round 3 overflow post

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Round 3 Overflow Post

This post is for Round 3 fills only. We ask that when a round hits 8500 comments, fillers begin moving their fills to this post.

Format:
SUBJECT LINE -- Round #, short description of fic (ex: "Alex/Hank, lab partners")
--- Link to the prompt
--- Text of the prompt

--- Link to the fill
OR
--- Entire text of the fill

EXAMPLE:
Prompt: http://xmen-firstkink.livejournal.com/6437.html?thread=1038472#t2038174

Charles/Erik -- Charles is a bakery owner whose most frequent customer is Erik.

Fill: http://xmen-firstkink.livejournal.com/6437.html?thread=0139482#t4502942

Charles started off the morning the same way he always did...

Comments

a man with a midas touch, Charles/Erik, Charles/others (1c/?)

[(Anonymous)]

Charles held his breath in his second class with Professor Lehnsherr, but the man barely acknowledged him as he filed past -- just a brief, impersonal look. Well. It looked like Charles might be able to brazen this out, after all. He settled in to listen as the first powerpoint slide clicked to life:

THE MUTANT LIBERATION FRONT AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA
In the Beginning

Erik Lehnsherr was a good speaker, if a little too sure of himself and prone to bearing down like a predator on students who had the temerity to express opinions he thought were idiotic. He was slightly kinder to the ones with visible mutations, though. Almost three-quarters of the mutant undergraduates in Harvard were taking this course -- it didn't surprise Charles, but he found himself skimming their minds, idly following the entwined threads of needs, hopes and a depressingly strong streak of internalised bigotry. Charles jotted down notes to remind himself to look up the parts he felt Lehnsherr was being too generous in drawing on his own political beliefs. Lehnsherr mentioned, in passing, that before coming to Harvard he had lobbied for his former university to place Mutant Studies within the Politics department rather than Sociology; he was lured over the ocean by promises of intellectual flexibility.

By the end of the lecture, Charles was beginning to let himself hope that he and Lehnsherr would get over the unpleasant bump of social awkwardness with the time-honoured method of denial, when Lehnsherr stopped him at the door. Charles looked left and right -- he was the last student left in the hall, much to his regret.

"I need to talk to you," Lehnsherr said.

I don't, Charles thought, but gamely said, "I'm free now."



TBC

Re: a man with a midas touch, Charles/Erik, Charles/others (1c/?)

[anutty1.livejournal.com]

I love, love, love this version of Charles and just how aware he is of his privlege, unf, I don't know why that's hitting me so hard, but, it is. Keep up the great work!

Re: a man with a midas touch, Charles/Erik, Charles/others (1c/?)

[rumcity.livejournal.com]

WEEEEEEEE SEQUEL!!!! Great development so far!! The heartwrenching backstory and relationship of Charles and Raven. Cant wait for more!

Re: a man with a midas touch, Charles/Erik, Charles/others (1c/?)

[andreacarmela.livejournal.com]

moar!!!

Re: a man with a midas touch, Charles/Erik, Charles/others (1c/?)

[(Anonymous)]

A+++++++++++, omg, loved the first fic and this one is just so promising already!

Re: a man with a midas touch, Charles/Erik, Charles/others (1c/?)

[shax92.livejournal.com]

NGL, I'm in loooove with this fic. Already, its hashing out their characters quite nicely. Can't wait for you toe update.