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Date: 2018-11-03 12:55 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] crisised
[ kara's quiet for a long moment, looking out over the city. she's apologized and is okay if damian doesn't accept that. (though she really would like it if he did.) there's not much else for her to say. except-- ]

You said I was "practically family." [ her voice is quieter than it was a second ago. ] I don't... I don't think you realize how much that sort of thing means to me. Even if you just meant it in a "history of working closely with each other's families" way. Even if you take it back.

[ she is so desperately lonely sometimes and damian, with his knowledge of her mother tongue and the kind way he's treated her in the past, offered her a kind of connection she hasn't had in. a long while. she doesn't want to lose that. ]

Date: 2018-11-03 01:32 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] crisised
[ the more he explains, the paler and more horrified kara looks. ]

Oh, Rao. Damian, if I'd had any idea... [ she wouldn't have said anything. ] That's awful. [ and. it's familiar in a terrible way.

kara bites her lower lip and looks down at her knees. now she knows why that hurt so much. why an apology and a statement of ignorance probably won't help any. but she gives another, and a little of her own hurts to try and balance the scale a bit. ]


My mother--she was a little like that. She blamed me for my father's death and really only valued me as a tool she could use. It's not the same. I know that. But it gives me a little bit of an idea of how much that must have hurt and--god. I'm so sorry.

Date: 2018-11-03 02:28 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] crisised
That's bullshit, all of it, and you know it.

[ harsh words, but her tone is just tired at this point. ]

It does matter, I do know you a little even if you don't like it, and none of us had anything well in hand. That was a complete mess on all our parts.

Date: 2018-11-03 02:31 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] crisised
You really think that wouldn't have ended in more sniping on both your parts?

Date: 2018-11-03 02:34 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] crisised
[ she just... squints at him. ]

Yeah, kneeing him in the balls is a real big threat when he beat me pretty easily when we sparred.

Date: 2018-11-03 02:38 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] crisised
What? [ she looks genuinely confused. ] Kal would never-- [ wait. alternate universe. and there was that time he threatened to strangle artemis when he was being protective of kara. so maybe he would. ] I would never do anything serious to Jason. I like him, even though he's an ass.

Date: 2018-11-03 02:45 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] crisised
I don't have the strength to hurt him unintentionally. Unless you mean emotionally, but that would take a lucky shot.

[ she looks away and runs a hand over her close-cropped hair. ]

Even when I did have my strength and unintentionally hurt people, it was never more than broken bones. I've never killed anyone, [ except for lucy lane that one time, and she came back ] or done any permanent damage.

Date: 2018-11-03 03:05 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] crisised
Alright. I'll lay off him.

[ they've already kind of sniped at each other in private anyway so it's more or less a moot point. but she wants to reassure damian. ]

Date: 2018-11-03 03:08 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] crisised
I'll try.

[ if she sees him being a little shit again, she's gonna call him out. she'll just. do it more privately next time. ]

Are we... okay?

Date: 2018-11-03 03:13 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] crisised
[ she flinches. ]

That's not--!

[ protesting probably won't help will it? and this is his decision. so kara just... slumps and looks away. she probably should've anticipated this, really. everyone always leaves at some point. he's just. doing it sooner than most. ]

Date: 2018-11-03 03:26 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] crisised
[ well. it's a good thing she was turning towards him when she got startled because it means she stumbles onto the roof instead of off it. ]

Damian!

[ instinct has her up and rushing towards him, hands reaching to grab his-- ] Ow! [ right. no more super durability. kara ignores her palms smarting and starts talking fast. ]

I know you're pissed at me, and I'm not going to say you don't have a right to be right now, but I need you to breathe and calm down before you burn off all your clothes.

Date: 2018-11-03 03:35 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] crisised
It's okay, you're okay.

[ she has no idea that he's worried for her. in her mind, everyone sees her as the girl of steel first and foremost. even if she's powerless, a little fire is something she's supposed to be able to handle. ]

Just breathe, Damian. In for four, hold it, out for seven. This is part of you; you can control it.

[ these are things she's had said and taught to her. lessons she never thought she'd be passing on. ]

Date: 2018-11-03 03:42 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] crisised
[ there's a moment of stunned silence but then kara jumps right back into it. ]

I'm not! I'm all the way over here. [ she takes a step back to prove her point. ] Now will you listen to me? I know a thing or two about dealing with new powers. Panicking is going to make it worse.

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