Tessellation

Title: Tessellation
Author: nekomuse
Pairing: Erik/Charles
Rating: NC-17

Based on the prompts that have Erik and Charles meeting when they're older, when Charles is already in the wheelchair, and know of each other but haven't actually met prior.

This is one of those really good meaty stories that you don't want to start right before your bedtime - because you'll end up thinking "just one more chapter," and before you know it you've finished the story and it's 3 in the morning. The Charles in this story is less... "pure," for lack of a better word; he's perfectly willing to use his telepathy to "nudge" other people in the direction he wants, although never too maliciously, and I absolutely love the characterizations of all the other people (I actually adore the Emma in this story, and Riptide completely freaking out over cockroaches - or was it rats? - is hilarious).

I Am Oragami

Title: I Am Oragami
Author: pentre-katblake
Pairing: Erik/Charles, Charles/Edie
Rating: PG-13

For the prompt: "I just want a fic where Edie Lehnsherr is a Jack Harkness-style immortal and comes to Westchester after she hears about this safe haven for mutants. Post Divorce please, with oblivious!Charles and absent!Erik."

So.... yeah, um. I didn't know the pairings before I read the fic, so I'm just gonna put it out there that I'm a little squicked by the Charles/Edie and the Charles/Erik in the same story - although I understood how they got there - but. That just messes with my head, and.

That said, this is a gorgeous story. The writing is beautiful, the whole story is just... quietly brilliant, and I love stories that focus on minor characters. Also, as an avid oragami-folder (is that the correct term?) as a child, I very much appreciate the metaphor :)

Five time you didn't get it (and the one time you did)

Title: Five time you didn't get it (and the one time you did)
Author: subtilior
Pairing: Erik/Charles (but also gen-ish)
Rating: PG

For the prompt: "I'm quite intrigued by the idea of the younger mutants not knowing about Charles and Erik back when they were friends. I imagine they'd be really shocked to see their enemy, magneto, jetting off to rescue their professor.

So. Someone attacks or kidnaps or kills Charles, and everyone's sort of lost. Maybe the younger mutants are praying or begging for someone to help them, only to have their savior end up being Magneto. Maybe some of them want vengeance or to go after the attackers, only to find out that Magneto rained holy hell upon them already. Or maybe the last thing Charles says is to "find Erik," or they don't recognize the handsome older gentleman without his trademark helmet."

This - just - the ending, oh my god, I mean the entire story already had this subtle and gradually growing feeling of constricted sadness, but that ending just broke my heart. Oh Charles ::BIG HUGS::

2 stories about Charles "seducing" Erik's friends away

For the prompt: "So I dunno maybe the whole divorce scene ended differently but Erik still kind of left, but not really for good. Charles is all understanding that Erik has to 'find himself' or 'Work out his human hating issues' or whatever, and he promises that he won't force Erik to come back to him. He'll wait.

But Erik's new minions are fair game.

Cue Charles being sweet to Azazel and they are suddenly very buddy-buddy and hanging out all the time talking philosophy. Emma and Charles live a very similar life style and they often go to the same restaurants and operas and just happen to 'see' each other there. Riptide, who always kind of felt like the least powerful of the team, finds a kind and understanding friend who doesn't see him as another tool for power. Angel, seeking forgiveness, is accepted into Charles home with open arms. Raven, it's his sister of course she wants to see her brother but she's standing by Erik. Pretty much all of Erik's new friends are now hanging out with Charles, seduced by his kind smiles and generous heart, they badger Erik for being a horrible boyfriend and leaving poor Charles all his lonesome. Coming back to the lair talking about the cookies Charles made them and how he's always talking about Erik like the guy just stepped out for a cigarette, and really what kind of guy leaves a guy like Charles alone and not worry that someone else is going to snatch that up.

Of course Erik come home, he has to stop this madness unless Charles drives him crazy. Maybe some possessive, jealous sex to clear the air, and then a happy family breakfast in the morning with everyone to enjoy the reunion."

Title: Friend Like Me (WIP)
Author: Anonymous
Pairing: Erik/Charles (at some point, so far it's been gen)
Rating: PG

Hahaha the portrayal of the Brotherhood is awesome in this. I love the individual character studies, the little details - this is building up to be even more enjoyable than it already is, and I can't wait :D

Title: Shared Custody (scroll down)
Author: smilebackwards
Pairing: Erik/Charles, Azazel/Raven (although this is mostly gen, really)
Rating: PG-13

Charles baking! Basically winning everyone's heart with scones ("The scone Azazel is served from the finished batch is the lightest, fluffiest thing he's ever tasted. He honestly considers defecting. Raven laughs and puts a hand on his forearm. "You look like you're having a mouth orgasm," she says.")! Azazel's crush on Raven! This is cute and hilarious (although some of Charles's complete open-arms policy regarding members of the Brotherhood is... a little... odd sometimes, but then with the slight AU-twist of the beach scene maybe that's understandable), and the ending, good lord.

The Gunpowder Files

Title: The Gunpowder Files
Author: tawabids
Pairing: Erik/Charles (although this is pretty gen)
Rating: R for violence?

For the prompt: "... In a semi-historical-maybe-maybe-not AU, Erik is known to be very dangerous and a smooth operator, killin' bad dudes and somehow getting away with it. I...don't know how. One day, this horrible rich family offers to pay Erik to kill their disabled son, "putting him out of his misery". Erik says eff that, and just gets Charles to leave with him when he skips town. They fight whatever it is that Erik fights in this fic..."

I love the writing in this fic. Absolutely love, love, adore. It's a very different take on Erik and Charles's personalities, and how they can work together instead of apart like in the movie. I like the darker side of Charles in this story, the way he's kind of... sharper around the edges, and the relationship between Charles and Erik, Erik and his mother (yay Edie!), and Charles and Edie are just.. gritty and raw and beautiful.

Lilacs Out of Dead Land

Title: Lilacs Out of Dead Land
Author: Anonymous
Pairing: Erik/Charles
Rating: PG-13...?

For the prompt: "Can be AU or canon or whatever. In which dramatic things happen and then there is desperate kissing in the rain."

This is... I have no words, truly. It's beautiful and sad and desperate and I can't even tell if the ending is happy or not, those last few lines just slayed me. I want to snuggle this fic and feed it cookies and make it happy.

Scars

Title: Scars
Author: Anonymous
Pairing: Erik/Charles
Rating: PG-13...?

For the prompt: "Canonically, Charles' stepfather died in a lab explosion. Charles was there.

So, Charles has some pretty bad burn scars from the incident and he doesn't let people see or touch them. Then he and Erik get close and Erik wants to know why Charles is so reluctant to take off his shirt. Can we have Erik convincing Charles that he's beautiful and that he won't leave?

Please Anon, this is a huge kink of mine"

Oh my god this made me want to cry, but not in a bad way. It's a slow, quiet, and gorgeous celebration of the scars Charles bears, and the love Erik has for him (brain in a jar - HA), and I'm just gonna sit here and bask in the glow of this story for a bit ::quiet smile::

Baggage Claim

Title: Baggage Claim
Author: ovestedinterest
Pairing: Erik/Charles
Rating: PG

For the prompt: "Inspired by this: http://klavierofdevil.tumblr.com/post/9736985543/perfection-3

Erik is at the air port when his attention is caught by a young man blowing a kiss from over the railing of the floor above him. At first he thinks the kiss is for him, but he then realizes it's for some other dude behind him. Erik's confused by the sudden euphoria and subsequent jealousy the mistaken kiss stirred up, but he brushes it off as jet lag.

Erik sees Charles a few times more with Charles obviously deeply in love with whoever he keeps blowing kisses to. Then one day, Erik sees Charles' boyfriend with someone else hanging off his arm. Erik finds Charles crying in the men's room."

Short sweet prompt for a sweet fill. I love the understated way the story gives you just enough detail to figure out what's going on, and the ending made me all awwww. Tonight is apparently a night for sweet little "awwww" stories <3

Axis on a Tilt

Title: Axis on a Tilt
Author: Anonymous
Pairing: Erik/Charles
Rating: PG-13

For the prompt: "I blame this fully on listening to Motorcycle Drive By, but any AU where you can work the lyrics would be totally awesome."

Awwww... short sweet angsty (but happy!) AU of Charles and Erik. Charles is getting married... and what else can Erik do but congratulate him? This fic made me all awww and smushy inside ^___^

2 Stories About The Children Protecting Erik

For the prompt: "I'd like something, gen or slash is fine, with the kids being protective of Erik, maybe he's physically hurt and they all rally round to help. Or someone is verbally cruel - maybe they pick up on his accent, perhaps they hear him curse in German and call him a Nazi. "

Title: Mistaken
Author: Anonymous
Pairing: Gen (Erik/Charles)
Rating: PG-13

Awww this is short and packs a punch. I love how the boys protect Erik - and how Charles just knows how to handle it the best way possible.

Title: Wir Schützen Was Wir Lieben (scroll down)
Author: Anonymous
Pairing: Gen (Erik/Charles)
Rating: NC-17

It's a very interesting thing that even though Erik's been in the concentration camps, because he speaks German, people assume he was on the other side of that situation, and react accordingly. This is... painful because it's so brutal, so completely visceral, and even the ending is... there's a calm, but also this unsettled feeling that things aren't quite all right ::shiver::

Untitled (the one about scars and childhood abuse)

Title: Untitled (the one about scars and childhood abuse)
Author: Anonymous
Pairing: Erik/Charles
Rating: Hard R...?

For the prompt: "Charles has very old, raised scars that criss-cross his back, the kind of scars a man's belt might leave. Interspersed are knotted scars in the shape of crescent moons that fit a man's belt buckle. Erik, who thinks Charles' life has been idyllic, reacts badly upon seeing them for the first time."

This is... it's sweet and hot and dark and heartbreaking, and I honestly can't write a prompt that explains all the layers of emotion that goes through this fic. I mean, Erik's reaction and Charles completely, to the end, not getting why Erik's reacting the way he is - I have no words, I don't.

Desperate Times

Title: Desperate Times
Author: Anonymous
Pairing: Erik/Charles
Rating: NC-17

I forget what the original prompt the inspired this fill was, but man... this is just hot. Charles takes matters into his own hands, and Erik... happens to see ^_~

Childish Things

Title: Childish Things
Author: Anonymous
Pairing: Erik/Charles
Rating: NC-17

For the prompt: "Charles is extremely ticklish. This gives Erik ideas."

Oooooh. This started out kind of funny, then went a little dark, then exploded like a firework of hotness, mmmmm. The build up to the ::cough:: climax is just... excuse me while I melt into a pile of GUH.

When two people become one (is it real now?)

Title: When two people become one (is it real now?)
Author: ohmydarlingdear
Pairing: Erik/Charles
Rating: PG-13

For (basically) the mail-order bride prompt.

I know I've read the same prompt on the Inception kink meme (and I find it very amusing when I see similar/the same prompts across different memes - I always wonder if the requester is the same person), but this was just a very cute piece of domestic bliss. Sean and Alex as Erik's children are wonderful, and the Erik/Charles here is just... so sweet and hot <3

Metal and Flesh

Title: Metal and Flesh
Author: sasha_b
Pairing: Erik/Charles, but really Erik
Rating: R for kissing...?

This is a very interesting character study on Erik, and his relationship with metal (and with Charles), and a different look on how his mutation feels to him. The prose is also gorgeous, and the imagery is amazing... it's a very quiet but intense piece.

Family of Blood

Title: Family of Blood
Author: pentre_katblake Pairing: Erik/Charles, but really gen
Rating: I want to say R for the initial concentration camp stuff, but PG-13 probably also works...

For the prompt: "... I would love the see a fic where Charles meet another survivor of Shaw “experiments”, except this mutants isn’t on a path of revenge, nor hating humans, because it’s very clear in his/her head that the worst part of her life was inflicted to him/her by a mutant and not by a human..."

I apparently have a kink for living survivors of Erik's family. This story is... I don't even have words. The character of this story isn't even Erik or Charles, it's Ruth Lensherr, Erik's younger sister, it's her life and the lives of the X-Men as told through her eyes, and it is amazing because you take Erik and Ruth, you put them both in the same circumstances (Shaw trying to get more out of their powers), but when they both get out Ruth gets love while Erik doesn't, and that really shapes the people they become and the ethics they have. The story brought me to tears more than once, there are so many places where I just want to snatch Erik up and hug the living daylights out of him (well and Charles too), because it's not just simple and easy and happily-ever-after, it's life in the truest form, and I adore it ::snuggles up to the story and gazes into it's eyes::

The pen(is) mightier

Title: The pen(is) mightier
Author: Anonymous
Pairing: Erik/Charles
Rating: NC-17

For the prompt: "vicarious blowjob through metal objects." (Of course, there's more detail to the prompt itself, but that's all you really need to know)

Excuse me while I melt into a pile of GUH while spontaneously combusting over the incredible UST. This is so, so incredibly hot - because while I like a good PWP as well as the next person, there's something about really well-written drawn-out teasing that just hits my buttons, and oohh maann does this fic do that. All I can say is.. poor Erik XD

Cheers

Title: Cheers
Author: zamwessell
Pairing: Erik/Charles
Rating: NC-17

Bwahaha drunk Charles is the most adorable Charles ever. This is sweet and hilarious and hot and just really really really good - and "WHO IS BOILING THE OWLS" may be my favorite quote of all time. I don't think I stopped laughing for like 5 mins when I read that XD

Handle with Care

Title: Handle with Care
Author: yellow_pomelo
Pairing: Erik/Charles
Rating: PG

For the prompt: "Erik is hurt (for some reason) and (for some reason!) Charles has to give him stitches. Hurt/comfort please!"

This is a quietly sweet story that really shows the depth of Charles and Erik's feelings just by seemingly skimming the surface. I love how Charles suturing Erik's wound leads to deeper discussions of Charles's childhood leads to the contrast between Charles's reaction to past cruelty and Erik's. Also, It occurs to Erik, then – quietly, like a secret whispered in his ear – that this is the first time in a long time that somebody tended his wounds just because they didn’t want to see him hurt - makes me want to give Erik a HUGE hug, and this makes me love him even more:

“Even if I did scar,” Erik says, voice hoarse and unfamiliar, “this is one mark I would gladly bear.”

With Ease and Difficulty

Title: With Ease and Difficulty
Author: Anonymous
Pairing: Erik/Charles
Rating: NC-17

For the (paraphrased) prompt: "Erik catches Charles having sex with an old friend from Uni, can't stop thinking about it for weeks, and then does something about it."

Mmmm short and hot piece, oh my. Desk sex is awesome sex XD