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The Killer Mountain by Emberline
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), X-Men (Movieverse)
31 Oct 2025
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On the slopes of Nanga Parbat - the 'Killer Mountain' - in 1936, two rival expeditions race for glory - one led by Charles Xavier, a young English idealist, the other by Sebastian Shaw, backed by Nazi ambition.
For Charles Xavier, the climb is meant to be a monument to curiosity and courage. For Erik Lehnsherr, an exiled German engineer, it’s a test of endurance - and a reckoning with the ghosts of his past.
High on the Rakhiot Face, amid storms, rivalries, and avalanches, the two men begin to see each other clearly for the first time - not as adversaries, but as equals bound by the same fragile rope.
A story of survival over glory, of awe and terror in thin air, and of love found at the edge of the world.
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The Semantics of Love by Emberline
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), X-Men (Movieverse)
22 Oct 2025
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Charles accidentally says “love you” at the end of a phone call, then attempts to fix it with a series of increasingly deranged voice notes.
Erik, of course, finds the entire thing endearing.
Featuring: one traumatising tie, a cat with excellent boundaries, Moira’s feminist-academic group chat, Erik’s unflappable calm, and a romantic declaration that nobody will let ever Charles forget.
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- Part 3 of Mind The Gap
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The Discovery Phase by Emberline
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), X-Men (Movieverse)
15 Oct 2025
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Charles loves his sister. He really does.
All right, he rarely takes her anywhere he plans to revisit – she has the social boundaries of a foghorn – but she’s one of his favourite people.
Which makes it awkward that he hasn’t told her he’s seeing his ex again.
Unfortunately, London’s small, Raven’s nosy, and Charles has never been blessed with luck – or plausible deniability. And if history’s anything to go by, Charles’s secrets have the shelf life of a banana in July.
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- Part 2 of Mind The Gap
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Mind The Gap by Emberline
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), X-Men (Movieverse)
10 Oct 2025
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Charles’s morning was already a disaster — the kind that begins with burnt toast and ends with mild existential despair.
Then the Central line ground to a halt somewhere under London, and he found himself sharing recycled air with Erik Lehnsherr: the man he loved, the man he lost, and the one he still wasn’t quite over.
Thirty minutes. One carriage. No exits.
Nowhere to go but back through everything that went wrong.
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- Part 1 of Mind The Gap
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All Our Shadows by Emberline
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
30 Sep 2025
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Edwardian London, 1905. The Veil between worlds is thinning, and the city’s fog hides more than smoke. Its fragile defence rests on a mismatched band of seers and augurs, fighters and misfits, scholars with ink-stained hands — an odd company willing to face what creeps in on Whitehall’s behalf.
At its heart is Charles Xavier: brilliant, magnetic, arrogant enough to believe that charm and clever words can hold a crumbling peace together. But when glamour coils through music halls and the Underground, it draws the notice of Detective Inspector Erik Lehnsherr of Scotland Yard — Jewish, blunt, iron in his hands and in his temper, with a hatred of injustice sharp enough to cut through centuries of lies.
What Erik finds is a Concord cracking apart: Whitehall compromised, the Courts circling, conspirators already feeding on London. Charles, for the first time, sees how fragile his lifework truly is - and how much they may lose if they fail.
London is bleeding. Peace was never an option. But perhaps something better might be.
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Mind The Gap by Emberline
Fandom: X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men - All Media Types
22 Oct 2025
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Teenage telepath Charles Xavier takes a job as a consultant, working with prickly police detective Erik Lehnsherr. Charles is used to being on his own and taking care of himself; he has no reason to think that his relationship with this stern, icy man is going to change any of that. (Also known as: Tough Little Baby Telepath.)
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- Part 1 of Tough little baby telepath
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05 Nov 2025
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Phantasmagoria & Other Gentle Sins by archangelarch
Fandoms: X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men - All Media Types
03 Dec 2024
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As Charles took on training his team of fellow mutants in the calm before the storm with Shaw in Cuba, there was lots to do. Adept at keeping himself busy at nearly all hours, he could lock up his brewing fear and play the part of the wise and collected professor—but sleep left him considerably more vulnerable.
There were two things, it seemed, that could cut through everything and strike at the tender heart of him—nightmares and Erik.
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03 Nov 2025
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Gott ist tot by shenkijay
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Comicverse)
05 Aug 2025
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"Human Nature and the Price of Freedom. Humanism in an Age of Fear."
A Catholic boarding school. Oxford. Göttingen. The Great War. Görlitz.
In December 1905, Charles Xavier begins his journal. In December 1905, a new boy arrives at the St. Germain boarding school – a Jewish refugee who survived the Odesa pogroms. His name is Erik Lehnsherr. In December 1905, Erik Lehnsherr first utters "Gott ist tot."
Words that would predetermine Charles's fate.
Words that would become a prophecy for all of Europe.Bookmarked by Emberline
03 Nov 2025
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Prophecy Firing by peppernotorious
Fandoms: X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
31 Jul 2025
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If only Charles could have helped Raven instead of trying to control her, and if only he had helped Erik sooner. Maybe they wouldn't have gotten themselves in such a mess. Logan on a table, Kitty in obvious distress, Bobby trying to soothe her to no avail, and Erik... Charles can feel them all. The Sentinels closing in. The sharp pike striking through Ororo's torso. Bishop screaming. Blink casting a portal behind Erik, allowing him to stumble back into the dark little room with metal shards protruding out of his chest. How did everything become such a mess? He knew the answer; that day on the beach.
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Instead of 1973, Logan is sent back to 1962 and is approached by Erik and Charles. Rather than telling them to go fuck themselves, he joins them and tries to keep the original X-Men from splintering.
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