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Title: Contingencies

Author: Xparrot

Fandom: Smallville

Rating: PG-13

Pairing: Clark/Lex

Warnings: severe character injury, near-death experience, grieving, discussion of suicide, angst, violence

Other notes: excellent character work, semi-canon

Length: 35k

Summary: Lex, forced to his last resort, comes to the Kent home, and Clark must rise to the occasion, as he finds himself questioning his assumptions about his dying enemy.

Title: pull apart the dark

Author: togina

Fandom: Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Rating: PG-13

Pairing: Steve/Bucky

Warnings: PTSD, violence, child endangerment/injury/illness, angst, some homophobia (historical context)

Other notes: de-age fic, child care, boys who cannot communicate

Length: 79k

Summary: Steve’s unending faith in his best friend was beginning to look less like hope and more like fantasy. When they’d caught the Soldier – in a fire fight that still gave Sam nightmares – the only thing the man seemed to recall was how to hit exactly where it hurt.

Four months later, Barnes still refused to speak English. Refused to heed anything but Steve’s voice.

So, all in all, it was not a great time for Hydra to attack New York. All in all, Sam really wished they’d just killed him, instead of turning Captain America into a baby.

Title: Sons of Fathers series

Author: CurlicueCal

Fandom: Smallville

Rating: PG-13

Pairing: mostly gen.

Warnings: not much. Allusions to childhood abuse and violence. Some (well-intentioned?) blackmail. One seriously injured character.

Other notes: family, crack,

Length: 27k

Summary: Kon-El Luthor Kent gets bored and decides to make the acquaintance of the other half of his heritage. This proceeds smashingly.

My thoughts:

Title: Tessellation

Author: nekosmuse

Fandom: X-Men First Class

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Erik/Charles, past Charles/Moira, Mystique/Destiny

Warnings: explicit sex (gay), character death (spouse), character disability, alcoholism, detoxing, hurt/recovery, illness, PTSD, Holocaust references, allusion to rape, allusion to infidelity, violence, mutant phobia, angst, imprisonment, possessive behavior

Other notes: kink meme fill, alternate universe

Length: 116

Summary: He had been following Xavier’s career for years. He had read and reread and reread again everything the man had written. He had tried, on more occasions than he could count, to recruit Xavier into the Brotherhood, but each request for a meeting had been denied. Aside from his work, no one knew anything about Xavier. Not what he looked like, not the full extent of his power–though from what little they did know, he was by far the most powerful telepath in existence–and not what his intentions were.

The man was a recluse. As far as Magneto knew, Xavier had never once stepped foot outside his impenetrable Westchester manor. And now he was scheduled as the keynote speaker for the largest pro-mutant conference in the world.

My thoughts:

Title: Sacrament (and the rest of the Father Charles series)

Author: Yahtzee

Fandom: X-Men First Class

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Erik/Charles, Raven/Azazel

Warnings: For the entire series: religious angst, explicit sex (gay), homophobia (historical context), PTSD, Holocaust, character death (spouse and child), grieving, warfare/combat/violence, permanent character injury/illness, pregnancy and abortion issues (historical context), allusions to suicide, infidelity

Other notes: alternate universe, religious fic, family, adoption, kink meme fill, 1960s, historical fic, character study, don’t let the warnings scare you off,

Length: 10k

Summary: It’s still the early 1960s. Charles grew up devoutly religious, went to seminary and took orders. Then he meets Erik Lehnsherr, the devout Jew and Holocaust survivor who is so fiercely protective of his charges that it moves Charles’ heart – and the first time their eyes meet, Charles has to confront the greatest temptation he’ll ever know, and the church’s teachings about what love is.