"Do you trust me?"
[ what to say? to say no is to disappoint, to be cruel and cowardly, to annoy, and to push away. that isn't something he'd want to do, not in a million years, especially not to Xavier, but… ][ but… to say yes is to lie and to lie is to lose morals. and all that remains in a madman's mind once sanity is abolished is love and anger. to love without morals is to be reckless; to be angry without morals is to be evil; the doctor is neither. sure, he borders on the criminally insane, but he's never evil. he's jumpy and unpredictable, but never reckless. ][ he's trusted far too fast before. never again will he leave himself so open, so vulnerable. ]“—Well, not– not really, Xavier. Sorry.”






