Re: In person: Erik/Charles
[Charles looked at him curiously, almost scoffing.] You don't have to be a telepath to know what is going on in my head, Erik. All you have to do is ask. [He didn't think he was much of an enigma. Perhaps not an open book, but he certainly didn't try and hide much of himself. Not unless he needed to.]
Some people are darker than others, but Shaw didn't want to be better. Shaw was obsessed with making everyone else his definition of better. [Charles didn't believe that Shaw didn't feel fear. It was why he created so much of it. To keep it at bay. He'd been in that man's head. He hadn't spent much time looking around, but he knew enough. More than enough. That wasn't something he brought up in this moment though, he didn't want to remember that. Let alone talk about it.] A bit. [He nodded.] But the two aren't mutually exclusive. If I didn't have anyone else to worry about, Erik, then I'd be able to take more. But as it is, its not just me.
I still don't know what the end result is going to be, Erik. [He corrected and took another drink from his coffee. That was as true as anything.] I'd still have done it. And liquor and chess hasn't been quite the same, I'm afraid.
[Charles nodded. Thinking over his words, and accepting them for what they were. He didn't necessarily want Erik torturing himself over things that weren't his fault - but if he needed to, he could be sympathetic to that. And understanding. People deserved their emotions and their thoughts. No one respected that more than Charles.] I did want you gone, after a while. I did. I wanted you gone. I wanted you gone so badly. [He shrugged.] But that doesn't mean I wanted you to go.