MoM IC Contact

[khajidont]

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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[khajidont]

You don't have to apologize for that. I know it was you as much as me going all attack dog was me. It was just a dream

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[andaway]

I'm not sure.

I mean of course it was a dream. But not just a dream. Very specific dreams, playing to our fears and worries. Are you afraid of what I saw?

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[khajidont]

I guess.

[Jaime's not an idiot. He's already seen enough to cotton onto the fact that each dream had a laser-focus on each of their fears.

He's also very, very comfortable with living in denial.]

Weren't you?

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[andaway]

Yes, of course. That's why I grabbed my friends and talked about it as soon as I got the chance, and didn't ignore it and let the fears fester up in me.

Which is exactly why I'm talking to you. It was just important to me that you knew I would never do something like that, even if it might seem obvious. Did your head hurt after I left you unconscious?

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[khajidont]

Point. You know that wasn't really me either right?

[Maybe Jaime doesn't want to concede the point on the talking about it part, but... making sure others knew that he'd never willingly go all horrible-monster on them isn't a bad thing.]

Don't worry I was fine. I woke up pretty soon after that anyway

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[andaway]

[Well, Jaime isn't outright saying he doesn't need to talk to his friends or anyone else. It's not like Clark can force him, so he'll take it.]

I do know. What happened at the hospital anyway? Hal looked like he was expecting me to yell at him for something and I get the feeling it had to do about you.

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[khajidont]

I woke to him giving me a supervillain monologue about how he's gonna wreck me if I ever turn evil because he's a jerk who threatens people while they're comatose

[HE'S STILL MAD]

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[andaway]

You do realize that's like a standard start for a conversation between me and Batman, right?

Maybe not the comatose part. And I'm still not happy he's threatening a kid. But we're superheroes, Beetle. I go evil statistically once a month as you saw in your dream. Having someone be ready for that isn't necessarily a bad thing.

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[khajidont]

Are you seriously defending him? I don't want him to treat me different because I'm younger than him [HECK YES HE'S SHEDDING THAT KID LABEL] I just want to be treated like an actual human being

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[khajidont]

But hey at least everyone can rest easier knowing there's one more person out there ready to kill me who won't actually feel guilty about it

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[andaway]

That's not what I meant at all. If Hal hurts you it will be over my dead body.

[And he means that. Even if Jaime goes rogue, even if what he saw in his dream becomes true, he will protect him. He still thinks it's specially wrong that Hal is doing to someone that much younger, but that obviously isn't going over well so he'll just skip it.]

And it was definitely wrong to just talk to you like that while you were unconscious. But he's been a jerk to you since day one and nothing I say has changed his opinion so I just wasn't surprised.

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[khajidont]

If something happens and I get mind controlled or reprogrammed or whatever I don't really care if he hurts me.

[Or kills him, even, if that's what's necessary... but Clark knows that already.]

I'd just rather not hear about it all the time until then

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[andaway]

I didn't think he said it all that often. I thought he'd stopped bothering you.

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[khajidont]

Mostly. Unless I'm forced to talk to him or if we're in the same room in which case apparently he just can't help himself

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[andaway]

Well, I can't really help myself when I'm forced to talk to Lex Luthor. Sometimes it's just not that easy.

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[andaway]

Not that you're anything like Luthor!

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[andaway]

I'm usually way better at this. Maybe it was a bit too soon, we're still on edge. I know I am. I saw many things I won't be able to forget any time soon.

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[khajidont]

Hey

Has anyone asked if YOU'RE ok yet? I'm betting mine wasn't the worst dream you had

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[andaway]

No it wasn't. But I'll manage. This is not my first rodeo. I just usually have the fortress of solitude when I need some space to myself, harder to get in here with all the restrictions.

But I'm fine Jaime.

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[khajidont]

So long as you're sure.

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[khajidont]

[...and there's about a minute delay before he says:]

And if you need some government approved alone time, I usually use the desert. It's no fortress of solitude but it does the trick

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[andaway]

Did you know I had the fortress of solitude in the middle of the amazon rainforest once? The Desert might be way more dry, but still. Maybe it's time for me to build me a treehouse of solitude, since I apparently need it to be able to process things like what we just went through.

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[khajidont]

I didn't actually know that you had a fortress of solitude period. Probably because it was a secret or else it wouldn't really live up to its name?

But everyone needs a place to be alone

[Just don't take his patch of desert!!!]

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[andaway]

It lives up to its name because no one gets in unless I tell the fortress so. It's pretty impenetrable. Doubt I will manage to do something similar in here. But yes, I definitely need a me-place.

So, we're good?

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[khajidont]

Yeah we're good

[NOW CAN THEY PLEASE NEVER TALK ABOUT THIS AGAIN, he's begging you, Supes.]