So this is a triple rec because they all resulted from the same prompt, but they are all beautiful, so you should just keep scrolling until you reach the end of the page and have read all three.
The prompt is: "So somehow Charles gets turned into a kid/baby. While the team scrabble to work out how to put him right they try to look after him. Turns out, Charles doesn't need much looking after. If he's a baby, he never cries. If he's a little kid, he's really self-sufficient.
Everyone's charmed/amused by this except one person (I vote Sean - being the walking, stoned Irish Catholic stereotype that he is in the film he probably has a big family) who is really unnerved by this. All babies cry. Kids that age are not that independent - they're just not. Unless they're used to nothing happening when they cry/used to fending for themselves.
When he's returned to normal, they question Charles about this."
Title: The Welfare of a Child
Author: oddegg
Pairing: Gen
Rating: PG
Oh this one made me cry. The little things Charles does, Sean's reaction to them, the final confrontation when Charles was back, everyone's reactions - goddamn, excuse me while I go cry again just thinking about any child growing up like that, Charles in particular. Oh Charles T_T
Title: Self-Reliance (scroll down past The Welfare of a Child)
Author: Anonymous
Pairing: Gen
Rating: PG
This one actually has funny bits in it, mainly because the kids are mad about the divorce and so keep thinking about Erik in quite unfavorable terms (I mean - "Sean thought of a two year old who was so self-sufficient that he set his own bed times and wished he knew what rock Erik was hiding under so that he could go scream in his ear and shatter his eardrums," BWAHAHAHAHA, because Sean could literally do that, OMG), but still. I love the idea that Sean goes to Charles after he's "normal" again, because Sean in the movie was just... there, but he shows such depth and maturity here, it makes me happy :)
Title: Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails (scroll down past Self-Reliance)
Author: Anonymous
Pairing: Gen
Rating: PG
This one is just - THE ENDING, OH GOD, THE ENDING. A punch straight to my heart.
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