[Hayley will be encrypting that, thank you, but she faces him with the video and a dose of attitude.]
Overreact much? Zatanna's older than me, so your whole 'little girl' argument doesn't really mean a whole lot. Besides, she's equally to blame and me trying to rain on her parade doesn't mean you don't get your own storm.
[She sighs, pauses, and her voice softens to something more genuine as she continues.]
I didn't say it to your face because one, I didn't remember how I died the last time we talked and two, you're not gallivanting around playing an elf and trying to bring Christmas cheer like it never happened.
You know what I meant. Your age and hers- what matters if that you decided to make her feel like dirt when she was just trying to have some fun, joke around, spend some quality time with a friend. You know, things teenagers do?
[He seems completely unfazed by her accusations towards him. He knows it's his fault, he should have noticed earlier. He should have been more careful about who got his powers. But accusing Zatanna? Of limits.]
You're not the only one who's died in this place, or the first one to do so. It does not give you a blank card to pull a Christmas Carol and fill everyone with guilt. She's looking for the killer, we all are, and breathing on her neck for dressing up as an elf isn't going to help us find him faster.
Correction: Things normal teenagers do. She's not a normal teenager and this isn't anything like a normal situation anyway. If she wants to have some fun, she should do it when there's not a manhunt.
And newsflash? I may not be the first to die, but this is the first one who killed multiple people and was never found despite tons of people allegedly looking for him. So I'll go ahead and keep playing Scrooge McDuck if it means that maybe- maybe he'll be caught any faster. Because I don't want it to happen again to someone else.
Yes, because that's how it works. The victims keep on pressuring the law officers when they are having their private lives. You're alienating the people who're trying to help out because you think we aren't working fast enough.
If you want protection ask for it. If you want vengeance say it out loud. If you think I'm guilty then I'm here for you to tell me, to my face. But you won't be telling me anything I don't already know.
If a cop was used to break the law, then yeah, he doesn't deserve a personal life until it's fixed either. So yeah, I want them to feel guilty for being slow. Because they're responsible- you're responsible for part of it.
[She sighs.] It's not really your business what I want and if I have to tell you how to feel, then that kind of defeats the point.
Either help or don't, "Superman," but don't try to make me feel bad for not wanting it to happen again.
I'm not trying- [A frustrated growl as he reaches to pinch the bridge of his nose. Remember Steph, he tells himself, remember what she said about yelling and trying to force one's opinion on others. He's just so used to people at least considering Superman's opinion simply because it's... well, Superman's, that it really doesn't sit well when someone doesn't.]
I just don't think what you told her was fair. You don't see Mr Stark going off at people for having fun.
Or.. I could tell you whatever I want and still criticize her. Although, newsflash? Been there, done that, and really no reason to do it again anytime soon.
I respect you for sticking up for your... whatever she is to you, but we're just going to have to agree to disagree on this one. [A pause, then with an intentionally dramatic flair.] Unless that's not allowed. Are all ways the Supes' ways?
[He clenches a fist, out of the camera's view. That's one of Luthor's most used come backs against him and it's not true, he knows it isn't true, he's never forced his opinion on people.
But maybe that was because he never had to, back at home.]
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Overreact much? Zatanna's older than me, so your whole 'little girl' argument doesn't really mean a whole lot. Besides, she's equally to blame and me trying to rain on her parade doesn't mean you don't get your own storm.
[She sighs, pauses, and her voice softens to something more genuine as she continues.]
I didn't say it to your face because one, I didn't remember how I died the last time we talked and two, you're not gallivanting around playing an elf and trying to bring Christmas cheer like it never happened.
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[He seems completely unfazed by her accusations towards him. He knows it's his fault, he should have noticed earlier. He should have been more careful about who got his powers. But accusing Zatanna? Of limits.]
You're not the only one who's died in this place, or the first one to do so. It does not give you a blank card to pull a Christmas Carol and fill everyone with guilt. She's looking for the killer, we all are, and breathing on her neck for dressing up as an elf isn't going to help us find him faster.
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And newsflash? I may not be the first to die, but this is the first one who killed multiple people and was never found despite tons of people allegedly looking for him. So I'll go ahead and keep playing Scrooge McDuck if it means that maybe- maybe he'll be caught any faster. Because I don't want it to happen again to someone else.
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If you want protection ask for it. If you want vengeance say it out loud. If you think I'm guilty then I'm here for you to tell me, to my face. But you won't be telling me anything I don't already know.
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[She sighs.] It's not really your business what I want and if I have to tell you how to feel, then that kind of defeats the point.
Either help or don't, "Superman," but don't try to make me feel bad for not wanting it to happen again.
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I just don't think what you told her was fair. You don't see Mr Stark going off at people for having fun.
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I respect you for sticking up for your... whatever she is to you, but we're just going to have to agree to disagree on this one. [A pause, then with an intentionally dramatic flair.] Unless that's not allowed. Are all ways the Supes' ways?
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But maybe that was because he never had to, back at home.]
Goodbye, Hayley. [Click.]