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He was kind of...in a tizzy, was a good expression for it. Not entirely unapproachable by anyone else, but something seemed to be on Jaime Reyes' mind as he stalked the halls, looking for a specific someone, before it was too late.

He only hoped he could convince her to not say anything and potentially mess up time and doom their world, but the problem was that she actually knew Superboy better than he did, had been a Titan before it all went to hell, and might not be willing to DO that...

"Thank you, Stacy. Thank you so much for your stupid time travel..."

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Speaking of Titans, someone was trying to get in a little practice with their stealth combat.

Mia jumped from around a corner, swinging her sheathed sword at Jaime's skull.

Bonk.

"Ow!"

Jaime staggered to the ground, starting to armor up, his arm turning into a somewhat frighting thing that was glowy and looked like it made things go 'boom' but as he saw who it was, he stopped, and called the armor off.

"What is your problem?!"

Mia shook her head and extended her hand to help him up, tapping the sheath against her shoulder. "Mostly? I get bored easily. But I could just have easily been that spider-y thing that caused that other incident. The ship itself may not be trying to kill us, but we still need to stay alert."

She helped him to his feet. "Call it a training exercise." Her expression softened. "Sorry if I hit you too hard... I thought your bug-thing would block it."

Crazy girls! All the Teen Titans girls were crazy girls! He was now convinced of this. Wonder Girl was...crazy. Ravager was borderline psychotic, and now he'd found Speedy was crazy, abushey too.

The only normal one was the Martian!

"I don't have my sensors right now! I'm not used to being blind yet." He prodded at his noggin. "I'm getting a bump and everything..."

Mia sighed and rolled her eyes. "Oh for pity's sake... c'mere..." She grabbed him by both sides of his head and pulled him down so she could look. "Not even bleeding." She gave the bump a gentle, doting kiss. "There, all better. I'm sorry I beat you up."

She let him go and gave him a once-over. "I mean... it's not as if you're in THAT bad shape. I figured you could have at least raised your arms in the way or something."

That was kinda cute. And made a little shiver go down his back...

Wait!

Rule seven! Rule seven!

It was weird, because he barely knew her, but they were already falling into patter like he and his friends talked. He could tell already they'd be good friends, just like he'd known within the first five minutes of talking to Paco and Brenda.

"I'm kinda crappy at fighting. I'm more a thinky kinda superhero," he said. "Back home, Robin's been training me like crazy to get me better at fighting. And usually the scarab's sensors could let me see your heart beating from around the corner--actually, it's just like in Predalien. I never had to worry much about someone sneaking up on me, but Stacy messes up Khaji's sensors so we had to shut them down. I got so used to them, to being able to see things like that, that now it's like I'm half-blind."

"Yeah well... sight is just ONE sense. You've got others. Listening. Feeling the thump in the floor as someone approaches. Air shifting once they're REALLY close." Mia told him, doing her very best to come across educating without condescending, just like Dinah.

"I know. I know. Robin's been tying to drill that into my head." A pause. "Appaaarently, not very succesfully."

Oh oh! Duh!

"Oh! I was looking for you anyway. See, uh, there's a big problem. a big, BIG problem."

"Well, it takes time." She rattled the sword on her shoulder. "I'll help."

She cocked an eyebrow. "What's up, bug?"

"Robin's here. In that most recent podpop. I asked Stacy and we're all from the same world. He's from before the Crisis."

A deep breath. "Superboy and Impulse are here too. That's bad. That's very bad."

Mia looked at him, curling up her face in contemplation. "But... doesn't that mean we could, y'know, warn them?"

"Now follow along what happens after. We warn Superboy what happens to him, he doesn't go to that big battle with the crazy Superboy, doesn't blow up that big machine that was, y'know, destroying the world, then me and you don't even exist to warn him in the first place...and then we have a grandfather paradox. Um, and our world dies. This is why I'm having something of a moral dilemma here, and we need to figure out how to handle it."

"Well... your bug is supposed to be really smart and stuff, right?" Mia pointed at his back. "Can't it work out all the what's and why's we need to go through. Give Boy of Steel a more detailed chain-of-events warning? I'm not really big on the whole 'accepting fate' thing."

Jaime shook his head. "I wasn't there. I was there for the Brother Eye thing, the scarab phased us to get us away from the Green Lanterns, so I was left there, and then I was stuck in the Bleed--the space between universes--and missed a whole year. Time dilation. Technically, I'm a year younger than the rest of the universe. So I have even less of an idea on how it all went down than you. I wasn't even in the same plane of existence when it all happened."

Mia tried to come up with a retort, but ended up just folding her arms across her chest. "Fuck..." She turned her head to the side, growling. "So we're supposed to just keep our mouths shut and let all the bad shit happen?"

"Yes, on the mouths shut. For now. I think. No on letting it happen." Jaime rubbed his chin. "We need some way of altering events without altering events. Like...okay, obviously Stacy can pull people from different places and times so we can go BACK to different places and times. We need some way of faking their deaths, maybe, so the rest happened the exact same way, but we've saved the real thems and can bring them back later. Maybe to when we go back."

He took a deep breath. "We have to be careful about telling them though. Robin...I think he'd do anything to prevent it from happening, and that could mess things up, and if we can't fix it--like there's no way to keep Superboy dying in that fight because it's just such a horrible fight or there's no other way he could've busted up that machine, then... I don't know. Is it better or worse for him to know, if it can't be changed, what's going to happen?"

Mia grumbles. "Stupid time travel...." She glanced at him. "You're sure we can't just say 'to hell with it' and try to fight the whole destiny crap? I hate the idea that my future's not my own... let alone the whole world."

"Well...there's fighting it. I agree with fighting it. But we have to fight it smart."

He frowned. "Hypothetical scenario. Superboy lives, also busts the machine but it's okay. Because of that, becaue everyone's not all messed up from losing friends, the Titans has a full roster, so they never ask me to come by. Then when the whole evil future Titans thing happened, I wasn't there to help free the Justice League, which leads to them managing to bring about their horrible dystopian future, which is basically ruled by Lex Luthor through them..."

He went on. "We don't have enough information. We have to make sure we can make it so everything that was supposed to happen, happens. Like all the things that saved people or the world. Even though a very important thing has been changed."

"...WHAT evil Titans thing?" Mia's left eyebrow went up. "I swear, no-one tells me anything ever since Connor and I went off to train." She huffed and rubbed her forehead.

"Aside from keeping shut-up about stuff for now, do we really need to work out all these details right this minute? I'm getting a headache just trying to sort it all out."

"No. But I figured warning you would be a good idea."

He fiddled with his hands.

"Also, I think I'm going to hell because I lied to Robin about it."

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Mia hesitated, then gave him a hug. "Bug... you don't need to carry the whole world for yourself. Especially not when it's who knows how many billions and billions of miles away." She let go and ruffled his hair.

"For now... let's just deal with the fact that we're on a giant fleshy ship, being tasked with some stuff, and we've gotta keep our mouths shut to a degree."

She paused, then, without any real force, kicked him in the shins. "And we seriously need to work on your guard reflexes."

Hugs were nice.

Hugs were very nice.

It was weird. It was weird how she acted like they were already friends, like she was already comfortable with him, but that fact sort of MADE him comfortable with it.

"Ow. You are a very violent lady," he said.

Then he asked. "Uh, are we friends? I kinda feel like we're almost friends already. Which is weird because I barely know you..." He gave her a little crooked smile. "But it's like how it is just makes me want to be friends with you."

If you asked Mia how she was like that, she'd simply tell you she was that damn awesome.

Right now though, trapped on an alien ship or not, she was freed. She didn't have to put on the brave face as she swallowed a cocktail of pills three or more times a day. She was free.

"I am a liberated woman." She smirked back at him.

"Yeah... yeah I think we're friends." She ruffled his hair again. "Deal with it."

"Okay, well, see, I like knowing my friends and stuff, so...d'you wanna hang out? We could go in the Sensorium and have it do cool stuff on random or something."

"What's the sensorium exactly?" She raised an eyebrow. She didn't like having the voice in her head, so she'd purposefully abstained from asking Stacy questions unless absolutely necessary. "I'm good with hanging out though."

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