The Sucker
It was the breaking point. He hadn't wanted to, but he had decided to leave of his own will before things got any worse. So, swallowing slightly, the ten year old quickly packed his backpack with the essentials- mostly junk food, some batteris, flashlight a knife, his favories GL stuff but hesistates towards a certain stuff animal.
He could..but...
He winces , hearing the door slam downstairs before quickly grabbing it and heading towards the window. It wasn't that far down, he knew, he had already plan this out. He even had some moeny he had saved up- at least fifty dollars and some changes.
That should be enough, he thinks, but climbs out of the window, carefully (as much as he could) shimmies down the drain and jumps a little to the ground. Without a moment to spare, he was up in a flash and running to the sidewalk before pausing and looking back.
It would be the last time Wally West ever sees his home again.
How Oliver Queen stumbles upon this ragamuffin of a kid was a pure accident. Really, the kid was rather interesting. At first he stole his wallet then tried to play it off as if he found it without the money inside.
What was interesting in this was that Oliver hadn't felt a thing when it was taken.
At first he passed it off as some good luck or something. After all he had more important things to do then to notice some brown haired kid stealing a few buck - ok, a few hundred bucks but that's not the point here!
The point was that the kid, Willy, Waldo, whatever his name was at the time, was a complete and total chick magnet for him. Oliver found that out when he runs into the eleven year old again, only this time the kid seemed to have more of a plan.
He acted like he knew him, for one. Which caused a lot of unwanted attention- for godsakes, kid, it was just an ice cream cone!- he pandered to the kid's needs for the entire day, ending up with at least three phone numbers and a lot of apprecative looks from the ladies.
It was more effective than having a puppy.
By the end of the day, though, Oliver found an even stranger thing happened: He cannot turn around and leave this kid. There was something too smart about him, too sad and..
Well, it wouldn't hurt to take on a ward now is it? After all, Wayne had two, so how much trouble can it be to take care of a kid like this?
Sometimes, Oliver wished Dinah had been there that day. Because this kid- Wally- was full of trouble. The good kind of trouble.
