[ Silences are always long for Pietro, and this one doesn't pass unnoticed, but he doesn't know how to fill it. He gets that this is awkward, for Charles, but he doesn't actually get why — although he understands, intellectually, that there is a thing he should get, that there's some piece of empathy he's missing sometimes, some inner voice that says what he would do to avenge his sister is wrong, but to him it's a natural reaction to anyone harming Wanda. He does not and never has had a stopping point when it comes to defending her, and it doesn't occur to him that Charles would have expected anything else from him in response to her death.
So he doesn't ask. Somewhere near the top of the stairs, it occurs to him he wouldn't have had the option of asking or not, with any other Xavier. ]
You really don't read anyone's mind, do you? [ Not accusing, just surprised. ]
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So he doesn't ask. Somewhere near the top of the stairs, it occurs to him he wouldn't have had the option of asking or not, with any other Xavier. ]
You really don't read anyone's mind, do you? [ Not accusing, just surprised. ]