[X-Men – Erik/Charles] nekomuse & afrocurl – An Ideal Grace

Title: An Ideal Grace
Author: nekosmuse & afrocurl
Rating: NC-17 || Status: Complete
Summary: Erik Lehnsherr is a visiting professor at Columbia University, as well as an acclaimed and award winning poet. Charles Xavier is a lead researcher with the Genetics Department who is well on his way to tenure. But what happens when Charles has to cancel a class because half his students abandon him in favour of a mysterious new English Lit professor? Naturally he ends up sitting in in the class, where Professor Lehnsherr mistakes him for a student. It’s really too bad Erik has such a strict policy against dating students. It’s also too bad Erik doesn’t seem to know how to use Google.

Archive:
AO3

This is so great. ♥ I love the dynamic between Erik and Charles in this. I just felt so bad for Erik and his past and thinking that Charles was a student. And then there was Charles and how he was a little obsessive yet super adorable with his crush. ♥ And then the poetry! I’m not really big on poems in general, but they were pretty great.