A different world (for Taylor)

[shahrrehth]

There’s any number of worlds where the last son of Krypton lands in a relatively mundane world, or a world with a few heroes. But it just so happens that the last daughter of Krypton lands in Kansas on a world full of other heroes. And that changes the course of things. It’s why the Kent’s don’t stay in Smallville, why they end up in Brockton Bay, because it’s easier to Hide in a crowd. And that is why on the first day of school for a particularly important year in Taylor Herbert’s life, that she’ll walk into her class to see a pretty girl in a sundress being introduced to the class as their new transfer student.

And since there’s no one with a last name starting in J, Clara is told to take the seat beside Miss Herbert. She’ll start with a bright memory…

…two idiots meet in a bar

[epistemological]

In another universe, Daniel Jacobi meets Warren Kepler in a bar on the second anniversary of his life falling apart. But in this universe, Daniel’s attention is grabbed by something, or someone rather, within the bar well before Kepler would show his face.

Because there’s a guy at the bar who looks like death warmed over talking to a tape recorder like it’s a particularly annoying little sibling that won’t play with its own friends. The fact that he blinks and looks over towards Jacobi at one point before clearly shaking it off and going back to his drink…

Probably nothing.