[Tommy] On Time
Title: On Time
Fandom: Young Avengers
Characters: Speed
Prompt: 079. When?
Word Count: 204
Rating: G
Summary: Tommy Shepard is consistently late.
Author's Notes: Yup, more experimenting, this time with italics and afterthoughts. I'm not sure it works too well, but you be the judge of that.
On Time
Tommy Shepard is consistently late. It doesn't matter when or where or why he has to be somewhere, he simply always arrives five minutes after the deadline. (Because that's the perfect balance between timely and noticeably not.)
It's not because he's easily distracted. Even though Tommy's speed warps his perception of time, he always sets the beeper in his ear-phone to warn him of his appointments. (Not that he'd ever tell anyone that because that'd just be awkward.) It's also not because he wants to be an annoyance, since a five-minute delay has never been a problem. (After all, Tommy and Speed are two totally separate people, right?) No, the reason why Tommy is always late is simple: he hates waiting.
Waiting is a waste of time. Waiting is an eternity of wondering when the next person's going to arrive. Most of all, waiting is lonely and Tommy has had enough loneliness, thank you very much. (He's also had enough of being ignored and he'd never needed any of that being poked with needles business.) He'd much rather arrive just after the first person has and work from there. Things are more fun that way. (It's not as if anyone's noticed yet.)
Fandom: Young Avengers
Characters: Speed
Prompt: 079. When?
Word Count: 204
Rating: G
Summary: Tommy Shepard is consistently late.
Author's Notes: Yup, more experimenting, this time with italics and afterthoughts. I'm not sure it works too well, but you be the judge of that.
On Time
Tommy Shepard is consistently late. It doesn't matter when or where or why he has to be somewhere, he simply always arrives five minutes after the deadline. (Because that's the perfect balance between timely and noticeably not.)
It's not because he's easily distracted. Even though Tommy's speed warps his perception of time, he always sets the beeper in his ear-phone to warn him of his appointments. (Not that he'd ever tell anyone that because that'd just be awkward.) It's also not because he wants to be an annoyance, since a five-minute delay has never been a problem. (After all, Tommy and Speed are two totally separate people, right?) No, the reason why Tommy is always late is simple: he hates waiting.
Waiting is a waste of time. Waiting is an eternity of wondering when the next person's going to arrive. Most of all, waiting is lonely and Tommy has had enough loneliness, thank you very much. (He's also had enough of being ignored and he'd never needed any of that being poked with needles business.) He'd much rather arrive just after the first person has and work from there. Things are more fun that way. (It's not as if anyone's noticed yet.)