X-Men rec: Tea Time in Genosha by cherryice
Title: Tea Time in Genosha
Author: cherryice
Fandom: X-Men comicverse (New X-Men)
Characters/Pairings: Emma Frost, Negasonic Teenage Warhead
Length: 1700
Warnings: Character death
Spoilers:For New X-Men, 2001
Tea Time in Genosha by cherryice
The X-Men have recently been going down the DIY nation path, with varying degrees of success, but this story is about Emma Frost and her life in the mutant nation that preceded Utopia: Genosha. Emma was a teacher there, and the students - with all their abilities - were as bolshy and confused and mean as teenagers anywhere. This story is about a conversation between Emma and her student Negasonic Teenage Warhead who may or may not be precognitive. The student's name is given here as Nora: she was later named Ellie Phiminster in canon, but this wasn't known at the time this story was written. It's also a story about living in a small community and about degrees of power and experience, about death and remembering. Fabulous Emma characterisation, particularly because she doesn't want to listen or change.
This is one of my favourite Emma Frost fics because Emma is cruel and kind all at once, cold and caring, and this huge pivotal moment in her life is also a very small one, beautifully and terrifyingly described here.