"Burn These Strings" (X-Men: Evolution)
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nevannaFandom: X-Men: Evolution
Characters: Tabitha, Lance, Pietro, Fred, Todd
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters, and I do not profit from their use. The title is courtesy of Anna Nalick.
Summary: Tabitha hopes that her new place to stay doesn’t come with strings attached.
Words: 300
Notes: This is set directly after the second-season episode "Bada Bing, Bada Boom." It was written for the "team-up" challenge on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
comicdrabbles, although admittedly I had the idea considerably before that.
Burn These Strings
Tabitha lingers just out of sight, and doesn’t really care whether or not the guys downstairs know she’s listening.
“We’re not gonna have any place to live at this point!” Todd is saying. “Between her makin’ everything go boom and Lancey-Boy shakin’ things up whenever he gets his panties in a twist over… hey, man, I was kidding!”
“I wasn’t,” Lance comes right back. “Not about Boom-Boom. We could use her on our team. Besides, I think she’ll fit in much better here than she did with them.”
“And you’re so sure she’s not a spy for the X-Geeks, aren’t you?” Pietro sneers.
“What am I supposed to do?” Lance demands. “Ask her?”
“She might not know. Ever think of that? She could be a sleeper agent.”
Tabitha rolls her eyes. It’s true that the X-Men let her loose without much of a fight, but it still sounds to her like Pietro’s watched a few too many spy movies.
He’s still talking. “Unlike some people here, I’ve actually thought about what Xavier can do. He could be listening to us right now, using her as a puppet, and…”
Tabitha has heard enough. She tosses a spark down the stairs, and the mini-explosion cuts Pietro off in mid-sentence. As she descends, swinging her hips like a model on the runway, she feels more heat bloom in her fingers. “Don’t you ever call me a puppet again.” She tries to keep her voice from shaking. “And if any of you have a problem with me, you say it to me.”
All four boys are silent. “What’s the point?” Freddy asks. “You’re just gonna do what you want no matter what.”
Tabitha smiles. “You’re catching on,” she says, and hopes that those words, not Pietro’s, are true.
She’s done letting people use her.
Characters: Tabitha, Lance, Pietro, Fred, Todd
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters, and I do not profit from their use. The title is courtesy of Anna Nalick.
Summary: Tabitha hopes that her new place to stay doesn’t come with strings attached.
Words: 300
Notes: This is set directly after the second-season episode "Bada Bing, Bada Boom." It was written for the "team-up" challenge on
comicdrabbles, although admittedly I had the idea considerably before that.Burn These Strings
Tabitha lingers just out of sight, and doesn’t really care whether or not the guys downstairs know she’s listening.
“We’re not gonna have any place to live at this point!” Todd is saying. “Between her makin’ everything go boom and Lancey-Boy shakin’ things up whenever he gets his panties in a twist over… hey, man, I was kidding!”
“I wasn’t,” Lance comes right back. “Not about Boom-Boom. We could use her on our team. Besides, I think she’ll fit in much better here than she did with them.”
“And you’re so sure she’s not a spy for the X-Geeks, aren’t you?” Pietro sneers.
“What am I supposed to do?” Lance demands. “Ask her?”
“She might not know. Ever think of that? She could be a sleeper agent.”
Tabitha rolls her eyes. It’s true that the X-Men let her loose without much of a fight, but it still sounds to her like Pietro’s watched a few too many spy movies.
He’s still talking. “Unlike some people here, I’ve actually thought about what Xavier can do. He could be listening to us right now, using her as a puppet, and…”
Tabitha has heard enough. She tosses a spark down the stairs, and the mini-explosion cuts Pietro off in mid-sentence. As she descends, swinging her hips like a model on the runway, she feels more heat bloom in her fingers. “Don’t you ever call me a puppet again.” She tries to keep her voice from shaking. “And if any of you have a problem with me, you say it to me.”
All four boys are silent. “What’s the point?” Freddy asks. “You’re just gonna do what you want no matter what.”
Tabitha smiles. “You’re catching on,” she says, and hopes that those words, not Pietro’s, are true.
She’s done letting people use her.
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Date: 2014-10-07 08:52 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2014-10-15 10:44 am (UTC)The conversation of the boys was really funny ^^
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Date: 2014-12-26 04:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-12 01:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-13 12:19 pm (UTC)(I had discussed the "Xavier is using Tabitha to telepathically spy on the Brotherhood" idea with a couple of my friends, and although I have no current plans to write a story where it actually happens, it was such a creepy notion that I wanted to at least acknowledge it.)