Life is a bitch, and then one stabs you.

Title: The Bell's Toll (3/?)
Author: monstrousreg
Word count:  
Warnings:  Violence, fast pacing, eventual NC-17. So, uh, the usual for me, I suppose. 
Pairing: Erik/Charles.
Summary: Nikkita AU inspired by this prompt. A sort of fusion between the two series, with a healthy (or not) dose of my own imagination. Charles Xavier goes to prison, and is recruited by a spy/assassin division of the government. Dismal a beginning as this might look, it unbelievably goes downhill. Erik, the necessary stoic ex-military man, gets sidled with him. Not a single person is amused.      
Notes: Unbetaed, and stuff. So, this Charles just went from mildly dark and mostly annoyed to um. Something else. I don't even know. I'm sorry it took this long to update this, you know I usually try to update once a week, but RL is been... hell. 

Prologue

( "You have a problem with authority, Xavier." )

Chapter 4

Title: The Bell's Toll (1/?)
Author: monstrousreg
Word count:  
Warnings:  Violence, fast pacing, eventual NC-17. So, uh, the usual for me, I suppose. 
Pairing: Erik/Charles.
Summary: Nikkita AU inspired by this prompt. A sort of fusion between the two series, with a healthy (or not) dose of my own imagination. Charles Xavier goes to prison, and is recruited by a spy/assassin division of the government. Dismal a beginning as this might look, it unbelievably goes downhill. Erik, the necessary stoic ex-military man, gets sidled with him. Not a single person is amused.      
Notes: Unbetaed, and stuff. In which I try to write a mild-mannered, naive, innocent, fragile Charles my brain BETRAYS ME. Sorry OP, it's just, this Charles, he won't cooperate. *sigh*


( “I was supposed to be a great many things, Marshal Wickers,” Charles murmured. “Yet I find I am not the least of them by half.” )
Chapter 2

Title: Brief Lives (24/25)
Author: monstrousreg
Word count:  3506
Warnings:  NC-17, I suppose.
Pairing: Erik/Charles.
Summary: Erik thinks he's going to seduce, interrogate and murder some nondescript CIA intelligence agent, and winds up biting more than  he can chew. Charles is not keen on being murdered, he doesn't favor interrogations, and he's certainly not willing to be seduced. That he's not cooperating is midly put.   
Notes:  Unbetaed, and stuff. To be perfectly honest, at this point I'm just indulging.

( “I’m not scared of you and you big teeth,” Charles huffs, grinning widely.  )

Title: Brief Lives (22/25)
Author: monstrousreg
Word count:  3155
Warnings:  Sean and Alex talking. That's a warning, trust me.
Pairing: Erik/Charles.
Summary: Erik thinks he's going to seduce, interrogate and murder some nondescript CIA intelligence agent, and winds up biting more than he can chew. Charles is not keen on being murdered, he doesn't favor interrogations, and he's certainly not willing to be seduced. That he's not cooperating is midly put.   
Notes:  Unbetaed, and stuff.  Ehh, lots of indulgence in this chapter, I must admit. Just, fluff. Oh, and anachronisms again, because Star Trek, but what is that you're saying? Timelines? I laugh in the face of your timelines!

( “Oh, big word there tiger, don’t choke on all those syllables,” Scott mutters.  )

Chapter 23

Title: A Good Man (Does Not) Go To War
Author: monstrousreg
Word count:  3894
Warnings:  ehh, Eleven being Eleventy.
Pairing: Erik/Charles.
Summary: For this prompt: The usual thing where the Doctor pops up on the beach when Erik is about to kill everyone. I like it when Charles already knows the Doctor, but it's not necessary.

Now the point. I want the Doctor to come down on Erik. For Erik to be all "they'll never change, this is the only way, blah blah blah" and for the Doctor to pretty much be all "yea, this isn't happening because I'm here and I'm over 900 years old, am the last of my race, seen more war and genocide than you are capable of imagining and you are wrong."

....you know? Doctor being the Doctor and being our own personal fix-it.
   
Notes:  Unbetaed, and stuff. I uh, admittedly deviated a little from the prompt, and might eventually return and re-do it properly, because this idea just catches my attention every single time.

( “No, because you won’t let it,” the Doctor said. “You’re different now, harder and stronger and older, and taller, you’re very tall, I hadn’t noticed. Were you always this tall?” )

Title: Brief Lives (19/?)
Author: monstrousreg
Word count:  3858
Warnings:  none for this chapter.
Pairing: Erik/Charles.
Summary: Erik thinks he's going to seduce, interrogate and murder some nondescript CIA intelligence agent, and winds up biting more than he can chew. Charles is not keen on being murdered, he doesn't favor interrogations, and he's certainly not willing to be seduced. That he's not cooperating is midly put.   
Notes:  Unbetaed, and stuff.
We're fast approaching the end of this story =) I'm just wrapping up the last of the plot points and we'll be done in, say, 4 or 5 more chapters, I think.

My LJ for other chapters. I'll start editing them now, including a link for the following one.

( Charles throws up mental shields so harshly and quickly that both he and Erik wince.  )

Title: The Half Killed (2/2)
Author: monstrousreg
Word count:  3607
Warnings:  Angst, NC-17 for smut and violence.
Pairing: Erik/Charles.
Summary: Atonement AU or crossover, rather.
Notes:  Unbetaed, and stuff. I know you guys are waiting for the next Brief Lives update and it's coming, it's just this idea ate my brain, so I want to post it an be done with it. Anyway Brief Lives is nearly over and in a good place right now.

I'd be lying if I were to say I know what I wrote this for, or where it was supposed to go. I'm not even sure it makes sense, but it's out of my skull, and I'll drink to that.

( Charles has a finely-crafted ceramic vase on the crook of his right arm, and he offers it to Erik with a gesture.  )

Title: Brief Lives (16/?)
Author: monstrousreg
Word count:  3024
Warnings:  Mentions of torture, lots of blood, gore, Shaw (he's a warning all on his own). 
Pairing: Erik/Charles.
Summary: Erik thinks he's going to seduce, interrogate and murder some nondescript CIA intelligence agent, and winds up biting more than he can chew. Charles is not keen on being murdered, he doesn't favor interrogations, and he's certainly not willing to be seduced. That he's not cooperating is midly put.   
Notes:  Unbetaed, and stuff. I know it's early to update, but I'm aware that the subsequent cliffhangers are annoying you, so I thought it best we just got this over with as soon as possible.

Harsh chapter ahead. DON'T  READ IF YOU'RE ABOUT TO GO TO BED. YES, YOU. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE.

( “He didn’t need me in one piece.”  )


Chapter 17

Title: Brief Lives (14/?)
Author: monstrousreg
Word count:  2576
Warnings:  Sexual situation. 
Pairing: Erik/Charles.
Summary: Erik thinks he's going to seduce, interrogate and murder some nondescript CIA intelligence agent, and winds up biting more than he can chew. Charles is not keen on being murdered, he doesn't favor interrogations, and he's certainly not willing to be seduced. That he's not cooperating is midly put.   
Notes:  Unbetaed, and stuff. Short chapter, I know. Right now it'll seem a little confusing, but once Erik starts to understand, things will fall into place for all of us, promise.

( “How would you know? You’re dead.”  )

Chapter 15

Title: Brief Lives (11/?)
Author: monstrousreg
Word count:  3174.
Warnings:  Um. Lives up to its rating?. 
Pairing: Erik/Charles.
Summary: Erik thinks he's going to seduce, interrogate and murder some nondescript CIA intelligence agent, and winds up biting more than
he can chew. Charles is not keen on being murdered, he doesn't favor interrogations, and he's certainly not willing to be seduced. That he's
not cooperating is midly put.   
Notes:  Unbetaed, and stuff. Uh, guys, welcome to my first attempt at writing something resembling a sexual situation. You're welcome to tell me if I pulled it off.

( “As opposed to you, who is buff and tall and the epitome of masculinity,” Erik retorts, “Especially those lips of yours.”  )

Chapter 13