trans_9 | It was bound to happen sooner or later.. [Open]

She's really been putting it off, but for some reason she couldn't any longer. She wondered into the sensorium, and watched as the scene changed. She lifted herself up onto a brick wall and just watched as someone whizzed back and forth on the grass. She could catch glimpses of bright yellow and red, but her eyes couldn't keep up for long. He was too fast. But that didn't really matter.

"Never did." She moved a piece of hair behind her ear and watched the scene change. The blur had changed colors and was now a white and red. She giggled a bit sadly as she watched him buzz around an older man. Her heart seemed to ache as she watched the two.

"Max... God. What I wouldn't give to go back to those days.." She hung her head and watched sadly as the room chanced once more. A small room with comic book posters on the walls, and video games thrown all about the floor. The higher bunk bed wasn't made and Cissie easily jumped off of her wall to scale the bed. She didn't care if this made her look weird, or crazy.

She curled herself up on the bed and stared at the ceiling. Trying her hardest not to think of the golden eyed speedster she missed so much.

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"Wow....Danny's room was cleaner. But such cool stuff!" Dani said, floating near the entrance to the sensorium, looking at all the posters and picking up some of the games.

Cissie sat right up and nearly clonked her head on the ceiling. Hadn't she locked the door? Obviously it didn't matter anymore because there was now a girl standing in the middle of... well she wasn't standing.

"This isn't my room. It belonged to a friend of mine."

Dani looked up at Cissie. "He had good tastes in games then," she said, holding up a fighting game.

"I suppose. He never played them long enough for anyone else to know what was happening. Went through them at... at the speed of light." She got a far off look on her face for a second before shaking it away. She climbed down off the bed and smiled slightly, brushing some hair out of her eyes.

"I don't think we've met. I'm Suzanne. But my friends call me Cissie. In fact.. you're the first one here I've even told my real name too."

"He did? Was he that good?" Dani asked, looking amazed.

Dani smiled. "I'm Danielle, but I prefer to go by Dani," she said. "Is Suzanne too girly for your taste too?"

"Debatable. He was a speedster, so it was hard to tell if he was just really good, or doing things over hundreds of times at superspeed until he got it right. But either way, he went through a lot of games." She smiled remembering when Max had given Bart a new game, and moments later him complaining about beating it already. She shook her head out of the memories and looked back at Dani.

"Not too girly, just too much what my mom wanted. I hardly use my real name. But I like Danielle. Mind if I add it to my collection?"

"A speedster? Huh, wonder how the game kept up," Dani said, looking at the game curiously. "Must be a good game system."

"Your collection?"

"I don't know. I always assumed he was super careful with them, but I suppose they have to be." She grinned a bit and laughed.

"I have a collection of names. For when I'm out in public or meeting someone new, I can give them one of the names and not worry about them knowing who I really am."

"Maybe? He could have modified it with no one looking?" Dani said, poking the game system.

Dani looked at her, confused at that. "Why would you want them to not know who you are?"

"Maybe. But I doubt it. Back then, he wouldn't have known how to do that." She shrugged a bit and then frowned.

"I don't know. To tell you the truth, I've always done it. Even in elementary school. I used to introduce myself to the other students as something new every day. Even corrected the teachers too. I was Hope one day, Alex the next. Heck I even used Frank."

"Well, it might have done it over and over until he got it right. Like you said he might have," Dani said.

She looked confused at that. "That's...kind of weird. Well, was it fun?"

"Could be. It's not like I can just ask him. He's... dead." She hung her head a bit and then shook it. No need to get all depressed now.

"I guess it was a bit weird, but it was fun."

Dani paused at that. She looked at Cissie thoughtfully before looking around. "So....why did you make his room?" She asked, her tone more thoughtful now.

"Guess I just missed him." She shrugged a bit. It didn't really bother her that this could be labeled as creepy. She had wanted to feel close to the memory of Bart, and this had been the closest she could get. Without having the room create him.

Dani frowned then. "....the sensorium doesn't have a version of him around that I just haven't seen appear in this room yet, right?" she asked. She'd be really worried if he was.

"Not that I know of. I've tried to keep my memories inside. Plus, seeing him here, would make me feel real pathetic."

Dani thought about that for a moment before she nodded. "Just checking! It might be bad if you tried to recreate him like that. Visiting a place is different though."

"It seemed less strange. But.. he didn't even live here anymore." She shook her head sadly and looked at one of the pictures sitting near by. Max, Bart, and Cissie could be seen. All in costume. She smiled, remembering the day it was taken.

"The man who took care of him died.. so he went and stayed with some friends of his grandfather. It nearly broke him to loose Max."

"It's like visiting an old place you used to play, or something, right?" Dani asked, sitting down on the bottom bunk.

"Something like that." She looked around the room and picked up a comic book that lay on the floor. A glint from one of the tables caught her eye and she moved towards it. A ring, a gold ring. She gasped and covered her mouth with one hand while clutching the ring in the other. It was Bart's Flash ring. Or at least, a copy of it.

Dani looked up from a game at the gasp. "What's wrong? Find something?" She asked, floating over to look at the ring.

Cissie turned to look at Dani and frowned at her floating for a moment, then help up the ring in her hands.

"When I made the room, I didn't... I put in so much detail I had completely forgotten about this. It help his costume. It.. it meant the world to him."

"Helps his costume?" Dand asked questioningly, looking at the ring curiously.

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