Any of my friends whether you know the superhero world or not, whether you're writers or not (and actually non-writers are more helpful) lend me your thoughts on where to go from here...what to expand upon.
Jeremiah Danvers: Okay son, I do not think I have seen that look on your face, ever. Tell me what is the matter.
Superman: Nikita says to apologize to you, she wasn't able to keep her promise.
Jeremiah Danvers: I don't understand she never promised me anything. Any promise she had the chance to make in the time we knew each other she has undoubtedly kept."
Superman aka Elias Danvers: She called me by my birth-name when she first saw me, staring at the symbol on my chest, and later broke down in tears and apologized for failing you. 'Tell your father I'm sorry, I couldn't keep my promise.' I mean calling Superman Elias would be one thing but who else could have told her my Kryptonian name?"
Jeremiah: Well someone else must have...because I never did.
Superman: Jeremiah, she said to tell my father she's sorry. What father have I except you?
Jeremiah: The one who would have given you the name Kal'el.
Superman: (floored) You're saying she knew my Kryptonian father?”
Jeremiah: You have to admit...I have to admit, it would explain a lot. Not the least of which how she ended up in the D.E.O. in the first place. She is not obviously an alien herself. But if she made a habit of sheltering aliens...it would have put her on their radar.
Superman: I'm still a little confused why she called me Kal'el. I mean she's been calling me that since I met her. I figured it was her name for me, in her own language.
Jeremiah: What changed?
Elias Danvers: The Atraxi you brought with you, Sarrin. She said this (touches the emblem on his chest) is a Kryptonian family crest, the symbol of the house of El.
Jeremiah: And how the heck could Nikita know your individual Kryptonian name.
A reformed and confused Director Henshaw asks Nikita, a prisoner turned agent of his organization why she doesn't hate him. Considering the jerk he once was to her and that he is the reason her friend Jeremiah Danvers is dead. To the second she answers thoughtfully. "And you're right I do miss Jeremiah, but I also trust him. You must as well, if you want me here to say what he would have said. As weird as that sounds, I get it. But for the love of anything solid in this world, Hank, if Jeremiah thinks you're worth dying for, I'm pretty sure you're worth forgiving!"
Hank just kind of sheepishly lowers his head. Jeremiah Danvers: I swore I would stand with you J'onn, that I would not leave your side. From what I understand that was a 'til death do us part' oath of loyalty, brotherhood even."
J'onn Jo'nzz: The oath is in-valid if you are staying only out of obligation, do you not see that? We will always be brothers Jeremiah. You don't have to live under my roof for that. But if there is someone else in this world who needs you, I would never knowingly keep you from them. That's part of what brotherhood Means!
Nikita: (To Superman and his human parents) I met J'onn briefly, that's all. I knew him less well than I knew your fa--your Kryptonian father. What's his real name? He only gave me a human one.
Superman: His name is Jor'el. And...I asked. He doesn't remember you.
Superman seemed almost apologetic as he said this, as if he was trying to cushion a blow. But instead of the shock or disappointment he had anticipated the only reaction his words prompted was a thoughtful look.
Nikita: No, he doesn't remember *Nikita*. the name means nothing to him. I didn't use my birth name back then but my human one. I've been 'Nikita' every day I've spent here because they know what I am. Ask Jor'el if he remembers a young woman named Sasha Jordan Scott. I expect you'll get a different response.
Jeremiah as a solid rock. It takes patience to be calm, stubbornness to be good and a willingness to be wrong before you really learn to listen. These three are together on the mission that leads them to the Martian Manhunter...the Green Martian named J'onn J'onzz. Who still assumes Hank Henshaw's identity and still tries to reform the DEO. Also he was even more impressed by the understanding and respect Nikita and Jeremiah shared for each-other than in how either of them spoke to or regarded him that night. In the show Supergirl even though Jeremiah and Hank are both presumed dead, it turns out both of them are alive, having been brought to Project Cadmus. Hank Henshaw is the human name for a DC comic villain named Cyborg Superman. This story, which I haven't come up with a name for it's just National City on Earth-27, takes place in the past and present about equally. And opens with Superman knocking on Jeremiah's front door. In Earth-27 Central City, Barry marries Caitlin, not Iris. Joe West legally adopted him after his parents were murdered, as a result Iris is legally his sister. The native Wells, modeled after grumpy-genius-passionate-loyal Harry Wells of season 2 is a close friend of the team and paralyzed from multiple sclerosis; some condition that his legs work fine, his nerves don't cooperate.
When I wrote down the scene of Henry and J'onn Jo'nzz I wrote their host as someone other than Nikita because I didn't want to involve her in the story. I didn't want to force this stand alone scene, unrelated to any other work into the narrative. And when J'onn Jo'nzz of Earth 9 had a companion, an alien at Arias that could not be Nikita and spoke with Elana, I used that story/memory as an unneeded explanation for the connection between this young, quiet alien and the green Martian J'onn Jo'nzz. But then Nikita and J'onn met, and they would be strangers, and they cannot be strangers. But also, this scene, the scene in the girl's apartment is separate and alone by definition. In that story Henry and J'onn's host never called herself by name. I called her Atraxi for the very reason that this was not part of the same narrative. So there is no reason to work that into this story. Solving both problems, When J'onn returns Jeremiah to the DEO, he will recognize Nikita...as that same human-looking alien host with whom he had an epic 'open mouth insert foot' experience.
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