“Read my mind, Charles. Killing that man was my darkest hour and worst thing I have ever done even though I justified it, for protecting the man that I thought I loved. I didn’t do it so he’d love me, I did it to save him.” Hugo places his hand on Charles’s cheeks, cupping his face as his hues bore into the telepath’s bright hues, “I would never do that again…kill anyone. And I would especially never do that to you. I did a bad thing, I’m not a bad person.” He rests his forehead against Charles’s, “Please…believe me.”
“ i don’t mean to -- accuse you. there are just things you don’t know about people, that it’s impossible to know, i’m not willing to rob you of your will, ” charles explains, his tone is softer than he expects it to be. he cringes the moment he’s done saying what he has. “ it was never my intention to say anything bad about you, you know that, don’t you? i didn’t mean to offend. i just... have had bad experiences with people i believed i could trust. ” but part of charles is needlessly delicate, still chaffing at the hurt that erik left behind. part of his heart swells -- it’s an odd feeling, to be emotionally connected with someone after so long of trying to wall himself off. he isn’t -- intentionally reading hugo’s mind but he can sense the genuineness, some level of care and was that... did hugo have a crush on him? the thought wasn’t a bad one. “ alright. alright, well, if you -- still stand by your own question after my apparently interrogation, then yes -- a real date... we could make that work. ”