The Five-Minute Warning Meme

I feel a bit guilty about posting this, as I haven't managed to write for it myself, but hey, I guess it can be seen as practice for oxoniensis's upcoming Porn Battle. So, as seen in introductory, sharpestscalpel, and tahariel's journals: ( Music choices and ficlet requests beneath cut )

( The Music )

Stand In The Advancing Light (X-Men: First Class, NC-17 with warnings)

Title: Stand In The Advancing Light
Fandom: X-Men: First Class
Rating: NC-17 with warnings.
Pairing: Charlotte Xavier/Sebastian Shaw, Charlotte Xavier/Erik Lehnsherr. Others mentioned. Special appearance by Jean Grey
Summary: From the prompt: How long will Erik stay when he finds out Charlotte's carrying Shaw's child?
Content Advisory: Genderswap of the always-female variety. Consent issues. Rape/non-consent, violence, enthusiastic consent, on-screen character death, happy ending.
Acknowledgements: Whichever brilliantly imaginative anon prompted this at xmen_firstkink, all my friends who encouraged me while I wrote at breakneck speed, and the talented anon who wrote House of Cards, the excellent (and very different) other fill for this prompt.
Disclaimer: This fanwork has been created for pleasure only and not for profit.
Title from It's This Way, which was given me by igrockspock

( The walls are all mirrors, and every mirror reflects Charlotte's tears.  )

Miss Cora Strayer's Private Detective Agency

She truly deserves a novel, a biography, a biopic, and a TV series.

Paul Reda's webpage on Cora Strayer, as sparked vy an ad in vintage_ads. With thanks to boosette for the link to this Friday's fabulousness.