Author's Note: My first fic since 2015! It's been a long time, everyone!
Disclaimer: I don't own Justice League.
Warnings: This story is about an emotionally abusive relationship and everything that goes with it. Warnings include, but are not limited to, emotional abuse, implied rape by coercion, language, and domestic violence.
Wally didn't meet her at a club. Or a bar. Or even a restaurant. No, he met her for the first time in high school. Blonde, busty, and drop dead gorgeous; that was Madison Morello in a nutshell. She was the most popular girl in school. Needless to say, Wally never had a chance with her.
But now things were different. Wally had seen her at the store and offered to carry her bags to her car during a downpour. She had laughed and given him her number after all the bags were safely in her trunk.
"Call me sometime," Madison had said to him.
So here he was, standing in front of a mini golf course on a bright sunny day waiting for her to show up. "Is that her car? No, Madison's car is red," Wally thought to himself. He smacked a mosquito that had just landed on his arm. A few minutes later, a red Honda pulled into the parking lot and parked neatly in the middle of a space not that far from the entrance. A woman with wavy blonde hair wearing a white T shirt and jeans got out of the car. She perked up when she saw Wally standing there and walked up to him.
"Hey, I'm glad you decided to show," Madison said by greeting.
"Was there ever any doubt?" Wally teased.
"Of course not." Madison said. "Let's go."
The two walked into the entrance building of the mini golf course. Madison was going to pay for both of them – she had insisted. Wally looked at the golf balls disinterestedly. It was always a challenge to pick the right color golf ball. Should he pick yellow or red?
"Hey, hurry up and pick your ball," Madison's voice broke him out of this thoughts.
"Huh, oh right," Wally responded.
He glanced over and saw that Madison was holding a hot pink golf ball. As Wally reached for a red golf ball, Madison suddenly interrupted.
"No, pick a different color. Red is too close to pink," Madison said.
"They're not that similar," Wally said.
"Just pick a different color," Madison demanded.
Wally was surprised by the sudden change of personality, but figured that Madison was just really adamant about having the only derivative of red. Wally selected a yellow ball instead.
As they entered the mini golf area, Wally noticed that there were actually two mini golf courses. One was for beginners and the other was for more advanced golfers. Wally was good at many things, but golf, mini or otherwise, was not one of them.
"Let's play the beginner course," he suggested.
"Nah, that's for retards," Madison responded while walking towards the advanced course.
"That's a really rude thing to say," Wally said, trying to hide his shock at such a casual use of the word.
"What? Oh, only social justice warriors care about that word," Madison said dismissively. "You're not a social justice warrior, are you?"
Wally knew he should have left right then or there, but the way she walked in her casual shorts overrode the thought. He did find it offensive, but his work in the Justice League had him fairly accustomed to it.
Madison smiled and said, "Come on, let's play!"
Wally had to resist the temptation to use his speed to put the ball in the hole. It took him multiple tries to hit the ball with just the right amount of speed to get it into the hole. Madison made hole in ones look easy. Why did he agree to play while keeping score? By the end of the course, Wally got the feeling that Madison was jumping for joy in her mind.
"You should improve your game," Madison said, laughing.
"I'll beat you next time," Wally retorted as he suppressed a pang of jealousy.
Wally walked her to her car, dropping off their clubs at the entrance along the way. Madison thanked him as she got into her car.
"Are you free on Tuesday?" She asked.
"Sorry, I've got work that day," Wally answered. This was true, he had League work all day that day.
"How about Sunday?" Madison persisted.
"Yeah, I'm free all day Sunday," Wally answered with a smile.
"All right. I'll see you Sunday," She declared. Madison closed the car door and drove away.
Less than two seconds later, thunder cracked in the sky and a rain came pouring down. "Figures. It's been getting cloudy." Wally thought. He walked to the bus stop and then he flickered and disappeared.
Over the next few months, Wally and Madison got to know each other very well. They spent all their free time together doing whatever came to their minds. Madison's strange insistence to pay for everything continued to baffle Wally. While it was true that he had no spending money because of his high metabolism, he expected to have to pay sometimes. It was almost like she wanted him to feel like he was indebted to her.
Wally and Madison were at the zoo today. It was cloudy with a chance of rain, so most of the animals were in their indoor enclosures. Wally was a little disappointed that he couldn't see any of the bears or big cats. Spotting the reptile house, Wally called out to Madison.
"Hey, you want to go see the snakes?"
"No," Madison said coldly.
Wally was surprised by her cold tone and the sudden change in her demeanor.
"Okay, how about the bird house?" Wally asked.
"Yeah, sure!" Madison cheered up instantly at the idea of seeing the birds.
Almost an hour later, Wally and Madison were standing at the front gate of the zoo when Madison told him that she had something to say.
"You know, Wally, I kind of like you. I want to date you officially," Megan confessed, a blush creeping onto her face.
Wally was taken aback by her confession because he had also developed feelings for her.
"I want to date you, too." He said.
Madison leaned in and kissed him on the cheek before getting into her car and leaving while Wally stood there blushing.
It was like the fly caught in the spider's web.
Author's Note: End chapter one.