Something Strange

by shells210

There was something strange about Wally West. Of course, the same could be said about Diana Noble. Perhaps it was because of this that they were so in love, their combined oddities complimented each other. Now all that was left was to tell one another the truth- That he was a superhero and she was a time traveler.

1. Wally

Based on the JLU cartoon series.

I own nothing.

There was something strange about Wally West.

She had never been able to pin point exactly what it was, and maybe that was because there was something strange about her as well. They had been going out for a total of seven months and around two weeks, give or take a day, and she had noticed a few things about him.

He was always late, no matter what the occasion was, be it a date or a 'make-sure-you're-alive' greet after a gorilla tried to blow up the city he was always at least five minutes late. To make up for it she had started setting the time for their meetings about ten minutes ahead of time without letting Wally know.

He flirted. A lot. At first she had found it amusing, still did most times, but she had finally put her foot down when he had asked her, quite cheesily, to be his girlfriend officially, as if they were still in high school. She had said yes of course, if he promised to stop flirting with other girls. He had agreed, grinning like a red haired puppy.

He lied. She was used to being lied to, or fed half-truths, 'rule number one' after all, but oh she hated it. Hated watching the tell, the twitch in his right cheek, the inability to properly meet her eyes, the smooth, practiced tone of an actor that over took his voice, she hated it all. But she didn't expect him to blurt out all of his secrets to her, god knows she had plenty she hadn't told him. So finally she had made a deal with him. She wouldn't ask invasive questions if he stopped giving her badly thought up excuses as to why his arm was broken or where that black eye had come from. And she did, she kept her word, but she would ask him one day, maybe in another month or so, where all those injuries came from, and where they went so quickly.

He was absolutely brilliant. He was one of the smartest people she had ever met, in this century and any other. A forensic scientist, her ginger was! Which was creepy, in its own way, but also very cool. He told her about work, explained things she wouldn't be able to understand without hurting herself, and expanded her knowledge on the human body, which was definitely a good thing.

There was something else though too, something she hadn't been able to say in years to anyone not named 'Noble', honorarily included, that she found herself thinking it more and more as she continued to see him, something that scared and exhilarated her. And finally she got up the courage to blurt it out right after kissing him goodnight outside her apartment.

"I love you."