Hi guys! Here is my second Young Justice - fanfic! :) I re-watched 'failsafe' recently and I always liked the scene where Wally jumped after Robin when he is about falling from that platform in that alien mother ship. And because nobody wrote about this (at least I never stumbled upon such a story), I decided to write one myself :)
I hope you'll enjoy.
I do not own anything... unfortunately...
By the way, the story starts with Wally seeing how his best friend is sliding across the platform...
Of Fears And Friends
Chapter 1
No, not his best friend, too! NO. He wouldn't let that happen... - it was bad enough that he hadn't saved Artemis – hadn't pushed her out of the way, hadn't run in front of her – but he WOULD NOT let these … these aliens take Dick away from him as well!
Wally hurried forward, threw himself on his knees and reached for Robin's arm, grabbing the little bird's hand.
Of course, he knew that this wouldn't help much – if at all – but he'd be damned if he didn't at least try.
The dark-haired boy already slipped over the edge, dragging the older teen with him. Wally knew he only had a second to find something to hold on and prevent them from falling; at least being a speedster would come in handy now...
But he couldn't get a grip on anything. The surface of the ground was just too smooth and there was no way he would be able to grip that slippery edge... No!... The redhead felt he was falling...
THUD!
"Aaahgh..." the red-haired speedster groaned, finding himself on the floor of his room, tangled in his blanket. Remembering what had happened, Wally sat up slowly, trying to breath more evenly to calm himself. 'It was just a dream,' he kept saying in his mind, 'no need to freak out like that...'
It didn't help. He could still see Dick's face before him; his masked eyes not giving away much of his feelings, but his mouth slightly open, like he was surprised.
Strangely, he hadn't looked afraid, at all. Wally, on the contrary, had been scared out of his mind; a thousand thoughts had been racing through his brain: his whole life flashed before his eyes - remembering things he regretted having done, things he regretted not having done...
'I wonder if Artemis is having any nightmares...?' flashed through his mind.
But he quickly became focused again.
Why hadn't Dick looked frightened? Sure, Wally himself hadn't really been scared (at least not so much that he couldn't hide it) when Dick and he had been trapped in the mother ship, he had known by then that they couldn't survive; of course it had been scary even at that time, but he had been somewhat prepared for that...
However, during that fall? He had been caught completely off-guard... he hadn't been able to control his reactions, neither physical, nor emotional...
But Dick? He had looked a little astonished, but nothing more...
Then again, Dick had reacted completely collected throughout the entire mission...-' simulation', Wally corrected himself, 'it wasn't real, after all...'
How could the thirteen-year-old have been so calm? Though maybe the better question was: had the thirteen-year-old boy been Dick? Or Robin?
Well, Robin and Dick were very much alike... but there was still a fine line between them, there had to be; no normal kid of the age of nine (the age Dick had been when Robin had started fighting crime) would be able to handle the situations the Boy Wonder had to face in such a screwed up city like Gotham was.
Wally knew that already- of course he did, he had even noticed that before Dick had told him his secret identity...
For a short moment Wally wondered why even he racked his brains over it, when it began to dawn on him: Dick and Robin had very different ways to deal with an issue...
Robin was more analytical than Dick. He was the strategist of the team, after all. He approached a problem very rational, ignoring his feelings most of the time...
Dick on the other hand... He was quite emotional. Sensitive. Not in a touchy-feely- or whiny-way, no. But he didn't bother concealing his emotions as much as others did (for example like a certain Bat...). And he was much more of a kid than Robin was. Sure, Robin would crack a joke from time to time or laugh his weird cackle when he was disappearing; but he still was always focused on the mission, always serious, mature. It was Dick, who came up with the strangest words, added them to his wide vocabulary and then actually used them. It was Dick, with whom Wally had played a lot of the craziest pranks, driving their mentors nearly insane. It was Dick, whom he played video games with and it was Dick, with whom he did all the things that brothers did (at least what he guessed brothers did together).
Dick was also more vulnerable than his crime-fighting self. The loss of his parents was present to him everyday and even though he was someone who looked ahead and made the best of everything, he was wounded.
And of course, sometimes he was plagued by self-doubt – which teenage hero wasn't? - though with the Batman as his mentor, it was probably even harder for him...
And Wally realized that his best friend had been in "Robin-mood" the whole time during the simulation, otherwise he couldn't have made the decisions he had made without breaking under the responsibility he had been burdened with... but what will happen when he wasn't Robin anymore? Wally had seen his pal when they had awaken from their "training" - the bird had had a hard time pulling himself together, avoiding his team mates' glances (in spite of the shades), his forehead covered in sweat...
Not really realizing what he was doing, the speedster almost jumped into his sneakers, grabbed the nearest hoody in his reach and sped in direction of Gotham City.
Like it, hate it? I'd be very happy about reviews! ;)
I have already finished the next chapter but I'm going to be on a school trip until Friday night, so you guys will have to wait till Saturday... but I'll post asap, I promise!
P.S: If anyone found grammatical mistakes, please tell me; English is not my mother tongue, so I still have some difficulties every now and then...
