"Yeah, secrets," Damien said calmly. "He does have one. But I won't tell you. I won't tell anyone... because it's not mine to tell. I won't betray him like that. Not even my own followers know of it. Nor the firm. It will never leave my lips. I'll die with it. I wouldn't worry, Static. I'm sure he'd tell you, he's just been busy helping people or maybe it's not really a big secret to him.. though I doubt even Clark knows. But really, trust him. He needs you as his friend." Though honestly, he had perhaps thought that not spoiling it would in some way help atone for what he did to Bart. But he doubted it.
"You haven't?" He had a bitter laugh at that. "You show up pretending to be a big hero when I was in pain... which I'm sure your buddy was so happy about, me in agony.. especially since he wanted you to let me die. You should have done what he said. Then you could rejoice in it. For the record, it was you that offered assistance... even after knowing how Bart hated me. Ah well, the two of you can hate me in your misguided beliefs, ignorance and biased perceptions together. And make jokes about my past, or laugh about how my foster pop tried to kill me on an altar."
He added, since they were talking of betrayal, "Or, how you zapped out my desktop over mere words. I wasn't lying about what I said then. Okay, some of it was my opinion, but I was hardly lying about any of it. Maybe that's why you hate. The other thing... about Clark. He was infected by War... which, you probably didn't know, I had told Lana was the case at the time. Just like I warned your people about the alternate Bart going to kill Clark. But anyway, things got heated, Kal was crazy.. and Bart said things. How he couldn't save Kara or Chloe, he was a weak farmboy who tries to fit in with humans but never will, useless waste of power. I admit that I tortured him.. it was a mistake on my part. I overreacted when he said that I had relations with my dead cousin, and how no one loved me... I lost control. But I stopped myself from going farther. Maybe you should go to him now, watch those movies, hate me some more. As for me? I'm going to go help people. Like I have been doing already."