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I Fear When I Question My Skin Starts To Burn by Mrs_Understood
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Dec 2025
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Mike is not in the closet. El doesn't know what exactly she saw in his head on the breakup. He will die swearing she misread his mind.
Robin is convinced her and Vickie can get through to him.
Or the one where Mike tries and fails to hide his sexuality, Robin is intensly awkward, Vickie saves the day, and they tear apart the Wheeler house.
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A collection of letters sent by Mike Wheeler, Robin Buckley, and Will Byres, as a remarkable showcase of the incredible lack of awareness a teenage boy can have for his feelings. Especally for his best friend.
But don't worry guys, Mike is just asking for a SCHOOL PROJECT. Right...
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Erik is a lawyer fighting for mutant rights, a single dad to three children who he loves, and is ever exhausted by, and absolutely not someone who has time for a relationship. Other than the bitter divorce he's still picking like a scab.
So if this hot charismatic nerd could stop flirting with him via literary references while his life falls apart, he would appreciate it.
OR: A fic where Erik is burnt out, Charles is burnt out, shadows from Erik's past resurface, and they have to figure out how to stop a evil man while the children are funny, and vaugly haunting
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- Part 46 of The Highs And Lows Of Cherik
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All's Well That Ends Well To End Up With You by Mrs_Understood for Tzana
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types
20 Sep 2025
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Charles was not at all sure why his soulmate suddenly stopped getting so bruised the same day he met Erik in the water, but he'll take a win where he can get it
Erik isn't sure how on earth Charles hasn't figured him out yet.
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yed steady, watching Erik's suspicious expression.
"I'm not sure what exactly happened," Charles said truthfully. "But I came in here because I got very alarming… not thoughts, but some kind of flash, and I thought it was from you. When I came in, you were unconscious and shaking; it looked like a seizure. Have you had those before?"
"No," Erik said, scowling.
"Do you know what a seizure is?" Charles asked, suddenly recognizing that, if Erik had actually been as isolated as he seemed this whole time, he may genuinely not have the terminology for it. Erik soured further at that implication, turning his face a bit childishly. "Erik?"
"Yes," Erik said, squinting angrily. Charles waited a beat, and Erik watched him for a minute before seemingly softening. "No."
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- Part 48 of The Highs And Lows Of Cherik
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Erik Lehnsherr and Charles Xavier met a year ago in the chess club and have hated each other ever since. Sworn academic rivals.
But when Erik took justice into his hands a little too freely and got kicked out of the dorms, he didn't ever consider that taking his best friend up on her offer to replace their fourth roommate in a little apartment off campus would mean living with his enemy.
Charles, for his part, is going to be MUCH more mature about this, and smile through gritted teeth while bemoaning the beautiful Polish man who suddenly lives across the hall from him.
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- Part 44 of The Highs And Lows Of Cherik
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You would break your back to make me break a smile by Mrs_Understood
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types
07 Aug 2025
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Charles doesn't know why he is sleeping on the couch tonight.
Well, he knows WHY. And it's his wheelchair in a crumpled heap about six feet away from him. What he doesn't understand is the fight that led to that.
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- Part 8 of Cherik week 2025
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You Wouldn't Last A Hour In The Asylum Where They Raised Me by Mrs_Understood
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types
01 Aug 2025
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"Don't make this difficult, Erik. I want to have a good day with you, my boy."
"I am not your boy. I was my father's boy. And my mother's boy. Now I am no one's boy."
Or, the story of how Frankenstein's Monster was created.
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- Part 47 of The Highs And Lows Of Cherik
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i'm only cryptic and machiavellian cause i care by Mrs_Understood
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types
06 Jul 2025
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Charles knew the charges when he agreed to analyze Erik Lehnsherr for capacity to stand trial. A political bombing, dead bodies on scene, rumors of cannibalism. He was fully prepared to be behind plexiglass with shaking hands and nightmares for the rest of his life.
What he hadn't seen, was a photo.
And now APA guidelines are shaking in their boots, because the accused has cheekbones that could cut glass, stormy grey eyes, and a dedication to cross every professional boundary ever made ever.
(wildly unethical and a dash of transference/countertransference, forensic psychologist Charles Xavier is trying so hard to keep his cool)
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- Part 45 of The Highs And Lows Of Cherik
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Charles Xavier is leading the school. Sure, Covid is taking hold and choking all of his hopes and dreams out of him, and sure he hasn't been sober in a month for even a moment, but he is running the school and he's doing a damn good job of it too.
Oh, and Erik is gone. But Charles doesn't need him. Erik's probably doing just fine without him.
And if Charles's grown-out hair and bottles of liquor were pushed in a closet, Charles would look fine also.And just maybe their friends could help them get past their melodrama and get back together before they start a world war.
( A continuation of Dear Reader, it's is required reading, you're gonna be lost without it. )
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- Part 2 of Timeless
- Part 33 of The Highs And Lows Of Cherik
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Without ever touching his skin, how can I be guilty as sin? by Mrs_Understood
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types
10 Jun 2025
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Charles is a queer youth in 1930's catholic boy school. And no matter how hard he tries, he will never be good enough. Nothing can wash his sins away. Not when his sin is a part of his very soul. He tries time and again to be what they want. Tries to understand this book they call holy, tries to live by the rules...
but how can you live by the rules when they don't either? And what do you do when the lines they use to persecute you are twisted and scewed. And how can you ever confess your sins when your telepathy shows you, clear as day, how much the Father of your church hates who you love?
///a fic exploring religious trauma, homophobia, abuse, the queer community, and the belief that in spite of it all... it might actually get better.
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- Part 43 of The Highs And Lows Of Cherik
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Don't you ever grow up, it could stay this simple. by Mrs_Understood
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types
08 Jun 2025
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Snippits of the time leading up to the beach divorce in Cuba, slice of life with our favorite First Class kids, Erik and Charles pinning, and just a LITTLE dread :)
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- Part 7 of Cherik week 2025
- Part 42 of The Highs And Lows Of Cherik
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it’s a fire, it’s a goddamn blaze in the dark by Mrs_Understood
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types
07 Jun 2025
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Erik Lehnsherr is a single father who tries to keep his relationship with Charles and his lovable but somewhat DIFFICULT children separate. It worked well, Charles respected Erik not want to introduce him to his children, never pushing the issue. Erik was protective and they were, from stories, not exactly easy. It stayed that way for many months.
Until Wanda's powers lead to a bit of a... housing dilemma... and Erik has to make a difficult call.
CHERIK WEEK Day 6, Parents
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- Part 6 of Cherik week 2025
- Part 41 of The Highs And Lows Of Cherik
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All along there was some invisible string by Mrs_Understood
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types
06 Jun 2025
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Charles is an academic telepath who is, as far as he knows, the only person in the world who can see every single person's red string, tying them to their soulmate. Ever the professor, he is trying desperately to understand why every other person has one, but he does not.
He spends his days giving lectures trying to work out if these people are soulmates or just for some reason interconnected and no it's got nothing to do with the hansom relentless lawyer that interrupts his lectures and makes his stomach flip but is distinctly lacking this important red thread.
Erik is a relentless lawyer who is head over heels and doesn't give a damn about who society says you should love.
Cherik Week: Red String of fate
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- Part 5 of Cherik week 2025
- Part 40 of The Highs And Lows Of Cherik
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Wait by the willow and I'll meet you after dark by Mrs_Understood
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types
05 Jun 2025
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Erik is an outcast, running with the brotherhood in the open woods. When he gets caught one day trying to steal from the filthy rich Xaviers, things don't go the way he thought.
Cherik week day four: medieval
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- Part 4 of Cherik week 2025
- Part 39 of The Highs And Lows Of Cherik
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I think your house is haunted, your dad is always mad and that must be why by Mrs_Understood
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types
04 Jun 2025
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A collection of Charles and Erik observing the marriages of their parents, before having their own conversation about marriage.
Tooth rotting fluff at the end I promise guys.
CHERIK week 2025: Marriage
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- Part 3 of Cherik week 2025
- Part 38 of The Highs And Lows Of Cherik
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And my waves meet your shore ever and evermore by Mrs_Understood
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types
03 Jun 2025
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Erik has been dead for three years. So the message Charles and Hank are staring at from the brotherhood, requesting help from a captive situation, really doesn't make much sense at all
CHERIK WEEK 2025 REUNION
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- Part 2 of Cherik week 2025
- Part 37 of The Highs And Lows Of Cherik
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Flowers pile up in the worst way, no one knows what to say by Mrs_Understood
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types
02 Jun 2025
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Cherik week 2025, day 1: Telepathic Link.
Erik was just trying to walk through somewhere he never thought he'd step foot in again, thinking he could slip out in the middle of the night one day when him and Charles are in Germany. Charles hears his thoughts through their telepathic link. He doesn't let Erik walk through it alone.
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- Part 1 of Cherik week 2025
- Part 36 of The Highs And Lows Of Cherik
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Erik doesn't like the sun. Doesn't like the heat. Doesn't like wearing short-sleeved shirts, even when the temperatures seem to be doing their best impression of hell. And he would be able to stay out of the heat too, but Charles is basking like a lizard in the sun and getting into shenanigans and all of the sudden Erik is barely surviving this heat wave.
OR lots of silly scenes and then some light angst at the end. Charles can fix anything with a dinosaur band-aid.
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- Part 35 of The Highs And Lows Of Cherik
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Darling I'm A Master Mind (And Now You're Mine) by Mrs_Understood
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types
24 May 2025
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It's Charles birthday and he got a new chess set. Him and Erik play a game around the team
(literally just TOOTH ROTTING fluff)
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- Part 34 of The Highs And Lows Of Cherik
- Part 3 of Timeless