The Park, Wednsday Evening

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It was warmer than it had been for a long time, so Clark was out for a walk, enjoying it.

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The Doctor just so happened to be out for a stroll as well.

"Well, fancy seeing you here," he said in greeting.

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"Hello Doctor." Clark said, remembering what Rose had told him about that man. "How are you this evening?"

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"Doing fairly well," the Doctor said. "I've been meaning to talk to you, I have."

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Clark smiled a bit at that. "Rose suggested I talk to you as well." he said.

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"Understand we have a few things in common, us," the Doctor said.

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Clark nodded. "Would you care for some cocoa?" he offered. Even though it was warm, he rarely went anywhere in winter without a thermos of cocoa.

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The Doctor gestured towards a bench, and sat down on it himself. "Would love a cup," he said. "Always nice, cocoa. Well, unless you're allergic, but thankfully I'm not."

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Clark sat and poured out some cocoa into the thermos cap for the Doctor. "Chicken soup and cocoa were my mothers favorite remedies." Clark said. "Not that I got sick much of course."

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"Your mother, eh?" the Doctor asked.

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"Well, I suppose if you want to be technical," Clark said. "She was my adoptive mother. But she's the one who raised me."

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"How old were you?" the Doctor asked. "When you came to Earth, I mean."

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I was a baby when my home planet, Krypton was destroyed." Clark said. "By the time my capsule reached earth, I was maybe, a year, a year and a half old."

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"Thank goodness for the kindness of strangers, eh?" the Doctor said.

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Clark smiled. "The Kents were very kind. Ma always said I was like an answer to their prayers. They'd always wanted a child."

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"Good for all of you, then," the Doctor said with a smile. "So how did you learn the name of your people and all that? Genetic knowledge?"

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"My father was a scientist." Clark said. "He encoded his own personality and knowledge into the crystals that made up the capsule. When I was 18 I activated in in Antartica. He told me all this."

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"Well, that's clever, that," the Doctor admitted. "Still, harsh, being all alone in the universe."

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"Even worse, the only other Kryptonians I've ever met tried to take over the world." It was the only time, and he hoped it would be the last time, that he'd ever killed anyone.

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"Ah, no how that goes, meeslf," the Doctor said. "Never is the nice ones that survive with you, is it?"

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"It doesn't seem so." Clark agreed. "How about you?"

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"Oh, been the last of my species for not too long, really," the Doctor said. "Planet ceasing to exist is a relatively new thing, in the cosmic scheme. I've had plenty of time with it around, really. It's a refreshing change. Not having it, I mean. Not a tragedy or anything."

Yeah. Which is why he was getting teary-eyed.

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And Clark of course didn't believe him for a second. "Ceased to exist?" Clark murmered, horrified.

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"War between two time travelling races," the Doctor said. "It becomes a sort of 'who can eliminate who first', in a much scarier, literal sense," the Doctor said.

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"My god." Clark said. "That's...that's insane."

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"Oh, we won, though," the Doctor said. "Sort of lost, too, all things considered."

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"I've never been able to understand this seemingly universal need to extinguish life."

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"Everything that lives must die," the Doctor said. "Time does that."

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"Then why does everyone seem to feel the need to speed up the process?"

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"Not everyone," the Doctor said. "Just a sadly very vocal and active few."

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Clark nodded with a rueful smile. "At least there's people like us to stop them?"

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"Exactly," the Doctor said. "That's the important thing, that."

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Clark was silent for a moment. "I never got a chance to know any of my people. Even my father's just a computer program now."

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"Your biological father, perhaps," the Doctor said. "Those people who raised you, possibly even more your parents. And you've still got them."

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Clark smiled. "That's true." he said. He decided not to mention the fact that Pa Kent had passed away years ago. "And you?"

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"I've got me," the Doctor said. "All I've ever really needed."

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Clark wasn't quite that independant, but he knew those who were. "That's a good person to have." he agreed.

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"Wouldn't know what to do if I lost myself, really," the Doctor said.

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"Start over as someone else?" Clark guessed. It seemed similar to what had happened to him just before he came here.

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The Doctor chuckled. "Something like that," he said.

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And Clark remembered meeting another version of him. "Oh that reminds me, I met, I believe it was an earlier version of yourself not too long ago."

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"There were more than a few of them running about, not too long ago," the Doctor said. "Which one was it?"

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"Uh, well he came with the school board, had a long scarf."