Seventh Flight - Video

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[Even the glasses can't hide the sadness behind them. Clark is quiet when the video feed comes on, and his eyes only briefly flicker toward the video. He twists his hands together in front of him, anxiously.]

I don't know if it's just me, but--

[The hands unknot and then Clark raises one to the back of his head, rubbing at his neck.How do you go

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[thelittlestbub]

[Jubilee knows that feeling. And she's going to be carefully sympathetic.]

Sometimes, you can't heal it, Clark. You have to wait for the other person to be ready to meet you half way. If you're already there, then... the best you can do is tell them you're there, if they ever need you.

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What if they don't want to hear it, and the very act of you being there for them is what's driving them further away?

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[thelittlestbub]

Then you back off and be there for them at a distance. Sometimes, people have to get their own heads straight. Hopefully, for them it doesn't take almost two years in an alternate dimension, but I've never claimed to not be thick headed.

[Yeah, someone's got her head on a bit straighter these days.]

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[Hopefully it doesn't take two years. Two years would be nice. He thinks on Lex, reflects on the victory in Jason's eyes. Easier topic:]

You, Jubilee?

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[ysobritish]

I'm not the best person to talk about relationships, but unfortunate as it is, you can't help someone who refuses to be helped. All you can do is try to make it clear that you're trying to make up for whatever it was that shattered the trust.

However, nothing lasts forever. Friends and allies break apart all of the time. So it may just be a case of letting it go.

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[He's right, of course, but the situation is full of snarls and pitfalls. He loses the moment he stops trying.]

And if by letting go, you're just another person who gave up on them? I'll just be the last in a long line of people who didn't try hard enough.

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[ysobritish]

Some people are hopeless.

With that said, if you're idealistic enough to keep trying, good on you. Stubbornness may win through. The problem will be keeping that motivation up during it. Because if you're trying to repair a relationship that broken, it's going to take plenty of time. And you may not see results during most of it. Do you have it in you to keep trying hard as long as it takes?

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I'm a reporter.

[As though that answers everything. Idealistic, check. Stubborn, check. Motivated, check. Patient, check. He would never give up.]

And my parents taught me never to give up on anyone.

[Not true. He gave up once. Of course that person had turned his girlfriend into a living, breathing piece of Kryptonite.]

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[kingofrooks]

Hey, Clark. Tell me something.

Are all the guys from Metropolis as sensitive and in touch with his inner self as you?

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That depends on if 'sensitive' is a code word for something.

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[kingofrooks]

It's a code word for whining.

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Ouch. What's the rest of it a code word for?

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[dancing_pierrot]

You make them want a part of it. [There's an unspoken obviously on the end of that statement.]

But honestly, what kind of advice are you looking for with such a general hypothesis?

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Make them? How?

Well I was thinking more of - other people sharing their experiences, rather than me going too deep into it. I don't want to endanger any hope we might have by gossipping about it.

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[dancing_pierrot]

'Hope'? Is that to imply that this matter is of the romantic variety? Nonetheless, by the very nature of the terminology, you cannot make someone forgive themselves. If they refuse to speak with you because of some misplaced sense of guilt, then they are all the more fool for it.

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Oh, it's... Romantic? No. Did it sound like that?

[Flustered.]

And if the guilt isn't misplaced? What if they should be guilty, but that guilt doesn't change the fact that they're forgiven for what they did?

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[under_thehood]

And here I hoped it meant you wouldn't talk to me anymore.

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You didn't get so far as to actually cut out my tongue. I'm grateful for that, even if you're not.

I'm not sure it would have grown back, Kryptonian or not.

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[under_thehood]

Let's get one thing straight here: I don't want or need your forgiveness. I stabbed you, that should be a pretty clear indicator of what I think of you.

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[isitablurred]

My forgiveness doesn't come with prerequisites, Jason. You can't choose whether or not you have it, you just do.

Plenty of people have shot, stabbed, even killed me. If I didn't forgive at least some of them, I wouldn't have any friends left.