[open] i'll hold your hands

[mrsarcastic003]

Who: Tim Drake and You!
Where: Throughout the Mansion
When: Ewaymas!
Rating: PG
Summary: Tim is trying to stay away from the cookies, but he keeps accidentally eating them. And they keep making him cold.
The Story:

Tim has been trying to avoid the cookies that are all around the mansion in baskets like baited traps, but he can't… quite… stay away from them, despite not being very interested in cookies as a rule (unless they're Alfred's, but of course he's the exception to every rule). He's seen the effects that the cookie shave had on Georgia Mason and others, and he's not interested any of that for himself.

And yet.

Somehow he keeps catching himself about to eat one, without realizing what's happening. And then, of course, inevitably come the times where he doesn't manage to catch himself before eating one. Is he festive? Small? Musical? Hungry?

No. He's cold. Every time he fails to stop himself from eating a cookie, he's overtaken by a sudden chill, and unable to get warm.

Comments

[quickgenius]

"Well, just the one. But yeah." Jesse takes a bite of lasagne. "It's kind of a long story. Involving a psychotic speedster and bunch of breaches being torn open between my Earth and the other Earth." There's a faint almost-smile on her lips. "You know, the usual."

[mrsarcastic003]

Tim nods sanguinely. "Sounds familiar. So just another Wednesday, then." He pauses. "No, actually I'm really interested in this story. It sounds like a good one."

[quickgenius]

Jesse laughs. “Pretty much.” She shrugs. “I wouldn’t say it’s a good story, really. But it’s mine.” She takes another bite of lasagne, thinking. Figuring out where to start. “Central City started getting terrorised by this speedster who went by the name of Zoom.” It’s not as hard to talk about it, about him, as it used to be. But she still remembers. Still sometimes has nightmares about it.

Absently, she rubs at her collarbone, where Zoom had stuck his hand inside her shoulder in an effort to get information she didn’t have out of her. “It was bad... But after the rifts were opened... Zoom grabbed me. To try and manipulate my Dad. Blackmail him into helping him. Only it didn’t work exactly the way he planned, although he did a little, in the end. Dad went through to the other Earth, to try and get help to save me. Afterwards we ended up living there for a while, until Zoom was dealt with.”

[mrsarcastic003]

Tim takes in the whole story, but a few specific phrases jump out at him. Central City. Zoom. Those are words from his world. "That's... a story all right. It sounds almost like it could have come from my world. I lived in Keystone for a while after my city was hit by an earthquake. I've been to Central City. I've heard of Zoom."

[quickgenius]

Jesse is curious. Really curious. It’s not like she doesn’t know alternate universes, but she hasn’t run into someone else from one with any sort of similarities before. But she has, now. And it’s weird and more than a little bit fascinating. “I’ve heard of Keystone. Almost went there but I ended up in Opal City instead for a little while.”

[mrsarcastic003]

He grins at her. It's nice hearing some of the more familiar names. "I haven't spent much time in Opal City--I'm mostly a Gotham boy, and when I can be pried out it's usually to Happy Harbor with my friends. Keystone was kind of a fluke."