Sooo... sorry for the wait, everybody... ''OTL
First of all: THANK YOU SO MUCH! For the nice reviews and story alerts and just... everything! I'm so happy .
Especially TheWickedWizardOfOz's reviews just ... they fill me with joy :3
Onto A/N:
I, like, wrote the first half weeks ago, let it be, read it again, hated it, made a few changes and wrote the rest of it tonight.
And SUDDENLY it took a whole new turn. I never really had charas do things I didn't want or never thought about but at the end of this chapter I was like... 'what are you DOING?...' and I asked around (well, my father and on facebook where I didn't get many opinions) but I decided for this because DRAMA BABY!
(I hate it, but I always wanted to try and write something new.)
Well, I hope you enjoy it :)
Like always, I'm not a native speaker so point out what I did wrong, please :)
Disclaimer: I don't own Young Justice (but I have plans) or anything, really, besides the story.
It had started with a normal mission. It always started with a normal mission. Go in, hide and don't do anything. But everyone always forgot the hostages. Or Wally's impatience. Or Superboy's temper. Or Robin's need to disappear like a ninja about every three seconds.
Thank God for Miss Martian's telepathical link.
Robin, where are you?
I'm just a little bit ahead.
Kaldur's feelings welled up. He was so tired of their youngest team mate disappearing all the time. They all shared a look. He wasn't the only one feeling this way.
Kaldur's order sounded strict as they continued on their way. Seriously, this corridor was so long.
Come back immediately!
Aw, come on Kal. I've got it under-oh.
Kid Flash's emotions burst through everyones minds. They felt how worried he suddenly was.
What's wrong Rob?
They didn't need to wait for an answer. The corridor they were walking through started to shake violently.
A bomb!
No one in particular thought it but everyone knew.
Aqualad, discarding the mental link, shouted over the noise of the crumbling building. "Everybody! GET OUT!"
They needn't to be told twice. Superboy scooped the protesting Miss Martian up and dashed to the exit. Aqualad right behind them.
Artemis locked eyes with Wally. She knew what he was thinking.
"Oh no you don't. He'll make it!" She shouted over the noise of the crumbling building and grabbed his arm. βOr tried to since he was gone as soon as she started to move.
Cursing she made a run for the exit as well, trying not to let her worry show too much.
Wally ran through the building as fast as he could. He tried the comm. link but it was broken. Again. They really had to work on that.
Why did everybody keep on forgetting about the bombs? Somehow, every villain had them. Wally shook his head. He had to focus now. Robin was still somewhere around here.
He dashed down a corridor, blocking falling parts of the ceiling. How far ahead did he go? Green eyes moved frantically, looked in every room but he didn't see Robin anywhere.
With a roar the building started to shake even stronger. More bombs. Great. Wally thought and pushed himself even faster. His breath started to get harder but he had to get Robin out.
Images of Robin lying buried under a rock while the builing collapsed flashed before his eyes and got him to pick up his pace again. He was at his limit. His legs hurt, his lungs burned but he couldn't give up.
He had to find him.
And there he was. Almost at the end of the corridor near the stairs leading up to the second floor. Sitting on the stairs and holding his leg, which was obviously wounded. A small pile of blood had already formed under the Boy Wonder's legs.
Wally, once he reached the lying teen, started to check for other injuries but his hand was swatted away.
"What are you doing?" Robin hissed at Wally. The redhead looked at him incredulously.
"Saving your ass...again?"
And with that Wally swept Robin up in his arms and started to run. They seriously needed to hurry now. But this corridor was so long. How could one corridor be this long? It would take them too long.
They wouldn't make it.
"I told you to never do that again!" Came an angry shout from below Wallys neck.
They wouldn't make it. But...
He needed to save Robin.
As if a string snapped Wally suddenly got faster and faster. Faster than he ever had been before. The thought of saving Robin gave him a lightness he had never felt.
He was doing this for the boy in his arms. He couldn't allow himself to fail. The blurry images of their surroundings disappeared completely and everything Wally could see was the exit. And everything he could feel was Robin.
Not the burn in his lungs or his legs.
Not the fear of dying.
Just Robin.
With the last explosion they got out.
Wally saw the team standing there seeming on the verge of barging in again. Their shocked expressions burned themselves into Wally's memory.
He looked down to Robin and smiled.
Then everything went black. Again.
He awoke with a headache and damn he had to stop blacking out. With a hiss he lifted his hand to his hurting head. And owowowow... his legs hurt like hell. In fact, it seriously felt like- "Crampscrampscramps ohmygodit hurts!"
Tears shot into his eyes but slowly (slow again, dangit!) the pain subsided. Wally exhaled in relief and looked around.
Great. The infirmary again. As if that didn't get old.
But differently from the last time, Wally didn't have to get up himself. His teammates entered the room just like they were waiting for him to get up. He bet they did.
A weak wave. "Hey guys, what's up?" Accompanied by a smile.
They didn't look amused. Not amused at all... They were all shooting him some variation of the I-am-terribly-dissapointed-in-you-bat-glare with a hint of... something. Especially Megan looked like she had seen a ghost.
"Uuuhh..." he started, "I'm sorry?"
While Kaldur sighted deeply, Artemis snapped.
"Do you know what you have done? Again?" She looked furious.
"Saving Bird boy's ass. Again. Duh." He answered. Not a good idea.
"While putting yours in danger! You had us worried! I told you not to do that!" This time it had been Robin who snapped. He looked even more furious than the blonde archer. Furious and... what was that expression? Pity? Guilt?
"Well what do you expect me to do? Just sit there and watch him being buried under a building?"
"Wally, please just listen-"
"Don't deny it! That is what you're saying! I can't believe you're scolding me for saving a life! Isn't that what superheroes do?"
He felt sorry for interrupting Megan but he needed to get that out.
"You have your boyfriend β yes, I noticed Artemis, no need for a snappy remark β around you all the time and he can look out for you every second!"
Conner looked like he didn't know how to react to that. He decided to keep quiet and slowly walk towards the door. He didn't do confrontation if he wasn't the one iniciating it.
"And once I start to try and look out for my β my best friend, I get scolded? Where's the logic to that?"
Wally was actually out of breath after that rant. And it statisfied him to see the baffled look on his teammates faces. Well, sans Conner and Megan since he dragged her out before Wally finished.
"Wally, it isn't that we don't understand your feelings. We were all worried for Robin-"
"Well, you certainly didn't look like it."
Artemis roared, annoyed. She seriously sounded like she was about to kill someone. That someone being Wally. Her glare pierced through him and he actually winced.
"Okay, that's it! That's my limit. Call me when you're off your period, mister drama queen!" And she was gone. Though she sent one apologetic look Kaldur's and Robin's way.
Weird.
Wally totally didn't feel guilty. He didn't. They didn't react when it had been necessary. They would've let Robin die.
"Wally." Kaldur put a hand on his shoulder that Wally shrugged off. He didn't look Kaldur in the eyes, kept them on his bedsheets.
He heard another sight. "Can I leave this to you?"
Silence.
And Kaldur left.
The silence that followed was almost painful. Wally knew that Robin was angry. But why? Thanks to him, he was alive. Why was he always angry at Wally?
He just wanted to... keep Robin safe.
Slowly, he lifted his gaze and was met by sorrowful blue eyes. Wally caught his breath as he looked into them.
"Dick..." it came out breathless. Suddenly Wally wished back the angry glare. He couldn't bear to see his best friend so sad.
Why was he sad?
Richard walked towards him and sat on the edge of his bed. He lifted his hand to Wally's face and when he touched it, he sighed so deeply, it seemed like his sorrow could never be lifted.
"Wally..." Wide green eyes stared into blue ones. Searching for something, anything in those eyes to get what was going on in the brunet sitting across from him.
"Dick, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." All the rage was gone. He just wanted Dick to smile at him again. Wally grabbed the smaller one's hand, desperately, and squeezed it.
That was when the brunet broke down. At first, just a few tears escaped his eyes but they gradually became more and more until he sat there, sobbing and wiping at his eyes, his hand still on Wally's cheek.
Wally didn't know what to do. Why was his best friend crying? Over him? But he didn't get hurt to bad. He should be glad. They should all be glad.
Why was Dick crying?
BAM! Why could Dick possibly be crying?
And yeah, I didn't make a big deal out of this 'secret identity' thing because lets be honest... Wally probably knows about it since.. forever.
Okay, things I didn't plan: Wally knows Dick's identity (really, it just happened. I turn around for five seconds and he takes his mask off...)
Also, this whole crying thing. He just.. started. And then I had to think about why because seriously, if nothing had happened, he'd just be mad at Wally again.
And Wally's whole I'm-so-angry-speech just came out of nowhere.
Well, I'll keep writing tonight but I don't know when the next chapter will be finished because I'm unsure about some details (since Dick just blew up my whole storyline)
Hope you liked it, please review .
-Miya
