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      When Magneto hands her the vial, she just blinks. "This is your 'gift' for Charles? Is it poison?"
      "If you want to generalize, yes."
      Mystique's heart seizes and she feels like that little girl in the kitchen again. "It won't kill him, will it?"
      "Not if he pulls off the headset quickly—"
      "Quickly? What's that supposed to—"
      "—enough; it's not designed to—"
      "I can't kill my own brother, Erik!"
      "Do you think I want this any more than you do?"
      They both look bitter and wounded and Mystique remembers which sibling Erik really preferred and she hates both men. Her hands don't shake when she switches out the fluids in Cerebro. But the hatred has collapsed when she returns and she cries in Magneto's arms and he stares like a dead man at the wall, and they are ashamed of their weakness for a single man.

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      When Magneto hands her the vial, she just blinks. "This is your 'gift' for Charles? Is it poison?"
      "If you want to generalize, yes."
      Mystique's heart seizes and she feels like that little girl in the kitchen again. "It won't kill him, will it?"
      "Not if he pulls off the headset quickly—"
      "Quickly? What's that supposed to—"
      "—enough; it's not designed to—"
      "I can't kill my own brother, Erik!"
      "Do you think I want this any more than you do?"
      They both look bitter and wounded and Mystique remembers which sibling Erik really preferred and she hates both men. Her hands don't shake when she switches out the fluids in Cerebro. But the hatred has collapsed when she returns and she cries in Magneto's arms and he stares like a dead man at the wall, and they are ashamed of their weakness for a single man.