#erik you need to be happy but that's basically impossible because you're gay and traumatized and the love of your life is Charles Xavier

[skarkkk]

— I can feel your unconditional love all the time, in my mind and it scares me. I can't take that away from you, Charles. Because I'll let this rottenness of mine consume you and I won't be able to bear to see the wreckage. Because I'll love you back with everything I have and it will destroy you because everything I touch dies.

[skarkkk]

— And I can't let you go, but I have to. Because I don't want to see the light in your eyes fade, they warmed me when you pulled me out of the ocean and I can't be the cause of that loss. Of your happiness and excitement, of how everything about you makes me warm and I've never felt that before but I know I can't feel that for you. I won't let my love destroy you.

— You were my happiness. You, Raven, all the mutants we once saved and fought for, my family. You left me once, you left me on that beach and took her. Don't leave me again. Don't run away because you're too much of a coward to admit that you love me and that you're disgusted by me for what you did to me.

— I can feel your unconditional love all the time, in my mind and it scares me. I can't take that away from you, Charles. Because I'll let this rottenness of mine consume you and I won't be able to bear to see the wreckage. Because I'll love you back with everything I have and it will destroy you because everything I touch dies.