Title: I Want
Fandom: Young Avengers
Character(s): Speed
Rating: PG
Warnings: Written on the fly without a beta.
Spoilers: Young Avengers 10 and on
Summary: 15 minutes before everything blew up, what was Tommy doing?
Count the dots on the ceiling.
Count them again.
Count them backwards.
Wanna leave class, but she's in this one too, and she'd know if I skipped.
Then I'd never score ever in my entire life.
-nature of these particles makes them volatile, and more likely to-
So I'll start tapping my pencil against the sweet spot the desk just. Like. That.
- is why compounds like nitroglycerin are -
Tapa tapa tap, tapatapatap,
Wanna get away, wanna get away,
tapatapatapatapatapatap
wannagetawayawayawayaway
TapatapaSNAP
Shit, it broke, and everyone's looking at-
-what are you doing?
Keeping my brain from melting into slag, Mister Retard-o, what does it look like?
Hmf. Miste-
Oh, that was at least a level 4, "I'm gonna give you a lecture on how you could do so much better in school if you would just focus so that you know who's boss" kinda sigh.
-ard. If you would just-
I was right.
Shit.
-focus more on the classwork-
It's not fair! I know this crap, and it's useless, and he teaches it so damn slow!
So. Damn. Slow!
then maybe you wouldn't be getting a-
I wish I could just get away from here.
Get out of this place and just run away.
Away, away, away where no one could catch me.
I WANNA RUN AWAY.
BOOM
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Author's Note: So why is it that one of the twins in the House of M seemed to have some magic ability, but the other one didn't have superspeed? This's my take on the answer.