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Prompt Post - Part Three [CLOSED TO NEW PROMPTS]

Mar 16, 2011 23:31

THIS PART IS NOW CLOSED. YOU CAN CONTINUE POSTING FILLS, BUT PLEASE PROMPT ALL NEW THINGS HERE.

Part one here!

Part two here!

Feel free to reprompt posts from parts one and in part three once. If you do so, I'd reccommend leaving a link to your fill on the original prompt, in case somebody is tracking the first thread.
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It gets better... anonymous March 25 2011, 04:37:39 UTC

“And those are going to be the people who encourage and embrace all the things about you that make you feel different now.”

Wally/Artemis/Dick is bullied at school for being different (be it psychologically and/or physically), so they don’t tell the team about it (both their “difference” and the bullying), even though it’s something that makes up a huge part of their lives and they desperately long to accepted by someone. They’re scared that saying anything will make the team hate them/treat them differently/whatever, and it really hurts that they can’t just be themselves ( ... )

Re: It gets better... anonymous March 7 2012, 02:32:33 UTC

seconded

Re: It gets better... katty008 March 24 2012, 05:46:44 UTC

So, uh, I'm writing this.

I got eight pages and all of a sudden there's BirdFlash. IDEK.

I hope you don't mind.

Re: It gets better... banana_andthena March 24 2012, 05:52:21 UTC

not op, but it's aaaaaaaaaaaaaaall good >w>

Re: It gets better... anonymous March 24 2012, 12:35:02 UTC

Not OP either, but I saw this and made a really embarrassing noise. Then I saw BirdFlash, and the noise turned vaguely inhuman.

Especially 'cause it's you.

XDDDDDD

Genius Denied 1/8 katty008 March 24 2012, 19:40:04 UTC

Before he got his powers, Wally West had a really hard time keeping up in school. Now he does all right. Not brilliantly, but all right. He can superspeed his way through his homework, and he does all right ( ... )

Genius Denied 2/8 katty008 March 24 2012, 19:41:07 UTC

The stutter was obvious. His other flaws didn't become apparent for a while, and even then it was some time before anyone suggested that they were actual flaws that needed to be addressed in a way other than 'work harder ( ... )

Genius Denied 3/8 katty008 March 24 2012, 19:42:18 UTC

Over time, everyone else's handwriting improved. Wally's didn't.

“Wallace, you need to hold your pencil correctly.”

“I can't hold it like that.”

“Yes you can, you just need to try harder.”

The other kids were starting to make fun of his handwriting, too.

Wally has a very vivid memory of a time his mother came to pick him up after school, shortly after he started first grade. He doesn't remember why, but he does remember that his teacher talked with her for a really long time. He doesn't remember what they were talking about, just that it was boring adult stuff. They had been given a few simple math questions for homework, and eventually he got bored enough of waiting around that he started working on it right then and there. When he finished, he decided that turning in his homework was a good enough excuse to interrupt them and hopefully finally leave.

“You're done? You didn't need help at all?” his teacher asked, the same amazed look on her face that his kindergarten teacher had had when he told her about Walking With ( ... )

Genius Denied 4/8 katty008 March 24 2012, 19:46:07 UTC

One day in the spring of first grade, a man Wally didn't know told him that he was going to take a test. Wally made a face. Wally's teacher had started giving math quizzes, longer than that first bit of homework, and Wally could never finish them on time. The man chuckled at him, and told him that it was a special kind of test ( ... )

Genius Denied 5/8 katty008 March 24 2012, 19:51:20 UTC

When Wally got superspeed, suddenly he could do everything faster. He could finish his homework on time. He could secretly use it when he was writing, and pretend that his bad handwriting was from going too quickly. He started getting good grades without help, and they kicked him out of spec-ed because they only had so much funding and they needed it for kids who couldn't get good grades without help. Then his family moved across town the summer before his freshman year of high school, and he went to a different school than his old classmates.

A new school where no one knew him. Where no one knew he was only passing for normal, that he really, really wasn't.

“Your work is excellent,” his history teacher said, then turned the paper he was holding up around so that Wally could see it. “But do you think you could at least try to write a little better ( ... )

Genius Denied 6/8 katty008 March 24 2012, 19:54:18 UTC

“Can you keep a secret?” Robin asked one night as they sat on a roof and overlooked Central.

“Rob, we're superheroes. Vast chunks of our lives are secret,” Wally answered as an affirmative.

Rob shook his head. “No, I mean really secret. No one can know that you know ( ... )

Genius Denied 7/8 katty008 March 24 2012, 19:57:02 UTC

Zatanna stared down at her hands. “I just feel so useless, not being able to help at all.”

“You're not useless,” Robin insisted. “You can help coordinate things from the Cave. It's just that you haven't had much hand-to-hand training with Black Canary yet.”

“Unlike someone, who has yet to show his sorry face around here,” Artemis grumbled.

The Flash spoke up from the Cave's comm system, currently being in communication with the team and feeling the need to update them on Wally. “I checked up on Wally. He's sulking in his room, with no plans to leave until he gets his superspeed back. Anyway, I called to say that I think I've got Central covered, but that's only think and there's still Keystone regardless. I know everyone's a little stretched, and all the adult heroes who aren't working full-time on the problem are filling in for the depowered, but you think you can spare someone? Robin answered, “Criminals all over the country are taking advantage of the depowering. Miss Martian, Superboy, and Aqualad are all out helping. I was ( ... )

Genius Denied 8/8 katty008 March 24 2012, 20:02:16 UTC

There was an insistent tapping on the window. Which was stupid, because no one would be tapping on Wally's bedroom window. Sure there was a handy tree there, but that didn't mean people tapped on his window ( ... )

Re: Genius Denied 8/8 anonymous March 24 2012, 20:25:55 UTC

I...I...I can't...

( ... )

Re: Genius Denied 8/8 katty008 March 24 2012, 23:58:48 UTC

Thank you!

Re: Genius Denied 8/8 anonymous March 30 2012, 21:27:34 UTC

I'm assuming Wally has dyslexic disgraphia?

(Or, just a combination of dyslexia and "under-developed" fine motor skills?)

If so, I'd like to hug you. The story cuts close to home and is very well written.

A minor quibble (and I'm hoping you wont take it the wrong way... because I'm only offering up this criticism because I think it's constructive, and because I like the work enough very much and think it's worth critiquing): The ending comes a little quickly, and there's not a whole lot of buildup to the romance, so while I do think it contributes to the story, it comes across as a teeny bit romance-ex-machina-y.

But I really, really like this. Keep up the good work.

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