open ♔ valentine's day

[romanticidal]

♬ Careless Whisper - George Michael

WHO || Anyone and their special someone [Closed]
WHAT || Various Valentine's Day activities
WHERE ||Anywhere
WHEN || Feb 14th, 2016
HOW || Actionspam or Prose

[ It's Valentine's Day! ( aka Singles Awareness Day )  Assume that all missions that are posted already are going out after this. ♥ ]

Comments

[supertardiness]

Exactly. And my ability to heal is definitely not what it used to be. Better to just wait for summer when it's acceptable to go plunging into the ocean.

[watcherjunior]

Waiting. Eech. [ She briefly makes a disgusted face before smiling. ] Not my strong suit. But patience is a virtue, etc, etc. Plus, you know, good reason.

[supertardiness]

[He laughs a bit.]

Yeah, patience isn't exactly my favorite either. But you learn to deal with it eventually.

[watcherjunior]

Maybe it's one of those things you get better at as you get older? [ There's a quiet 'hmmm' and a thoughtful look. ] Though, I can't really remember anything I've gotten better at as I've gotten older.

[supertardiness]

[Yeah, the only thing Barry's gotten better at as he's gotten older is ... ]

Science?

[watcherjunior]

[ She snaps her fingers. ] Languages! And handling a gun. But I'm fairly sure I didn't do that until I was older anyway.

[supertardiness]

They tried to train me with a gun when I joined the police department as a CSI.

[He cringes slightly.]

Let's just say it did not go well.

[watcherjunior]

That look says there's a story there. And you never know. It could go a lot better this time. I've learned to never go around on a mission without mine, because anything can happen.

[supertardiness]

[He nods in agreement but ...]

I'm not really a gun guy. But I did learn how to throw a pretty decent punch, and now that I'm faster, that can hit ... really hard.

[watcherjunior]

Hit really hard? [ It takes a moment to click. ] Oh! Sorta like hitting someone with a car. On the more crude and violent scale.

[supertardiness]

[He nods in agreement.]

Yeah. The faster I go, the harder I hit.

[watcherjunior]

Wow. You could actually kill someone like that.

[ Way to ruin the mood, Dawn. ]

So, are you actually faster than a speeding bullet? I heard something like that in a movie.

[supertardiness]

Well, it depends on a lot of factors. But a one-on-one match for distance between me and a bullet? I think I could come out on top.

[watcherjunior]

Could? So you haven't really tested that yet, either?

[ Uh oh. She's getting ideas, Barry. ]

[supertardiness]

[He's not sure if he likes these ideas.]

Not really? I mean, I've done it with arrows, but none of my friends are all that fond of shooting guns for science.

[watcherjunior]

[ Pffft. You'll be fine, Barry. ]

Yeah, but arrows are like, only about a third as fast as bullets, on average. Of course, that's not accounting for someone having a-an enchanted bow or anything.

[supertardiness]

He definitely did not have an enchanted bow.

[He gives a small shrug.]

I've managed to push people out of the way of bullets without getting shot? And I did outrun a nuclear explosion once.

[Sort of.]

[watcherjunior]

Ooh. Okay. Well, we will just go ahead and dub you "faster than a speeding bullet" because that's probably close enough.

[ She leans forward. ]

Why did you have to outrun a nuclear explosion?

[supertardiness]

Because I'm pretty sure nuclear radiation could still kill me and the very human companion I was with.

[watcherjunior]

[ Here, Barry, have a look of you're cute but duh. ] Well, yeah, I would imagine so. But, like, what caused the explosion? Bomb, a meltdown, some other craziness?

[supertardiness]

... Actually it was a person. A pair of people actually. It's ... a really long story, and I'm not even sure I could explain it properly.

[watcherjunior]

Wow. Exploding people. Exploding people. Okay, I haven't encountered that before. [ And there's a small realization that she shouldn't maybe sound so fascinated. ] Not that that's a good thing. Bad. Very bad.

[supertardiness]

Yeah, it's a .... really long story with way more science than I actually understand but somehow they got merged during the same event that gave me my powers and together they can create nuclear fission.

[watcherjunior]

They merg-- wow. Wow. [ Okay, Dawn's brain may be overloaded on the science stuff, as fascinating as she finds it. ] Okay, your home? Pretty sure it's a lot cooler than mine.

[supertardiness]

[He laughs.]

Maybe. But I'm sure your world is pretty cool all the same.