on Generation Hope #15

[messiahed]

I don't want to talk about it.


I stand by my decision. I want Shaw on my team, and that's that.

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[messiahed]

Because you're not being reasonable. You're judging based on what happened before. You can't see this clearly. I can. I have fresh eyes and I see it just fine.

[lehnsherr]

I'm speaking from experience. And I know I'm not the only one who's warned you.

[messiahed]

This isn't the same old story anymore. This is a new experience that doesn't go with your old ones.

[lehnsherr]

What about the "stories" of people who know the Shaw from your world then?

[messiahed]

They knew Shaw. Then Emma effectively killed him and abandoned him in the desert. He's not Shaw anymore.

[lehnsherr]

It isn't as simple as you'd like to believe.

[messiahed]

Actually, it is. All of you are making it difficult but it's simple. Shaw's gone. Emma wiped him gone from this Earth. This isn't Shaw.

[lehnsherr]

Times like this remind me of just how young you really are.

[messiahed]

Young enough not to be so jaded and cynical.

[lehnsherr]

Young enough to remain naive despite all you've already been through.

[messiahed]

You know we can go in circles like this all night long.


I'm not changing my mind.

[lehnsherr]

I think you've made that point clear by now.

[messiahed]

Sorry to disappoint.

[lehnsherr]

[...

...

:|]

It'll take a great deal more than that for you to disappoint me.

[messiahed]

[ oh yeah, how's that ~touch~ thing working for you~? ]

Wait.


Really?

[lehnsherr]

[Give it a couple more months and we'll talk. :|]

I may not approve of who he is, but you're attempting to protect mutantkind.

What do you think?

[messiahed]

[ You mean you don't like a teenager controlling you without permission? ]

Oh.


Well okay. Glad you don't entirely hate me now.

[lehnsherr]

[I think that all depends on just what you try to do with that control.]

You thought I hated you?

[messiahed]

[ :D ]

Possibly affirmative.

[lehnsherr]

[So creepy.]

Did you ever think to ask?

[messiahed]

[ It is not shush. ]

I work better when I assume every one hates me.

[lehnsherr]

[Make me!]

Including your team, if I remember correctly.

Perhaps it's time to change that attitude.

[messiahed]

[ Do you really want to push her, Erik? ]

Including my team.

I can't make people like me.


[ Wait.... can she do that? ]

[lehnsherr]

[... Shutting up now!]

You can prove to them that you're worth their time and respect instead.

[messiahed]

[ That's what I thought. ]

I can't. I really tried to, too, but the truth is they're not cut-out for this. They're kids and new mutants and I'm pushing them further than should ever be asked for them. They're not even six-months old as mutants and I made them help take out a new brand of Sentinel we'd never seen before.


I can't give them the break and time they want. And because I can't they'll never stop hating me.