pallorsomnium | [rec] X-Men - Charles/Erik

(X-men fic are so much harder for me to categorize than Merlin fic, so I might have stuck things in categories that won't quite fit them.)
Fics are organized by category, author and then title (unless dealing with a series).
(* by a title means a fic I love/re-read a lot; by an author means a recommended/favorite author)

*Under Construction*

Mod!AU

"The Proper Care of Actors" by clear_liqueur, afrocurl, *clocks, etharei (>10k) (WIP) (no powers)
Erik is an A-list action star who is notoriously difficult to work with, until the day he gets cast alongside Charles Xavier, rom-com darling who can charm the pants off movie audiences the world over and apparently even one Erik Lehnsherr. The paparazzi catch them out and about soon enough, and their real-life Hollywood movie romance becomes instant tabloid fodder.

"Conspiracy of Kisses" by alaceron (<10k) (mutant!AU)
Seven-year-old Erik needs to keep his telepathic best friend Charles from finding out that he wants to kiss him. But that's okay, because he has a plan - he'll put on a tinfoil hat.

“Omega” by apokteino (>10k) (mutant!AU)
Wherein the world decides to deal with mutants with utter segregation. All mutants are placed on Genosha, and all children are tested at birth for the mutant gene, and sent to Genosha if they have it, to be adopted by other mutants. Years later, Charles Xavier's parents bribe officials to keep their child, and he grows up utterly alone in a human world. But all that changes...

“If I Ever Caused You Trouble” by becausemagnets (>10k) (WIP) (no powers)
Erik is a professional car thief and Charles is still in high school and somehow things are easy without ever being easy and they spend a lot of time in cars.

*Daycare 'Verse by brilligspoons and pocky_slash (>10k) (mutant!AU)
A modern AU in which Charles runs a mutant daycare and Erik is his long-suffering engineer boyfriend.

Hellfire 'Verse by cesare and helens78 (>10k) (mutant!au)
A modern dystopia in which mutants are slaves.
Erik Lehnsherr has been searching for Sebastian Shaw for close to a decade, and the trail's led him to an exclusive club that rents enslaved and collared mutants to wealthy humans for a variety of sexual uses. Posing there, he meets one of the club's patrons, Charles Xavier, who isn't what the club thinks he is, either. Is Charles going to be an ally, or is he going to stand in Erik's way?

*“Our House in the Middle of the Street” by *clocks (>10k) (no powers)
Charles is a social worker who fosters troubled kids, and one day he meets Erik, an ex-convict, who reluctantly agrees to stay for only a while, but ends up staying for good and helping Charles to raise the kids. Awkward parenting ensues.

*“Paper Monsters” by *clocks (>10k) (WIP) (no powers)
Fill for this prompt: Charles meets Erik Lehnsherr, his favorite novelist of all time at a coffee shop, but doesn't know it's him, and Erik just criticizes his own writing in front of his biggest fan.

“Zweiundachtzig” by Dow (>10k) (mutant!au)
Erik M. Lehnsherr is a private man, a jeweler that’s just looking for a studio to work in. But floorspace in New York is limited, so he ends up sharing a space with a beautiful mutant painter named Raven. Above them is a huge furry blue physicist, i.e. Mad scientist, and a glassblower that breaks half of what he makes when he starts laughing.
Drawn into their intricacies, Erik finds himself not only with friends but something that’s starting to frighteningly resemble a family. Then enter one, Charles Xavier; geneticist, lecturer, telepath, and mutant rights activist. Suddenly Erik is faced with dealing with a past he’s trying to forget and feelings he’s never had before.

"It Takes a Heap of Living" by Etharei (>10k) (mutant!AU)
They have their day jobs. And then, they have this. Modern!AU in which they are the superheroes of mutantkind.

"Charles' Killer" by *luchia (>10k) (no powers)
When detective Charles Xavier finds himself hunting down a vendetta-driven serial killer, it doesn't take long for him to realize he's in over his head. It only takes a little longer for him to realize his killer is, too.
There's also what one can consider a "prologue" to part two of this 'verse over here on the LJ masterlist(14 - one more broken sound).

"Long Distance Waltz" by *mia6363 (<10k)
"Charles spoke of his loved ones so often and so vividly that Erik felt as if he knew them."
Charles and Erik meet and since they both travel a lot, they keep in touch through emails and texts.

*"An Ideal Grace" by nekosmuse and afrocurl (>10k) (no powers)
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.

"An Ideal Grace: How it didn't happen" by nekomuse (<10k)
Parody endings to An Ideal Grace (aka how Erik could have found out, but didn't). You probably want to read An Ideal Grace first.

"Love's Own Crown" by nekomuse and afrocurl (>10k) (WIP)
Sequel to An Ideal Grace, in which Charles and Erik navigate the complexities of their new relationship while battling external forces that seem determined to keep them apart. Fortunately they have one thing on their side: Love.
I haven't read the sequel yet, because I want to wait for it to be completed, but I'm sure it's as good as An Ideal Grace.

*"Limited Release" by *rageprufrock (>10k) (mutant!AU)
When Alex Summers broke out of supermax to rescue his stupid kid brother, he had no idea it was going to be so fucking complicated.

"Guilty By Association" by Regann (>10k) (no powers)
While investigating the homicide of a John Doe who he suspects might've been murdered while working the streets as a prostitute, Detective Erik Lehnsherr finds an unexpected ally in a hooker named Charles who seems as determined as he to solve the case. As they become more deeply involved both with the case and each other, there's just one thing that Charles neglects to mention -- that he's really an investigative journalist, one quickly convinced that what they're dealing with is more than simple murder.

*"In the Moonlight, On a Joy Ride" by ScarlettBlush (11k) (no powers)
Librarian AU. Charles is the young librarian and Erik is the college student who is completely besotted with him.

"Assassination (It's Not For Everyone)" by silverdawn89 (>10k) (no powers)
In which there are guns, mayhem, cold-blooded torture, more guns, explosions, girls (and boys) in leather, even more guns, knives, chess, and just for a change, a fuckload of guns. Or to put it another way: assassin AU!
There's a sequel in the works, if you just follow the part two link on AO3. I haven’t read it yet because I’m waiting for it to be completed.

"Lean On Me" by SpiritsFlame (>10k) (no powers)
Ten years ago, Charles and Erik split up, dividing their six kids between them. None of them expect them to meet at summer camp. And no one could have predicted the results. Written for the reel_xmen challenge.

*"Get Back Up" by TerresDeBrume (>10k) (mutant!AU)
Tell me not how many times you fell, but rather how you got back up.
Or, the story of Charles' many falls and how his friends and the sexiest shark in creation helped him to get up again, stronger than before.

“Not So Much The Teacup” by *thehoyden (~10k) (no powers)
“Charles is basically the bride whisperer. It’s like he can read their minds.”

"Linger" by *waldorph (>10k) (mutant!AU)
Erik had been warned, to be fair. The realtor was very explicit that the last seventeen tenants had run from the premises screaming about the Exorcist or The Ring or some other terrible horror show.

Note: I tend to read fics in AO3 format but if you'd prefer LJ links, just drop a comment with the fic name and I'll find them for you!