[ The silence between them is so brutal that Peter contemplates just forgoing the pain in his leg and bolting from the diner. Deal with that later and all but then if he messes his leg up to the point of not being able to run anymore that would majorly suck and not anything he wants to deal with. Thankfully, he doesn't have to do that because Erik speaks. Totally fair question and something he'd been asking and kicking himself over for awhile now.

He still can't look to him (will he ever be able to??) and just smiles to himself a bit as he stares off ahead, gaze dropping. ]

Never seemed like the right time? Also not really sure you needed to deal with all that.

[ The whole surprise of having a random kid(s). ]

But [ fingers still grip tight at the table before they finally come to relax some ] stuff's pretty bad right now and it's like, I don't know, might miss my chance. Again.