THE X-MEN FIRST CLASS KINK MEME: PROMPT POST

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You know why you're here. You've seen the movie. You're asking yourself, "So where was the gratuitous Emma Frost as White Queen in a corset? When did Mystique totally make it with Beast? WHY IN HEAVENS DID XAVIER AND MAGNETO NEVER MAKE OUT

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Hank/Alex long distance, obliviousness

[anonymous]

Hank gets accepted to a fellowship across the country. To his surprise, out of all the people at the mansion, Alex keeps in contact, like calling him, sending him mail. Alex is still snarky and Hank spends most of his time arguing with him on the phone but he's always in a better mood after. It's apparent to fellow interns and the other mutants that Hank/Alex are "dating". On a long weekend, Alex visits and forces Hank to take a break to show him the town.

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[anonymous]

I love your Hank and his voice. The letters also sound so real.

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[fairandfey]

Oh, I am enjoying this so much. A wonderful holiday present, indeed. :)

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[anonymous]

You know that old saying about a house vs. a home?

This fic is a goddamn home.

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[anonymous]

You and Raven going to get it on at midnight? None of the new recruits are what I would call smoking.

Is Alex jealous? He totally is, right? I love that he seemed impressed of Hank's cussing.

And wow, there's a subplot on the rights of mutants. Are these events connected to Hank's road to the senate?

Lovely, lovely fic. <3

[fill] cross-country 3.1/?

[anonymous]

Hank doesn’t tell Raven about the Human Be-In. Or, more accurately, he doesn’t tell her until the day before it actually happens.

“I think I might go out,” he says, and Raven’s face flashes up towards his. She’s sitting at the kitchen counter, looking at her own hands. Hank knows she just got off the phone; the cord is looped around the leg of her chair, and she hadn’t bothered to disentangle it when she hung up.

“What?” she says.

“Moira told me about a thing.”

“Not that thing on the cover of the Oracle, Hank,” Raven says

[fill] cross-country 3.2/?

[anonymous]

The city is quiet in the morning, and the people who pass them sometimes stare and Hank and sometimes give the illusion of failing to notice. It almost reminds Hank of travelling with the Professor, who would cast some sort of psychic magic on onlookers so Hank looked less like a beast and more like a human, and with whom Hank could walk through LAX the day before Thanksgiving without even earning a second glance

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[anonymous]

He doesn’t run. It’s remarkable, because the hate and the fear is tempered by the fact that some of these people are looking at him with a frank curiosity, and it’s been so long since Hank was away from mutants that he’d forgotten how similar humans without mutations were, good and bad in equal measure, and one girl threads her fingers through his fur and starts to braid it, and Allen Ginsberg offers Hank a drag on a joint, and Hank coughs and everyone laughs and Raven puckers her lips just like the thin, angry, anti-war girl across the circle, and Ginsberg smiles beatifically and talks about all they have in common, and how more mutants need to come out and show themselves, and harmony, and Hank finds himself returning the grin in kind. There’s music threading through the air, and people are saying things beautiful and maybe too hopeful or maybe true, and Hank wraps it around himself like something safe, like a coat of fur

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[anonymous]

Raven is terse with Hank for at least a week, after that, though he can’t neatly measure it. They discuss his research, but rarely go beyond that--they prepare separate meals and eat at different times, and the house falls into a sort of heavy, uncomfortable silence

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[swing_set13]

OP HERE! OMG THIS IS AMAZING! I want to draw hearts around it all. It's just a wonderfully amazing story. More than I could ever dream. Thank you so much anon! I anxiously wait for the next update. ♥______♥

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[anonymous]

Thank you for posting a wonderful prompt! I've taken some liberties with it, but hopefully it's true to the spirit :) I'm so glad you've enjoyed it so far!

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[swing_set13]

It's wonderful! I'm thrilled at this! This is just a delight! ♥ Especially the whole Switerland idea. Just love, love, love.

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[anonymous]

i love this

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[anonymous]

Ugh, I love this story so much. Especially the letters! <3

[fill] cross-country 4.1/?

[anonymous]

Hank considers replying to Alex’s letter with precisely what he’s thinking: I don’t know what’s next. But then Raven comes home, looking tired.

“I have a mutant I think should stay here,” she says.

“With us?” Hank asks, glancing around. There’s a hand towel crumpled up on the bar on front of the oven, a pile of dishes in the sink that Hank will probably do in the morning. They have a spare room, which doesn’t mean they need someone to fill it, and bringing a mutant who may not have had contact with other mutants before into the middle of their tenuous truce seems like a terrible idea.

“Yes, with us,” Raven says, granting Hank a withering look. “Where else?”

“I’m just not sure we’re in the best--I’m just not sure we should be having guests.”

“You keep having Moira and that poet over,” Raven says, and makes poet sound like a dirty word

[fill] cross-country 4.2/?

[anonymous]

The night Scott moves in, Hank and Raven attempt to cook together and end of overcooking spaghetti and burning the sauce