title: looking back
fandom: Runaways (tv)
prompts: Reflect and Disaster
word count: 100
Content notes: spoilers through the end of Season 1; dysfunctional family dynamics



It took years for Chase to finally understand his mother.

I thought you hated him.

I do. I hate him with every fiber of my being, she had said. But I understand him just as deeply. He's reliable, in his own way.

The device Chase built will send a signal backward in time, to the one receiver that existed in 2018. To his father.

Chase knows what message to send, knows what to say to make it all go right. Because, in his bones, he knows how the great Victor Stein will respond to the evidence of his own failure.