24. That's what he went through

Immediately Bobby is struck with guilt. He knows what Grimm is referring to. When he helped capture him and the other Avengers that were imprisoned in the mountains. He felt like crap after it happened.

Especially when he heard what they were doing to them in those mountains.

The Thing shifts his glare back to Rogue, "So ya see girly, Spidey may not have been someone important to ya. But to a lot of people he waz a hero, to others he was a friend, and to a few he was family."

Logan walks up behind Ben and places a hand on his shoulder, "Alright, they get it already. Just let it go."

Thing shrugs off Wolverine's hand and walks away. Leaving Bobby and the girls to think on his words.

Rogue looks to the ground in shame and frustration, "It's not like we wanted this ta happen."

"Well it did," Logan bluntly says to her, "What did you all think? That forcing change would turn out okay? That at the end of it all we'd come together, hold hands and sing Kumbaya?"

Damn that web-heads humor is contagious if Logan is making jokes like that.

Rogue gives him a pleading look, "Logan."

"No, you know what I don't want to hear it," he interrupts her, "When you make stupid choices like you did, then you have to live with the fallout. Ain't nothing to do but that."

Bobby watches the older mutant frustratingly walk away. He doesn't know if his annoyance comes from the Avengers constantly dogging the X-men or the X-men making excuses every time. And to be truthful Bobby doesn't care. Because no matter what they say to him, he'll know-

"It's our fault."

His proclamation gets the two X-Girls attention.

"Bobby," Rogue speaks up, "We didn't know something like this would happen."

He whips around to face her and yells, "No we did! We just denied it because we wanted to fix what happened! We were so desperate to fix everything and so sure of ourselves that we barely considered the consequences!"

He sags his shoulders as he lets out an exhausted breath, "And you know what? Whether we knew what would happen or not, we still made the choices that led to all of this. We turned on people who were our friends. We helped Scott and the others because we thought we could do what nobody else could."

Is this what Peter felt every day? So many of his friends, Bobby himself included, constantly told him that his Uncle's death was not his fault. He couldn't have known what would happen.

And his girlfriend Gwen's death at the bridge all those years ago. He tried to save her but he was inexperienced in a lot of ways. Including how to save someone dropping from a great height.

And here he and his friends are doing the same thing.

"We can't fix the world by making those take responsibility for their actions if we don't take responsibility for our own."

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