[When Ali gives Jono a look that says, "Can you believe this kid?" he returns it with an expression of his own that reads, "I know, right?"]
Family! Guys. I don't... [Kevin just lets this sentence drift off. What he's thinking to himself is I don't have a family anymore after I killed Dad. Family is just... something that's been taken from him and it's a fact that he's slowly let himself become okay with. Or at least, used to. Now these two are claiming that they are a family and he's not sure how to deal with this.
Jono seems to be able to sense what Kevin is thinking. For once. And so Jono gives him a little push, a little bit of encouragement, by saying, "Come on, Kevin. You're like -- a kid brother to me."
Kevin is startled. He had an inkling earlier that the X-Men might've come to get him, haul him back in, and lecture him about the evils of Magneto's Brotherhood, but... he'd thought it was a matter of pride. And of embarrassment. The X-Men losing one of their own students to the Brotherhood -- that didn't look so great for their image, did it?
But now he is starting to realize that that wasn't it at all. Ali and Jono came for him because of some mushy bullshit about being a family. And Kevin is so touched that he can't think of anything to say but the following.]
Oh, God, Ali. You've broken up twelve Dazzlers. Don't start that shit with me.
[But for the first time in months, Kevin's smiling. And it's genuine.]
Re: THE WHOLE BAND FAM-DAMBLY
Family! Guys. I don't... [Kevin just lets this sentence drift off. What he's thinking to himself is I don't have a family anymore after I killed Dad. Family is just... something that's been taken from him and it's a fact that he's slowly let himself become okay with. Or at least, used to. Now these two are claiming that they are a family and he's not sure how to deal with this.
Jono seems to be able to sense what Kevin is thinking. For once. And so Jono gives him a little push, a little bit of encouragement, by saying, "Come on, Kevin. You're like -- a kid brother to me."
Kevin is startled. He had an inkling earlier that the X-Men might've come to get him, haul him back in, and lecture him about the evils of Magneto's Brotherhood, but... he'd thought it was a matter of pride. And of embarrassment. The X-Men losing one of their own students to the Brotherhood -- that didn't look so great for their image, did it?
But now he is starting to realize that that wasn't it at all. Ali and Jono came for him because of some mushy bullshit about being a family. And Kevin is so touched that he can't think of anything to say but the following.]
Oh, God, Ali. You've broken up twelve Dazzlers. Don't start that shit with me.
[But for the first time in months, Kevin's smiling. And it's genuine.]