Fic [DC]: Rule of Thumb- Tim/Tam Future AU
Title: Rule of Thumb
Rating: PG
Word Count: 175
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Summary: A vague thing, meant to be Tim/Tam in a slightly dark but not too distant future. SPOILERS for current issues of Red Robin.
"Say no unless it kills us."
She says it half-jokingly, but with as much meaning behind it as when the first threw that bit of philosophy in his face. It's a reminder, and it takes him back to when they had just barely stopped being children. She was a little more innocent then, and he was a little more broken.
It's a contract chock-full of thinly-vieled threats sitting in his lap, both like and unlike the League of Assassins that surrounded them all those years ago. A handful of killers seeking power, thinking they can threaten the well-established head of this corrupted hierarchy.
He gives her one last glance before throwing the paper into the fire. She's confident now. Full-grown. Controlling half the League and the Council of Spiders will do that to a woman. She comes up behind him, embracing him, as the contract burns to ash. It's a reminder.
Their promises are poison.
Say no unless it kills us.
We have always made our own way.
That is why we are in control.
f.i.n.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 175
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Summary: A vague thing, meant to be Tim/Tam in a slightly dark but not too distant future. SPOILERS for current issues of Red Robin.
"Say no unless it kills us."
She says it half-jokingly, but with as much meaning behind it as when the first threw that bit of philosophy in his face. It's a reminder, and it takes him back to when they had just barely stopped being children. She was a little more innocent then, and he was a little more broken.
It's a contract chock-full of thinly-vieled threats sitting in his lap, both like and unlike the League of Assassins that surrounded them all those years ago. A handful of killers seeking power, thinking they can threaten the well-established head of this corrupted hierarchy.
He gives her one last glance before throwing the paper into the fire. She's confident now. Full-grown. Controlling half the League and the Council of Spiders will do that to a woman. She comes up behind him, embracing him, as the contract burns to ash. It's a reminder.
Their promises are poison.
Say no unless it kills us.
We have always made our own way.
That is why we are in control.
f.i.n.