Dick fell in love with Wally before he even truly realized what being in love actually meant. Sure there was Zatanna who Dick had greatly enjoyed kissing. But Wally was the first person to make his palms sweat and his heart beat faster. The older boy had managed to pull him in with his easy smiles and contagious laughter. The time they spent together had Dick feeling oddly warm and excited like after really exciting missions with Batman. He'd reach out and hold Dick's hand as if it were the most natural thing in the world. As if they were meant to be together forever. Where one was, the other was sure to follow. It was a fact of life. Dick didn't make up these sort of rules.

Then Artemis came into the picture and Wally was suddenly there less and less. The arguing gave way for flirting and soon Dick found his hand empty as he watched his best friend with her. All of a sudden it was no longer Robin and Kid Flash attached at the hip. It was now Wally West dating Artemis and smiling that teasing smile he had always saved for Dick, now being given freely to her. Dick couldn't even being himself to be angry at them for it. Artemis was his friend and teammate and Wally had been…was his first love. But it really couldn't mean anything. Wally liked girls. Wally flirted with girls. He wasn't attracted to boys. He was just friends with Dick and although Dick wished for something more in those moments they would hold hands, he would never dare jeopardize their friendship. He couldn't lose Wally. That didn't stop him from wondering though. What would it be like to kiss Wally West? What would it be like to have that arm wrapped around his waist?

As time passed the distance between them grew until Dick all but forgot how warm Wally's hands were or how his freckles made constellations across his cheeks. Dick had used to stare at them, transfixed by them and those bright green eyes that had Dick weak at the knees. Now he barely saw those eyes or those freckles. If this was part of growing up, Dick wished he could take it all back. Dick wished he could have that same easy friendship he once had with the older boy. All things had to end and it seemed their friendship was fast approaching that final point.

Then everything went to Hell. Dick had become Nightwing and Wally and Artemis had retired…they had left the hero business behind them. Dick had pulled them back into the game and Artemis had agreed to go undercover. For all Dick's careful steps and planning, Wally's frustrations and anger soon came hurdling out. The risks had been too much.

"Look, I'm sorry you lost all your souvenirs!"

They fought as they never had before. As they never should fight. Dick and Wally didn't fight with each other. Dick and Wally were inseparable. Wally had spat his disgust in Dick's face. Had physically shoved him down, enraged beyond belief. Dick had endangered the woman he loved and in doing so had lost that final thread that kept them together. Dick's heart had broken as he realized he had finally lost the boy-the man he had loved since he was a child and even at nineteen had still always felt something for.

"You put her right into his hands."

There had been nothing but hatred in his voice. Something Dick had never expected to face. This was the end. Even if everything went right. They would never be the same. When Wally never returned for the final time, it was as if all the warmth had been robbed and Dick couldn't breathe. It was a joke. It had to be. Wally was getting back at Dick for the shit he had put him through. He would show up on the snowy landscape any second. He had to show up. The air had been cold and Artemis had cried bitterly on her knees. Dick wanted to disappear, he wanted to be with Wally. He should have been with Wally...Wally had left him behind and in his death, had taken a part of Dick's heart with him.


I always had such feels for Wally and Dick in Young Justice Season One that I was disappointed by the lack of anything in Season Two. Wally's death would have really messed Dick up and I'm curious to see what happens by Season Three!

I'm trying to keep these on relative order by how old Dick was when he first became attracted or when they first got involved, some like Wally lasted years even if it was unrequited, while some might not last quite as long. With Wally it was Season One and Two (13-19).