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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)
30 Sep 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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Burdens by arcapelago (arcanewinter)
Fandom: X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), X-Men: First Class (2011) - Fandom
27 Dec 2023
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A Measure of Peace by arcapelago (arcanewinter)
Fandom: X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) - Fandom, X-Men: First Class (2011) - Fandom
07 Jul 2014
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Seven years after Cuba, Raven breaks Erik out of prison to tell him that Charles needs help. The Charles in question? Nine years old and in desperate need of a trusted adult. Instead, he gets Erik.
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Bookmarked by arcapelago (arcanewinter)
26 Dec 2025
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One Good Turn (The Lost Souls Remix) by populuxe for keire_ke
Fandoms: X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
15 Oct 2025
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“He swore he wasn’t imagining it,” Darwin continues. “But…he saw Charles last week.”
Raven’s heart clenches, and she rises involuntarily out of her seat. “Charles is alive?”
“No,” Darwin says, shaking his head. “He’s not.”
For years, Raven was the Slayer, Charles was her Watcher, and Erik was Charles’s boyfriend (and a vampire with a soul). When Charles is kidnapped and their search for him is fruitless, they assume that he’s dead. Before long, though, they learn that he's anything but—and Erik quickly realizes why Charles was so insistent about never wanting to be turned into a vampire.
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Bookmarked by arcapelago (arcanewinter)
02 Nov 2025
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The Shears by Isolee
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
16 May 2025
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It's been fifteen years since he last looked at Erik, the house, and all his mistakes. Thirty-year-old academic, he thinks, orphan, now, and starving, too. His mother is dead, and nothing has changed, except he forgets what he likes for breakfast. And Erik looks at him like - like he doesn't understand the language Charles is speaking. Like he has to strain a bit to make sense of the man in front of him.
With the pruning, a branch is stronger; you will learn to love the shears.
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- Part 1 of The Shears
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- English
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Bookmarked by arcapelago (arcanewinter)
17 Oct 2025
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Erik shivers, squeezing his eyes shut as he feels Charles start to rummage around in his head again. It's nothing that Erik would notice if Charles hadn't spent so much of the last few weeks in and out of Erik's head, or if Charles was trying to sneak. It's a twitch, an intrusive thought (his own name, laden with purpose), and possibly the way his breath snags in his throat—but that may just be Erik.
Bookmarked by arcapelago (arcanewinter)
16 Apr 2025
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Old Habit of Mine by veganthranduil for itsevidentvery (anactoriatalksback)
Fandoms: X-Men (Movieverse)
21 Mar 2025
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Charles finds Erik. Then Erik finds Charles.
Bookmarked by arcapelago (arcanewinter)
26 Mar 2025