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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.

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

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

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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...

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((Let's pretend the last one said 24g, shall we?))

Charles, meanwhile, had had the good idea of dressing himself and Erik in Muggle-style white-tie tuxedoes, because he liked them better than dress robes. After seeing what Charles looked like in one, Erik agreed heartily. Their attendants – Raven, Dolly, and Scorpius, and they saw no need to specify which was on which groom's 'side' – ended up dressed in blue, which clashed with the décor, but Charles didn't mind and Erik didn't care enough to notice.

Charles's parents came, somewhat to everyone's shock, and sat wide-eyed and very still in the front row, trying not to touch anything magical.

The realization that his parents would be watching seemed to force Charles into noticing that everyone would be watching, all the teachers, a trainload of students and their parents, several Ministry people, the Malfoys, and the entire Potter-Weasley-Dursley family constellation. It took Raven twenty minutes to talk him down from a panic attack in the bathroom.

After a week of breathlessly watching the weather reports, making Great Hall contingency plans, the day had in fact come up perfect – cold but sunny, with just enough snow swirling in the air to be romantic – and Charles, panic attack apparently forgotten, looked positively serene as he and Erik were escorted down the aisle by their attendants.

Later Erik didn't remember a word of what McGonagall said or even the vows he'd memorized. He only remembered watching Charles's eyes get brighter and brighter, his grip on Erik's gloved hands tighter and tighter, tiny snowflakes catching in his hair just like that day in Hogsmeade thirteen years ago.

Then the sprig of mistletoe Charles had dug up from who-knows-where shouted "Tradition demands a kiss!" and Charles's mother burst into tears as Erik dropped to his knees in front of the float-chair, and kissed him and kissed him until Raven jabbed him in the back and said they were getting embarrassing.

At the train station they had to cast a ward disguising Charles's floater as an ordinary Muggle wheelchair. It hurt to see him looking that helpless.

"I have some ideas to show you," Erik said as they waited on the platform. "For a sort of floating brace, something that would let you stand upright, and just glide an inch or two off the floor."

"That sounds fantastic, Erik," Charles said, but most of his attention was on the papers in his hand, the complex schedule of what trains they needed to take when on this tangled honeymoon tour of landmarks of the wizarding world – Godric's Hollow, Little Hangleton, Grimmauld Place. As before, Erik didn't actually care where they went. But he did find the symbolism pleasing.

I swear I'll get it right this time.

"You're beautiful, you know," he said, running a hand through Charles's hair.

Charles put the papers away, looked up at him with a broad smile. "So I've been told. And so I expect to be told, with great frequency and eloquence."

Erik bent and kissed him, kissed until people were staring, until his back ached and he went to his knees to keep kissing him, until finally Charles pulled away to whisper, "The train's here," and even then it took the reminder, "We have a private car, you know," to convince Erik to pull back and get to his feet.

He stared down at Charles a moment, trying to catch his breath, taking in his gorgeous flushed cheeks and rumpled hair and disheveled clothes, and most importantly his drugged, dreamy smile and the death-grip he had on Erik's hand.

"Love you," he murmured, and Erik leaned forward to press one last kiss to his forehead.

"I love you, Maus."

They boarded the train hand in hand.

FIN

ALL OF MY LOVE!!!!!!!

ALL OF IT

REFLECTED BACK AT YOU
THANKS FOR BEING AWESOME

I'm smiling and it's huge and goofy and this ending is perfect. ~~And I'm just really glad Erik and Charles didn't get totally cockblocked okay.~~ I'll be stalking you on AO3. Amazing work!

Your huge goofy smile pleases me immensely. /artistic fulfillment

Yay, a new stalker!!

this was sooooooo lovely & I cannot believe it's finished!
this fic is one of the first batch of WIPs I've been stalking since I joined the fandom.
It's times like this when I realize that I've been in the fandom for a long time already and that even though it's 2012 already, I'm still so much in love with Cherik. Your fic is amazing. I'm a bit emotional about finished fics!! T.T
ALL MY CREYS.

It's been an honor having you along for the ride! /overly-serious\ I am really am glad you've enjoyed it so much and left so many lovely comments! I know what you mean about time passing, I dove headlong into this fandom within days of seeing the movie back in MAY so we're going on a year, here, with no end in sight, what is my life? SOMETHING AWESOME, THAT'S WHAT IT IS!

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...

I love this whole story so much. Every time you updated it totally made my day. If one could have AU/crossover headcanon, this would be mine. :D
Thank you so very much for writing this.

You're most excessively welcome. I'd never written a fic longer than, I dunno, maybe 5k before this so it has been educational and so much more fun than I could have hoped!

I don't know if I've ever been anyone's headcanon before. *blush*

That was a very beautiful story, it was a pleasure to read. I'm eally happy ther will
be little sequels on AO3, I'll be tracking :)

Huzzah for tracking! I'm glad you enjoyed it. (Is it bad that I'm reading "very beautiful story" in the same tone Charles used to say "very beautiful memory, Erik"? Augh this fandom has eaten my life, omnomnom.)

What a wonderful ending! I love how you didn't shy away from Charles' disability but also gave these more upbeat improvements, too. It struck a lovely balance. And the denouement of their feelings for each other was so perfect and hot and adorable too. Really lovely writing.

That means a lot coming from you, thank you so much. (At this very moment I have the latest Stockholm update open in another tab, lol.) Thanks so much for all the comments you've left!

Well, first of all, I want to apologise for my AWFUL english... I mean, it's good enough for reading, but a disaster in terms of writing (as you can read xD).

I have no words (in english or spanish) to describe just how amazing this fic is. I've laughed and cried while reading this story. I'm a little bit emotional right now, but I want you to know that I enjoyed every single word.

I'm so happy to hear you enjoyed it so much! It means a lot to hear that from people. Thank you! (And your English is actually quite good!)

This was so wonderful. Thank you.

<3

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