[It's almost incredible, how well disciplined his mind is for someone who's had no previous experience with a telepath, and he can't help but almost marvel in it, at just how good he was at pulling everything back, locking things away where Charles couldn't find it unless he dug. And he could, but he wouldn't, because this was about trust and discussion, not extraction and confrontation.
Some of it feels familiar - the society functions, the loneliness, the sense that nothing you did was going to be enough to really hold their attention - but parts of it aren't. He'd more or less outgrown the frustration of having an inattentive mother and a completely uninterested stepfather once Raven had entered his life, because he had a companion, someone who understood. Someone to band together with when parties got dull or the mansion felt exceptionally lonely, or when his mother had too much to drink. He's struck by how fortunate he really was, and just how much he missed his sister, but he can't focus on that.]
I remember. [It was all in his file, after all, the gift Howard Stark had given Tony from beyond the grave.] How old were you, when your mother started teaching you how to behave?
[He says it more conversationally, curious, suddenly having an idea that if he presented this as more of a conversation, and maybe offered up some information about himself so they were on more level footing, he might open up a little more.]
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Some of it feels familiar - the society functions, the loneliness, the sense that nothing you did was going to be enough to really hold their attention - but parts of it aren't. He'd more or less outgrown the frustration of having an inattentive mother and a completely uninterested stepfather once Raven had entered his life, because he had a companion, someone who understood. Someone to band together with when parties got dull or the mansion felt exceptionally lonely, or when his mother had too much to drink. He's struck by how fortunate he really was, and just how much he missed his sister, but he can't focus on that.]
I remember. [It was all in his file, after all, the gift Howard Stark had given Tony from beyond the grave.] How old were you, when your mother started teaching you how to behave?
[He says it more conversationally, curious, suddenly having an idea that if he presented this as more of a conversation, and maybe offered up some information about himself so they were on more level footing, he might open up a little more.]