That's a long, complicated tale, cherie. Years long. We both been on the X-Men a long time where I come from. We fight, and maybe you don't trust me that well all the time, and maybe sometimes you're right.

I know your family pretty well. Mystique, she never like me, but we work together a time or two. She don't approve of me, but I still have skills she can use.

The two of us, though...

[He looks away a moment.]

Hard to know what to say. Things that meant a lot to me sound pretty strange to you, I think. Your Remy and me, we must be different people, if he never...

If you don't know how I feel about you. The older you, I mean.