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[girod]

You've reached Clark Kent. I'm not here right now, unfortunately. Please leave a message after the tone and I'll get back to you as soon as possible. Thanks!

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[knightbynight]

Superman isn't a hammer - or a sword. Plowshare, maybe, if you want to stretch the parable to the absolute breaking point.

Re: Text, un: B

[girod]

Hammers can be used to build things. Or forge things.

You always called me an architect.

Re: Text, un: B

[knightbynight]

I'm going to miss parts of this place.

Like this.

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[girod]

The two of us being able to talk frankly like this?

Re: Text, un: B

[knightbynight]

I think being able to here is more about me than you, but yes.

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[girod]

It doesn't matter if it's me or you, B. And maybe we can work on it when we get home.

Re: Text, un: B

[knightbynight]

No thank you. I'm afraid of Lois.

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[girod]

Anyone in their right mind knows she's a force to be reckoned with.

But I don't see what that has to do with anything.

Re: Text, un: B

[knightbynight]

Yes, you do.

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[girod]

I see what you think is a problem.

But I don't think you're thinking this through.

Which is a unique problem to have with you.

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[knightbynight]

I am absolutely thinking it through!

[Over thinking through to incorrect conclusions, though.]

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[girod]

If you were thinking about it, you'd have talked to me first.

Re: Text, un: B

[knightbynight]

I'm trying to talk to you about it!

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[girod]

No, you're trying to argue me down. Talking about it doesn't start with a foregone conclusion.

Bruce. Please.

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[knightbynight]

Tell me what you're thinking, then, and what you think is obvious that I missed.

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[girod]

First of all: do you want to have this discussion like this?

[ Read: do you need the distance and the ability to pause or do you want me in person to yell gesture dramatically give low-voiced one liners talk with? ]

Re: Text, un: B

[knightbynight]

I'd prefer this.
[And you asking that is confirmation of several of the many reasons he loves you.]

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[girod]

All right, then here's what I'm thinking:

This isn't Vegas.

And what's happening here isn't something I intend to just jam in a closet like it didn't happen when I get home. That isn't honest or fair, to you or I or Lois.

Did it happen because of extraordinary circumstances? Yes. But that's the vast majority of things that happen in our lives.

Re: Text, un: B

[knightbynight]

We aren't from the same point in the timeline, Clark.

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[girod]

And?

When has my word or your word not been enough?

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[knightbynight]

to each other, or at all?

[Because he's failed plenty.

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[girod]

To each other.

And eventually, one or the other will remember.

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[knightbynight]

There wouldn't be much to miss, if I didn't remember.

I'm still afraid of Lois.

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[girod]

Lois believes in truth.

The whole truth and nothing but the truth.

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[knightbynight]

The truth existed before we were here.
[He has loved you for a long time, Clark. He'll be doing that forever, no matter what happens here or after it.]