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[No point in denying it. He meets her gaze levelly.]

They did.

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[Well wasn't that interesting?] I see.

[Moving those last few steps in towards him, Mystique stopped just short of him, head raised to match his gaze.] You're following in his steps, and I've seen the type of man it will turn you into. One who is so focused on his goal he is prepared to burn the world down around him. [Her eyes narrowed slightly, but she made no movement of aggression or violence against him, just keeping her stance and not backing down.] I would advice rethinking any future plans you may have for back home. [It was all too easy to think what her world would be like without Magneto's influence. She doesn't know if it would be for the better, but it was sad to see a man so wrapped up in his own hype he was blind to what set him on his path in the first place.]

[grandstanding]

[His posture changes subtly as Mystique enters his space, his spine straightening, shoulders growing stiff. The mention of the other Magneto is enough to immediately set him on edge.]

I'm not following in anyone's steps but my own. [His tone is low, and brooks no argument. He knows who he is, and he can't define himself by what happens in other realities, no matter how similar those men might be. Yet Mystique's words have the sting of truth to them, because that was exactly what he had done. He had tried to kill his own Mystique to prevent the Sentinels of the future from ever happening. One life for millions. When that failed, he had gone after the President instead, to demonstrate through power that they would not be oppressed and lead to imprisonment and slaughter.

He lets the silent moment stretch on before continuing.] I've already rethought them. I had little choice but to do so. I don't need to be told - I already know how one future turned out when I stayed on that path. [Something that became clearer in hindsight, in the aftermath of Washington and his failed plans. Clearer still in those other worlds, where he'd had to regain his memories and see them from what was almost an outside perspective.]

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Then I hope you keep to that when you return. [Mystique didn't back down immediately, keeping her close proximity to him for several more long moments, however she did eventually take those few steps back. Looking off into the distance for a moment, she found enough words to continue her thought.] I don't blame you for what you have done, Erik, I may understand them more than most do because I have been at his side for many years. [Her gaze returning once more to him.] But I have also seen his hate overcome what he had set out to do, and that was to save mutants suffering through the same fate others have. [She wouldn't say 'your family', it was too close, too personal to bring them up, even if it was still left hanging in her words.]

I hope you find a better way. [Saying her piece and leaving him with more than enough to consider, her form began to change again, melting away not into a wolf but her raven form. There was one more look to him before she lifted herself into the air to fly off.]