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Of Blood and Teeth by Currently_Obsessed_With_subject2change
Fandoms: X-Men (Movieverse)
09 Nov 2024
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Childhood fears are weird. And embarrassing. You’re supposed to grow out of them, right? Charles wishes he did.
When Charles was ten years old, he was the victim of a vicious dog attack, and he still has the scars.
The nightmares have mostly stopped, and so have the spells of panic and anxiety. Mostly. But still, maybe he should’ve seen someone about it as a child, because he still gets freaked out in the presence of a dog, particularly bigger ones. His breath still gets shallow, and his hands still shake. But dogs are easy enough to avoid, right? It’s fine, he’ll be fine.
The problem arises on a mission when they run into a truck inspection that they weren’t prepared for. Now there’s a big dog who just so happens to sniff through Charles’ mental control and climbs into the truck WITH THEM, and oh shit, Charles wasn’t expecting to have to fight off a panic attack surrounded by professional military men and Erik Lehnsherr.
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A fanfic in which I take the deleted scene in First Class where the dog climbs into the truck to bark at them and write an alternate version of it where Charles has a phobia of dogs and it sets him off.
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(now has a 34k+ word sequel!)Series
- Part 11 of There's No Professor Here - Snapshots from the Troubled Life of Charles Xavier
- Part 1 of Wading Through Terror With You By My Side
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19 Jun 2026
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For What Could Have Been by swordsandsadness
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
30 Dec 2024
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His anger grew until it burned like a roaring flame. Why couldn’t Charles just stay out of the way for once? Why did he insist on engaging him in this meaningless dance of warring ideals every time Erik did what he must to protect their race but do nothing as their own people were rounded up and butchered? The fact that Charles thought he had the moral high ground here was maddening.
There was a nagging worry in the back of his mind, though. Putting the president and his men to sleep wasn’t Charles’s usual style. It reeked of wrongness and desperation. Why wasn’t Charles freezing them in place and making himself known by putting his body in front of the line of fire to plead with him like he did back at the White House? That was Charles’s go to move, so where was he?
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aka what may have happened at the end of Days of Future Past if Charles had been more injured by the beam that fell on him from the stadium at the end of the movie
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19 Jun 2026
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(Nearly) Lost and Finally Found by swordsandsadness
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
01 Sep 2025
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He was sick of it, all this waiting, and that was surely what he was doing. Waiting until he finally worked up the nerve to just do it. It wasn’t like he had any other plans for what to do in Paris, and it was as nice of a place to go as any. Not that he’d actually seen much of the sights since he arrived, but he’d been here before, so it wasn’t like he was missing anything particularly new.
Still, he felt like he’d hit a standstill. No matter how hard he tried to drink himself into a stupor, to give himself the liquid courage that killing himself would require, he still failed night after night. It was yet another reminder of his own selfishness, that he valued his own life enough to risk endangering the lives of others by continuing his poisonous existence. It was only further proof that he was a bloody coward, like he didn’t know that already.
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aka a Post-Dark Phoenix fic where Charles's plans to kill himself in Paris are interrupted by the appearance of Erik, but he ends up trying to go through with it anyway. Thanks to Erik, he does not succeed and finds new reasons to keep on living.
This is a fix-it fic for Dark Phoenix where I temporarily make things worse in order to make them better.
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19 Jun 2026
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Sunglasses, Headaches and Secrets by BrightTerror
Fandoms: X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men: First Class (2011) - Fandom
03 Oct 2021
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Whumptober Day 3: “Who did this to you?"
The moment Erik sees Charles wearing sunglasses indoors he knows something is off, his worries only increase after he outright lies about the reason he's wearing them.
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18 Jun 2026
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Cuban beach AU. Charles discovers that death does, in fact, solve everything.
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18 Jun 2026