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[#054] Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer than They Are (DCTV)
Theme Prompt: #054– Time Travel
Title: Objects in the Rearview Mirror May Appear Closer than They Are
Fandom: DCTV
Rating/Warnings: PG
Bonus: Yes.
Word Count: 436
Summary: While hanging out in the past, Zari pays a visit to her past.
Zari isn’t sure she’s one hundred percent fond of hanging out in 2018.
Like, sure, being in 2042 would undoubtedly have been worse. Zari doesn’t want to go back to a world where her family is dead, and there’s nothing left for her. But 2018 also had the unfortunate problem of her family alive, and she has to resist the urge to go and see them theoretically. Because she can’t.
Because if she shows up on her parent’s doorstep and tells them, she’s their currently five-year-old daughter all grown up because she time travels now. Yeah. That would go over real well.
Crashing with Nate and Ray is all well and good. Nate goes out and does his vigilante thing; Ray runs around doing his science thing (and hiding Nora Darhk, that she won’t find out until later). They spend time with their families and friends, and in the time that they belong and Zari?
Zari’s playing video games, watching movies, eating all the junk food she can get her hands on, and trying to resist the urge to set her fingers to Google and find the answers to all her questions mostly because she doesn’t need Google for the answers. She knows exactly where her parents are, exactly where her family is, and she could go right now if she wanted to.
And she does want to. She just knows that she can’t get too close.
Eventually, the pressure gets to be too much, and she leaves the boys a note before gathering her things and leaving the apartment. From there, it’s not hard to take a bus to the park she and her mother used to play when she was a child. And then, she waits. She parks on a bench with a book and her phone and waits.
It takes about an hour before her mother’s voice meets her ears. Zari watches as she and a tinier version of Zari herself make their way to the swings and go about their day, completely oblivious to her existence. They both seem so happy – it’s been years since she’s seen her mother wear a hijab, and she never realized how much she missed it.
Little Zari seems to notice her watching, and when she turns to get her mother’s attention, Zari turns and flees before her mother sees her. She’s already tested the waters with enough ripples today; she doesn’t need to make it worse and screw up her future any more than it already is. She leaves, and she hopes that this small moment will be enough.
Even though she already knows it won’t.
Title: Objects in the Rearview Mirror May Appear Closer than They Are
Fandom: DCTV
Rating/Warnings: PG
Bonus: Yes.
Word Count: 436
Summary: While hanging out in the past, Zari pays a visit to her past.
Zari isn’t sure she’s one hundred percent fond of hanging out in 2018.
Like, sure, being in 2042 would undoubtedly have been worse. Zari doesn’t want to go back to a world where her family is dead, and there’s nothing left for her. But 2018 also had the unfortunate problem of her family alive, and she has to resist the urge to go and see them theoretically. Because she can’t.
Because if she shows up on her parent’s doorstep and tells them, she’s their currently five-year-old daughter all grown up because she time travels now. Yeah. That would go over real well.
Crashing with Nate and Ray is all well and good. Nate goes out and does his vigilante thing; Ray runs around doing his science thing (and hiding Nora Darhk, that she won’t find out until later). They spend time with their families and friends, and in the time that they belong and Zari?
Zari’s playing video games, watching movies, eating all the junk food she can get her hands on, and trying to resist the urge to set her fingers to Google and find the answers to all her questions mostly because she doesn’t need Google for the answers. She knows exactly where her parents are, exactly where her family is, and she could go right now if she wanted to.
And she does want to. She just knows that she can’t get too close.
Eventually, the pressure gets to be too much, and she leaves the boys a note before gathering her things and leaving the apartment. From there, it’s not hard to take a bus to the park she and her mother used to play when she was a child. And then, she waits. She parks on a bench with a book and her phone and waits.
It takes about an hour before her mother’s voice meets her ears. Zari watches as she and a tinier version of Zari herself make their way to the swings and go about their day, completely oblivious to her existence. They both seem so happy – it’s been years since she’s seen her mother wear a hijab, and she never realized how much she missed it.
Little Zari seems to notice her watching, and when she turns to get her mother’s attention, Zari turns and flees before her mother sees her. She’s already tested the waters with enough ripples today; she doesn’t need to make it worse and screw up her future any more than it already is. She leaves, and she hopes that this small moment will be enough.
Even though she already knows it won’t.
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