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when things change in an instant it's almost fast enough for me

Summary:

Thad doesn’t like that answer because it’s inconvenient to his plans, so he does the obvious thing, which is ignore it in favor of getting what he wants.

Notes:

I did a writing meme on Tumblr a while back where I asked people to give me a character/pairing and pick a piece of dialogue and an action off a list I had set up. This one was unspecified character(s), “I can’t”, and holding hands, for cowarddragon. I took it as a chance to do a little remix/retelling of a scene from poisonivory's “A Hummingbird Suspended”, which is probably my favorite Thad fic I’ve read and frankly reeeeeally made me wanna write him in something longer, hah. But this is a start, at least!

Readers, your homework is to listen to the source of both these titles, which is the Jim's Big Ego song "The Ballad of Barry Allen", and to also read the OG fic. Like it's not mandatory or anything, just I love you and I want you to be happy. ❤️

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Work Text:

“I can’t,” Match says, blank and toneless. Thad doesn’t like that answer because it’s inconvenient to his plans, so he does the obvious thing, which is ignore it in favor of getting what he wants.

He has plans, like he said.

“I don’t care,” he says irritably, and then snaps a hand out to grab the back of Match’s hand and dig his fingers into it, or at least as much as the combination of half-Kryptonian skin and a skin-tight telekinetic force field allow for. “Either way you’re going to.”

And then while Match is distracted by looking down at his hand in confused bewilderment, Thad vibrates the other one and sticks his fingers straight through the other’s skull.

The bomb implant isn’t even hard to find, much less phase back out with. Though he does have to get rid of it pretty quick after that, obviously. 

Well, “quick” by other people’s standards, anyway. 

Thad, in fact, has all the time in the world to do it.


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