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[Well, hello there. There’s a friendly face smiling at the network, nervously pushing his glasses up. He doesn’t seem to have any kind of trouble with the computers, but it’s obvious by the way he’s looking speaking to crowds (and he seems to consider whoever might be looking a ‘crowd’) isn’t really his thing.

Or that’s what he wants to make you believe, anyway. Clark Kent had always been the go to personality in case of kidnapping. He isn’t stupid enough to show where is he exactly living, but you get to see enough of his room to guess he’s in the water sector if you care enough to notice that kind of things. Seeing how calm and easy going the guy seems it shouldn’t come as a surprise.]

Um, hello. [A little friendly wave and a tilt of his head.] I’m not really sure if we’re supposed to-ah, introduce ourselves? I was told everything would be alright and everybody I’ve seen has been rather welcoming so far so I though… [He trails off, shrugging.] Call it farm-boy routine I guess.

Anyway, I’m Clark. Clark Kent. It’s a pleasure.

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I have a hard time believing anywhere we've been kidnapped to against our will could be 'safe', Clark. Keep that in mind.

[Farmboy naivety.]

Come on.

[And Bruce just leads the way to the door.]

I would have come helped them if they had asked anyway. And it's not like they have kidnapped Brainiac, or Lex or the Joker. Relax Bruce, they probably mean well.

[Nope not even Farmboys are this naive. He follows him, making sure to close the door behind them because he isn't that stupid thank you very much.]

Just because they haven't doesn't mean they won't. New people arrive every week, between Friday and Saturday.

[Telling him to relax is like telling Clark to stop being a Kryptonian, lbr. And if Clark is going to be so cavalier about it, Bruce has to be doubly on the alert.

It's not that he resents it. Clark's optimism is as much a part of him as the

he wears. Clark's optimism gives people hope when it's the scarcest available commodity. But Bruce is well aware that his job is quite the opposite.

He watches - mostly to make sure Clark's going to lock the door - before he continues on. But they're in public now, and publicly he's Bruce Wayne. The shift in his body language is subtle but present. It changes from a man who's confident because he can do anything to a man that's confident because he has everything. A fine line.]

[Clark does indeed lock the door because wouldn't you know? They have locks in Smallville too. And he's been living long enough in Metropolis to leave some of that farm-boy naivety behind. Really Bruce, he's not a kid.]

I have bee thinking about that, actually.

[He reaches for his glasses, pushing them up. He's really glad his actual human identity isn't supposed to be dumb or he doesn't know how he could handle some of these conversations without pulling his hair out.]

If we actually know the days people appear, maybe there's some way to... I don't know, find out how. You said some foreigners were metas, I'm sure we could patrol air, earth and water to check everywhere.

They can't just 'appear', right?

And if they're using a method of teleportation? If the ocean acts as an event horizon? It's not a bad plan, but you can't rule out the possibility that they do just appear.

[Clark's alternate persona may be intelligent, but while Bruce has been steadily working towards increasing his public image in the past few years, he's still seen as the profligate playboy. Here, at least, there's a malleable foundation to his public identity. No one yet who knows or can assume exactly how Bruce Wayne is supposed to act. So while his tone is light and airy, cavalier as anything, he's still being somewhat serious.

Because like it or not, they're still Superman and Batman discussing a mission. Like any other day of the week back home.]

[He knows Bruce is right, and he would be lying if he said he hadn't considered that before. Even in their world they have the Z-tubes, teleportation isn't unheard of.

But teleportation means they have nothing to do to stop it short of trying to guess what is causing it in the first place and try to guess when and where the next one will be. And that isn't an option Clark likes.]

Could we focus on that once we have ruled out the possibility that they do end getting thrown in here in some way? At least if that's the case we can actually do something about it.

You, Kent, are a damned optimist.

[It's one of the reasons he's friends with you, even though he'd never admit it.]

Flattery will get you nowhere, Mr Wayne.

[He grins innocently, then gives him a shrug] But I don't see how focusing in the scenarios where we can actually help is being optimistic. I'm not ruling the others out.

But I refuse to believe certain people have spent in here more than a single day and not come up with any plans to check what happens with all these appearances.

[By 'Certain people' he obviously means Bruce, and by 'people' he obviously means 'paranoid bat'.]

I bet you say that to all the billionaires of your acquaintance.

[...Actually, knowing Luthor...]

Hnn. Let's hope they're kind enough to share these details, then.

['Kind' and 'Batman' generally do not go hand in hand, except in the very rarest of occasions and to those that know him best.]

Only the ones who happen to be my boss as well.

[Don't worry B he likes you more than Luthor. He likes anyone more than Luthor though.]

Yes, let's hope. Like we can only hope there's someone stubborn enough to keep on checking everywhere as people appear even though he's been discouraged from it.

Edited (nomnom subject lines) 2012-09-12 22:15 (UTC)

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