SEVENTY NINE ✖ VIDEO

[wedonot]

[He's been here long enough to witness this event two previous times, and it's always been strange, and often a little upsetting. More than a little, actually. But it's hard to resist knowing that he might be able to hear from people back home he hasn't seen in far too long, so he does eventually click on the feed to see who's out there this time.

He's sitting at his desk, and is fiddling with a little plastic figurine of a weird looking bug creature. (The others are on the desk nearby.) He smiles]

This is [There's a fraction of a second of hesitation as he debates at the last second whether or not ] Dr. Charles Xavier. If Sean, Hank and Armando are out there, I would very much appreciate hearing from you.

[Although he will also take calls from anyone else as well. c:]

Comments

[nobelist]

He'd changed. Still wants what's best for mutants, o' course, but he realised he wasn't getting it, the way he was going. [And she respects that. It's hard, to face yourself and come up wanting; harder still to make the changes you need.]

[wecanavenge]

[Wow.

That is not what he expected to hear about this other him. Ever, really. It's a burden and a weightlessness in one: another version of himself did this, maybe did this on his own. Changed.

And Erik can't help but recognize that he is different, now. ]

And now he runs the school. [That's what he plans to do, more or less.]

[nobelist]

He does. With some growing pains, surely, but... [She remembers thinking their children lost, and the aching, desperate hope he confided in her.] He cares deeply for those kids. He'd do anything for them, an' I imagine they know it by now.