You abandoning me hurt worse than the bullet. I needed you.
[ They truthfully have never been able to have this conversation. They had no real time to do it before, and they decided to attempt to play chess together in the plane before Paris, instead of talk through all the tension and pain that was between them. All those years Erik was trapped under the Pentagon and Charles did consider trying to get him, but he had no plan for it, no one who could help him. He couldn't very well send the X-Men when they were still at the mansion, it would have been too dangerous for them. He couldn't let anyone become targets for the government because he didn't like the idea of his former best friend rotting there for the rest of his life.
So he couldn't come until there was no other option. And a part of him did think he deserved it, but not for life. Charles doesn't have it in him to hate that long and hard. He isn't an expert at it the way Erik is. And it would require him to actually hate Erik to work in the first place. He never has. He's telling the truth. He could survive the bullet to the spine, it was losing them that truly broke him.
Charles shakes his head, regretful. It's not too late, precisely, but it is also not to be trusted. He can read Erik's mind and he knows that he's telling him the truth, like this he couldn't lie even if he wanted to, but that doesn't matter ultimately. It comes down to this.]
Then tell me this, when exactly did you decide to murder Raven? Was it on the plane, when we were playing chess, when I thought we could reconcile? Or was it in the moment, with us begging you not to?
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[ They truthfully have never been able to have this conversation. They had no real time to do it before, and they decided to attempt to play chess together in the plane before Paris, instead of talk through all the tension and pain that was between them. All those years Erik was trapped under the Pentagon and Charles did consider trying to get him, but he had no plan for it, no one who could help him. He couldn't very well send the X-Men when they were still at the mansion, it would have been too dangerous for them. He couldn't let anyone become targets for the government because he didn't like the idea of his former best friend rotting there for the rest of his life.
So he couldn't come until there was no other option. And a part of him did think he deserved it, but not for life. Charles doesn't have it in him to hate that long and hard. He isn't an expert at it the way Erik is. And it would require him to actually hate Erik to work in the first place. He never has. He's telling the truth. He could survive the bullet to the spine, it was losing them that truly broke him.
Charles shakes his head, regretful. It's not too late, precisely, but it is also not to be trusted. He can read Erik's mind and he knows that he's telling him the truth, like this he couldn't lie even if he wanted to, but that doesn't matter ultimately. It comes down to this.]
Then tell me this, when exactly did you decide to murder Raven? Was it on the plane, when we were playing chess, when I thought we could reconcile? Or was it in the moment, with us begging you not to?