Lonely, a bit, I haven't been on a date in two months. My last boyfriend couldn't keep his hands off some hot twenty-five year old. The bastard got hi... just rewards, she dumped him after a month. He called me to apologize, I told him to take a flying fuck at a rollin' donut. I still don't know what that means, but it worked. He hasn't called since. How did your day go with Susan." Well I know one thing for sure, she isn't my wife anymore. She has two kids and another on the way. We did have a. Captain Benning has already agreed to be my guest too,” she smiled. Then she lowered her voice. “I was more thinking of poor Mrs. Duncan. She adores you, you know? You would be very good for her!”“B-but she was hurt!” Thomas whispered.“She has all the more need for tenderness, my dear young man. Please accept!”Taking a deep breath, Thomas nodded. “Then I accept your kind invitation, Madam.”Thomas had to go his last Morning Watch in Wolverine before he and Captain Benning took the longboat to. They tried not to; they really tried not to invade my privacy. But sometimes, they just found themselves doing it without thinking, just as I sometimes found myself eavesdropping without intending to. It wasn't that I objected to any of them picking up thoughts out of my mind; I just didn't want them to pick up a random thought that I didn't even really mean and get their feelings hurt. I was grateful for the unwritten but unbreakable rule with our kind that you never acted upon, or even got. He doesn't dare move. “It has only gotten you self-imposed burdens and scars.” Xavier finishes, darkly. His chin tips up to reflect the confidence in his words. Stanley's head bows lower, as he removes his boot in full. “I will accept those burdens and scars,” he says, slowly, “so long as they keep you safe.”“Why!?” Xavier's voice rises higher than it had yet, angry and tinged with desperation. “Why do you care this much? Do you have some kind of need to feel important? Do you get off on a job.