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1. I, Carrion by iliadandodyssey

   Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men: First Class (2011) - Fandom  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   10 Apr 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier
   • Past Gabrielle Haller/Charles Xavier
   • Erik Lehnsherr
   • Charles Xavier
   • Klaus Schmidt
   • Sebastian Shaw
   • Gabrielle Haller
   • Cain Marko
   • Alternate Universe - Still Have Powers
   • Alternate Universe - 1920s
   • Alternate Universe
   • Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting
   • Professor Charles Xavier
   • Slow Burn
   • The Iliad References
   • The Iliad and The Odyssey References
   • Sappho (fl. 600 BCE) Poetry
   • References to Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
   • Ancient Greek - language
   • Erik Lehnsherr Loves Charles Xavier
   • Charles Xavier Loves Erik Lehnsherr
   • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
   • Minor Alexandros III of Macedon | Alexander the Great/Hephaistion of Macedon
   • Light Angst
   • POV Alternating
   • Falling In Love
   • Explicit Sexual Content
   • Poetry
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • author has two classics degrees and plans to use them (threatening)
   • excessive use of poetry (romantic)

   Summary

   …

   Erik wonders, then, hand flush against Charles’ spine between his shoulder blades, which of them has the wings, and who’s the sun. 

   Charles laughs, easily plucking the thought from his mind, “That’s easy, darling.”

   He leans forward, presses a soft kiss to his forehead, and repeats the words that clung to his mind barely a week ago:

   “ὄπταις ἄμμε, you burn me.”

   …

   (Or: In which Charles is a Professor with a penchant for quoting Sappho, and Erik is in need of his expertise to track down Schmidt.)

   Language:

   English

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