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KAREN'S LINE ❝ Karen Starr here. Leave a message and I'll get back to you ASAP. ❞

POWER GIRL'S LINE ❝ Power Girl. Let's talk. ❞

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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.]

[ Without a doubt it hurts, but she listens quietly and tries to put herself in Kal's boots. In fact, hadn't she been there when she was reunited with Earth-2's Superman and Lois? If the circumstances had been different and they had been able to take her back to her world without consequence, Karen knows she would have taken it. ]

I was... I'm still [ she chews on her inner lip apprehensively ] worried [ she doesn't want to use "scared" ] that I'll lose everything I've gained.

I've already lost my universe's Superman. I just... wanted to belong somewhere.

[ Her shoulders fall and she withdraws in on herself, embarrassed at all to admit this much. ]

I have the JSA and work and others, but you're a big part of my new home.

And I want to be!

[He lifts her hand, reaching for her. He stops himself in time and aborts the motion, just letting the hand down with a sigh.]

I want to be a part of your home, because you're part of mine. It's not a competition, it's not a you or Kara, it's an and.

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