mystique

Everything you hate about me

Erm,, I watched X Men recently oopsies,, so now imma be drawing them (just Kurt)

But the thing was, TJ had always loved her grandmother, especially when her mutation first truly manifested. People just didn't understand the strangeness, the pain that sometimes came with her ability to possess people and get access to everything they knew. Everything they were. Little bits of everyone she'd ever possessed stayed with her forever, and sometimes she wondered if it wouldn't drive her a little mad one day like it did poor Vanessa.

Maybe she hoped things could be different with a grandchild. She knew Kurt had most likely given her all kinds of warnings about how manipulative and terrible Mystique was. That didn’t exactly give her a clean slate to work with, but maybe if she won some kind of favor with Talia, her son might see she is capable of loving him. That she does love him despite everything she’s done to prove the contrary. 

“Sometimes I wish I could believe you. I wish you could tell me your true intentions, to be honest with me for once.”

He looks into her eyes, and, as a makes a pause he fights hard the anger and the deception.

It darkens them, his eyes. His golden intense eyes; resentment all over his face.

This time, he doesn’t fight those feelings. He doesn’t try to pretend to be the bigger person. His lips thin, his neck tense and he drops both arms to his sides.

“But I know better. I don’t get why you keep looking for me anymore, just for your own cruel pleasure I suppose. You just want to have fun with my suffering.”

"You want the truth, but you won't believe me. I have no way to prove anything to you if you won't give me the chance."

Even knowing that she deserves his anger, it still stung. She tried not to let it show often, the shame and sadness of abandoning her child and her desperate desire to somehow earn his love.

But his words push just the right buttons to stir a flame of her own anger. "You think I find this fun? You cannot even begin to understand how I feel. Is it that hard to believe that I just want to see you?"

"That's not a bad thing. It's strategy. You don't want to let the wrong people know everything." She knew that if Kurt could hear them, he'd be livid, but this was perhaps the least terrible lesson she could teach someone.

Oh, if Kurt could see her now, he'd probably be blowing every gasket trying to prevent the conversation from going any further. After all, TJ knew he wouldn't much care for the idea that this little apple did not, in fact, fall that far from the proverbial tree when it came to the way she handled certain situations. That she could be, at times, as skillful a pretender as the grandmother she bore a striking, if tangential, resemblance toward.

After all, possessing someone and becoming them for a short time wasn't all that different from what Mystique did, was it?

for the "i don't need your help" one

you can get lost.

i thought i told you i had this under control.

you never listen to me.

i was taking care of it.

leave me alone.

are you happy now?

you just stepped in and ruined it for me.

that was completely unnecessary and you know it.

i had it under control.

you didn't need to show up.

can't you let me handle my own shit?

i would have appreciated it if you asked first.

i had it handled!

you didn't need to do all that!

what part of "i don't need help" do you not understand?

they were about to give it to me before you showed up!

i had something going and you ruined it!

what, you mean you don't trust me to handle it myself?

you trained me better than this.

you can't just show up every time and save me.

what's the point in putting me out here if you're not going to let me do it on my own?

i thought you trusted me to take care of this by myself.

you taught me this.

i'm never going to forgive you for this.

that was uncalled for.

what happens when you're not here one day and i have to take care of things on my own?

how am i ever going to learn if you keep stepping in?

i'm not you.

for the "i'm just trying to help you" one

i heard you struggling.

i was just trying to help you.

and this is the thanks i get for trying to help?

things were getting out of hand. i had to step in.

you never would have done that by yourself.

it's okay to ask for help.

it's not that i don't trust you. i don't trust [them].

a minute longer and you'd be dead in there.

i had to make sure you were okay.

of course i trust you. this was never about trust.

i'm not going to risk your life like that!

i should have been there sooner.

if i'd only reached you faster.

a simple "thank you" would suffice.

you could thank me for saving your ass back there.

sure didn't seem like you had it under control.

things were getting out of hand, and i stepped in.

i'm in charge here, not you.

i'm not going to put your life at risk like that again.

we're done here.

i'm not arguing with you.

i saved your life, and this is how you repay me?

i just wanted to make sure you were okay.

maybe i crossed a line back there, sure, but i did it for you.

it's because i care about you.

of course you're capable. that was never up for debate.

you're not ready.

next time, let me handle it.

clearly you need more time before i let you do that alone.