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[arrownomore]

"Ugh," Cissie groaned as the sun hit her eyes. She flung an arm over her eyes but it did no good. She was awake and wasn't going to fall back to sleep anytime soon so she had might as well get up and get ready to go on her morning run. First, the run then shower and breakfast and then after that? Well, she just was going to see how things went

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[slowspeedster]

Even this late in the year, it was still too hot and sticky to wear much to sleep, especially when you tended to get tangled in the sheets. Bart was only wearing a pair of sleep shorts when Cissie startled him awake, and he blinked at her owlishly.

"Wha?" he asked.

[arrownomore]

As anxious as Cissie was, she couldn't help but notice that she was seeing more of Bart than she usually did. As if that wasn't awkward enough, here she was in a thin tank top and pajama shorts. She thought she should probably be embarrassed but she had a worse situation going on right now.

"I just ran here in five seconds," she burst out, barely remembering not to shake him in time. "Five seconds and things are going really slow and I think I'm kind of in trouble and I'm starving and I don't think I can sit still and oh my god, is this what it's like for you all the time?"

[slowspeedster]

"Yes, you can sit down, and breathe," Bart said, untangling himself enough so he could pull Cissie down to sit beside him on the bed. "It's easier when you have something that helps you keep track of how fast you're going."

Except Cissie had super-speed, and he had...nothing? That was strange.

[arrownomore]

"Okay," Cissie said as she sat down, her leg pressed next to Bart's. She tried to take a few deep breaths and clear her mind but her brain just didn't seem to want to slow down. She could feel herself starting to fidget and tried another set of deep breaths.

"This is so - I don't even know how to describe it," she added, consciously making an effort to slow down. "My head is buzzing and I just feel like I have to move. I thought no powers worked here - do you feel your connection?"