Rec: Enigma by Yahtzee

Title: Enigma

Author: Yahtzee

Canon: X-Men (Filmverse)

Pairing: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier

Rating: Teen [PG]

Word Count: 11,297

Summary: Written for the following prompt: Erik dies, or finds a reversey-time mutant, or a magical time travelling device, and wakes up in the past. This time, though, it's before he ever met Charles - in fact, it's before his mother died. He can save his mother that one time (thanks to his mastery over powers carrying back), but what does Erik do after that? Does he stick around, or escape and run to find Charles again (and hope everything doesn't go wrong)? Sort of a bookend to my story "Undone," though they are totally independent stories.

Recommendation: In in effort to give myself some breathing room I'm going to be posting recs I put together a while ago but it really has been a long time since I rec'd a Cherik story, and it's about time I circled around. I can't believe I missed reading this ages ago as I read and rec'd Undone which allowed Charles a chance to go back and change things, this one gives Erik a shot at it. It's so good, but I did feel a trifle gutted towards the end. Though the author was correct that a full life is more of a comfort than might have beens.

Link to the Story on AO3

Recommendation #1,945

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