Anything I write for X-Men which is under 300 words (a lot of which, due largely to firstclass100, will be constrained to round-number wordcounts) will be in this post, as it's not really worth posting them individually.

( Reprise (200 words) )

Title: The Parting of the Seas
Rating: PG
Words: 1,272
Summary: People are dying, and Charles has to do something. Erik makes a rather serious error of judgment. Title from Coldplay's Low.

( Charles’ smile is as bright and disarming as it ever was, though it’s hard to believe that he’s still so happy. )

Title: Objects in Mirror
Rating: PG
Words: 4,670
Summary: AU in which, while Charles Xavier has just returned from Cuba, severed ties with the CIA and started setting up his school, Erik Lehnsherr is an entirely human engineer who's not remotely fond of mutants. Things are complicated when, in the absence of Hank, Charles hires Erik to build ( Read more... )

Title: Woke Up In the Storm
Rating: PG-13
Words: 3,430
Summary: Sequel to All the Love You Stole, which can be found here. What Charles did to Erik worked fine while he had continual access to Erik's mind; unfortunately for him, after the end of First Class, he doesn't. All credit for this idea goes to uniformly, for asking me in this comment about a ( Read more... )

Title: If Destiny's Kind
Rating: PG
Words: 3,298
Summary: Canon AU: at the start of the movie, Erik manages to move the coin. As a result, his time with Shaw is substantially less traumatic, and also quite a bit longer.

( It is disappointing, but perhaps this will teach the boy to try harder in future. )