ROUGH DRAFT

SUMMARY:

Emma and Wally have lived next door since as long as they can remember. They've been best friend before they even started preschool. But for him, it's hard keeping the whole Kid Flash double life on the down low. As they grow older, his feeling for her changed from 'you're the greatest friend ever', to 'I love you so much'. As he struggles to tell her, tragedy strikes over and over in Emma's home. Can their relationship stand strong, or will it all fall apart? Even though Wally loves her dearly, he is a super hero, and he's afraid to bring her into his lifestyle. But keeping her unaware of his double life is putting her at risk. When Emma's life is threatened more than once, and makes trips to the hospital more than he would like, he must chose whether or not to let her go, and love her from afar, without her knowing how he feels, and deal with the heart break of not knowing if she loves him back. Or let her be taken away from him. . . . Forever.

Author Note: This takes place during the first episode, Independence Day, when they go into Cadmus. I know this takes place on July 4th, hence the Independence Day title, but imagine it is the last week or two of school and Emma didn't do too well on her biology final. I also want to point out that Cadmus has been stated that it is in Washington D.C., but I need it to be in Missouri by the border of Kansas. Why? Because it has been shown that Central City is by the Missouri/Kansas border. Also, Central City is home of the two Flashes.

Also, Wally is a Senior. He'll will be graduating this summer. Emma is a Sophomore. Wally is eighteen, and Emma is about to turn seventeen.

Chapter One

Kid Flash/Wally West POV

"Hey Wally! Guess what!" I was standing in my backyard getting the push lawn mower out of the little shed. I looked over to my left to see my best friend Emma walking over to my yard. She comes to stand beside me and I say, "What? The moon isn't made out of cheese?" I say sarcastically.

"Ha. No. Mrs. Gasaway is gonna give me another chance to pass the final over the genetic unit. How awesome is she!" My best friend Emma had not done so well on the biology final, which was a big shock to everyone because she was like a genius. After a lot of begging and bribing of a big batch of her favorite cookies, Emma convinced the teacher to let her have a redo.

"That is so cool! I can't believe that your bribery actually worked! Please tell me your secrets."

"There really are no secrets to tell. It is just a skill that I picked up over my short sixteen years of life, especially when you have four older brothers." She crosses her arms and finally notices what I am doing.

"You get lawn duty this week?" My dad and I switch chores around every week so we aren't bored with the mundane tasks every single week.

"Yep. But it is better than having to do the dishes this week, because we are having a birthday party." I smirk to myself, but she seems to share my humor.

"You planned this didn't you?" She asks me knowingly.

"I have no idea what you are talking about." I feigned hurt, and then smiled at her. Then I noticed how nicely she was dressed. She was in a short light blue dress that could either be considered slutty or modest, depending on how the wearer wore it. She had a skinny black belt around her waist and a jean jacket on, despite how hot out it was. She straightened her thick long dark brown hair. And on her feet where black high-top converse that she doodled little red and yellow lightning bolts with metallic Sharpie.

"Where are you going? No! Don't tell me! Are you going on a date?" I have to admit that I do have a bit of a crush on. I think I've always had a crush on her. And I will admit that I have always been tempted to beat the living shit out of any of the guys that paid attention to her. And right now I am, feeling a little jealous.

"No, that is what I came over here for. I have to go into the city to go to that big fancy sciency building and write a paper on Mark Desmond and what he does and so on." I pull the lawn mower completely out of the shed and start pushing it to the front of the house.

"That science guy that claims he did a successful cloning project, but refuses to show anyone?"

"Yup. That's the one."

"When do you leave?" Not that I wanted her to leave, but as soon as I finished this, Uncle Barry and I will go to the Justice League for the first time together! If that is not enough to get a sidekick happy, then I don't know what will. Honk in her drive way made her turn around and put up one finger as in hold-on-a-minute.

"Right now. Wish me luck." She gives me two thumbs up, a hopeful smile, and turned around toward her yard.

"Wally! Why don't I hear the lawn mower? You better get that done before you leave today!" I grimaced when my mom yelled at me.

"Sorry Mary! I was talking to him!" I love how she calls my mom and dad by their first name. It just goes to show how close our family's are. My mom comes out on the front porch and sees the two of us and she gives me a knowing look.

"Oh, well how are you Emma? I didn't know you where here. Why don't you come in? I'm sure Rudolph would like to see you again." My dad is like her second dad, same as with my mother.

"I would love to, but I got to go into town for a little while." She waves goodbye to us and runs to her drive way and gets into the green minivan passenger side door. Emma's mom, Michelle, honks before they drive out of sight.

"So, when are you going to ask her out?" The question caught me off guard, so I pretended not to hear my mom's question. I go to start the mower when Barry, the Flash, comes to a stop in front of me.

"Suit up kid, we got to job."

{Time Skip}

"Come on, this is taking forever!" I say impatiently. Captain Cold picked a really bad day to acquire our attention at the. I just wanted kick his as from one state to the next and be done with it. And Barry was just talking with him. Why are you conversing with the enemy! That has to be against some kind of code of some sort, right? Well, I don't care. Let's end this. I run at him and narrowly miss being hit in the face with his cold gun; instead it only hit my shoulder. I take the gun from him and Barry comes in behind me and knocks him out cold. Ha Ha. Get it? Knocks him out cold? Yeah, I know. It wasn't that funny.

"Come on! Today is the day!" The day that I finally get to be in the Head Quarters of the Justice League.

"Hold on. We got to get all the diamonds back to the jewelry store and then we have to give this creep to the guys in blue." My uncle is always relaxed and laid back, while the world doesn't seem to go fast enough for me.

"Fine! But let's be quick about it. We are going to be the last ones there at this rate!" I practically just yelled at him and took all the frustration out on him, but he didn't seem offended about it at all. In fact, he just brushed me off. He did! He just brushed me off!

"You are always so impatient. Slow down and enjoy life. You'll miss the things that are most important to you if you don't slow down and see them." Okay, right now, he just sound a little bit like Dr. Phil. A little creepy, but I see where he is coming from. I bend down and start to bound the unconscious asshole that ruined my day so far.

"Okay, okay. I get it, but this is a big moment for all of us sidekicks and you're kind putting a damper on things. This will be the first time that all four sidekicks have been in one place at the same time,"

"I get, Kid, I really do. But you are just going into HQ. Nothing terribly exciting." He said, picking up stray diamonds that had fallen out of the bag when Captain Cold was taken down. An officer came over and relieved us of the villain and the almost stolen goods.

"Can we go now?" I was about to resort to puppy dog eyes, but that would make me look like an idiot, and we wouldn't want that would we? He exhales as if going to the JL HQ was a chore.

"Fine. Let's go before you decide to go on your own." He teases me. But I don't care. We are finally going!

"About time!" We take off the Washington, D.C. after a long awaited day.

{Scene Change}

Emma's POV

"Emma Lash?" I sat in the waiting room of the big famous Cadmus science and research building alone. Mostly, because I wanted to do this by myself. Without her hovering over my shoulder. And because she is a nurse and had a night shift for the next few days at the hospital.

I stand up and put down the old People's magazine in the hard plastic chair that I had been sitting in for the last half hour. I reach down and pick up my dark purple backpack that held my homework that I just finished.

"Here!" A dark-skinned lady with a lab coat sees me and smiles. She stands in front of a heavy looking door with a clipboard.

"I am Dr. Spence." She shakes my hand. "I am Mark Desmond, or Dr. Desmond's assistant. I'll take you to his office or lab, whichever one he is in and you can write that paper about him." She opens the door for me and ushers me in.

"Are you ready to get this done and over with? You don't have to be nervous, he's a good man." She tries to reassure me.

"I know. But he is such a busy man and all, I don't want to take away from his busy schedule, or his time." I always try to polite, even if I don't like it.

"Oh, he won't mind. I even heard that he was thinking about showing you the clone project." She said that so casually, it was almost like she was stating that the sun was yellow.

"What! Are you sure that that's a good idea? Maybe you should get some professional reporters, like Lois Lane or something."

"He specifically asked for a younger person, and when your teacher called in and said nothing but good things about you, well he just jumped at the chance."

"But me? I'm just a sixteen year old girl who wants to pass biology before the summer is out. I don't think that I can handle something like this." I started walking backwards toward the door that I came through.

"I wouldn't do that." A man with a lab coat and pony tail that appeared behind me spoke. Dr. Desmond.

"And why not?" Despite my heart wanting to leap out of my chest and run out the door, I tried to remain calm and remember all the self-defense moves the Wally and my brothers taught me.

"Because you are going to tell me story. Even if I have to force you." I started looking around frantically for an escape, but I was stuck in between the two doctors and in a hallway with no doors. My odds do not look.

If I try and yell for help, that might bring more people who will baby-sit me and make escape harder. If I try and call the police, they'll take my cell phone away and then I won't be able for help when/if they leave me by myself. If I play along and do what he wants, I can leave this unscathed and then have them all arrested afterwards. That sounds like a plan to me.

"Where do we do start?" I asked reluctantly. I didn't want him thinking I was doing him a favor. I was going to make this as difficult as I could without getting my genes scrambled. He smiled at me which made my skin want to crawl under the floorboards.

"Right this way, Emma."