A friend in need is a friend indeed || Stiles and Tommy
Note: This para takes place in the past, before Stiles moved to New York.
Pietro had always boasted about the superiority of a speedster brain --there was a reason why there was a Pietro Maximoff Syndrome, after all. Tommy could agree that his brain was pretty awesome. It allowed him to speed up without colliding with trees. Or buildings. Or people. Especially the latter one was pretty great. It wouldn't have been beneficial for a superhero to crash into the very humans he tried to save. And both of them were supposedly able to out think twenty opponents at once.
Tommy had half a mind to try and find his uncle and demand to know what the hell the knife wound on his back was all about.
He raced his way through the landscape, gritting his teeth against the searing pain and blinking, trying to keep those tears in. He'd had worse; it would be embarrassing when he reached his destination. Tommy forced himself to go faster, his usually smooth motions stilted and awkward by the pain. He nearly crashed over a log as he tore through the forest as fast as he could, but avoided it and sending another spark of pain through his body.
It wasn't too bad, nothing life threatening, he thought, but it probably needed stitches. Tommy could generally patch himself up, but he couldn't reach his back. He'd tried, and while the silver fingers had come away stained with blood, it still would be impossible for him to do it himself.
Flying solo was generally not a good idea. It was much safer to do it in pairs, or in a team, but nobody wanted to with him. There were very few who could keep up with Tommy anyway, and even fewer for who Tommy would slow down. Though it seemed that those worthy few all had congregated in California. The speedster trusted the Runaways with his life -after all, they were genuinely good kids, hurt like him, but still trying to do the right thing- but he couldn't trust them not to tell someone.
So that was why he found himself stumbling out of the wood at a velocity, making his way to the house of Beacon Hill's sheriff, crashing into the door in favor of knocking. Tommy just hoped Stiles would be home, not the sheriff.