Kara shakes her head and gently waves off the offer. She can't get drunk, but whiskey has a nasty bite that isn't really worth it, in her opinion, if you can't feel it. If he'd offered her a bottle of red wine, she'd have downed the whole thing in one swig, though. Probably about the last thing she wants to hear is that the one thing that she thought really showed Mon-El had loved her might have also been a lie, and he'd told her many.
Her face falls as she looks back over at Dean, slack-jawed with unpleasant surprise at the potential that Dean could actually be right about that. "That is not helpful," she finally says a moment later, frowning. It is, but she's sure he knows what she means. Helpful, but not at all what she wants to hear.
"Yeah?" she asks, slightly comforted by the fact that she's not the only one. Sometimes she wishes she could ask Clark if he gets tired; if sometimes he might want more than Superman, but she always chickens out. She's supposed to be the older one. She's supposed to be the one who keeps him safe and takes care of him and her trip didn't work out that way. He grew up without her. He doesn't need her. She can't quite let go of the age difference being in her favor, even when it isn't, so asking him for advice feels wrong. Besides...she has a feeling he'd tell her that he doesn't; that Superman is everything he's ever wanted to be. "You feel like that about the hunting?"
Kara hates, by the way, that he calls it hunting because it sounds so sinister — so...Cadmus...— that way, but it is what it is. "Like maybe you want something more?" She sits up a little straighter. Dean has almost twenty years on her Earth age and he's given up his life to help people, not unlike she pretty much has. She just thought that with Mon-El, who had also started the hero thing, she could have the best of both worlds. She'd been wrong. But maybe it won't be so bad getting a little advice from Dean. He's more weathered when it comes to this sort of life; he's been doing it forever. Even if they were the same age, he'd have been doing it much, much longer, because she's only just begun. "What would you want your life to be like? I mean, if you didn't...know what you know about the world and if you weren't wired to protect people?"
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Her face falls as she looks back over at Dean, slack-jawed with unpleasant surprise at the potential that Dean could actually be right about that. "That is not helpful," she finally says a moment later, frowning. It is, but she's sure he knows what she means. Helpful, but not at all what she wants to hear.
"Yeah?" she asks, slightly comforted by the fact that she's not the only one. Sometimes she wishes she could ask Clark if he gets tired; if sometimes he might want more than Superman, but she always chickens out. She's supposed to be the older one. She's supposed to be the one who keeps him safe and takes care of him and her trip didn't work out that way. He grew up without her. He doesn't need her. She can't quite let go of the age difference being in her favor, even when it isn't, so asking him for advice feels wrong. Besides...she has a feeling he'd tell her that he doesn't; that Superman is everything he's ever wanted to be. "You feel like that about the hunting?"
Kara hates, by the way, that he calls it hunting because it sounds so sinister — so...Cadmus...— that way, but it is what it is. "Like maybe you want something more?" She sits up a little straighter. Dean has almost twenty years on her Earth age and he's given up his life to help people, not unlike she pretty much has. She just thought that with Mon-El, who had also started the hero thing, she could have the best of both worlds. She'd been wrong. But maybe it won't be so bad getting a little advice from Dean. He's more weathered when it comes to this sort of life; he's been doing it forever. Even if they were the same age, he'd have been doing it much, much longer, because she's only just begun. "What would you want your life to be like? I mean, if you didn't...know what you know about the world and if you weren't wired to protect people?"