I am falling, I am fading, I have lost it all.

[thronor]

WHO: Dick Grayson & Wally West
WHERE: Dick's apartment
WHEN: The day after Wally's talk with Bart and discovering Roy's gone.
WARNINGS: Oh god, MORE ANGST. Fluffy angst.
SUMMARY: Wally learned that the most important person in his life is going to die, he needs a friend since all the ones at the Tower have gone.
FORMAT: Paragraph.

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[goddamnrobin]

Dick's getting ready to do to school and was going to leave a few minutes later when he hears the knock on the door, slow and nearly quiet. He thinks for a moment that maybe it's Tim since he hasn't seen him in a while but the timing's not good since he's about to leave and Tim would know that.

He's dwelling over Roy or Wally as he opens the door -- "I'm gonna be gone in a--" -- and then takes a look at Wally, who's exhausted and has a hard time breathing and who looks like hell.

He gets worried right away and starts looking Wally over quickly, trying to find a wound or something. When he speaks, he doesn't try to hide the near-panic in his voice.

"What's wrong? Are you hurt anywhere?"

[thronor]

Wally shakes his head quickly, not replying until he has enough air back in his burning lungs to actually be able to talk. "No. I was just-- trying to get home and I- " He has to stop because he's choking up, he tried talking too soon.

Taking deep breaths hurts like hell and only make him cough and wheeze more so he tries slower breaths. It makes his breathing shallow but it's better. The next he speaks it's just a run-on sentence, all in one breath.

"I'm sorry, I don't meant to bother you, honest, but I didn't know where to go because Garth's gone and Roy's gone too now and I already cried all over Bart so I couldn't go to him again, that would be unfair, and I'm not here to take you home, I just need a friend right now."

He may be hyperventilating a little.

[goddamnrobin]

For Dick, that's just a fast ramble of pained words and the meaning of them all hits slowly in little bursts that just make Dick feel worse every passing moment. 'Trying to get home' means going back to his universe, for example, which he can accept -- everyone is still trying to go back to their universe, really -- but it doesn't mean it's not hurting Dick. He's been in the City for a long time and wants to stay, but he doesn't want to stay alone.

He's grabbing onto people, here, in a way that no one else would call 'grabbing' ever, especially when he spends so much time pushing everyone away nowadays, but he doesn't want to be --

alone --

like Wally is right now because. Roy. Roy who was the first one without mental powers he felt understood him in this place...

He tries talking, just a small 'hey', but it comes croaked and horrible and doesn't sound like anything and he can't cry when Wally is the one who's here because he needs comforting. He's never been good at comforting and his heart isn't here but he has to

[thronor]

It takes a moment for Wally to actually move again. He's aching all over and his legs feel like lead but he lets Dick pull him inside even if every step hurts. When Dick pulls him close he leans into him instantly, wrapping his arms around him and practically clinging as he buries his face in Dick's shoulder.

He makes a desperate, pained noise when the other boy tells him it'll be fine. It's not going to be fine because Barry is going to die saving the world and if it's for a reason like that Wally knows he wouldn't be able to stop Barry.

Not for something like that, Barry wouldn't allow him to put his mentor before the rest of the world. He doesn't know if he'll be able to do anything for Bart either.

The future sucks and with how he's losing everyone here, right now is sucking pretty bad too