[It takes Charles a long time to respond. He wants to scream at her, wants to ask if she realized what she was doing to people, that nothing she did did anything but hurt people, that apologizing doesn't change anything, but he swallows it. He's spent two miserable hours remembering the four worst days of his life, and all he really wants to do is lock himself in his room and not say anything to anyone. But he can't pretend this didn't happen, that they'd tried to stop Rex from blowing up the goddamn engine room, with her in it, and this still happened.]
Whatever else happens, [And his voice is tight and controlled, almost like his throat's constricted and it's taking him an effort to form each word.] I hope you're unpairing yourself from Erik.
[The "you should know what your new policies, you did and what it did to him" goes unstated, but is still heavily implied. B(]
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Whatever else happens, [And his voice is tight and controlled, almost like his throat's constricted and it's taking him an effort to form each word.] I hope you're unpairing yourself from Erik.
[The "you should know what your new policies, you did and what it did to him" goes unstated, but is still heavily implied. B(]