Title: Learning Curve
Fandom: X-Men: First Class
Rating: PG
Length: ~1500
Content notes: None.
Author notes: Thanks to pearl_o for beta and handholding. Part of a non-powered college AU.

Summary: Erik takes a trip back to campus to visit a despondent Charles and does his best to offer comfort.

( Learning Curve )

Title: Send All My Loving To You
Fandom: X-Men: First Class
Characters/Pairings: Charles/Erik
Rating: NC-17
Length: ~3000
Content notes: Sexual content.
Author notes: For pearl_o (and betaed by her 'cause I'm classy), based on this NSFW gif. Non-powered college AU.
Summary: Charles is resigned to spending the next month lonely and depressed until he finds a letter from Erik tucked into his suitcase.


( Send All My Loving To You )

Title: Dark With a Sense of Coming Doom
Fandom: X-Men: First Class
Characters/Pairings: Charles/Erik
Rating: R
Length: ~4700
Content notes: Attempted sexual overtures of dubious consent and mild violence. ( Spoilery details )
Author notes: There isn't enough thanks in the world for pearl_o who is absolutely the greatest at beta-ing and hand-holding. ♥ Title from Stars' "The Five Ghosts."
Summary: When a storm makes driving impossible, Erik and Charles put the recruitment roadtrip on hold to shelter for the night in an abandoned house. Despite the empty rooms, something's set Charles on edge and Erik may live to regret asking what it is.


( Dark With a Sense of Coming Doom )

Title: Purgatory
Fandom: X-Men: First Class
Characters: Charles Xavier
Rating: G
Length: ~350
Warnings: None.
Summary: In the hospital, the drugs can't separate him from the reality of his loss.

( Purgatory )

Title: Places I Never Meant to Be
Author: pocky_slash
Fandom: X-Men: First Class
Characters: Charles/Erik
Rating: PG13
Length: ~4900
Warnings: Vague mentions of past child abuse, repression that could be taken as internalized homophobia.
Summary: Modern, non-powered AU. Erik doesn't know what the things between him and Charles is, but he knows it's dangerous. He knows he's better off without it. (At least, that's what he keeps telling himself.)

Notes: For the "School" challenge at fan_flashworks. The fic is heavily influenced by short story called "Something Which Is Non-Existent" by Norma Klein, a homage in honor of the recent Banned Books Week. Title from the book of short stories in which it's collected. Endless thanks to pearl_o and littledust for their beta skills. They made the story better.


( Erik is sitting on his trunk, waiting for a taxi. )

Title: Domestic Tranquility
Fandom: X-Men: First Class
Characters: Charles/Erik, Moira
Rating: PG
Length: ~4000
Content notes: None.
Author notes: Part of the daycare 'verse, a modern AU where Charles runs a mutant daycare and Erik is his engineer boyfriend. No further background knowledge required. Thanks to pearl_o for the last minute beta help ♥
Summary: In which Charles is excited about cohabitation, then Charles is wary about cohabitation, Moira is wise, and Erik has questionable dvd organizational habits.

( Domestic Tranquility )

Title: Peaceful Coexistence Is So Mainstream
Fandom: X-Men: First Class
Characters: Charles/Erik
Rating: PG
Length: ~1800
Content notes: None
Summary: An afternoon shopping trip has Charles forced to explain Erik's role in a bizarre counterculture movement to the man himself.

Author notes: Takes place sometime after Everything About It Is a Love Song. You don't have to read that to read this, all you have to know is that Charles and Erik have retired together as old men. There are some throwaway references to comics canon, but it generally follows XMFC movie canon. Thanks to littledust and pearl_o for their usual beta assistance/validation ♥ (Also, this whole thing stems from a conversation I've had with littledust on multiple occasions about how Sir Patrick Stewart is the only person allowed to unironically wear a "Magneto Was Right" t-shirt.)

( peaceful coexistence is so mainstream )

Title: You are Everyone
Fandom: X-Men: First Class
Rating: G
Length: ~1100
Content notes: None.
Author notes: Thanks to pearl_o for the beta and the encouraging agreement that an "Old Friends" challenge was made for Charles and Erik. Title from Dar Williams' song of the same name.

Summary: In the aftermath of battle, Erik realizes that hiding his feelings just leads to regret.

( You are Everyone )

Title: the words you chose, the way you write
Fandom: X-Men: First Class
Rating: R
Length: ~7000
Content notes: None
Author notes: Thanks to pearl_o for fanning the fire, as it were, and all the encouragement, as well as the beta. littledust provided the usual ninth inning rally when I began to despair.

Summary: It's easier, writing letters on paper. Erik can say things that stuck in his throat when he and Charles were together.

( the words you chose, the way you write )

Title: Anywhere But Here
Fandom: X-Men: First Class
Characters: Charles/Erik, Raven
Rating: PG13 for language
Length: ~2500
Content notes: Imprisonment, vague references to off-screen torture
Summary: "The point is to come up with fantasies about where you'd rather be." Charles and Raven play a game. Charles and Erik have a conversation. The location's rubbish, but the company's good.

Notes: littledust basically let me write the second half of this at her over IM. ♥

( Anywhere But Here )