85: Teacher
When Roy finds out that Wally's track advisor touched him in the showers after the fourteen year old had stayed late for practice, he's so furious that he can't see. All he knows is that he found out over a phone call with Wally's uncle. That's why the boy had missed school, that's why all of track was canceled. Can I see him? He had asked before he even thought, and Roy could practically hear the pursing of Barry's lips, Uh, look, Roy, you're a great friend of Wally's but he just - he's embarrassed.
Roy recalls the conversation and sees red. He's laying on his bed, plotting every way imaginable to kill a just graduated twenty-five year old track star and coach. Dinah comes in a little while later, asking him if he's alright but all Roy can do is laugh bitterly and tell her she's asking the wrong person. The blue eyed teen lays back once more and grits his teeth. He's about to go for a walk in his shitty neighborhood when his cell rings. He flicks his gaze at the screen, only to see Wally displayed. He chokes before thrusting himself from the covers of the bed to the floor where his mobile resides.
"Wally." He says frantically, trying to keep his calm facade.
"Roy." The other replies mockingly.
"I know." He says, wishing he hadn't just blurted that piece of information out so carelessly.
"I know you know." Wally deadpans.
"Oh."
"Yeah."
Roy shakes, biting his lip as he waits through the uncomfortable silence. Wally, on the other hand, seems completely content and makes no effort to break the ice.
"I'll kill him." The older teen says with a sense of seriousness that he doesn't usually use. Wally laughs at this and Roy frowns, "I'm serious, Wally. If I ever see the bastard again I'll murder him."
"Right, just like Uncle Barry said. Look, I get it's an awful thing to have happened, but it's not the end of the freaking world."
"It is." Roy interjects.
"Will you just let me finish?" Wally begins ajitatetedly, "Like everyone's on thin ice around me and that can't be you too, okay? Because I get that coaches aren't supposed to touch their student's dicks, but it happened and I told and it's done. The police took my statement. The end. Even if McK - he wins and they can't charge him, he'll never get a job at a school again. So yeah. I am not emotionally scarred because some asshole felt me up, got it, Harper?"
"I - I still want to throttle him."
"You're hopeless." Wally says, but there's a smile so evident that Roy can practically hear it.
"Can I come over, then?"
"Yeah, 'course you can. Since when do you ask?"
"Shut it, twerp, I might just stay home." And so the playful banter begins once again. Roy is relieved beyond belief and he lets it go for Wally's sake.
(It has nothing to do with the way that he hangs around after baseball to make sure Wally is safe. Nothing at all.)
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