If I never Knew you: A new villain changes the cores of Dick and Wally's lives so that the two young heroes never meet, and so one of them never becomes a hero. How will their lives play out now? Will they ever find one another again?
Teller's POV
In was in the Fate's design that these two were to meet. No matter what life or time-line those two were in, there were always on the course of meeting.
Richard 'Dick' Greyson, as of now, he was 13 years old, about to be 14. His parents died tragically just four years earlier when the boy was only 9. An even that left him in the care of a stranger, who was present the night of the accident. He now lives with his adopted father, Bruce Wayne and lives with him in Gotham city and attends an academy. The day of his second day of middle school was when he met Wally West.
The young red-head, Wallace West, who was loud mouthed and impatient, met the boy when his uncle came to visit Mr. Wayne, an old friend of his who he met on a business trip quite a few years back. When the red-head noticed the gloomy expression of the uniform clad boy, he offered him a sweet and instantly their friendship was formed.
"That's how it happened child." A voice crowed lowly as old bones snapped into place as the figure rose. "Or at least that's how it should have. But I don't typically enjoy stories like that. And neither should you. So I am going to tell you my version of the story, and we'll see how things go from there."
"But before we start, allow me to introduce myself. I am the Teller of Stories, or Teller for short. You may not have heard of me, but believe me. I have heard of all of you, and the boys in tonight's story have heard of me as well. They were the boy's who have silenced my stories, and we can't let that happen. Because I have so much to tell you all. So let us try this story again. Shall we?"
We will start out in a circus, not a very large one though. Just a simple red and white stripped tent trimmed with yellow frills. We'll put up a sign to announce the nights acts The Flying Grayson'sA young trapeze artists and his even younger wife, and lets not forget that little boy of theirs. He is only nine, but the boy is rather tall and will come up to your chest if measured, but that is besides the point. Tonight that little boy will fly, for you see children, tonight is this child's first actual performance, and he gets to do it with a full crowd watching him. Oh what Joy he is probably feeling, but we won't know exactly how hes feeling unless we go in and check on him.
So now the story will take place inside the tent, so high off of the ground, a couple of ropes and bars are the only things keeping the couple from plunging to their deaths. But what is this? A loose bolt seems to have found itself into the main line. This is not good, for you do remember what happens next, don't you? This is how the whole story began, and its what cause Richard and Wallace to meet in the first place, back at the manor where Dick lives with his adoptive father- but you remember what I said would happen it they met? All of the stories would end, so let us fix that.
Now we will flash forward a little, dear children in the crowd. Watch the blonde and her dark haired husband swing across on the trapeze, appearing as graceful as swans as they performs their flips and tricks, always catching one another in a safe embrace. Now here comes the final act, their young son. We will call him Richard for now. He takes hold of the bar in front of him, and leaps off of the platform. Hes not as graceful as his parents, he is no swan, but a robin. He reaches out for his mother's arms to take hold of, because you see children, while you were all enjoying the show, I've cut the wires to that bar in particular. I told you that the boy would fly, so lets watch and see what becomes of the beloved bird.
We see that he is falling, quite fast might I add, closer and closer to the hard ground bellow, but there is two ways that this chapter of the story could end:
A: The little bird hits the ground with a sickening 'crunch' and red soon paints more than his costume. Everyone is quite for a moment, no one speaks and no one moves as his parents return safely to their platform but then rush down to aid their only child, but I am afraid its to late for the boy has broken more than just bones and is far from repair. This was the original way that his parents had died, and as you remember, that's how he meets Mr. Wayne and how he met Wallace West, but now that he is gone, well you can figure the rest. His parents will weap over his body, holding what is left of their little bird close and cursing the skies though they do not seem to realize that is was me all along and at the funeral, Mr. Wayne does not attend. Those two are grown adults. They do not need an adoptive father or friend to take care for them.
B: But there is another way that this scene could play out. Watch closely again, at the falling boy and those down below. The rest of the circus family senses the distress and luckily, there is someone on standby. This person rushes under where the boy is falling and luckily, as if it were a scene taken from fiction, he catches the boy in both his arms, preventing him from hitting the ground, which as you all know, is not as comfortable as human arms. The boy is now safe, but not without harm. Take a closer look as his broken arm. Surely he can not preform which such an injury, and his dotting mother rushes down to him to tend to the wound. She and her husband are thankful that their son is alive, but they are not so sure about the circus anymore, or at least letting him preform.
So there are your options, A and B. I can't complete the story unless I know what scene to choose, so that's where you come in little children, decide if he lives or if he dies and we will see how the story plays out for our two young heroes. Until next time, this is only chapter one.