[Bart catches the look and can't help a rueful grin.]

Yeah, yeah, guilty. I can't think of myself in another uniform anymore. And that self-image helps sometimes. Doesn't mean Kid Flash isn't any less of a screw-up than Impulse was.

[A partial lie, but Thad probably will learn to read him pretty quickly. He always could. That was part of what made their rivalry so dangerous. Bart was an open book, but his counterpart? He really couldn't understand more than what had been driving Inertia, the need to prove himself the better copy, which apparently wasn't there for now.]

When you're up to it, maybe we can talk. I'd like to get to know you. I was probably just as caught up in that rivalry as you when last we saw each other. We are family, if you want to be