Hello Fanfiction, my dear friend~
I have decided to continue this story, due to four certain people, whom have asked me too (Some in passing, but still) I was also surprised that no one mentioned the guy on the bus, but, oh well~
Also, should I write even more chapters (And I most likely will), I will tell you that I am currently alternating to Wally's point of view, and will most likely rotate back through Wally's and Dick's POV until the end (of the story).
Warnings: Boys still be interacting in romantic ways
Disclaimer is on the first chapter, please read it if you have not already done so
Dreamscape
Wally brought Robin back to Mount Justice. Despite the hopeful looks on the team's faces, Robin ran straight to his room. The sight of tears were clearly on his face.
"Wally, are you that bad on a date?" Artemis asked standing up from her position on the couch, everyone else too, had stood up and cornered Wally.
"No, he just...isn't like me." Wally said sadly, he hung his head. M'gann had covered her mouth and immediately made to hug and cradle Wally.
"Wally, I'm so sorry!" she whispered into his ear, however it was still audible for everyone else.
"It's fine M'gann, I mean it's not your fault that I'm hopelessly in love with my best friend." Tears had threatened to leave Wally's dull emerald eyes. Kaldur placed a comforting hand on Wally's shoulder, Wally did not look up.
"Perhaps, you would like some time off, to cool down?" Kaldur asked.
"Maybe, but I think I would like be alone right now. Good night." Wally said hurriedly and ran to his room as well.
"What are we going to do about this?" Conner asked, clearly distressed at his friends' sadness.
"It is their problem, the only thing we can do is stay out of the way, and extend our hands if either fall too hard," Kaldur replied.
"Well, Wally's already fallen, he just won't take our hands." Artemis retorted, a scowl on her face. She may not be too fond of Wally, but they were a team and he clearly needed help.
"In any case, we should not bother either of them, for now. They need their rest," Kaldur said, "I am off to bed, for it is awfully late." With that everyone else soon followed suit and went to bed.
An ear splitting scream reverberated throughout Mount Justice. Wally stumbled out of his bed. The scream came from the left of his door: Robin's room! He opened his door swiftly, to his right Conner too had heard the scream and was out of bed, still in his nightwear, consisting of his regular shirt and Superman boxers. To his far left Kaldur had already begun to walk to Robin's door, he too was in his nightwear, a simple t-shirt and ocean blue boxers. They were soon met with Artemis whom had drawn up her bow, and M'gann, both in nightgowns. They all stared at Robin's door for a moment. Another scream.
"There's so much pain and suffering." M'gann whispered, her face contorted with pain.
Wally moved to open Robin's door, to the left of the door a hole appeared, with a computer inside it. Its screen read "Password" in a glowing red. Wally's fingers quickly danced across the keyboard, and Robin's door swung open. The five of them surged in.
Robin lay on his bed. His hair stuck to his forehead due to sweat; his shirt was stained in several places with sweat as well. He frequently twitched, his breathing shallow and quick. Robin released another scream, to which Superboy had to cover his ears. All five stared at their youngest teammate for a moment, unsure of what to do. M'gann's face became distorted with even more pain and sadness.
Wally had grabbed Robin's hand with his left, intertwining their fingers as he had done several days before, he grasped their hands in his right. Robin calmed a bit more, he twitched less frequently.
The other four remained still and disturbed. After a large quantity of time, or perhaps no time at all, Superboy and Artemis escorted M'gann out as she began crying about Robin's pain. For the second time that night Kaldur placed a comforting, warm, friendly hand on Wally's shoulder, Wally still did not look at Kaldur.
"Take care of him, Wally. Good night." As soon as Kaldur left, Wally moved Robin's bangs out of his face and kissed his forehead, murmuring comforting words, unsure if Robin heard them. Though, Robin seemed to calm down a bit more after hearing Wally's voice. Wally stood to get a chair. However, Robin's grip on his own hand was surprising,
"P-please! Please! Don't leave me! Not you too!" Robin's voice was a desperate, hoarse whisper.
"Rob-" Robin had twitched at this, "I promise, I will never leave you." Wally knelt beside Robin's bed, their fingers still intertwined and Wally's right hand still grasped this hold. He kissed Robin's cheek and drifted off to sleep.
When Wally woke, his fingers were no longer intertwined with Robin's, and he was in his room, on his bed, "A dream?" Wally asked as he rubbed his forehead.
"No." Robin said.
Wally looked up, sure enough, Robin was sitting on his cluttered desk, wearing sunglasses and had changed out of his night clothing, he was currently wearing the same thing he had the day before, a crimson long sleeved t-shirt and black skinny jeans. Robin picked up a bowl from his desk and walked over to Wally, handing him the bowl of cereal. He then kissed Wally's forehead, causing him to blush.
"Thank you, for staying with me." Robin said simply, before he walked over to Wally's desk to perch himself upon it, much like a bird would.
"No problem." Wally said as he shovelled the cereal into his mouth. Robin striaghforwardly watched his friend. Wally paused, "Would you like to tell me what your dream was about?"
Robin looked away, "No."
"Are you going to?"
"Yes." Robin took in a breath, "I dreamed I was at a circus."
"Why were you at a circus? You told me you hate them." Wally tilted his head, still putting spoonfuls of cereal into his mouth.
"Because," Robin sighed, "I just was, OK?" He said hastily.
"Robin, you really don't have to tell me anything."
"But I want to! You stayed with me, in what looked like the most uncomfortable position ever, holding my hand. What kind of best friend, or friend of any sort, would I be if I didn't tell you?" Wally noticed that Robin was stroking his right hand.
"But Batman will kill you if you divulge any information about your personal affairs." Wally had finished the last bit of cereal and had raised the bowl to his lips, to drink the milk.
"I talked to Batman this morning, he was against it and he put up a fight, however I was able to convince him to let me tell you." Robin said, still looking at the wall.
"Well, I'm going to be here all morning, or at least, until my legs regain their feeling." Wally said.
"OK, so I was at this circus right? Then," Robin took a breath, and it looked like he forced himself to look at Wally, "I saw my family fall to their death."
"Is that why you said, 'don't leave me, not you too?'" Wally asked, his eyes wide with excitement, wonder, elation, and... sorrow.
"I guess...anyways, that dream I've had a lot. It doesn't bother me as much." Robin ignored the look on Wally's face and pressed on,
"But after that, I dreamed we were on a mission. It went completely wrong, and w-we were cornered by a large amount of people, who were all armed. As one of them made to shoot me, y-y-you jumped in front of the bullet, taking a shot to the heart. S-Superboy and M'gann th-they went crazy, I'd never seen either of them that angry, and I never want to again; they charged straight at the crowd, attacking, maiming, killing, everyone they could. Artemis and Kaldur tried to stop them, while you just died in my arms. You had never, ever looked so f-fragile, so h-h-helpless, and I couldn't help you! I was useless! I couldn't take it. I wanted to join M'gann and Superboy. I-I screamed, I guess in real life too."
Wally cleared his throat, Robin was clearly crying, even behind his sunglasses. As tears began streaming down his face, "Oh, Rob, I-I don't know what to say."
"Tell me, you'll never, ever take a bullet for me." Robin had looked away again, he took off his glasses and wiped his eyes. He put them back on then turned to Wally.
"Rob! How could I possibly promise that! I would heal and you wouldn't! Of course I'm-"
"DON'T!" Robin had removed his sunglasses again, not bothering to turn away, his blue eyes gleamed with the tears in his eyes. Wally stared awestruck as Robin wiped the tears away once more. Wally wished he hadn't seen Robin's eyes: his beauty was one more thing to add to Wally's list of reasons to love the boy wonder, "Not after that. Don't you dare leave me. Please Wally, I'm imploring you."
Wally had never seen Robin so sad, never had he been this desperate, "Okay Rob, for you. I promise to not take any hits for you," Wally said this slowly and unsurely; Robin's sniffling certainly did not help. A comfortable yet, somewhat, awkward silence fell upon them.
Robin sniffled one last time, "Thanks Wally, again. For everything." Robin walked over to Wally and hugged him. Wally hugged back, he was now sure that he should break his promise to Robin, he would have to take every hit for him. To keep him intact, perfect, beautiful, innocent.
"If you don't come out by lunch, I'll bring it to you." Robin said as he replaced his sunglasses and walked out of Wally's room.
Wally wondered what had just happened. Not only had Robin kissed his forehead and hugged him, Robin had never really initiated any of their displays of affection, aside from punching him in the arm, he had shown him his eyes, begged him to let people hurt him rather than let Wally take the hit, and he had wanted to join the dream versions of M'gann and Superboy in hurting the people who killed him.
Was that just Robin's way of showing affection? Or was Robin beginning to feel for Wally as well? He watched you die in his arms, of course he was just being protective. However, Wally saw the way he was stroking his hand. It was gingerly, tender, carefully, as if it were a pet. And he wasn't aware he was doing it, either. Wally drifted off to sleep once more, pondering these questions.
Wally got up sometime later, changed and walked into the living room/kitchen. Robin and everyone else were huddled on the couch, clearly talking. Wally looked at the stove, there was a pot on it, and several dishes in the sink.
"Wally!" Robin exclaimed, jumping up.
"Er, was I interrupting something?" Wally asked, scratching the back of his head.
"No, not at all." Came Kaldur's deep voice.
"Want some lunch? I made soup." Robin said, walking into the kitchen, eerily happy. Wally walked closer to him,
"What's wrong?" Wally whispered quickly into his ear.
"Nothing's wrong, why would you ask that?" Robin said, turning on the burner, as Wally grabbed a spoon and a bowl.
"Because you told me you watched me die in your arms, then you're having a very quiet skull session with our team, and now you're falsely happy."
"I am not falsely happy!" Robin said a smile gracing his face.
"I can still see the tear tracks, Rob." Wally whispered, wiping them off.
"Look, the Team can't know about my dream, okay?" Robin had lowered his voice, "I told them I watched M'gann and Superboy maim, injure, kill and what not, I didn't tell them I watched you die. So, don't mention it. They were just trying to help me get through my dream, I told them how scared I was for and because of M'gann and Superboy." He began scooping soup into a bowl.
"So, why the happy?" Wally inquired.
"I don't know, I guess seeing you alive made me happy." Robin said thrusting the bowl of soup into Wally's hand. They walked to the aisle where people usually prepared the meals, Wally sat on a stool drinking the soup, while Robin merely stood there watching him. The Team was too.
"What?" he asked.
"Nothing," came Artemis' voice.
Batman appeared on the large television, "Robin, I need you in Gotham. Now." Then he was gone.
"I guess I have to go now." Robin said. He ran towards the zeta beam projectors and was gone.
Wally hastily finished his soup, and ran to the team, "What did he tell you about his dream?"
"He said that he watched as Superboy and I killed a group of armed criminals." M'gann replied.
"That's what he told you to tell me, isn't it? What were you guys really talking about?" Wally asked, looking at each one of them
"I believe that it will be up to Robin to tell you what he has told us, as he asked us to only tell you what happened in his dream." Kaldur said, eyes not leaving his book.
"Yeah, if he didn't tell you then we aren't." Artemis said coolly. Her eyes, too, weren't leaving the book in her hand. Conner merely grunted, staring at the empty television screen, while M'gann looked into Wally's eyes.
"Fine." Wally said curtly. He walked out of the room sulking.
Robin returned later after dinner, having taken down the Riddler, in one of his simpler schemes.
Wally, however, was still sulking, he couldn't go home because his parents were out on their second honeymoon and requested that he stay at Mount Justice. He also couldn't go see Uncle Barry and Aunt Iris, because while he was always welcome there, he couldn't simply barge in and ask to stay for a while, at least, he couldn't do it with feeling guilty and loathe himself for a while.
"Hey." Robin said softly, closing the door behind him. Wally was reading a random comic book, not really reading or looking, but staring blankly.
"Hi."
"I-Is it okay if I sleep here tonight?" Robin asked cautiously
"Why? Won't you be freaked out I might I don't know, do something?"
"You might be scared of doing something, but I think you can control yourself perfectly fine."
"Robin, what did you really dream last night?" Wally's comic book lay on the floor, forgotten
"I told you what I dreamt."
"Then why talk in hushed tones with the rest of the team?"
"..."
"Exactly." Wally picked up the comic book again, and placed it on his already overflowing desk. Robin ran to Wally, and threw his arms around his waist,
"I don't want to lose you again, Wally. Seeing you dead and broken and dead really hurt." Robin was now sobbing, "I can't lose anyone else. Not you. Not anyone."
Wally wheeled around and pulled Robin into a tight hug, feeling Robin's sunglasses dig into his chest, though he could hardly care, "Robin, how could you possibly think, that I would want to leave you?"
"I-I rejected you." Robin's voice was a hoarse whisper, so small, Wally almost didn't hear it. Wally tilted Robin's face up, and pulled off his sunglasses.
"Don't be silly. We'll always be the best of friends. Whether or not your love is the same as mine." Wally's emerald green eyes stared directly into Robin's teary blue ones.
"Promise?" Robin asked, feeling foolish and childish.
"Already did." Robin wrapped his arms around Wally's neck and pressed his lips to Wally's. Wally melted for a moment, feeling Robin's soft lips on his, he pushed Robin away, however, "Wait! You really need to be sure to want it Robin."
"Wally. I know I said that I said that I told you what I dreamt. I lied."
"I kinda figured, so what did you really dream about?"
"I dreamt that we were on our date again. I dreamt that everything went the same. Except at the end, when we were gazing up at the stars." Robin looked into Wally's eyes once more, they were staring at him as if to say 'go on,' "And when I kissed you on the lips, on my own accord, it felt so right, like it was meant to be."
"Yet, you say that you rejected me?" Wally asked, confused.
"Because of what happened after that. I dreamt later we had broken up. And that's where the mission came in. I had broken up with you, and even so you selfless, heroic, moron! You threw yourself in front of that bullet." Silent tears were streaming down Robin's face, "And that's where I realised that I-I love you too, KF."
"Then why wait until now to tell me?" Wally was completely confused, Robin knew of Wally's feelings, Robin discovered his own feelings, Robin knew the team was okay with them, he had already talked to Batman. Why wait?
He felt something wet on his chest, he went to touch it. Red, slimy, thick. Blood. He could no longer feel his right arm. There was a tube going into the vein. He looked at Robin. He was no longer there. He looked around, darkness.
I'm so evil. I'm ending it off here, 'cause I planned on making this into three chapters if I did extend it. Mainly 'cause it started with Robin so it should end with Robin. I hope you enjoyed this dreamy esque chapter~
If you figured out the hints I dropped about it being a dream, congratz~
If you just reread to check for said hints, congratz~
