Kara's arrival... [He looks down at the table, shaking his head. How can he explain it, without hurting her feelings?]
It changed a lot of things. For you and me, I suppose, but at the time I didn't really realize that. She was a Kryptonian from my own world, my own timeline, I just- [He wasn't alone anymore, he didn't have the weight of a dead world squarely on his shoulders. He wasn't the last remain of a dead race in his universe. But he can't voice that, not without hurting Karen's feelings.]
But it never, never changed the fact that you're family. That I respect you, both as a hero and as a person. Kara needed me, you didn't. Or I thought you didn't. Just like Kara never needed the Kents, but Kon did.
I thought I was giving each of you what you needed. [But never gave a second thought to what they wanted.]
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It changed a lot of things. For you and me, I suppose, but at the time I didn't really realize that. She was a Kryptonian from my own world, my own timeline, I just- [He wasn't alone anymore, he didn't have the weight of a dead world squarely on his shoulders. He wasn't the last remain of a dead race in his universe. But he can't voice that, not without hurting Karen's feelings.]
But it never, never changed the fact that you're family. That I respect you, both as a hero and as a person. Kara needed me, you didn't. Or I thought you didn't. Just like Kara never needed the Kents, but Kon did.
I thought I was giving each of you what you needed. [But never gave a second thought to what they wanted.]