Prompt Post - Part Ten
I am REALLY, REALLY SORRY about taking so long, guys, and about not being around much recently. I've been busier than I have in a while, and it just kept slipping my mind between uni applications and volunteering and all sorts- for some reason I thought we were much further off a new post.
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5.
Wally is not happy. His friends do not appreciate him. Not even when he saves their life (as he does on multiple occasions). He’s irritated with them and isn’t his normal hyper self, even when they’re told they’ve got a mission.
They call him names like Kid Idiot and Kid Mouth, and don’t seem to see his intelligence. Just ‘cause he hides it most of the time…
These are the thoughts in his mind when the apartment building blows sky high. Instantly he’s running, running as fast as he can, calculating his chances. How fast can he get to the 15th floor? How fast can he get to his team?
He’s pretty sure he breaks the sound barrier (he vaguely hears a loud boom, but that could just be another explosion) and frankly, he doesn’t care. His team is far more important than some people’s ears.
It’s only later, when he has safely gotten the team out that he collapses. Coldly, scientifically, he catalogues his condition. He’s running dangerously low on fuel, exhausted, and hurt (he stumbled on his second trip down with Conner). He’s going to pass out in approximately two minutes. He makes sure Robin is awake and alert before passing out; he needs someone who knows how to take care of the others.
He wakes up in the medbay three days later. He does a lot of that, he realizes.
His team is worried about him. He scared them with his collapse. For awhile after that, they don’t call him names. They don’t tease him or insult him or playfully push him around, and Wally realizes something.
He doesn’t really mind them calling him names. He kind of misses the constant teasing, and why does Artemis keep looking at him funny?
Wally is so smart, but he is so dumb sometimes.
Respect was earned long ago, as was the love of his team. They’re grateful to him; they just don’t show it all the time.
And Wally realizes he can live with that.
6.
Vertigo is taunting them, holding them immobile with nausea as he prattles on about the various ways he’s thinking on killing them.
Wally doesn’t pay it much mind, until he starts on Robin. Then his blood boils. That’s his little brother that creep is talking about! (The thought of Rob, beaten and broken, lying with glazed eyes is enough to shake Wally to the core).
His vision goes red, and the next thing he knows, Vertigo is on the ground, unconscious, and his fist hurts. He just decked Vertigo at superspeed.
Wally spat on him.
“That was for what you were going to do to my brother, sicko!”
He walks back to where the Team is lying on the ground, recovering. He’s shaking, not out of fear or adrenaline, but from rage.
He calms down enough to help Robin to his feet.
“KF?” Robin asks cautiously. “You alright?”
“Yeah,” he says, and he finds (to his surprise) that he’s smiling like an idiot. Kid Idiot.
“That felt really good.”
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