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[have_no_mercy]

Tess should have been better prepared for this. But then, there's no handbook for what to do when the clone of your half-brother goes AWOL. Coming after her, she'd been expecting. Going after Lena... not so much. It's a hell of a time for her to start losing her edge.

None of that matters at the moment. All she's concerned about is Alexander, his gun, and how to get herself and Lena out of this apartment alive. He won't listen to her and she's beginning to think he's right. She did abandon him, didn't she? And he knows exactly how to get her back for it.

He won't listen, but maybe someone else will.

"Please," she whispers, "if you can hear me, help us."


[Posting order Zod, Clark, Tess]

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[kneel-majorzod.livejournal.com]

"And yet here I stand," he observes thoughtfully. "One might even think my presence was a welcome addition."

[have_no_mercy]

"You did add in an element of surprise neither of us was expecting," she agrees.

[kneel-majorzod.livejournal.com]

"Someone had to," is his simple, matter-of-fact response.

[have_no_mercy]

"Be a surprise?" She asks curiously.

[kneel-majorzod.livejournal.com]

He nods. "You were never meant for the mundane."

[have_no_mercy]

She rolls her eyes. "Sometimes I wish I had been."

[kneel-majorzod.livejournal.com]

Zod considers her skeptically. "I don't think you could do it, Tess."

[have_no_mercy]

"You should know better than to underestimate me, Major," she says, half amused.

[kneel-majorzod.livejournal.com]

"I also know you well enough to know you'd miss the thrill of being bombarded with the unexpected," he replies slowly, tilting his head at her. "Of, at any given time, being almost completely unaware of what's going to happen next."

[have_no_mercy]

"Would I?" She seems even more curious at this assessment. "Maybe I've had enough of the unexpected."

[kneel-majorzod.livejournal.com]

"And yet here I stand," he repeats, eyebrows raised.

[have_no_mercy]

"So you do," she replies softly, looking him over.

Then, after a pause of several moments, "Thank you."

[kneel-majorzod.livejournal.com]

He simply nods in response and, after watching her for another pause of equal length, steps toward the door.

"I hope your solution presents itself soon."

[have_no_mercy]

She offers a small, tired half-smile. "Me, too."

[kneel-majorzod.livejournal.com]

And with that, without another look back and in the goodbye-less manner that seems to be becoming customary to them, he takes his leave.