{ Getting to know you

[iamsupergirl]

Who: Kara, Savitar, and Bart
What: Everything Savitar Hates
When: Whenever nowish is?
Where Savitar's Apartment, then other places

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It's not weird.

It's not weird.



It's not weird. It's not.





Kara raises her hand and knocks on Savitar's door.

(Oh, Rao.)

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[kid_flash_found]

"You never had to deal with the monster who used that name on my Earth," Bart said, scowling. "I'm not calling you after that insane cult leader. He killed Max."

It was never going to not be a sticking point. "I think I'm allowed a little bitterness."

[iamsupergirl]

And all of the sudden she has no clue what any of the things the younger boy is saying are. It's a complete one-eighty from all the raucous jokes and levity bouncing everywhere, into sudden compete seriousness. Defensive on one side and certain on both side.

"Who's a cult leader?" Is not a question she saw herself needing to ask suddenly. Especially not on top of what murderer. Or murder. Or. She doesn't even know. That's kind of the point now. "And, who is Max?"

[vivifier]

"It's my name." It's rather a sticking point with Savitar as well, given he's spent how long trying to be not Barry Allen. "I don't go around telling you that 'Kid Flash' is Wally West."

[kid_flash_found]

"That I can't use without seeing the guy who used the closest thing I had to a father after Wally cut and left me with him for a meat-suit," Bart said. "Max was the only family I had, and Savitar killed him. Savitar siphoned the Speed Force into his followers, draining it away, and used all of it against us. And you choose to wear that name."

He didn't like the whole thing, and he'd said that. "It's too much."

[iamsupergirl]

Not that either of them is actually talking to to her anymore, but at least that whole last part helped fill in some gaps. If the first surprise that seems to hit her is that he exists in other worlds, too? Not just this one pocket of Barry's made and then changed time he was describing the first time?

"You're still here," Kara says, after those last words. A contradiction, but soft. Sympathetic and uncertain if she has any right to point that out to Bart, when she doesn't know the whole of what sounds like a terrible line of events with a person who isn't the person in the room, but has the same name. Something she's had recent enough experience with, too. If not exactly.

"Even with all of that, and what you said earlier, you're still here. So, maybe it isn't entirely?"

[vivifier]

"I choose to wear that name because it's my name. I don't tell you not to call yourself Bart because it's too similar to Barry Allen. I don't know any of those people." He's not unsympathetic towards Bart, but it took years to carve out his new identity.

And here they go with Bart and Ray and Felicity and who even knows who else trying to ping away at it.

[kid_flash_found]

"Because it is Bartholomew Henry Allen, Pops. Another legacy. I'm not saying you don't get to be...that. But don't expect me to be using that name if there's an alternative," Bart said, just that simply. "And Wally left that mantle behind for anyone to pick up. Maybe sometime I'll tell you the shit he said about me wearing it."

He stops, taking a deep breath, trying to center himself before more things react than just his pulse. He can't afford to get mad. "I thought we were going shopping. I could use some stuff for my place, too. Not sure how many of the other rooms to furnish, really."

[iamsupergirl]

It might be becoming a little frustrating to be completely ignored, except that this really does seem like their thing. Even if she's getting the fact, easily, at this point, that it's not fair to either of them and both of them are being unfair to each other at the same time about it. Which, maybe, is obvious because she's not being involved in it and hasn't known any of it until right at this moment?

"Have either of you thought about, maybe--" She looks between them, as she finally heads toward the door and Bart there, to head out into the city. Because that whole plan hasn't changed in the slightest for her. "--trying to come to a compromise on this whole name calling thing?"

[vivifier]

He moves to follow Kara because apparently this 'shopping' thing is something that's happening, no matter what. Resistance is futile. "I already told Felicity and Ray that people can call me Sam. But I guess that's not good enough either."

[kid_flash_found]

"Grumpa Sam, sure," Bart agrees, going back to the previous topic as if nothing had gotten all emotional. He glances at Kara. "Tell me he's not totally a 'Grumpa?'"

He starts out, because, really, shopping can be fun. He remembered more than a few shopping trips with the Titans, the ones that didn't get interrupted by bad guys.

"And you want me to stop calling me that, pick something that reflects at least one major visible wavelength of light instead of absorbing it all."

[iamsupergirl]

Kara's not sure she has an opinion on that, which might show while she's following Bart out down the hallway and away from the barren apparent. He is more caustic than she quite knows what to do, and maybe that lends to grumpy-ish as a term, but she's, also, not there to joke about it or saddle someone she doesn't know with something as though she does. Especially not when it's incredibly clear he doesn't like it.

Instead, what she actually does is ask him. "Do you want me to call you that?"

Neither name has more or less value or placement in her world yet, and it is his name.

[vivifier]

If they think he's grumpy now, just wait. Just. Wait.

He doesn't say anything to Bart, but he does look to Kara. "Just don't call me Barry." Apparently, he'll give her more leeway than he'll give Bart or Barry or Joe West.

But she is Kara Danvers, after all. Not even he wants to upset her.

[kid_flash_found]

"We could go with Shirley. Or Late-for-Dinner," Bart suggests, teasing still.

[iamsupergirl]

He's going to take a little bit to adjust to, isn't he?
There's a sideways look toward Savitar-or-Sam at that.
Or. Well. Maybe they both are. This whole thing all around is.



She settles instead for something otherwise still important but not respect avoiding, from the one side near her in the hallways, or deeply unspecific, on the other side of her. "I think we should start at the Bath & Beyond over by the Windsor Castle."

[vivifier]

And he'll do a double take on that. "Sure. I mean, why wouldn't there be a home store by Windsor Castle?"

This world is definitely going to need adjustment.

[kid_flash_found]

"Have you seen my place? It's supposed to be in San Francisco Bay," Bart points out. "And I'm the only one there."

He shrugs a little. "I saw hot dog vendors on the Great Wall the other day."

[iamsupergirl]

"Oooh, hot dogs." Could she sound more interested?
Maybe not. "We should get something to eat, too."


It's been at least half an hour. It's totally time.

[vivifier]

"Pizza would be better." Than hot dogs, he means.

[kid_flash_found]

"Are you against hot dogs? What's wrong with you?" Bart had to ask. "They're a nice, portable snack. Pizza tends to be a little slippy sometimes. Especially New York pizza."

But yes, he's totally seconding the food. "I'm always hungry, just so you know."

[iamsupergirl]

"Or we could have both. And, me, too," Kara adds easily enough.
"I haven't really had time to look through all the restaurants yet."

She's usually pretty busy with the whole task of helping report on anything that looks like it's gone or come in from as high as anyone around here can get.

[vivifier]

Savitar pauses. "Hot dog stuffed crust pizza?" If that doesn't exist, he'll honestly be angry.

[kid_flash_found]

"That sounds disgusting," Bart said, making a face. "I never got the idea behind messing with pizza."

[iamsupergirl]

"It exists," Kara says, throwing the words over Bart toward Savitar. Or Sam. Or Savitar. That's going to have to be a thing she figures out. It gets a flicker of uncertainty wobbled in her smile, but the smile tries not to flag. Looking between the two of them. "On my Earth, at least. I don't know about here."

"I love pizza. It's one of my favorite foods." Reason to enough to have found the oddest and most interesting things people could do to pizza in a city sometimes. "They're bound to have something around here, right?"

[vivifier]

"We could get the kind with hamburger patties on it as a topping." Sorry Bart, but he kind of hopes you hate that too. He's...not entirely nice. SORRY.

[kid_flash_found]

"Meatballs are more likely to cook evenly, though," Bart points out, frowning. "It's, um, just not really worth it to me to mess with one of the best foods ever invented. Well, maybe when you do the white pizza or like a barbecue pizza. But trying to mix two perfectly good foods together just because you can? Ugh."