Rec: X Men First Class
Title: An Ideal Grace
Author:
afrocurl and
nekosmuse
Fandom: XMFC
Pairing: Erik/Charles
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.
The whole room was watching him now, but Charles barely noticed--he was too busy staring at Lehnsherr, who was watching Charles with something Charles could only hope was open interest. Charles smiled when his rambling came to a stop, a little awkwardly he thought, but it was hard to think under the weight of that gaze.
"Well said, Mr. Charles," Lehnsherr eventually said. He turned back to the room and began expounding on Charles' answer, adding something about Blake's life experiences colouring his perspective--whatever it was it was lost to Charles, Charles noticing then that Lehnsherr talked with his hands.
Oh, God, he had such lovely, lovely hands.
Charles falls for Erik with all the enthusiasm and passion that you could possibly want from him. Watching a damaged Erik try to resist Charles because he thinks he's one of his students is funny and awkward and painful. I couldn't stop reading this until the very end, I was riveted.
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Author:
afrocurl and
nekosmuse
Fandom: XMFC
Pairing: Erik/Charles
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.
The whole room was watching him now, but Charles barely noticed--he was too busy staring at Lehnsherr, who was watching Charles with something Charles could only hope was open interest. Charles smiled when his rambling came to a stop, a little awkwardly he thought, but it was hard to think under the weight of that gaze.
"Well said, Mr. Charles," Lehnsherr eventually said. He turned back to the room and began expounding on Charles' answer, adding something about Blake's life experiences colouring his perspective--whatever it was it was lost to Charles, Charles noticing then that Lehnsherr talked with his hands.
Oh, God, he had such lovely, lovely hands.
Charles falls for Erik with all the enthusiasm and passion that you could possibly want from him. Watching a damaged Erik try to resist Charles because he thinks he's one of his students is funny and awkward and painful. I couldn't stop reading this until the very end, I was riveted.
This entry was originally posted at http://dodificus.dreamwidth.org/404320.html. You can comment there. DW currently has
comments