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[Clark will be walking around today, getting acquainted with the building again. Everything's the same... yet different. When you spend almost a year outside you tend to fill your memories with a few touches of your imagination. He goes to the cafeteria, the training room, his own room... he touches the walls every now and then, he's
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[Now Conner looks up at him. It's eerie and fascinating how their eyes are the same color, for some reason that Conner can't put his finger on. To think he's this man's clone... his purpose...
The muscle in his cheek flexes and he looks away.]
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...I understand if you do not want to, and I won't force anything... but I'd like to get to know you. To start... afresh. [He sighs and runs a hand through his hair]
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Conner stares up at him. There's a small bit of awe in his expression and yet at the same time he's not so sure if he can trust him. What if this Superman turns around and doesn't want to bother like the other? Either way, it's both pleasing and intimidating that this Superman really wants to know him. Him, Conner, a clone born in a containment pod underground in Cadmus.]
Start... afresh? Uhm. Okay... sure.
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Kal-El, last scion of the house of El. Last son of Krypton... at least until now.
[He knows it isn't going to be easy. If being a clone was hard enough, the boy looked so... hesitant, so unsure. He didn't want to say 'scared' but it was close. He wasn't sure how another version of himself could be so careless and cause so much trouble to a little boy...]
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...Conner Kent. Or... Superboy.
Does... that also make me a son of Krypton?
[It has to. In fact Conner never knew Superman had the name Kal-El... he recently just found out through Damian that he was known as Clark Kent. Huh.]
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[He shakes Conner's hand, smiling slightly at how he doesn't even seem to know what to do with his hand] You might not have been born in there, but you've my... DNA in you. [It still feels weird to say that, to even think about it... Clark guesses it will never really stop feeling that way.]
You've got Kryptonian in you.
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The other... you, he never told me this. I had always thought...
[Conner felt like he had known about the Kryptonian being a clone of the Superman but at the same time... he wasn't exactly sure.]
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