It was Kon's understanding of how hard the situation had been for her, even as the antagonist, that was why they had even begun to get along in the first place. She appreciated it and some part of her clung to it, that acceptance of her darkness and anger that most people couldn't even begin to understand. He took it in stride. Well, maybe with some yelling, but they somehow seemed to come back to each other at the end of it.

"I'm sorry about your girlfriend." It was something that needed to be said. The girl clearly deserved at least that much from Kon's description of her. Beyond that, Hayley didn't know what to say. Some part of her resented his having a loving family, like she had resented Clark for the same thing, but she knew enough of Jor-El and Clark to know it wasn't exactly as sunshine and rainbows as her mind made it out to be.

"Maybe you should give it a shot," she said finally. The joke was easier to reply to than the heart of the issue.