I've met people with psychic abilities here, and I've learned how beneficial it would have been to experience that connectivity with someone back home too. If Emma and I hadn't been adversaries, we could have bonded that way.
We both let them down, Erik. Perhaps they will appear.
It was different. I was their leader, and if I hadn't gone on that damned mission on my own, then I wouldn't have been in jail when Trask came for them. I could have protected them, as was my duty.
I don't know, I agree when we wallow it isn't necessarily good for us, but I'm a firm believer that learning from the past is necessary. Remembering it is necessary. You won't do the same thing again.
She's from Logan's future. She was held hostage and experimented on for years, while the rest of us thought she was dead. We rescued her so she could help with Logan. She understandably feels abandoned and that we only came for her when we needed something.
[ The silence that comes from Erik likely won't come as a surprise to Charles. He's still there, his mind not shut off or pulling from their connection, but all of that settles uneasily on him. ]
They won't leave us be even at the end of the world.
[ He sounds more tired than angry, but there's a tinge of the latter too. A whole world destroyed, its population nearly decimated, and yet humans still found some way to keep abusing mutants. ]
It happened because they were trying to exterminate us, so yes.
[Charles doesn't know the exact details of everything. He's seen the wastelands, but that is the source, as far as he knows. It began with Raven.]
I assured her that if we knew sooner, we would have gotten her sooner, and that is the truth. But at the end there, we had so few options left. I understand her anger.
[ He knows that. He just meant that even as they saw the harm it was causing the world, and mankind as well, they still persisted on their objective to end all mutants. Their fear and hatred for them ran deeper and stronger than anything else. ]
As do I. You'll just need to give her some time. But you have a way of drawing people back to you, so I'm sure it's only a matter of time.
She's agreed to cook the holiday meal, which is a big step, so I have high hopes. John coming here helped, I think, as they were students together in the past.
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[ Erik did have more time to get to know her, before he got locked up. And before Trask. ]
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I would have wanted to, given the chance.
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I know. I think under different circumstances she would have liked that as well.
Sometimes I think how glad I would be if they all got a second chance, here. And I had the opportunity to not let them down again.
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We both let them down, Erik. Perhaps they will appear.
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[ Charles can't absolve himself, let alone Erik. If they had been together, if they had been a team, it would have been different.]
The person who is responsible for their deaths is Trask and no one else.
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You're right, of course. Wallowing in a past I can't change is pointless.
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[ Not just that one, but others too. ]
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They won't leave us be even at the end of the world.
[ He sounds more tired than angry, but there's a tinge of the latter too. A whole world destroyed, its population nearly decimated, and yet humans still found some way to keep abusing mutants. ]
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[Charles doesn't know the exact details of everything. He's seen the wastelands, but that is the source, as far as he knows. It began with Raven.]
I assured her that if we knew sooner, we would have gotten her sooner, and that is the truth. But at the end there, we had so few options left. I understand her anger.
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As do I. You'll just need to give her some time. But you have a way of drawing people back to you, so I'm sure it's only a matter of time.
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we can end here!
I'm done with Scott and coming over. See you in a few.
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Alright. I'll see you soon, then.