The Wrong Ones
by TwinEnigma
Warnings/AN: Alternate Universe, originally done as a fill for a prompt on YJ-Anon meme, in which no one on YJ is quite who they claim.
1 - Match
He doesn't have a name, not like Superboy, but he wants one, especially now that he hears it rolling around in his predecessor's mind. He is, after all, supposed to be his match in every way, but instead he rests in his pod, a passenger on the edge of consciousness of his predecessor that has even less autonomy than him. He covets the memories of waking and walking that his predecessor has like an envious miser.
And now his predecessor has a name. Not a designation, mind, but a name.
He wants one, too.
He wants and desires and longs for everything that Superboy has, everything he doesn't. He wants with every fiber of his being, wants until it hurts.
So, when Desmond terminates his predecessor for sparing the intruders and activates him, he doesn't hesitate for the chance to take everything that would have been Superboy's from the dying consciousness into himself: his memories, his anger, his curiosity, the childlike wonder, all of it.
And then, when he stands up in defiance and frees the intruders, he becomes more than just a match.
He becomes all that Superboy ever wanted and more.
He becomes free.
