Title: Friend in Me [2/?]
Rating: NC-17
Author: papercutperfect
Warnings: Vague mention of past emotional abuse.

Summary: Three days after turning 31, Charles finds himself single, unemployed, and back at his late-parent’s Westchester estate. He soon finds his favourite childhood toy tucked away in a closet, and makes a desperate, despairing wish -- only to wake ( Read more... )

Title: Friend in Me [1/?]
Rating: NC-17
Author: papercutperfect
Warnings: Vague mention of past emotional abuse.

Summary: Three days after turning 31, Charles finds himself single, unemployed, and back at his late-parent’s Westchester estate. He soon finds his favourite childhood toy tucked away in a closet, and makes a desperate, despairing wish -- only to wake ( Read more... )

Title: Smoke and Mirrors
Artist: old_fiat
Author: papercutperfect
Rating: R
Word Count: 25,000+
Warnings: Language, sex, mention of past trauma, ableism.

Summary: When newly paralysed Charles meets Erik in a coffee shop, a fit of nerves prompts him to project himself standing without need of his wheelchair. It all backfires when Erik asks him out on a date, forcing ( Read more... )

Title: Make Me Bad
Rating: PG-13
Author: papercutperfect
Warnings: Mild mentions of blood. Vampire!AU.
Summary: Maybe Charles had finally given in to the starving cries of his belly and taken a victim all of his own - it was about damn time, if that was the case. Erik was beginning to grow a little weary of watching him drink cold blood from a teacup, often ( Read more... )

Because the series is now complete, a post with links to all the stories.

Written with and for papercutperfect, with suggestions from madsmurf.

Please heed the warnings in each story.

Knife and Needle and Rope - sets up the story, introduces Charles and his weapon of choice, and also introduces the tattoo that is almost a character on its own.
Doggerel - a quick ( Read more... )

title: Come As You Are
author: ilovetakahana
word count: approx. 2070
fandom: X-Men: First Class [movieverse]
characters: Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr
rating: NC-17
notes: And finally, we're here. The conclusion to the universe of Knife and Needle and Rope: Charles and Erik find themselves looking at each other, finally as they are, finally as they were ( Read more... )

title: Every Angel is terror
author: ilovetakahana
word count: 2630
fandom: X-Men: First Class [movieverse]
characters: Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr, Sebastian Shaw [not named], Raven Darkholme
rating: R
notes: The penultimate chapter in the universe of Knife and Needle and Rope, in which there are several explosive confrontations and neither Charles nor Erik ( Read more... )

Title: My Skin is Your Canvas
Rating: R
Summary: Charles is an artist with Creative Block. Enter Erik, his Still Life inspiration.

Author Notes: I originally wrote this as a crappy lil' ficlet for Tumblr, but I've been pondering over whether or not to turn it into an actual multi-chaptered fic. But meh, I'm not sure. I think I quite like the short ( Read more... )

title: Nociception, Two: Erik
author: ilovetakahana
word count: approx. 990
fandom: X-Men: First Class [movieverse]
characters: Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr. mention of Sebastian Shaw, Moira McTaggert, Hank McCoy, Sean Cassidy, Alex Summers, and Angel Salvadore [all not named]
rating: R
notes: Part of the universe of Knife and Needle and Rope, in which ( Read more... )

title: Nociception, One: Charles
author: ilovetakahana
word count: approx. 1390
fandom: X-Men: First Class [movieverse]
characters: Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr. mention of Kurt Marko [not named] and Raven Darkholme
rating: R
notes: Part of the universe of Knife and Needle and Rope, in which matters begin to work up to the climax of the arc, and in which we ( Read more... )