Otter's Rock

Okay, I just saw this and I enjoyed this.  I would like some fic recs, if anyone has them.  In particular, I would like Mystique fic, or fic about the new timeline (especially anything after Logan woke up).

rarewomen is open, and there are a lot of great fics from a lot of great authors!  Here are some of my faves:

BSG
Free To Choose.  Her memories define who she is, her choices define who she will be.  (Sharon Agathon)

Buffy
As a Queen, Sufficient.  Kendra, debriefing after her first trip to Sunnydale.

Discworld
A Ladies' Day Out.  The impact of unregulated collection on the draconic biodiversity of the greater Ankh-Morpork region by Vimes (née Ramkin), S. Presented to the Ankh-Morpork Dragon Fanciers Society, Grune, Year of the Reversed Ptarmigan.  Hypothesis: poachers can be firmly deterred by a gumboot to the ear and some stern words, by Jove.  (Sybil Ramkin, the Emmas, Sacharissa Cripslock)

Doctor Who
Human Behavior.  The TARDIS learned a lot from her time in a human body; that doesn't mean she knows how to put a human together again.  (Idris, Tardis)
Cold Hands, Warm Heart.  Jenny finds a Silurian warrior behind the house. Then she puts the kettle on.  One of the Jenny&Vastra stories I have been craving.

Star Trek TNG
Shadow-walking.  Ro Laren and Deanna Troi undertake a secret mission on a matriarchal world.

Vorkosigan Saga
Five Strays Elizabeth Naismith took in (and One That Got Away).  Dear Cordelia, I'm sure I don't need to tell you that Miles is a charming and intelligent young man; I've been enjoying his company immensely. He's made plenty of friends, and taken to the social opportunities at school with a great deal of verve. (For more details, please see the attached disciplinary reports from Principal Hatter.)

X-Men First Class
A Piece of Her Mind.  Agent MacTaggert really shouldn't be in this cocktail bar. And she really shouldn't be talking to two wanted criminals. But they seem to think there's a way for her to get back the memories she'd lost the previous year, and she can't help but listen.  (Moira, Angel, Mystique)

Title: Reflections in Moving Water
Fandoms: Criminal Minds/X-men/X-men First Class
Characters: David Rossi, Aaron Hotchner, Derek Morgan, Spencer Reid; Magneto, Professor Xavier, Hank "Beast" McCoy
Pairings: none
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 17,703
Spoilers: Criminal Minds Season 07 episode 8 "Hope" and all of the X-Men movies. Also, bits and pieces of information have been cherry-picked from the comics, but there shouldn't be any spoilers there.
Warnings: period-accurate (1960s) use of racial slurs.
Disclaimer Criminal MInds and X-Men belong to their respective creators
A/N: Thank you to perdiccas  for the beta
Written for: liliaeth in xover_exchange 

Summary: When the BAU is ordered to update the profiles on the Brotherhood of Mutants, Rossi must revisit a past he doesn't talk about.

Reflections in Moving Water

What would be a good mutant name for a guy who can hear/understand animals?  Something that a teen might think was cool but that a grown man might be slightly embarrassed about?

So, I finally saw X-Men First Class.  It's a great movie.  I get the shiny-slashy-Erik/Charles.

But.  What I really want to read is stuff about Raven/Mystique.  For example, forget all the "Charles and Erik have a regular chess match every week for decades."  What I really want is "Mystique comes to Westchester regularly to talk with Hank about being mutant and proud, and also being blue."  Because seriously, there are so many issues there.

Also, I'm assuming that (given the skin color and the powers) that Nightcrawler is the son of Mystique and Azazel?  How did that happen?  How did he end up in the circus?  Or an AU where Mystique realizes that she can't raise a kid while on the run, that she wants him to have a stable home life, and so she sends him to her brother.

Or a futurefic set after X-3 where the X-men realize that Charles left a good chunk of change/a small house on the grounds/whatever to Mystique and/or Erik, and someone then has to go find them and tell them and figure out how the heck this is going to work.

Or a fic about Raven's life after she came to the Xavier mansion.  How did Charles convince his parents?  What was Raven's relationship with them like?  How was that similar to/different from her biological parents?  Did they know she was a mutant?  Was she treated as a member of the family or as a charity case? 

Also, I'd like something--anything!--where Darwin didn't die.  I'm glad he was a hero, and died for a purpose, but I can't help noticing that the only hero to die in the whole movie is the token black guy who doesn't even make it to the final climactic battle.

Surely, in all the floods of Charles/Erik, there is something like this?

(Also, I have this scene in my head where Phoenix didn't kill Professor X, she sent his consciousness back in time to the middle of this whole mess, and the first thing that Professor X with decades of experience and hindsight does is tell his sister that she is beautiful no matter what face she wears, and she doesn't have to hide around him, and she is beautiful both inside and out and mean it, not as a way to try and manipulate her to stay but because it's a regret he's always had, that he didn't say it when he had a chance.)