[ As a telepath, there is only so much you can do with the information under the surface. He had to learn that what someone chooses to say in spite of it, how someone chooses to present outwardly, are all as equally important, not to mention holding their own quality of truth, as the thoughts that run beneath the current, contradictory or not.
Charles isn't responsible for Emma, what she chooses to avoid, what solutions she opts to try. Conveniently, that means he gets to go out to dinner with her sometimes.
And he'd made her laugh, which mirrors from him a thin half-smile, crows feet shadowed deeper at the corners of his eyes. Maybe they should talk about Hook. Maybe they should talk about Erik, in the context of Problems, instead of just problems. Maybe Charles should just airlock himself now before he ever feels the compulsion to do so.
He opts to break the moment by reaching to take her plate, and pick up his less empty one. Clean up. The wine glasses can stay, still half-charged as they are. There is no dessert coming, but wine and increasingly slurry chatting can count. ]
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[ As a telepath, there is only so much you can do with the information under the surface. He had to learn that what someone chooses to say in spite of it, how someone chooses to present outwardly, are all as equally important, not to mention holding their own quality of truth, as the thoughts that run beneath the current, contradictory or not.
Charles isn't responsible for Emma, what she chooses to avoid, what solutions she opts to try. Conveniently, that means he gets to go out to dinner with her sometimes.
And he'd made her laugh, which mirrors from him a thin half-smile, crows feet shadowed deeper at the corners of his eyes. Maybe they should talk about Hook. Maybe they should talk about Erik, in the context of Problems, instead of just problems. Maybe Charles should just airlock himself now before he ever feels the compulsion to do so.
He opts to break the moment by reaching to take her plate, and pick up his less empty one. Clean up. The wine glasses can stay, still half-charged as they are. There is no dessert coming, but wine and increasingly slurry chatting can count. ]