*The JSA Brownstone*

[doctorfatejsa]

The building feels his coming first. The temperature seems to drop for a moment, the walls quiver and the lights flash and dim.

He appears in the foyer, amid his colleauges, energy crackling off his skin.

"Where is my father," he says.

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"Hector...." Ma, her eyes reddened with tears, approaches him first.

[doctorfatejsa]

The aura of rage radiating around him is almost palpable. He flinches as she moves toward him.

He doesn't want to be touched. Not just yet.

"Ma," he says, is voice coming back under control. "I need ... I need to see his body. It's imperative."

[jla_extras]

"But you just--" Slowly she nods. "All right, Hector. He's this way." Turning carefully, as if she is having to remember how to move, she leads him to the JSA infirmary, where his father's head lies.

[doctorfatejsa]

Fate strides behind her. The world seems to be moving in slow motion around him -- everything seems strange and unfamiliar. He's been down this road too many times. He's lost him too many times.

"How long. How long has he been dead?"