Email to Manuel

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To: Manuel
From: Nathan
Subject: since when...

...do you know anything about telekinesis, how a psychic circuit-breaker works, or what's going on in my head? If you're going to be presumptuous and pretend that you do, try not to do it in public. That just means I have to correct you in public.

Nathan

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Well well now.

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Somebody woke up on the cranky side of the bed this morning.

You used to be able to do X+Y. Post-surgery, you can only do X.

Sounds like a lessening of ability - a crippling - to me.

You don't like it, take it up with your therapist. Don't yell at _me_ for calling a spade a spade.

Manuel

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It's a temporary fix. Something to let my mind and my brain heal, so that hopefully I can go back to molecular manipulation and not go blind.

I was trying to reassure people that I was fine. You nicely undermined that.

Nathan

You're welcome.

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They deserve to know the truth.

Manuel

Don't make me laugh.

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You don't know the truth.

You don't have any idea what happened, what Moira found, what Charles helped me do... you know absolutely nothing about any of it. You don't even have the basic knowledge about how any of this works, let alone my specific case.

Until that changes? Keep your damned mouth shut on the subject.

Nathan

It doesn't matter, does it?

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The logic's pretty simple. Temporary or not, to fix problems or not, the _fact_ is that you cripped yourself. Voluntarily.

End of discussion. If and when you get uncrippled, I'll happily say so.

Manuel

Oh, I get it...

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Here's the thing, boy. You wanted to suppress your power with drugs because you didn't want to have to deal with certain choices or the consequences of your actions anymore. I cut off my own access to a portion of my power so that I wouldn't a) go permanently blind or b) burn myself out and die when the virus destroyed my lungs. Slightly different situation. Even you, with your shaky grasp on what constitutes logic, has got to see that.

Nathan

Irrelevant

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The situations are different - but not as different as you're making them out to be. I would have ... never mind. I am not having this discussion with you. You lost the priviledge of censuring me in regards to my power or yours when you dropped our classes.

Manuel

I don't give a damn what you do with your power...

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So long as you don't do it in my vicinity. But if you think I'm going to put up with you spreading misinformation about mine, out of stupidity or ignorance or arrogance, think again.

Nathan

Or what?

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You'll kill me? Break my jaw?

How far are you prepared to go, mercenary?

Manuel

Right...

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You're under the impression that I make a habit of resorting to physical violence when we disagree; I forgot.

Let me try this again. When it comes to me and my telekinesis, you will not give people your version of events you didn't witness and know nothing about. This isn't a request and it isn't a threat. It is a statement of fact.

Nathan