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[isitablurred]

Clark Kent here. Leave a message after the beep and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

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Regarding the day's news:

[kingofrooks]

Receiving: audio message

Whatever you're planning, don't.

[isitablurred]

We already covered the whole idiot angle. The point is we've played chicken with LuthorCorp long enough to know that at the slightest hint that something will go missing, it suddenly becomes unfindable. I don't know how things are in Gotham--maybe you just leave precious things sitting around and wait for the thieves to prove they're a little smarter than you are. But that's not the way we do things.

If it disappears, we might not get another chance.

[kingofrooks]

[ ... Is he psychic. What does he know about the Batman of his world- damnit, this is why he hates talking to Clark sometimes. Why does he know Bruce too well?

(No, he doesn't let things be stolen by thieves. Just one particular thief, with a name with starts with S and ends with -elina.) ]

I'm not disputing that.

I'm disputing the 'we'. [ Pause. ] I'm not going to repeat m whole argument, Kent.

[isitablurred]

And I'm not repeating mine. So either we're fighting alone against a united enemy, or we're united--in which case you can meet me in the alley.

We're not arguing about this.

[kingofrooks]

Almost seventeen years younger and you're still the same. [ Is that a tiny bit of amusement. ]

Half an hour after the sirens.

[isitablurred]

[Almost feels like a victory, but he knows that's yet to come.]

See you then.

[And he hangs up. See? You can have a whole conversation with Batman so long as you're prepared to phone him back when he has a strop.]