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The Deal We're Making by arcapelago (arcanewinter)
Fandoms: X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
03 Jan 2026
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After Logan resumes control of his own body after his future self supposedly took it over for a few days, he eventually settles down on the grounds of the Xavier School for Whatever it was, mainly due to the attentions of its headmaster.
But a few years into this unusually stable living arrangement, a new student with a unique ability causes Logan to forfeit his body a second time--and find himself in a different one.
It gets worse from there.
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Better Than the Movies (I Play in My Mind Remix) by arcapelago (arcanewinter) for vvividlyy
Fandoms: X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
01 Oct 2025
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Erik started dreaming of Charles two months after they buried him in a concrete tomb beneath the Pentagon.
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Return (the orbital period remix) by arcapelago (arcanewinter) for Akasanata
Fandoms: X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
18 Aug 2024
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Midway through August, Logan comes home.
The whole ride, all four hundred miles of it, he refuses to call it that. But as he parks his motorcycle in the garage in the same place it was a month ago and extinguishes his cigar on his forearm, he's not sure what else to call it.
Surrender, maybe.
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The Little Things (mean the most remix) by arcapelago (arcanewinter) for jeriais
Fandoms: X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
07 Aug 2024
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Charles and Raven reminisce during one of her rare visits to their former home.
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The Weight of Our Intent by arcapelago (arcanewinter)
Fandoms: X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
27 Dec 2023
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It's 1970. The war worsens, temporarily halting Charles' dream of his school for mutants, and Charles continues to struggle under the moral responsibility of his mutation. Meanwhile, Erik has invested himself in the support of Charles, despite its price of patience and inaction.
Diverges from canon events after X-Men First Class, cosmetically inspired by X-Men Days of Future Past. Follows the previous work, The Burdens We Long to Carry, with about 7 years in between.
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- Part 2 of Burdens
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On This, the Night of My Repairing by arcapelago (arcanewinter) for ikeracity
Fandoms: X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
16 Dec 2019
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Erik has offered Charles a home, at his side at long last, but Charles has doubts about whether he belongs there.
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Night Terrors (the Dreamscape Remix) by arcapelago (arcanewinter) for princess_fluffle
Fandoms: X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
12 Jul 2019
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After Charles steps down as headmaster of the school and a leader of the modern world, Erik tries to find him. But he can't say what he'll do when he does.
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Diamond Dust (The Faceted Remix) by arcapelago (arcanewinter) for Fullmetalcarer
Fandoms: X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
07 Jul 2018
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It is only a few months after Erik escapes a second imprisonment amidst a ruined stadium and the betrayal of every mutant he still knows. While a fugitive in Canada, Erik falls unconscious, and Charles travels to his side. They can communicate only in his dreams.
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Little White Horses (The Drag Him Away Remix) by arcapelago (arcanewinter) for heyjupiter
Fandoms: X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
03 Jul 2017
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Raven is called away from her activist duties to visit her old home while the school is shut down in wartime.
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Common Ground by arcapelago (arcanewinter) for ladysparkles
Fandoms: X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
12 Sep 2016
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When a dinosaur fossil is found right on the Xavier estate, Raven is surprised at Charles' indifference.
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The Cost of a Good Man by arcapelago (arcanewinter)
Fandoms: X-Men: First Class (2011) - Fandom
01 Aug 2015
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Erik and his mother flee Europe before the advent of the war to live on the Xavier estate. Charles never questions their good fortune, or his own.
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The Kindness of Strangers by arcapelago (arcanewinter)
Fandoms: X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) - Fandom, X-Men: First Class (2011) - Fandom
26 Apr 2015
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Charles receives notice that Trask's labs will be dismantled.
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The Hurry and the Harm by arcapelago (arcanewinter)
Fandoms: X-Men: First Class (2011) - Fandom, X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) - Fandom
25 Mar 2015
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Raven sits with her brother after his return from the Caspartina with some questions about the stranger, the mutant, Charles has met there.
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The Horseman of the Hollow by arcapelago (arcanewinter) for lady_date
Fandoms: X-Men: First Class (2011) - Fandom, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving
01 Feb 2015
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Charles Xavier hopes to start a quiet life of reason as schoolmaster of Sleepy Hollow, but a dangerous apparition turns that plan on its head.
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The Absence in His Wake by arcapelago (arcanewinter)
Fandoms: X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) - Fandom
07 Jul 2014
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When Charles and Erik first met, Erik's frequent nightmares could only be calmed by Charles' closeness, and it led to a habitual intimacy Charles couldn't acknowledge until the end. Ten years later, reunited on the plane to Paris, Charles feels ashamed for his inaction--and shame only reminds him of what used to come with it.
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- Part 3 of A Measure of Peace
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A Headmaster in Sleepy Hollow by arcapelago (arcanewinter)
Fandoms: X-Men: First Class (2011) - Fandom
31 Oct 2013
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Sean is engrossed with the Legend of Sleepy Hollow when Charles lets slip that the historical location is just 30 miles away on the other side of Westchester county. Sean and Alex sneak out of the mansion to investigate, and Charles and Erik go to retrieve them, surprised to discover that North Tarrytown has at least one mystery for the holiday. (Set in the Burdens universe.)
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Absolution by arcapelago (arcanewinter) for a_q
Fandoms: X-Men: First Class (2011) - Fandom
26 May 2013
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Hank has been troubled for many nights now by nightmares of his own bestial nature and the harm he is capable of doing to others, even his closest friend. Worried that he will someday enact the nightmares, he goes to Charles for permission to leave.
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A River in Winter by arcapelago (arcanewinter)
Fandoms: X-Men: First Class (2011) - Fandom
18 Jul 2012
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Charles is not dealing particularly well with the injury that changed his life. On the surface, life goes on, but underneath is a current that drags him ever downward.
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The Burdens We Long to Carry by arcapelago (arcanewinter) for oxymora (oxymoron)
Fandoms: X-Men: First Class (2011) - Fandom
10 Jun 2012
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When mutant-supporter and ally President Kennedy is assassinated and all pro-mutant progress is dismantled, Charles is no longer so confident that he's on the right side, and extends his hand to Erik after a year of animosity. They settle tentatively into their old partnership, but not everything is the same as it was--and not everything can be. When Hank develops a metal frame to move the lower half of Charles' body for him if he wants it, Erik offers the use of his mind and his ability in order to make it work. Both find out what they're willing to do for each other, and neither knows if it'll be enough to keep them together.
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- Part 1 of Burdens
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For ten years, Roy and Hughes have fallen deeper into guilt, and their release from it is bittersweet. This is a story told in 10 parts, each one year before the last.