fondle night is every night

This is super fluffy future!fic/kid!fic. No context necessary. (I think? They're dodgy professors by this point and have kids.) This arose from talking to stlkrchck about Charles hiding dinosaurs in the lawn for their kids to discover while Wanda and Pietro are going through a dinosaur phase.

Erik stands in the kitchen washing dishes, pointedly ignoring the irritated whirring of the coffee machine, while Charles traipses around outside destroying their lawn. He has been at it the past hour, armed with a trowel and several plastic dinosaurs, moving in and out of Erik’s line of vision, leaving some very distinct unearthed patches amidst the grass. Finished with the last pan, Erik places it on the drying rack and goes outside to stage an intervention.

( 'Charles,' Erik says, just loud enough to get Charles' attention. )

I like having my stuff in my journal, so sorry if you've seen this before?

Title: The First of Many (AO3 link)
Characters/Pairings: Charles/Erik, Angel/Raven (background)
Rating: R
Length: 4300
Summary: Charles speaks of past Christmases with great enthusiasm, traditions he and Raven developed together in their largely insular childhood. He’s so undeniably excited that even if Erik won’t become an active participant in propagating Christmas cheer, he’s still glad to spend time with his ridiculous boyfriend.
Notes: Gift for stlkrchck for the secret_mutant exchange. Modern, still powered, AU.

( Erik is, at best, neutral towards the 'holiday season'. )

This is kind of death fic? Do I even need to state that since the first line gives it away? The other WsIP I have are giving me issues right now. Anyway, this is another attempt to at least write something.

Title: Matter
Pairing: Erik/Charles
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~1680
Summary: Dystopic Future AU. Still-powered. Charles Xavier dies in Erik’s arms on a small, inconsequential island that’s wiped from the map not long after. Three months later, he turns up on Erik’s sofa.
Notes: Anyhow, this was written for the November prompts via 31_days. Obviously out of compliance. Also, this isn't a Blade Runner AU, but that is where I took the term replicant from. This story follows a non-linear narrative, depending on what the prompt inspires.

( Erik’s throat closes at the feel of Charles’ presence, as though Erik himself is suffocating. )

I’m cold. It’s snowing. Fingers crossed that we don’t lose power. Et cetera et cetera.

Title: The Weather Outside
Rating: G
WC: ~560
Pairing: Erik/Charles
Summary: At the end of a cold day, Charles keeps Erik warm.
Notes: No split-AU. Or wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff, since it wasn't snowing at the time of the movie.

( Warmth enveloped Erik as soon as he entered through the kitchen. )

I think this got me over the angst writing block I've had for a while, so hopefully now I can get a handle on the scenes of other things I want to write. I'm rubbish at dealing with my own feelings, so the solution is evidently to write about mutants who are also, um, bad at dealing with their feelings. Enjoy?

Title: The Way I Danced With You
Rating: G
Pairing/Characters: Charles/Erik
Word Count: ~1000
Summary: Erik and Charles share one last dance.
Note: Slight canon divergence. Basically a movie coda. Inspired by the Ben Folds ft Rufus Wainwright version of "Careless Whisper".

( Erik's back in the study Charles always favored, one out of many, though Erik never knew what made this one special and now, he supposes, he never will. )

Link to AO3.

I, uh, don't write fic-porn often for a reason, but this happened. So.

Title: Every Time I Think of You
Rating: NC-17
Pairing/Characters: Charles/Erik, Raven, Azazel
Word Count: ~3900
Summary: Erik starts to trust Charles, has an annoying day at work, and is impatient. Not necessarily in that order.
Note: Modern AU, still-powered, wherein mutant and proud isn't a big deal. Continuation from First Dates.

( Exhaustion hit Erik like a landslide once he had parted from Charles. )

Link to AO3 version.

Title: It's Smile Time!
Pairing: Charles/Erik
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: ~4900
Summary: Erik isn't the same after a chance encounter with a mutant he and Charles fail to recruit. Fill for this prompt: Recruitment trip. Mutant with the ability to do transmutation and a thirst for causing trouble. Puppet!Erik.
Note: Title from the episode of Angel of the same name. Contains a random original character for the transmutation to happen. To quote Gunn, Erik ends up with the "the proportionate excitability of a puppet [his] size".

( There were, of course, going to be mutants found who did not want to have any part of their cause. It was disappointing whenever this happened, but Charles generally accepted it, probably because he could read the reasons off of them even if they didn't always say. )

Here on AO3.

Title: First Dates
Rating: G
Pairing/Characters: Charles/Erik, Emma
Word Count: ~6000
Summary: Modern AU, still-powered. Emma and Charles are old friends from prep school/college. Erik and Emma are setup on a blind date that goes terribly. This is how Erik meets Charles, and the story of his and Charles' first date.
Note: This is what would happen if I wrote a romance. I gave Erik resistance to telepathy, since that is canon somewhere.

( The first time Erik and Charles met Erik was on his one and only date with Emma Frost. )

Here it is on AO3.

I think I can do long posts now, yay.

Title: This Crazy Game Called Life
Rating: Mature
WC: ~5100
Summary: Raven declares game night in the mansion. Sean finds an elephant, Erik inherits one hundred unwanted cats, and Charles scars Hank for life with misdirected dirty thinking. This is five thousand words of crack with a dose of schmoop. I'm not sorry. Written for this kink meme prompt.
Note: I mostly went with images I found of a 1960s version of the game, but I've BS-ed the order of the scenarios.

( Tonight Charles lingered a little too long in the kitchen while he was debating which bottle of wine to take to Erik while they played their game of chess. This gave Raven ample time to intercept him. )

Here on AO3.

I haven't decided yet if this is part of something larger, or a standalone. I'm sort-of inclined to since I have several other thoughts that would slide into this universe, but I've also got other things I want to finish writing first, too. We shall see what inspiration brings.

Title: Start to Melt
Pairing: Charles/Erik
Rating: G
Summary: Post-beach AU. Charles tries to help Erik find a way to achieve a state of calm on his own. Erik ends up unintentionally bonding with their newest "recruit", Jean Grey, and things normalize a little in the process. This is also a response to two prompts a friend gave me: "aluminum" and "audience".
Note: I took selective pieces of Jean's general back story and re-purposed them for the fic; the movies tend to do that thing so I don't feel too bad. Title from the Peter Bjorn and John song of the same name.

( There is one thing Erik and Charles still agree upon and that's the need to find others of their kind. )

Here it is on AO3.