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An Ideal Grace by afrocurl and nekosmuse
This may have been the story that made me realise that I actually love rom-coms. I can't say it better than the summary: "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."
A Curious Carriage of Crystal and Cold by Etharei
An AU set on another planet, where Erik is the lord of the realm, and Charles is a poor miner with secret powers. Starts off as a rescue/hurt/comfort fic, liberally dosed with attraction from across class divides, but unfolds into an epic science fiction saga, with brilliant worldbuilding. People are writing *novels* in fandom, and it is *awesome*.
Mutually Beneficial Transaction by Pookaseraph
An AU in which Erik is an engineering student struggling with debt, who puts up an ad on a sugar daddies website. He is contacted by Charles, who is charming and brilliant and kind and inexplicably single, and Erik starts to fall in love with him even though he knows this is just a contract. I have a thing for stories about apparently unrequited love, and even better are stories about double apparently unrequited love.
Stick to the Stipend by helenish
Erik and Charles on the road, negotiating money, sex, misunderstandings, and television. Understated and rippling with undercurrents.
Buffy's Guide to Surviving in 1962 by pprfaith
Buffy Summers is trapped in 1962, with no way to get back, where she meets two mutants who want to recruit her for the cause. Fantastic Buffy voice and fun character interactions.
When We Two Parted by nekosmuse
Summary: "At the end of X3, a still depowered Erik travels back in time to meet 1962 Charles. Cue angst, desperate kissing and happy endings for all." Just lovely.
Fic recs
An Ideal Grace by afrocurl and nekosmuse
This may have been the story that made me realise that I actually love rom-coms. I can't say it better than the summary: "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."
A Curious Carriage of Crystal and Cold by Etharei
An AU set on another planet, where Erik is the lord of the realm, and Charles is a poor miner with secret powers. Starts off as a rescue/hurt/comfort fic, liberally dosed with attraction from across class divides, but unfolds into an epic science fiction saga, with brilliant worldbuilding. People are writing *novels* in fandom, and it is *awesome*.
Mutually Beneficial Transaction by Pookaseraph
An AU in which Erik is an engineering student struggling with debt, who puts up an ad on a sugar daddies website. He is contacted by Charles, who is charming and brilliant and kind and inexplicably single, and Erik starts to fall in love with him even though he knows this is just a contract. I have a thing for stories about apparently unrequited love, and even better are stories about double apparently unrequited love.
Stick to the Stipend by helenish
Erik and Charles on the road, negotiating money, sex, misunderstandings, and television. Understated and rippling with undercurrents.
Buffy's Guide to Surviving in 1962 by pprfaith
Buffy Summers is trapped in 1962, with no way to get back, where she meets two mutants who want to recruit her for the cause. Fantastic Buffy voice and fun character interactions.
When We Two Parted by nekosmuse
Summary: "At the end of X3, a still depowered Erik travels back in time to meet 1962 Charles. Cue angst, desperate kissing and happy endings for all." Just lovely.
