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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[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.

[lehnsherr]

Two people in my life have pushed me in to using my abilities. The first was a monster, and I hated him with every ounce of my being. The second was the closest friend I ever had, and the one person I care for above all others. Bother Schmidt and Charles chose entirely different methods for themselves. But they were each capable of pushing me in to doing more than I would ever have been capable of doing alone.

You can get results from them, Hope. You just need to decide whether you want to be their friend or their owner. It can't be both.