This is a basic one but I was wondering if you could recommend your favorite fics of Cherik hooking up/getting together/falling in love on the road trip? Thank you for all the fics you recommend! I love your blog!
Here are just a few of my favorite XMFC road trip fics; I hope you like them! I also highly recommend checking out the 'Gay Mutant Road Trip' tag on ao3 as you'll find many more excellent fics to enjoy!!!
Each Day Starts White by kianspo
Somewhere in the middle of the road trip to recruit more mutants, Charles and Erik get caught up in a storm. That's how it begins, but it's not how it ends. It takes them about thirty years to discover that Genoshan sunrises are beautiful.
Sharing by ikeracity
One night during the mutant road trip, Erik knocks on Charles's door and brusquely demands to be taken to bed. Charles, who has been very careful about staying out of Erik’s head, is disoriented by the haunted look in Erik’s eyes but is ultimately swayed by the fact that they’ve had this burgeoning tension between them since forever.
They then proceed to have The Saddest And Worst Sex Ever. Erik stalks off all humiliated and unhappy and Charles is confused until he works out that Erik was a virgin--at which point Charles feels equal parts guilty and furious that Erik's basically used him as an instrument of self-harm.
The next time it happens, Charles teaches Erik what it means to really make love.
The Whole World Wants What We're On by waketosleep
"There's only one bed," he called after Erik, who'd dropped his suitcase and vanished into the bathroom.
"They were full except for this room," Erik returned over the noise of the sink. "It's large enough to share." He opened the door. "Or would you prefer to sleep on the floor?"
Charles actually looked between the floor and the bed to be sure of his choice. "Sharing is fine," he conceded.
Love, in fire and blood by Black_Betty
Erik used his body as a tool in all ways, but it had always been as a means for destruction. He did not know how to be soft or tender, and had never had use for gentleness before.
Until Charles.
Come, Sleep by fengirl88
“Got nothing left but the one double,” the desk clerk says apologetically.
Erik's about to say they'll try somewhere else when Charles says “We'll take it.”
Dreaming Aloud by luninosity
Written for a prompt somewhere on the kink meme that went something like this: “Erik and Charles, on their road trip, are in a bar. Someone gives Charles mind-altering substances. This is a Bad Thing to do to a telepath. Discuss.” So...that's what happens. Plus some confessions of Feelings.
Warming Up by helens78
On the Epic Bromance World Tour, Charles fumbles an opportunity, but he's not going to be left out in the rain forever.
fair's fair by Unforgotten
Erik wants to sleep with Charles, but all Charles seems to want to do is pick up women in bars. So when a meeting with a mutant on their recruitment trip leaves Erik in a woman's body, he may as well get something out of it.
You can hear it in the silence by hllfire
They only found out about the feelings that they had discovered on that trip on the very last day of it, and only because of a telepathic accident.
we're on our way by pocky_slash
The recruitment trip has yet to be the road trip romance that Charles had been hoping for.
A Certain Mental Fortitude by pearl_o
A mutant temporarily changes Charles's body, and Erik doesn't understand why Charles has taken a step back.
Charles sighs; he's been oblique partly out of consideration to Erik's sensibilities, but apparently Erik is going to make him spell it out. "I know you don't like women," he says gently.
Erik's expression doesn't change. "But you're not a woman."
