[Clark had patiently waited for the other shoe to drop the moment Hal had called him.
It wasn't that he never hung out with the man, or that they didn't spend time together. Especially now that the hero:civilian ratio was almost event and they didn't have to run every time there was a catastrophe, or that Hal didn't have to go back to the Guardians every Tuesday. But he wasn't so blind, he knew the difference between hanging out and... "hanging out", and it was obvious something was bothering Hal enough to need an ear to talk to.
As soon as he speaks, the reason is clear.]
Is he? [He must have missed it. And he knows it's almost impossible to miss a certain man as he yells around about poverty... which means this man wasn't yelling. Which means, it wasn't their Ollie.
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It wasn't that he never hung out with the man, or that they didn't spend time together. Especially now that the hero:civilian ratio was almost event and they didn't have to run every time there was a catastrophe, or that Hal didn't have to go back to the Guardians every Tuesday. But he wasn't so blind, he knew the difference between hanging out and... "hanging out", and it was obvious something was bothering Hal enough to need an ear to talk to.
As soon as he speaks, the reason is clear.]
Is he? [He must have missed it. And he knows it's almost impossible to miss a certain man as he yells around about poverty... which means this man wasn't yelling. Which means, it wasn't their Ollie.
Hm.]
Is he very different?