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[damaged]

You couldn't be more wrong. Sending me somewhere would be a very worthwhile enterprise. I make friends everywhere I go.

And bodies, sure. But it's for a good cause.

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[donna_troy]

So how do I know you're not lying about that?

[C'mere Jason, you're getting Donna hugged. She does it. It's her thing.]

Good to see you too.

[damaged]

[Hhh. He seems ambivalent about it — not pulling away, only a halfhearted twitch that will pass as returning the gesture, and not stiff but not exactly responsive either. Jason's a long way from Countdown.]

Well, I've heard stories about the lasso...

[donna_troy]

[She knwe him younger than this, back when he actually gave her the pep talk, and nearly froze his buns off on those short pants. She doesn't particularly care when he's from because she knows who he is inside.]

I don't do that to friends and people I care about. So I'm going to go out ona limb here and trust you.

[damaged]

A very superhero thing to do.

[It's not necessarily critical; his neutral tone doesn't give much away.]

[donna_troy]

Has nothing to do with heroics, it has to do with the fact that I care about you.

Believe it or not a lot of people do.

[Of course in that group are a fair few asses she'd like to kick for things they allowed to happen too.]

[damaged]

[The set of his mouth suggests this line of conversation isn't welcome. Had someone else brought it up — Dick, for instance, they can never seem to help themselves — his reaction would be a lot uglier.]

Good to know.

[donna_troy]

But given your expression you aren't up for that kind of talk so... when exactly are you from? What is the last thing you remember?

[damaged]

[He doesn't seem very enthusiastic about this line of conversation either, but it's a far less tense topic.]

Nothing big enough that you'd know about it. Just out seeing the world.

[donna_troy]

Ok, well...you get to be a better conversationalist in the future, if it means anything.

[Yeah, she doesn't want to leave you be Jason, but she knows you well enough to know that pushing you is the last way to get you to do anything.]

Anything you need or want to know?

[damaged]

Wow, I'm alive?

[What a good joke.]

[donna_troy]

Well I haven't killed you yet.

[Oh Jason, she's gotta ruffle your hair, just because.]

You're a serious player where I come from, in the saving the universe sense.

[damaged]

[This time, there's a token sort of exasperation, the sense that he held in a sigh.]

Sounds dull. Might as well put him out of his misery.

[donna_troy]

[Fine, she'll just fold her arms and lean back against the wall.]

I can't, I like him and I've gotten used to him. Besides I don't know that many people who have the nerve to name a Monitor "Bob."

[damaged]

Have you tried Craigslist?

[donna_troy]

Something like : Wanted; cute guy with more balls than brains, willing to go toe to tow with cosmic beings and laugh int he face of impending nonexistence. Good with Amazons a plus.

Somehow I don't think that's going to net me a lot of responses.

[damaged]

You should try spreading some of those qualities out around your friends. A few here, a few there, and you'll have the net equivalent of me, without the poor decision making.

[donna_troy]

But they wouldn't be you. And you are someone that I have a vested interest in.

Sorry Jason, I care an I know your history. I know you've made choices and sometimes you had no choice things were just put on you. It's nobodies place to make value judgments based on anyone elses life.

Sometimes... sometimes you have to do what people consider the wrong things for the right reasons. It's why you were one of the only people who could save everything.

[damaged]

That's a nice outlook. How long do you think you can keep it up?

[donna_troy]

...till it kills me.

[damaged]

Given your record and the general superhero lifestyle, that could be a pretty accurate assessment.

[donna_troy]

I'm fairly sure it is. More sure of that than my being a 'superhero.' I don't think the universe has entirely determined what I am yet.