Steve steps back, hands up in a gesture of peace. Tommy is right, after all. He has no idea what it is like to be a mutant in his world. No one saw him as something other than human. Steve has no idea what that must have felt like as a child growing up.

"Alright," he concedes. "Alright, how about this: I don't see you as a freak. Okay? I've known a lot of people with gifts and none of them have ever been freaks. Not to me."