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Logan 🍁 and Scott 👁️ are chatting privately
Logan 🍁: hey handsome
Scott 👁️: hey Logan
Logan 🍁: how are you doing?
Scott 👁️: I'll be better once you've moved your arse from your room and have given me a kiss
Logan 🍁: I'm on my way dear
Scott 👁️: good
Logan 🍁: I love you
Scott 👁️: I love you too
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Chatting in real life
Erik 🧲: Good afternoon Charles
Charles 📚: good afternoon Erik
Erik 🧲: I've just had some irritating news
Charles 📚: what is it?
Erik 🧲: I don't think you'll like it
Charles 📚: you're scaring me
Erik 🧲: I had an email from the government asking me to go back to travelling
Charles 📚: no
Erik 🧲: they want me to leave tomorrow and I won't be back for a few weeks maybe even a few months
Charles 📚: don't go
Erik 🧲: I have to
Charles 📚: *crying* please, don't leave me. I've only just got you back
Erik 🧲: they are giving me no choice
Charles 📚: *crying*
Erik 🧲: I have to go and tell Peter, I love you Charles
Charles 📚: *sobbing* go talk to him, I want to be left alone
Erik 🧲: *kisses Charles on the forehead before walking to Peter's room*
Peter 💨: Hey dad, what's up?
Erik 🧲: I have news
Peter 💨: what's going on?
Erik 🧲: the government want me to go travelling again
Peter 💨: how long for?
Erik 🧲: potentially up to a few months
Peter 💨: for fucks sake, you just came back and now you have to leave again
Erik 🧲: I'm really sorry Peter, I don't want to go but they are making me
Peter 💨: I understand that you have to go but that's not why I'm mad. Have you told Charles?
Erik 🧲: yes, I told Charles. Why are you mad?
Peter 💨: I'm pissed that you are leaving Charles AGAIN
Erik 🧲: not that I'm leaving you?
Peter 💨: don't get me wrong I'm still mad about that but you're going to destroy Charles
Erik 🧲: what do you mean?
Peter 💨: did he never tell you what he was like after he left for the first time?
Erik 🧲: no, why?
Peter 💨: it fucking destroyed him. He looked lost. He drank himself senseless each evening - only just managing to stay together for the sake of the children. It was awful dad. He missed you so goddamn much. He wasn't himself. He would barely talk to anyone outside his classes except for: the students I'd they asked him a question; Hank, Raven, Logan or Scott if they brought him food and me when I was asking about you. At the time I failed to realise how in love he was with you despite the fact he would listen to the same song in repeat for hours on end. It took me months to try and coax him out of his slump and even then I was only 11. Not a day goes past that I don't regret it because I'd it wasn't for that rough patch, he never would have become my mom - one of the people I loved most. So for the love of God, DON'T YOU DARE FUCKING LEAVE HIM.
Erik 🧲: it affected him that much?
Peter 💨: yes you idiot
Erik 🧲: what song would he listen to on repeat?
Peter 💨: it was called 'let her go'
Erik 🧲: shit, that was the song I listened to after my parents were killed
Peter 💨: yeah he mentioned it
Erik 🧲: he remembered it?
Peter 💨: he was fucking in love with you he'd remember anything about you
Erik 🧲: I'm a bad boyfriend and a horrible father all I do is leave I'm so sorry Peter
Peter 💨: it's fine dad, I forgive you
Erik 🧲: I don't deserve your forgiveness son, I promised you I would never leave but I broke it
Peter 💨: you can't help it, you are being made to go
Erik 🧲: not if I have anything to say about it
Peter 💨: don't get yourself arrested for being rude to a government official
Erik 🧲: fine
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Erik Lehnsherr and Government Official 1 are chatting privately.
Erik Lehnsherr: I can't go on the trip
Government Official 1: you have no choice
Erik Lehnsherr: and why is that?
Government Official 1: you are the only man for the job
Erik Lehnsherr: tough I'm not going
Government Official 1: you will be going and that is final
Erik Lehnsherr: Isn't America supposed to be the country of freedom?
Government Official 1: I don't see how this relevant
Erik Lehnsherr: answer the question
Government Official 1: fine, yes America is the country of freedom
Erik Lehnsherr: and everyone has the right to decide when they want to do something
Government Official 1: yes they do
Erik Lehnsherr: well I don't think that forcing me to go somewhere to do something I don't want to do is part of the American values
Government Official 1: it's your duty to your country to do this
Erik Lehnsherr: I have family issues that I need to deal with. If you needed me to do more work you shouldn't have told me that I had nothing more to do for the government 6 months ago. And by the way, I'm not American, I'm German, so it it not my duty to my country.
Government Official 1: fine we'll find someone else
Erik Lehnsherr: thank you, good day
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Chatting in real life.
Charles 📚: *lying on the sofa in his office, crying; singing sadly, softly and slowly along to the radio*
Charles 📚: Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go
And you let her go
Staring at the bottom of your glass
Hoping one day you'll make a dream last
Charles 📚: But dreams come slow, and they go so fast
You see her when you close your eyes
Maybe one day, you'll understand why
Everything you touch surely dies
Erik 🧲: *bursts into the room as quick as a flash, crying softly at the sound of Charles voice*
Charles 📚: hello Erik, have you come to say goodbye?
Erik 🧲: *strides over to Charles and lays on top of him, his face inches away from Charles'* no
Charles 📚: what are you doing? What do you mean no?
Erik 🧲: *wraps his arms around Charles and holds him close, his head rested on Charles' shoulder*
Charles 📚: *smiles slightly* Erik, what...
Erik 🧲: I'm not going Charles