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(A/N: A fill for the Drabble Tag thread in the YJ Fanficiton Challenges forum. Further details can be found here: w ww . fan fiction topic / 86 35 5 / 107 86 566 1 / 1 / Drabble-Tag
My prompt was "Suits".)
Tie
Conner was not a fan of suits. Any kind of suit, really. Garishly colored costume suits, tight restricting wet-suits, mobile suits… but he especially hated dress suits. But it was Raquel's wedding and while they weren't really all that close, they still used to be Teammates and he would always support his Team.
She invited him, so he would be going.
He glared at his reflection in the mirror. Maybe it was just his imagination, but in a dress suit, he looked less like himself. His features didn't change. His hair was still black, his jaw still square, eyes still blue. But other features seemed to stand out to him more. His high cheek bones and strait nose. How his eye, eyes that were still blue, not green, studied and calculated in his reflection.
It wasn't that the suit made him look less like himself, but rather more like someone else. Someone he did not wan to admit he shared traits in common with.
Behind him Ma fished around in his drawers to find a suitable tie for him. Something with color to offset the stark back and white dress shirt and suit. Something that wasn't orange or cream since those were Raquel's wedding colors and he was not a member of the wedding party. That wasn't hard. Conner didn't really have any orange anything unless faded red counted and he certainly didn't have anything cream colored.
Still examining the mirror, Conner watch Ma's reflection pull a red silk tie out of the back of his sock drawer. His breath skipped a beat as he recognized it. Conner thought he'd thrown it away. He thought he'd thrown it away five years ago!
"My! This is a might nice." Ma commented, running the red silk between her fingers. "Why don't ya wear this one-?"
"No!" Conner snapped the word before she could even finish the suggestion. "Not that one!"
Never that one.
It was bad enough when he wore a suit. Conner didn't want to imagine how much he would look like… not who he wanted to be, in a suit with that tie.
"I'll just… I don't need a tie." He said. "I'll just wear the suit without one."
After all, no tie was better than Lex Luthor's tie.
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