#barthad

I can't wait until Christmas, so I'm posting this now. It's really cute.

Bart’s eyes were screwed up his tongue sticking out the side of his mouth a look of intense concentrations on his face. Thad kept working on his math homework ignoring his brother the best he could. Finally he sighed “What are you doing?” 

“trying to talk to you in your head! come on pick up dude!”

“hm really? I don’t feel anything you must not be doing it right” Thad looked down at his homework to hide his smile. In fact he could feel it, a slight tickle behind his right eye. If he concentrated on it he would connect to Bart’s mind. However after getting Rick Rolled a few times, and generally dealing with his brother’s mile a minute random thoughts Thad thought it was better to ignore Bart most of the time. 

……………………..

Thad sat blot upright in bed, nearly banging his head on the ceiling. It took him a long moment to figure out what woke him looking around his and Bart’s room from his upper bunk. Then he felt it, the twitching tickle behind his eyes. “oh for god’s sake bart!” he whispered and stuck his head over the side to look down into the lower bunk. Bart was asleep twitching and twisting. Thad watched him debating what to do. “Bart” he whispered, nothing, “Bart!” as loud as he dared in the sleeping house, still nothing. “Damn it”

Thad opened his eyes and the world was on fire. No not quite, he’d never been here before but Bart had told him about it. Apokolips, fire roared up from a huge pit near-by and the ground was burned and broken. “NOOOOO!” came Bart’s scream and Thad turned in a moment with the logic of a dream his pajamas were gone and his green Inertia uniform was on him. Bart was in costume, on his knees the broken bodies of the other members of Young Justice around him. Granny Goodness stood over him laughing holding Robin by the throat. Thad crossed the space at light speed crouching on his knees to get level with Bart and taking his shoulder in his hands. “Thad! You came!” Bart looked at him with shocked eyes, tears till running down his face. “Yeah of course I did buddy, come on lets get out of here”

“No! I’m not leaving them” Bart looked around at the dead bodies and started to shake. Thad grabbed his brother’s head in both hands forcing him to look at him. “Bart, this isn’t real, you’re having a bad dream”

“no, that doesn’t… no, what?” 

“come on Bart think about it, how’d you get here? how would I get to Apokolips?” Bart looked confused but things started to get blurry around the edges, the burning smell faded away.

Thad sat up in bed again, and hit his head for real this time. “Thad?” came a quiet voice from below him “yeah?”