and it makes you question your ethics
Title: and it makes you question your ethics
Word Count: 530
Summary: Young Justice is in charge of wetwork operations. Nevermind that they are only children.
Notes: Spontaneous fill over at the yj_anon_meme
And he watches the body fall fast and hard before it hits the ground. Technically he didn't kill the guy, he reminds himself. It was gravity. Gravity with its 9.8 meters per second. Gravity with its constant acceleration. Gravity with its laws and absolute forces and
and
He has to tilt his head to the sky because if he looks at the broken body below he'll puke (but he didn't kill the guy).
Robin is better at it. Not as good as Superboy (and Kid Flash theorizes that it's because Superboy isn't human in so many ways and he is shivering because there is a drop of fear running through his blood at the notion), but by all definitions Robin is definitely better at this job than Kid Flash.
There is a strangled scream that devolves into gurgling and a man is drowning in his own blood drowning and Robin wipes the sullied blade of a Batarang against the dying man's shirt. Waste not want not, he answers when Kid Flash asks him why
and the Wally part of Kid Flash is a little horrified but bites his tongue because now is not the time.
Miss Martian drops a glass table on a man and Kid Flash hears her mental whispers as she tries to justify all of this
insanity
and he would smile bitterly if he didn't feel so sick because really that's what this all is:
insanity.
A man is drowning. Not like Robin's target who was choking on his own life as it drained from his throat, but literally drowning in water. Aqualad has flooded a man's lungs to the brim and his face is drenched in fear and pain and his body convulses morbidly and Kid Flash wishes Aqualad would hurry up and kill him because the man's wild eyes are hypnotizing and a part of Wally is breaking, fast and true.
Their victim, the one that matters, is just beyond the door. Broken glass splinters beneath their feet and Kid Flash kind of hopes (and Wally furiously prays) that he's not there, that he's not in that conference room with its expansive widows, long tables, and glass ceilings, that he has the sense to leave because they are coming for him.
But the door swings open and he is sitting there, honest to God reclining, and Wally wonders what it feels like to be completely resigned to your death. Are you relieved that you finally know how you will die? Or do you regret all of the actions that have led to this defining moment?
But Kid Flash doesn't have more time to wonder and Wally doesn't have more time to wish because there is a crunch and Superboy has snapped the man's neck.
quick
clean
done
Wally sighs because they've finished their mission and it's okay that the body count is high because they are new at this but one day they will be better and stealthier and more efficient.
And (Wally hopes, wishes, and prays with every fiber of his being) less people will die.
But for now they are children standing in an empty room, a dead body lying at their feet.
Word Count: 530
Summary: Young Justice is in charge of wetwork operations. Nevermind that they are only children.
Notes: Spontaneous fill over at the yj_anon_meme
And he watches the body fall fast and hard before it hits the ground. Technically he didn't kill the guy, he reminds himself. It was gravity. Gravity with its 9.8 meters per second. Gravity with its constant acceleration. Gravity with its laws and absolute forces and
and
He has to tilt his head to the sky because if he looks at the broken body below he'll puke (but he didn't kill the guy).
Robin is better at it. Not as good as Superboy (and Kid Flash theorizes that it's because Superboy isn't human in so many ways and he is shivering because there is a drop of fear running through his blood at the notion), but by all definitions Robin is definitely better at this job than Kid Flash.
There is a strangled scream that devolves into gurgling and a man is drowning in his own blood drowning and Robin wipes the sullied blade of a Batarang against the dying man's shirt. Waste not want not, he answers when Kid Flash asks him why
and the Wally part of Kid Flash is a little horrified but bites his tongue because now is not the time.
Miss Martian drops a glass table on a man and Kid Flash hears her mental whispers as she tries to justify all of this
insanity
and he would smile bitterly if he didn't feel so sick because really that's what this all is:
insanity.
A man is drowning. Not like Robin's target who was choking on his own life as it drained from his throat, but literally drowning in water. Aqualad has flooded a man's lungs to the brim and his face is drenched in fear and pain and his body convulses morbidly and Kid Flash wishes Aqualad would hurry up and kill him because the man's wild eyes are hypnotizing and a part of Wally is breaking, fast and true.
Their victim, the one that matters, is just beyond the door. Broken glass splinters beneath their feet and Kid Flash kind of hopes (and Wally furiously prays) that he's not there, that he's not in that conference room with its expansive widows, long tables, and glass ceilings, that he has the sense to leave because they are coming for him.
But the door swings open and he is sitting there, honest to God reclining, and Wally wonders what it feels like to be completely resigned to your death. Are you relieved that you finally know how you will die? Or do you regret all of the actions that have led to this defining moment?
But Kid Flash doesn't have more time to wonder and Wally doesn't have more time to wish because there is a crunch and Superboy has snapped the man's neck.
quick
clean
done
Wally sighs because they've finished their mission and it's okay that the body count is high because they are new at this but one day they will be better and stealthier and more efficient.
And (Wally hopes, wishes, and prays with every fiber of his being) less people will die.
But for now they are children standing in an empty room, a dead body lying at their feet.