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[notrosecolored]

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[notrosecolored]

Well. That's good.

[overconfidently]

it's frustrating because it didn't work. i thought throwing myself off might wake it up if it's dormant, like peter thinks. but maybe it really is gone.

[notrosecolored]

and maybe it needs you to stop trying to force it back, either way.

[overconfidently]

it's been two months. i only have my telepathy to rely on which isn't always the best.

[notrosecolored]

Yeah and you just as clearly can't *make* the TK come back. So maybe try compensating instead of fixating on getting yourself killed trying to change that?

[overconfidently]

i wasn't trying to. i just thought if i was in danger, my mind might i don't know. react.

[notrosecolored]

We can't even figure out if I'm brain damaged or emotionally damaged and that's what's screwed up my powers. Let's see what we can do to get you more comfortable with physical conflict for now.

[overconfidently]

like what?

[notrosecolored]

Physical combat training?

[overconfidently]

do i have to?

[notrosecolored]

No but I'd like you to stop jumping off buildings.

[overconfidently]

( quit being such a dad, scott. although, that makes him think. )

kurt told me about what happened with the avengers and hope. about how they don't always listen to us mutants. i'm sorry they did that.

[notrosecolored]

You don't need to apologize for them.

[overconfidently]

i'm not. i'm sorry i didn't listen to you before.

[notrosecolored]

Oh.

Well.

Kurt's better at explaining things.

And more objective.

[overconfidently]

i've dealt with them a little back home. i was saying to kurt that i noticed both the ones back home and the ones here have a sort of superiority about them. so i can see why you might be concerned.

[notrosecolored]

It isn't really the arrogance, it's the... privilege of their position, and their complete lack of awareness of it.

But yeah, superiority is a pretty good way of putting it.

[overconfidently]

yeah. kurt told me that. how the ones back home have turned their backs on us at times. on mutants, i mean. how they're loved while we're feared even though we protect people just as much. it hurts.

[notrosecolored]

Yeah.

[overconfidently]

anyways. i'm sorry. you did what you did to protect your family and mutants. i would have done the same.

[notrosecolored]

I know yo would.

[overconfidently]

( he always thinks back to scott's reaction more to steve here becoming a dominant than being contracted to him. how he'd been all "of course he gets whatever he wants" about it, in a sense. he hadn't been able to see or understand what he meant by that back then, aside from taking it as being petty, but. he sees now. )

you're ok with peter though?

[notrosecolored]

[ If only scott would explain himself, ever. ]

I LIKE peter.

[overconfidently]

well good. cause he's my friend. both here and back home.

[notrosecolored]

I'm glad, especially since he stopped you from breaking your neck.