A friend of mine made the mistake last month of showing me a fanfiction scene she'd written as a warm-up for NaNoWriMo. I read the scene, and then the next day, I started sending her scenes for her fanfiction, because I enjoy messing with other people's characters. I realize there's no context for this scene here (and explaining would take too long) but I really enjoyed the character interactions here. What you need to know:
- Rick is an ex-military bodyguard
- Mitchell is a telepath and a technopath
- Snart is a villain
- The girl on the bed is Skye Sperling, a distant relative of the Flash and similarly gifted
Enjoy.
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The room was nearly silent around him, save for the rhythmic beeping of the heart monitor and Skye's soft breathing. She was on her back, hands folded on her stomach, legs straight, hair arranged perfectly on the pillow around her face. She had been washed and treated. One leg was in a bulky temporary cast, and fading bruises colored the side of her face under the scrapes that were already healing pink and raw-looking under the thin scabs.
Snart sighed. To see her lying so completely still struck him as wrong. He was willing to bet that she moved even in her sleep.
"You should have kept running," he told her, breaking the silence without any real intention to say anything. "You would have been fine if you had kept running. I know it would have been close, but you would have made it. You always do."