If I'm the hero, what does that make you, @Praegelidus?
+ Barry Allen, CSI, nerd at your service.
+ AU - Everything is complicated.
+ SL heavy/Banter friendly.
+ 18+RP/Wordy AF.
+ Dark themes ahead./Triggers likely to multiply like bunnies.
having crushes is like being a character in a murder mystery because you have to hide the clues and plant red herrings and blackmail anyone who learns the truth and it becomes a whole big thing.
@Praegelidus Hiding? You wish, Snart! And you just watch me. . . If I were running I'd out run everything.
{Is aware I'm not making much sense but dammit, long time, no see and the man flusters me.}
@Praegelidus -- everything up. I'm not ready for that. Leonard Snart brings out things in me that I don't want to look too closely at. Call me a coward, but I refuse to admit anything regarding that man or how I /feel/ about him.}
@Praegelidus -- Dropping my hands and stepping back I put some well needed distance between us; one second there, the next I'm across town.
Falling into a graceless heap on my sagging couch, I toss an arm over my eyes and groan. Had I stayed I would have opened door #3 and further fucked --
@Praegelidus --twisted in on itself and fashioned into calculating rage. How dare he think I took my time to speak to him as a way to flaunt a crush. There is no crush. I feel nothing but irritation for him.
And I'll worry about if I'm trying to convince myself of that by lashing out later.}
@Praegelidus -- I'm not /worried/. You're not the biggest fish in the sea, not even a blip on my radar these days. I was showing a courtesy by checking in, nothing more.
{I resist the urge to knock my knuckles against him in punctuation. My previous awkwardness and nervous energy has --