sakura_no_miko

Title: These Bridges We’ve Built

Author: Anonymous

Fandom: X-Men First Class

Rating: PG-13 to light R (more violence than sexuality)

Pairing: Erik/Charles, Mystique/Azazel, some one-sided Mystique/Destiny

Warnings: character death, mentions of imprisonment and torture/experimentation, character injury, angst

Other notes: big bang entry, illustrated, kid/family fic, fix it fic, alternate universe, some minor character  point of view

Length: 23k

Summary: Four years after the events of X-Men: First Class, Charles Xavier finds his X-Men on the losing side of their continuing battle with Erik’s Brotherhood. Azazel and Mystique have a child in secret and, unwilling to raise Kurt in the midst of Erik’s war, they give him up to Charles to raise at his school for the gifted. He agrees to do so, on the condition that they visit their son regularly. This leads to tenuous contact between the Brotherhood and the X-Men outside of the battlefield for the first time in years, and both Xavier and Magneto realize that the lines dividing them are not as clear-cut as they previously thought.