It pushes in his head, a burst of certainty that they could make it so they never came back again, wheedling and insistent and how easy it would be. And they could just keep taking care of all of them until none of them are left-

Flash ignores it. It has wants and it has needs but it lives in him, and he doesn't have to give way to it.

"So, uh...what the hell have you been doing here, then?"