lifesmarvels | Entries tagged with challenge: big bang

Title: Cedar and Lavender
Author:

kiriana16
Artist:

sunryder
Fandom: XMFC, HEX
Word Count: ~21000
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Charles/Azazeal(Erik), Charles/Moira (background and platonic)
Warnings: Violence, death of a background character, slight non-con when it comes to baby making (not actual sex, that was fully consensual)
Summary: In a place when magic hides in every nook and cranny, and witches are planning the curriculum, there are artifacts and magical objects to be found at every corner. Each one of them can possess a special power or a special person. That's why Headmistress Xavier insists so heavily upon labeling anything her staff and students bring around to the Mansion.

There is however one place when that rule has never been used. The attic of the Mansion is where the old world of magic and science meet. Biology textbooks lay strewn across the chest full of wands and amulets hang from skeletons that once stood in classrooms. In there is the vase that has the power to change the fate of the entire world, releasing the King of all Demons who will then summon his whole army.

It's that vase that Charles Xavier stumbles upon one day while looking for his late father's notes. He breaks it and while trying to fix his blunder pulls horrible fate over himself and people dear to him. But is he right in assuming the worst? Are the stories right when they describe the terrible monster that will hunt whoever shall posses the vase? After all, we know that history is written by victors.

Let yourself be pulled into a tale of love and its fruit, born from unexpected union between two worlds.

Link to fic master post: AO3
Link to art master post: AO3 Tumblr

Title: The last one to die
Fandom: XMFC
Pairing: Erik/Charles
Genre: Nuclear Winter Fic
Rating: M
Warning: Death and nuclear winter
Word Count: 15 216
Summary: Living while everything around you is dying and things you need to survive are scarce can be hard. Collecting a group of people who can hardly even reach his elbow, Erik sets out on a journey to find a safe place to wait out the destruction of the world around him. It's not easy and he encounters loss, fear and a danger of losing everything he has now for a chance to gain something he misses, but hope is hard to kill and his hope is waiting for him in Westchester.

But not everything can be predicted and life tends to play cruel jokes on people that need light the most. The world will burn and there's nothing any of them can do about it. Besides, won't it be better in the end?

This is a story about a journey, hope and survival in a post-nuclear world where none of these things can be taken for granted. We follow Erik as he struggles to keep everyone in his little group safe and sane while not losing his own faith in the semi-happy endings. He'll have a chance to change everything for the better, but will he succeed in not making the same mistakes?

Disclaimer: I don't own anything, but the words.

Author's note: This is my work for XMen Big Bang Round Two in which I partnered with lovely

perilousrain who drew art to my story. After much pain and hurt from lj side I am finally able to post this here. Great thanks to my wonderful beta

the_me09 who looked through it and fished out all my mistakes. Everything left is only my fault. Love you, babe. On to the links then!

Oh, also sorry for the lack of next/previous buttons on the parts, but I am still unclear how to do that in the client I am writing from.

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Part I Part II Part III Epilogue