Between the Seconds

A/N: This is just a short two-shot I came up with when musing on the Flash featured in Kingdome Come. He's said to be some strange fluke of the Speed Force, perhaps even literally an amalgam of all the previous Flashes, someone who moves so fast that they can be everywhere in the city at once. What would that be like, really?

Disclaimer: Kingdome Come, The Flash, Central City and all related entities belong to DC Comics. I'm just borrowing them.


It's been so long, we can't remember how long its been, not that time matters here. We have been running for so long. So very long. I don't think we even remember how to stop. The only movement fast enough to see are the bullets. None of us even remember sound, there is nothing here but a dim vibration, just outside the range of our hearing. I can't remember laughter, the sound of collapsing metal, the perpetual hum of the traffic in Central City- you can't hear much of anything when running faster than the speed of sound. So much faster, always, always running. Even the colors are blurred. Still, even if this is forever- forever between the beats of a second- it would be worth it. Our city is safe, even if the world has moved on, moved on faster than us.