A/N: the first chapter's based on this prompt: "Birdflash Fanfiction Idea: Dick and Wally basketball one-on-one and Dick surprises Wally by being totally great at it and Dick even dunks over Wally and then Wally tackles him so he can't score again and then they make out"
Thank you for this prompt, anon! It was so much fun to write. My knowledge of basketball is rly limited, but, hey, I tried (ha)
and it's dedicated to ahrua192 because she's a darling and a fabulous writer and she deserves all the fluff in the world. Stop what you're doing right now, people, and go read her fics.
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"You're cheating!" Wally gets the ball back and refuses to dribble with it. "Dude, that's not fair."
"Yeah, I don't know how one can cheat on one-on-one basketball, but I must have found a way." Dick just looks at him and shrugs. Wally's spending the weekend at Wayne Manor and Dick used Alfred's cooking to blackmail the redhead into playing basketball with him. Now they're just having a little fun. Well, at least Dick is. "Or, you know, maybe you just suck at it."
"I'm taller than you, but somehow you dunked over me? I don't understand how that's possible!" Wally West does not pout. He doesn't. It's not in his nature. Instead, he smirks when an evil idea hits him. "And you know what?" He doesn't say what,he just starts dribbling in front of the boy wonder and, when Dick tries to steal the ball from him, he speeds off to the basket and shoots. He misses the first four times, but gets the all the rebounds and finally makes it the fifth time. It happens in a few seconds and all Dick can see's a blur.
"Dude, if you keep this up, I'll go fetch my utility belt and my batarangs, is that what you want?" Dick shakes his head from side to side when he sees the triumphant smile on Wally's face. "We agreed on no superpowers."
"But you're using your superpower, bro!" Wally comes back to the middle of the court and throws him the ball. "It's only fair I use mine too."
Dick raises an eyebrow at him and he's seventy percent confused, thirty percent amused.
"I have no superpowers, Walls, what the hell?"
"But you do!" Wally insists, slightly annoyed. "Your superpower is being amazing at, like, everything you do! And I'm done!" He runs to where Dick is and tackles his best friend to the ground so he won't be able to score any more points. A thirteen point gap between them is humiliating enough, thank you very much, he can't let it get bigger.
The ball rolls away. Dick's heart is beating like crazy and he wants to blame it on the adrenaline of the game, but he can't. Not when Wally's body on top of him, his face just inches away from his own, so close that he can actually feel Wally's rapid and warm breathing hit his cheeks and it sets his skin on fire.
"You think I'm amazing?" The words are out before he can even think about them and Wally blushes. He tries to stand up and nope.Dick can't let him. The boy wonder grabs his shirt and pulls him back down. In all the years they've been friends there were moments, moments like this one, in which Dick thinks that maybe, maybe Wally likes him back and it drives him insane because suddenly they're gone and Wally's back to hey bro did I tell you how much I like girls todayand Dick can't take it anymore. He needs to know. "Wally, please, answer me."
The redhead breathes out, but doesn't fight him to get away, and Dick tries not to get his hopes up because there are at least two ways this could go. He should prepare himself for the worst so he thinks that maybe Wally's just gaining strength to tell him that he's delirious, disgusting and that he never wants to see him again and it hurts more than a stabbing wound.
"Yeah." Wally says and Dick releases him. "I really do. You're good at everything." He says and it means nothing, it's not a confession, but it isn't a rejection either. Wally doesn't say anything else, but he doesn't move away. Dick isn't forcing him to stay down anymore, but he doesn't move away, and it says more than his words ever could.
"Not true." Dick holds his best friend's face with one of his hands, runs through his messy curls with the other and Wally's still not moving away. "I suck at a lot of things too."
"No, you don't, Dick..." Wally mouths to him, but Dick cuts him off.
"I suck so bad at getting over you and your stupid face and your stupid jokes and your..." He forgets what he was about to say because Wally's lips are suddenly on his and they're kissing.
They kiss and they kiss again and again and until they need to break apart for air. Wally rolls over to the side, his lips forming a smile and Dick remembers what he was going to say before he was interrupted.
"Lips. I can't get over your stupid lips." He turns and climbs on top of Wally, sitting on his lap, one leg on each side of his friend's body.
Wally pushes himself off the ground with his elbows and Dick leans towards him so they meet in the middle. He smiles halfway through the kiss.
"Does that mean you're going to let me win at basketball now? Please? Out of love?"
"Nope." Dick's smile grows bigger. "But now I get to kiss your wounded ego better."
Wally gets over the urge topoutfast and is back to kissing him in no time, the game completely forgotten in both of their minds.