse me! I resent that remark! You love me for my unerring sense of comic timing.”
“–But not everyone is so forgiving.”
[X-Men - Erik/Charles] twentysomething – Sang the Streets a Serenade
Title: Sang the Streets a Serenade
Author: twentysomething
Rating: PG-13 || Status: Complete
Summary:
“So,” Erik says, not without a touch of amusement as they- well, Charles- attempts to extricate them from the other best pub and Sophia. And Marjorie. And Betsy.
Charles cannot imagine he was actually that indiscreet as to sleep with three barmaids from the same establishment.
[X-Men - Erik/Charles] The Hoyden – Not So Much the Teacup
Title: Not So Much the Teacup
Author: The Hoyden
Rating: NC-17 || Status: Complete
Summary: “Charles is basically the bride whisperer. It’s like he can read their minds.” (Wedding Planner AU)
Archive:
AO3
[X-Men - Erik/Charles] The Hoyden – What Not To Expect When You’re Not Expecting It
Title: What Not To Expect When You’re Not Expecting It
Author: The Hoyden
Rating: NC-17 || Status: Complete
Summary: “I wasn’t hiding it from you. Honestly, I didn’t know for certain until yesterday, which I think we can agree was bad timing and not the sort of thing one springs before the heat of battle,” Charles says earnestly.
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AO3
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