Disclaimer: The X-Men belong to Stan Lee and lots of other people. Spoilers for X2 assumed, and to some extent X3 but mostly I pretend like X3 didn't happen. Erik doesn't always appreciate Charles's attempts to find new American experiences for him.
Remember that one time when the X-Men Flash Fic prompt was "Field trips" and I wrote a story about suicide? Yeah, that was this time. If you like reading kind of depressing ficlets about little Erik and Charles, and who doesn't, probably you'll like this I guess. Bobby helps John adjust to his first week at Xavier's, and they tackle the big issues--video games, Dr. Grey's rack, and the nature of justice.
This one is like, totally meta, and there are few things I like better than the creamy combination of social justice and comic books! Separation/Reunion.
A surprisingly non-angsty ficlet, considering the pairing. Of course, it's short--if I'd kept writing, they'd probably be playing angry symbolic chess by word 750 or so. Ororo tries to hold everything together.
Meh, I decided to try writing these two for variety's sake. It's okay? I should probably try to be more enthusiastic about these stories in my own archive if I ever want anyone to read them. Um, it's great! It's fantastic! It has words! Pyro's education with Magneto is a little different from what he's used to.
I like this one! It was my first time writing Pyro and people on LJ seemed to like him. And, if you've never read Midnight's Children, I recommend it highly. It's totally about mutants, except not really. Pyro's death brings Erik and Charles together.
I'm ambivalent about this fic, I think. I'm actually just going to say that in between the time I started writing and the time I finished writing it, a friend of mine died, so I think it um... colored the fic. Just to awkwardly throw that out there. Whatever, some people write angsty poetry, I write fanfiction? Two parts. Sort of. Really the first one is just background for the second one. Anyway, both Christmas, and fairly fluffy, and in the second one Erik and Charles play a board game that isn't chess.
I wrote most of this story on Halloween and finished it on Epiphany. Right. I like it. I like that they play Trivial Pursuit. I really just set out to write a Trivial Pursuit story and then realized that it needed to be a Christmas story too. And yes, those are all real Trivial Pursuit questions, from the first edition. I do my homework. When did Erik meet Mystique? Five ways it could have happened.
I'm pretty happy with this. Much less awkward, I think, than my earlier attempts at writing Erik. And look, it has plots! Well, sort of.

Sometimes you find things you didn't know you'd lost. Some character study, and Erik + his kids.
One of my first attempts at first-person, which is a voice I don't usually like to use in fiction. Poor, poor Erik.

Erik and Charles play chess and muse about the evolution of their relationship.
My first foray into this particular pairing. Also, an experiment in no (well, almost no) dialogue. I'm fairly happy with it.

Magneto learns a valuable lesson about Christmas. Or not.
I think this one is really funny. You should read it.

Halloween at Xavier's.
Look ma, no angst! This is cute, but nothing too remarkable.

Kurt returns to Germany, but he and Ororo stay in touch.
Dear god the angst! But still, I like it. Ties up a few loose ends in their relationship that tend to get ignored in the fandom.

Kurt and Ororo unwind.
I will never understand the popularity of this fic. I mean, not that it's that popular, but it's been much better received in general than other fics which I'm more proud of. This is just a bit of cute, funny fluff. It's good for what it is... but that's what it is.

The Scarlet's Walk Series
An updated thought on this series: these really represent my first actual stab at fanfic. As such, now, a few years later, they all look pretty awkward to me. I'm just saying. I meant to put dates on all these stories but I haven't, and now I'm too lazy to go back and fix them. So just know: these are old. And they're not that good. Probably you shouldn't read them. But I'm leaving them up here just for the sake of... whatever. Obsessiveness. Completion. Because I wrote them and at one point I thought they were good.

These fics are each written as a songfic to a differeng song off Tori Amos's album Scarlet's Walk. They are unconnected save for the album connection. (Oh, and if you're not into songfic-- these all stand alone fine, without the song, so feel free to just mentally skip over the songs. I don't know, I really thought writing songfics was a good idea? Whatever.)

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