[Charles laughs softly and shakes his head.] No, of course he knows that, I meant more-

[He sighs, sobering.] Instead of following Shaw and spending his entire adult life alone and angry, he let himself settle down. He had a wife and a daughter, and things weren't perfect, but he was happy. And despite all that, the man who ruined his life started a nuclear war because he wasn't there to stop it. And I couldn't do it on my own. [He could have, if it wasn't for that damn helmet, and God, he wished Erik would just throw it over the side instead of keeping it on his desk like some sort of trophy.]

I just want him to be happy. [And safe, with people who loved him and would be there to support him when things went badly. And he knew that eventually, Erik had found him and the kids and could maybe have had something like peace and security, but he was still angry and hurt. Knowing them now didn't change that he'd spent so much of his life alone, and it just hurt to know that someone you loved needed to suffer for the benefit of everyone. It didn't seem fair.]