[That's definitely not the question he'd been expecting out of her, though Jaime can't say what he had been expecting. Something more... important, he supposes, than just checking in.]
Oh. Yeah, I'm okay.
[It's an automatic answer more than anything else, but even if Steph is a fellow superhero, she's still a stranger. Or maybe it's even more important that he keeps his cool because she's a superhero, he can't quite decide. It wouldn't be a surprise to anyone that knows him that he spent a good week after the war crying in his room, but she doesn't know him.
And besides, as awful as it sounds, this virus going around has actually made him feel better. It's given him something to do beyond wonder how they could have fixed it, where it all went so wrong.]
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Oh. Yeah, I'm okay.
[It's an automatic answer more than anything else, but even if Steph is a fellow superhero, she's still a stranger. Or maybe it's even more important that he keeps his cool because she's a superhero, he can't quite decide. It wouldn't be a surprise to anyone that knows him that he spent a good week after the war crying in his room, but she doesn't know him.
And besides, as awful as it sounds, this virus going around has actually made him feel better. It's given him something to do beyond wonder how they could have fixed it, where it all went so wrong.]