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Jaime's cell phone is more or less plugged riiiight into his brain, so he tends to pick up like 99% of the time! If not, however...

"Hey, Jaime here! Leave a message, and I'll get back to you ASAP."

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Right. Well, good.

...can I ask what made you change your mind?

Would you believe me if I said talking to Booster?

[That's one way to break the tension. There's something of a smile in Jaime's voice.]

You know, I would. I didn't think you'd go to him to talk about something like this.

Booster and I have... history. And I know you and him get along well enough.

[Everyone has history with Booster. And practically nobody ever sounds happy about it.]

Yeah. We're friends too. He was right person to talk to.

[Don't ask Hal!]

He was. Don't let him know I said that.

I know I wasn't in the right with how I acted. We all have powers we didn't ask for or could accidentally hurt someone with. I should know better.

Seriously, it's okay. You get it now. But isn't that something you've had to deal with too? I mean, I don't know anyone who's got more powers than you guys.

My powers have gone haywire before a few times.

But it's a bit different for me. I was already an adult when I came to Earth and had my powers in check. Beyond breaking some machines when anyone ran tests on me.

So... where were you before you came to Earth?

[Karen isn't older than Clark is, and he knows that Krypton was destroyed. She must have wound up on another planet.]

Space?

[ Of course Jaime wouldn't know. Hell, she's not always so sure herself. In her universe two ships left Krypton before its demise; Kal-L's and hers. Kal's arrived much earlier while she was adrift for years. ]

Depends on which Earth you mean.

Uh.

[He had assumed that they were from the same universe. Are they not? What's going on? He could ask an intelligent question, or...]

I'm confused.

It's a long and complicated story.

The short version is I'm from a parallel universe.

Thaaaaat, I didn't know. But we're from the same place, right? I mean, not from from in your case, but the one you got taken from to come here? Or, uh, to come to the City.

[ALTERNATE UNIVERSES. Good lord.]

Maybe I need to update my chart.

We are. I'm just not born in that universe.

Oh.

[He's curious. Of course he's curious, but he also assumes that her presence here means something like, and we were all ruled by megalomaniac giant venomous snakes that feasted on the flesh of the innocent or whoops everything got destroyed or quite possibly and I fled a band of Kryptonite wielding samurai who wanted to use my remains for worship.

He's come to expect the worst when it comes to others' pasts, especially when alternate universes enter the equation. So instead of prying right after they made up, he says,] Well, I hope you like it here, at least. I mean, home.

...my old home, your new home. Sorry, I feel like I should have more lingo for talking about parallel universe junk by now.

[ That gets an earnest laugh from her. ]

I wouldn't be protecting it if I didn't. It's my home, too.

[ She's ultimately made peace with that fact. ]

I have a feeling you protected this place before it was home too. [She's a hero. That's what they do.]

But good. I'm glad.

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