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Erik is a lawyer fighting for mutant rights, a single dad to three children who he loves, and is ever exhausted by, and absolutely not someone who has time for a relationship. Other than the bitter divorce he's still picking like a scab.
So if this hot charismatic nerd could stop flirting with him via literary references while his life falls apart, he would appreciate it.
OR: A fic where Erik is burnt out, Charles is burnt out, shadows from Erik's past resurface, and they have to figure out how to stop a evil man while the children are funny, and vaugly haunting
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- Part 46 of The Highs And Lows Of Cherik
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'cause i'm just a teenage dirtbag, baby by monae_the_criminal for Liverxia
Fandoms: X-Men (Movieverse)
28 Oct 2025
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After moving to the US Erik's life kind of – just kind of – falls apart. As a somewhat socially awkward loner with an accent he quickly becomes a victim of bullying. Then, a bit more willingly, he also becomes a victim to Charles Xavier's charm.
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After the death of her daughter and the man she once loved lost to vengeance, Magda flees into the shadows of post-war Europe—alone, pregnant, and hunted. As a Romani woman in a world still reeling from war, she raises her twin children in secrecy. Wanda and Pietro Maximoff are born of power and sorrow—gifts stirring too early, marked by difference, and feared for what they are.
When a moment of childish wonder exposes them, Hydra takes notice. And history begins to repeat itself.
Torn from their mother, the twins become prisoners of a new kind of hell, where science wears the face of cruelty, and miracles are dissected like monsters. Captured. Tested. Broken.In the ashes of their mother's sacrifice, two children are forged in the same fire that once made a man kneel before barbed wire.
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The Memoirs of a Retired Opera Ghost by Cooper2024
Fandoms: Phantom of the Opera - Lloyd Webber, Le Fantôme de l'Opéra | Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
24 Oct 2025
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Back in 2020, I posed the question, What if Christine and Erik opened an orphanage in the old opera house? What was meant only to be a one-year project took two because I couldn't be bothered to get to the point quickly. The story has 100 entries, each around 1,000 words. I intend to post at least once a week so you can follow along this journey with me. I can not promise this is a good story, but as the author, it made me laugh and cry. I hope you enjoy The Memoirs of a Retired Opera Ghost.
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A man is shot dead while eating alone in a bar near where he works.
His two killers enter the bar without bothering to hide their faces and, after the murder, leave in full view of the astonished barmaid.
It looks like a simple case.
But in Hellkitchen, nothing is as it seems.
Charles, a street reporter who has lived in this godforsaken district for years, knows this.
Erik, the district attorney assigned to represent the state in the simplest paper trial in American history, knows it.
But this story is destined to trace the years of their friendship and the dark past they share.
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Charles loathes everything about the place, its gloss, its grandeur, its deliberate falseness. Anything touched by his stepfather’s prestige and pomp leaves a sour taste in his mouth. He’d been dreading this evening ever since he’d received the invite a week ago, dreading the thought of being in the same room as Kurt again. And now that he’s here, it’s even worse than he imagined.
His paranoia aside, Charles knows he needs to be here. If he intends to take over the company in a few weeks, he has to make a mark with the board, with the directors, with anyone who might question his place. He needs to be seen as a presence. A figure of consequence.
He’s been waiting for this moment all his adult life—the moment he turns twenty-one and pry Xavier Pharmaceuticals from the greedy grip of his stepfather. And now that it’s within reach, he can’t back out. Not now. Not even if he loathes the company and consequences that come with it.
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- Part 4 of Whiskey Sour
- Part 16 of Remixes
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The season that never was by Iwillshipuman69
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men: The Animated Series (Cartoon 1992)
09 Oct 2025
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After the fall of Apocalypse the X-Men have new leadership. Scott Summers and "Jean Grey" retire to start a family. And Storm leads her own team.
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- Part 6 of What if 97
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Erik Lehnsherr ran away from Sebastian Shaw 10 years ago and now lives his life in peace with his roomates Hank and Raven. Suddenly a British telepath shows up at their door enquiring about a room. Erik feels as though there is more than what the telepath is saying, yet he cannot help but feel charmed by the man. The world is not black and white, people are not good or bad and Erik both hates and loves this new man
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Five years ago, Charles broke Erik Lehnsherr's heart when he married wealthy alpha Sebastian Shaw. Erik never gave up on Charles-- and he's gone to extremes to finally have Charles within his grasp once more.
Hank McCoy, newly arrived in New York City for the summer, is unwittingly caught in the orbit of these star-crossed lovers.Series
- Part 9 of my a/b/o dumpster fire
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"It was later, in the stormy, dimmed light of day, that Raven returned. Erik was waiting for her. They argued, momentarily, insults being passed between them, before coming to agree. Charles was too innocent for the world as it was. He couldn’t be left alone, to his own devices, in a big empty house with no one but Hank McCoy and Alex Summers watching over him. For all of the dear thing’s heartfelt care, towards his students, and towards the world at large, something simply had to be done."
Or, in which Erik decides that divorce was never an option.
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All's Well That Ends Well To End Up With You by Mrs_Understood for Tzana
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types
20 Sep 2025
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Charles was not at all sure why his soulmate suddenly stopped getting so bruised the same day he met Erik in the water, but he'll take a win where he can get it
Erik isn't sure how on earth Charles hasn't figured him out yet.
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Lost (Physically) and Found (Mentally) by RainyyClouds
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Chris Evans Movies), X-Men (Movieverse)
19 Sep 2025
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(Can completely be read as a standalone don't worry, but if you'd want more context to the fact Steve is here even post‐Thunderbolts it's explained in my fic Familiarity. I just wanted to give it an actual ending since i havent touched it in months)
(Also, also, don't think to much about the times and years thanks)Stucky are caught in Spiderman's universe fiasco, where in one moment they slept in one cozy morning, and in the next they've found themselves stuck in the middle of a more-or-less unfamiliar world.
And... Charles is still pretty much going through it and felt useless to help.
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and that's why the bullet curved by koroq
Fandoms: Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Movieverse)
16 Sep 2025
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"The bullet curved, Erik."
"Because I was trying to save him. They took me out before I could."
"Why would you try and save him?"
"Because he was one of us."
And he's killed, anyway. Here's how that happened.
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Faded Words In Torn Papers by Tzana for always1958
Fandoms: X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
15 Sep 2025
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Everyone is given a parchment describing how they will meet their soulmates. Erik's parchment was taken from him in the camps. But does this mean he is doomed to a life of solitude and pain?
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Charles knew Erik loved him.
But he couldn't help but envy Magda's clean clothes and the fact she didn't have to take care of a chubby baby.
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The Weight of Unspoken Scars by Mataolma for Spurs1882
Fandoms: X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
01 Sep 2025
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Erik and Charles were classmates in their preteen years.
Erik is a small, shy boy who often falls victim to the school bullies because of his second-hand clothes and glasses. Charles, on the other hand, is very popular and protects Erik from the bullies. Charles, however, lives a terrible home life full of abuse and indifference. The two boys become very close and protect each other. Charles turns to Erik when his family becomes too much for him, and Erik defends Charles from the other kids at school.
Something terrible happens to Erik, so his family has to move from the city and leave Charles behind.
The two friends don't see each other for five years, until they meet again in college. Erik has changed, though, and Charles can no longer see him as the shy boy who was his former best friend. He would love to know why.Series
- Part 12 of Cherik resurrection 2025
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To Travel Home and See The Dawn by SoMuchMoreThanYouKnow (StarTravel) for Tzana
Fandoms: X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men - All Media Types
31 Aug 2025
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Erik has spent a decade from his home in Ithaca, fighting a war that was not his own and then against Gods and nature itself. Now, finally home, he realizes he has one more battle to fight before his husband Charles is free of harm and safe in his arms. Charles, meanwhile, has his own plans.
Erik glanced up at the sky, a mottled grey with a few sparse clouds as meager decoration. The beach in front of him was barren. No people fishing on the shores, no birds or crabs darting to and from, only petrified branches and a few scattered shells. Still, Erik’s heart soared. This land, this beach left to ruin, was his home. Not as he left it, not as he wanted it, but it would be soon, once he saw Charles.
Charles. His husband and partner in everything, left behind to rule Ithaca when Thomas Cassidy of Mycenae requested his aid. He hadn’t wanted to go. A war over a woman he never met, who left of seemingly her own free will, was of no interest to him.
But Erik was not naive. A refusal would have meant he and Cassidy were on opposite sides. Ithaca could not afford a war right now. Not when he and Charles were transforming it into a sanctuary for mutants and intellectuals alike.
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An Angel Sent from Heaven Just for Me by always1958 for Mataolma
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Movieverse)
31 Aug 2025
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After his mother's death, Erik spent long years alone. But when the loneliness grew too loud to bear, Erik did the only thing he knew how to do.
He created.
In time, beneath sweat and tears and sleepless nights, a man emerged – beautiful, young, serene. A being of impossible grace and sorrow. The finest sculpture Erik had ever made.
And he fell in love with it.
Or, Cherik Pygmalion AU in which Erik is the artist, and Charles the creation that comes to life.
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- Part 2 of Cherik Nation Fic Exchange
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he's got a way, he got away by ladyysomerset
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Original Timeline Movies), X-Men: First Class (Comics)
29 Aug 2025
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It's 1969, and Charles is getting through everything all by himself, not even Hank can help him. He misses Erik like hell, but he's hurt after Cuba. One day, a young mutant wants to know everything about the First Class, about the Professor X, and specially about Magneto.
Will Charles narrate the story about how he met the love of his life?
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yed steady, watching Erik's suspicious expression.
"I'm not sure what exactly happened," Charles said truthfully. "But I came in here because I got very alarming… not thoughts, but some kind of flash, and I thought it was from you. When I came in, you were unconscious and shaking; it looked like a seizure. Have you had those before?"
"No," Erik said, scowling.
"Do you know what a seizure is?" Charles asked, suddenly recognizing that, if Erik had actually been as isolated as he seemed this whole time, he may genuinely not have the terminology for it. Erik soured further at that implication, turning his face a bit childishly. "Erik?"
"Yes," Erik said, squinting angrily. Charles waited a beat, and Erik watched him for a minute before seemingly softening. "No."
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- Part 48 of The Highs And Lows Of Cherik