This was a mission just for Robin. She had to identify the intruder and formulate a plan of action for her and Batman. Rachel and her fuzzy feelings would just have to wait. She had reviewed the security footage along with Batman's bugs and nothing registered. Just was beyond the common criminal. There wasn't the distinct shift of the walls or floors indicating that someone was fazing, none of the camera's had been tampered with, and aside from Wally's entrance and exit there wasn't the distinct 'whoosh' that came with the use of super speed.

She smiled at the thought of Wally but then had another. Wally met another speedster, someone who could be described as 'morally shady' at best. She enhanced the footage as much as possible. No, it was only the blur of kid flash. She watched again and again before she noticed something. Long after Wally left a paper shifted on its own. Someone was there.

Yes, there were small unnoticeable phantom movements. Someone was either completely invisible or camouflaged. She went over her rouges gallery before thinking bigger. Her mind was still on the mutant boy Wally had met. It wasn't that she didn't trust mutants, she just didn't trust mutants who abused their powers. She pulled up information on the boy. A picture of the boy taken after the Alcatraz Island incident with his middle finger stuck up graced her.

Jeremy Malone: age approx. 18. Sex: Male. Height: six even. Weight: 130 pounds. Eyes: brown. Hair: brown. Race: Caucasian Species: mutant. Power set: enhanced speed, reflexes, agility, healing. Pretty much the entire power set. The list of known associates was almost a mile long. Evidently he was pretty popular. She searched specifically for invisibility and camouflage. She knew of this group but not that much. The lesson on them pretty much boiled down to 'you see these people? Leave them alone.'

Ahh yes, there. A sister. Jessica Malone age approx. 21. Sex: Female. Weight: unknown. Eyes: brown. Hair: brown. Race: Caucasian. Species: Mutant. Power set: Light bending. A light bender, related to the boy who just happened to meet Kid Flash as he so happened to be heading to the place which was robbed by someone with the power to go unseen…and she had trained under Raven Darkholme for a time…yup, that was probably her man, er, girl.

But what did they want with it? It, being the caramel robot they found. Yes, a robot made completely out of living caramel was found. Yes, the caramel was living. The thing healed. It was creepy. The…thing…made its way from lab to lab as different people analyzed. General consensus was that it was something either mystical or very, very advanced. She decided to inform Batman of her findings and then starting on her homework. Hey, she had a secret identity to keep up and a near perfect GPA to preserve.

Wally said that he was gonna see her again and he did. He had the time, he could break the sound barrier, he had all the time in the world. He was currently hanging around outside of her school, trying not to look like a creep. She was probably busy with a club or something….or maybe she was avoiding him. Maybe she didn't like him. A thousand horrible scenarios ran through his mind almost as fast as he could run.

"Hi, Wally right?" asked Rachel in her best 'No, I have not fought alongside you for years' voice.

"Wally West, but close enough." Said Wally. She was smiling, good. She looked even better than he remembered. Not that looks were everything. She was probably really smart and into science and stuff like him. Well, a guy could hope.

"Wow, I never thought I'd see you again." Said Rachel. She had come to the conclusion that she could make this work. Batman and Catwoman managed to sometimes occasionally once in a while make it work. Black Canary and Green Arrow made it work. She would just have to always be in Rachel mode around him, no more civvies meetings. They could still hang out as Kid Flash and Robin but go out as Rachel and Wally. Screw that little voice in her head that said this was a bad idea.

"Never say never, beautiful." Said Wally channeling his inner Kid Flash.

"So, what are you doing here? I've never seen you around school." asked Rachel. She could feel her friends watching her, probably talking about how lucky she was to have an older boyfriend while her enemies were planting rumors about a bizarre sex life she didn't even have yet. Bizarre or otherwise.

"I just couldn't stay away." Said Wally before the doubt crept back in. No, now she was definitely going to think he was creepy. He wished he was in his Kid Flash outfit. Being in civvies made him feel naked, and not in the fun way.

"So…." Said Rachel digging her heal into the immaculate ground. Honestly, Wally felt like he was wasting a fortune just standing there.

"You wanna hang out?" asked Wally. She looked bored, he was boring her. He was nervous, and he hated being nervous.

"OK." Said Rachel. She told Alfred that she was going to be out with her friends after school and that she would keep in contact. Bruce was out doing Bruce Playboy Wayne things but she'd keep in contact with him too.

"Cool." Said Wally still standing there. He didn't know what to do. If it was Rob…but this wasn't Rob. But still, He always knew what to do with Robin. He'd have to see if Robin could hang out after this. Wait, why was he thinking about Robin?

"Good." Said Rachel feeling nervous. She hated being nervous. She made sure none of it showed on her face.

"Great." Said Wally unsure of what to do. He wanted to take her hand, to hold her, to kiss her. Yeah, most of those things would not go over well.

"You wanna get something to eat? I know a place." Said Rachel. Now it was just getting awkward. She had not been at war with herself all night to stand here like an idiot.

"Cool." Said Wally, and off they went. He knew what his uncle meant now, about his mind going too fast. She was younger than him, that much was certain, and the thoughts he was having were of the not so good variety. He knew, objectively, that it was hormones combined with his powers that made him feel the way he did. It wasn't the passing feelings he had for most girls, no, it was closer to what he felt for Miss M. He felt like an almost all encompassing desire for her; mind and body.

"So…where do you go to school?" asked Rachel making the appropriate small talk. She already knew full when where he went to school, lived, and pretty much everything there was to know about him. Well, that small talk would entail.

"Back home." Said Wally, his mouth running away before he could think. Oh man…

"Oh, you're not from Gotham?" asked Rachel like this was all news to her. It was surreal in a way, meeting him as her other self.

"No, I'm from Central City. I'm here with my uncle on business." Said Wally. She must have bought that, Bruce Wayne must have dragged her everywhere when he had business. That's what rich parents did, right?

"What kind of business?" asked Rachel, getting a small amount of delight at watching Wally squirm. How had he not thought of a cover story?

"The boring kind." Said Wally. How had he not thought deep enough into this cover story?

"Yeah, I get it. Bruce dragged me all the way to freaking Boise for a conference…." Said Rachel, chattering on about a trip which wasn't that boring. She was slipping more into being public Rachel now. She was Gotham's Princess and this is how Gotham's princess sounded to her followers. Her friends would have been hanging on every morsel of information they could get. Boys who liked her would be nodding, too busy picturing her naked or whatever to formulate a response. She hoped that Wally wasn't in the latter category. She wasn't sure if she was alright with the idea of him thinking about her naked. Great, now she was thinking about him naked. Now she was thinking about naked people in general. Puberty sucked.

Wally listened to her, trying to piece together who she was. He almost wished he was wearing his Kid Flash outfit. He was more, well, everything, as Kid Flash. Now he was just Wally. Wally the science geek. Wally the regular human being.

"….and then I had to get back because my team needed me." Said Rachel. It was a true story if you didn't count the villain who decided to ruin her day.

"You're on a team?" asked Wally trying to figure out as much about her as possible. From what he could tell she was small but had some muscle to her, if her legs were anything to go by.

"Yeah, mathletes. I know, total nerd right?" said Rachel

"No. I mean, science is really more of my thing than math but math's cool too." Said Wally

"Wow, I've never heard math and is and cool in the same sentence as not before." Said Rachel. She honestly hadn't. The other girls always expressed sympathy that Bruce made her do such a dumb extracurricular.

"Yeah, I get it. Where I'm from people aren't too into science." Said Wally'

"Which is so stupid. Science is, like, everything." Said Rachel. Wally was overcome with the urge to hold her hand, so he did without thinking. It was nice, her hand was smaller than his and very soft too. He laced his fingers through hers and rested his thumb on the back of her hand.

"Is this alright?" asked Wally remembering himself. Rachel asked herself if it was. Wally had grabbed her hand before, usually during missions or to drag her off to see something. This was different, nicer.

"Yeah, it's alright. But we're here." Said Rachel as they walked up to an unassuming diner. Wally was glad that she hadn't taken him somewhere expensive, being rich beyond his wildest dreams and all, but also puzzled that a rich girl like her would go to a place like this.

"You really like this place?" asked Wally. Maybe she was doing this for him, so he wouldn't feel uncomfortable. He'd admit that he didn't know too much about rich people. They couldn't possibly live on caviar and lobster and they had the money to go out to eat. Wait, wasn't that what they had cooks for?

"Wally, Earth to Wally. Come in, Wally." Said Rachel waving her free hand in front of his face. She knew what that meant, he was thinking really hard about something.

"Huh, what? Oh sorry. I just kinda spaced out." Said Wally as she led him to a table, menus already there.

"Yeah, I noticed." Giggled Rachel. It wasn't her Robin cackle, much nicer and sweeter. Wally loved that giggle.

"So, uhh, what are you getting?" asked Wally, his hand still intertwined with hers. He couldn't remember the last time he held hands with a girl. Wait, yeah he could. About a month ago, Linda from English. Wait, why was he thinking about Linda now, he had Rachel. Did he really have her? He was holding her hand, did that make him her boyfriend?

"Burger, fries, chocolate milkshake." Said Rachel not even looking at the menu. That meant she came in often. That was a good sign, right? She wanted people to see her with him and she was holding his hand. But he just met her, he couldn't be her boyfriend yet. Could he?

"So, what are you gonna get?" asked Rachel. Knowing Wally's metabolism it would probably one of everything. This was nice, he was nice. Holding his hand was nice. Nice and sweaty. Was that his sweat or her sweat? Did it matter? He was thinking really hard again, she could tell.

"Uh, the same as you." Said Wally breaking away from his internal debate. It was good that he picked the same as her, right? That meant he thought she had good taste. Uh, Kid Flash wouldn't have this problem. It was easier to hide behind a mask, that way it wouldn't matter if he screwed up.

"Cool." Said Rachel swinging her feet. She accidentally kicked him but he gave her foot a little tap back. Was he flirting? Was she? Why did people kick each other to flirt? What was a kick in the chest then? A declaration of undying love? She smiled. If that was the case then Batman would have had quite the haram at this point.

"So uh, you like…videogames?" asked Wally. They were sitting in silence and he wasn't sure if it was the good kind. She was playing footsie with him and she was smiling a lot too. Those were good signs, he was sure of it.

"Yeah, Sims is great but I don't really like that Sims 4. It just feels too small. Dark Souls is cool but Dark Souls 2 sucks. It's like a lazy clone of the first game. Or maybe the first game just spoiled me. I like Call of Duty and Halo too." Said Rachel. None of those were lies but she hoped that Wally's mind wouldn't connect her favorite games back to Robin. No, as far as Wally was concerned Robin didn't play Sims.

"Man, we should totally go back to my house and play Halo. I just got the fifth one." Said Wally without thinking.

"But you live all the way in Central City." Said Rachel. Wally kicked himself mentally for his slip up. She was smart, what if she put it together that he was Kid Flash.

"Well, you could come by for a visit." Said Wally. Rachel smiled. And ran her thumb over his knuckle.

"Yeah, that'd be good." Said Rachel. She was kissable, very kissable. He wanted to kiss her more than anything. It would have been easy, all he would have to do was lean across the table…the arrival of their waitress put an end to that bad idea. He wasn't as wise to the ways of women as he made himself seem but he knew that they didn't like to be kissed by guys they just met. They liked to be in relationships first, right?

"I'm gonna go change, I hate this uniform." Said Rachel making her way to the bathroom. Wally decided to ask Robin what to do and if he wanted to hang out. Well, if he wanted to hangout mostly. Robin was like thirteen and there was the rumor going around that he was gay. Wally knew his friend wasn't, Robin just thought Speedy was really cool and stuff. He got out his phone and decided to call Robin before she came back. Did girls really take a long time to get dressed or was that something that people said?

Rachel was actually changing. She really didn't like that uniform, it restricted her mobility too much and was actually a lot warmer than it looked. The handicapped stall was currently serving as both her changing room and a place where she could collect herself. Wally had been looking at her like…that…and it was nice. It was exciting and scary and nice and she wanted him to look at her like that again. There was a part of herself that she had decided to refer to as Robin who told her to break this off before it exploded in her face.

The other superhero part of her, Robyn, said that she could handle this. Wally liked her, she liked Wally, and she was not Robin or Robyn. She was Rachel. Now if Wally was looking at Robin or Robyn like that well it would be a different story.

Then Rachel 1 piped up and said that Wally and Kid Flash were two different people too. Another part of herself, Rachel 2, said that Kid Flash was actually somehow cuter and actually a much more outgoing person. Rachel 1 said that this Wally was smart and sweet and a good listener and that there was more to a guy than being cute and cocky.

Then Robyn and Robin agreed that it was better if they just had feelings for Wally and not Kid Flash. Kid Flash was after all different from Wally. But then Robin had to go and ruin it by saying that they shouldn't be throwing themselves at a team mate. Then they all reminded Robin about what happened with Speedy and the time he showed them how his bow worked.

At this point Rachel told the people in her head to shut up before she checked herself in to Arkam. Before the different parts of her personality could argue back her Robin phone rang.

"Hey, what's up?" asked Rachel in her Robin voice. Her entire body langue changed and she leaned back against the bathroom wall.

"Robin, hey, I'm in Gotham again." Said Wally from the table. He began to tear up a napkin out of nervousness.

"Why?" asked Robin, knowing full well why he was there.

"To see her again. Listen, do you have a girlfriend?" asked Wally

"That's classified." Said Rachel, the words slipping out of her mouth without a thought.

"Seriously? I'm not asking for your social security number." Said Wally, one napkin had turned into three.

"Why do you want to know? Double date?" asked Rachel, visions of herself having to run to and from the bathroom all night to change ala Mrs. Doubtfire.

"No, I just…how fast is too fast?" asked Wally. He couldn't ask his uncle without inviting all kinds of questions and he couldn't ask Roy because he hadn't been returning calls lately. Superboy would have been no help and Kaldur would just ask too many questions. He wasn't sure if he and Rachel were together yet and he didn't want to explain that he was running to Gotham day after day to see a girl he just met.

"If your clothes catch fire you're going too fast." Said Rachel, knowing full what he meant.

"No, I mean…have you ever had a girlfriend?" asked Wally. Robin didn't mention girls but he didn't mean much about his civilian life. Hell, he wasn't even sure if Batman was his father or uncle or cousin or what.

"You know I can't tell you that." Said Rachel. She had never had a girlfriend before, boyfriends yes but they never really lasted.

"I think she likes me but I'm not sure and she let me hold her hand which is good and she been flirting and smiling at me all day and I really, really like her and I want to kiss her and-" started Wally speaking almost too fast.

"Does she know she's flirting with you?" asked Rachel. She was flirting a little but maybe because Wally was older than her he thought she was flirting a lot because he was used to older girls.

"I guess, I didn't really ask. God, I really want to kiss her." Said Wally. He really did. Girls were always on his mind in one way or another and when he liked someone it made everything ten times worse.

"So ask her if you can kiss her." Said Rachel. She wanted to kiss Wally and he wanted to kiss her. She liked kissing, it was fun. She knew she would like kissing Wally. It wouldn't make things weird, it was Wally kissing Rachel, not Kid Flash kissing Robin.

"Right, right, girls don't like it when guys play games. Thanks, for a kid you're surprisingly smart about these things. Rachel wanted to tell him 'yeah, because I'm a girl' but she knew that if she went around telling that particular secret all hell would break loose.

"Hey, I'm almost fourteen." Said Rachel. She was almost fourteen and Robin's birthday was later than hers for security reasons.

"OK, OK. Hey you wanna hang out later?" asked Wally. Maybe he could even see the Bat Cave, but he'd settle for wherever it was the civilian Robin lived.

"Uh, yeah. I'll meet you at the park, you know the one, in like an hour." Said Rachel, shrugging on the last of her clothes. Pink T-Shirt, denim skirt, white hoodie. Pretty, girly, Rachel.

"Great, I gotta go. She's probably almost changed by now. Bye." Said Wally. Rachel was vaguely hurt. Wally never blew off Robin like that. No, Robin was hurt. Rachel's 1 and 2 were happy. Oh God, isn't this how the Joker started his descent into madness?

"Would you like some more napkins, sir?" asked the waitress as she came up with his food. Wally looked sheepishly down at the pile of shredded napkins and nodded. The waitress rolled her eyes and muttered something about kids as she left.

"Hey." Said Rachel as she sat across from him once again. He looked nervous, it was cute on him. She raised an eyebrow at the pile of shredded napkin.

"Uh…would you believe if I said that it was art?" asked Wally as he shifted nervously. She was back and she looked great. Not that he was only interested in her body, right? He knew that most of what he felt for girls was lust because he was fifteen. Was this the same? No, he liked her. She was smart and funny and he was sure that she had a lot of other good qualities too.

"No, not really." Said Rachel as she began to eat. She was going to kiss Wally. Was it too soon? She had known him for years, of course it wasn't. She ate because she couldn't trust herself to talk. She wondered if he'd be a good kisser. Would it be fast and light or one of those slobbery kisses that made her debate reaching for a batterang. Would he put his hands on her shoulders, her waist, or would his hands wander everywhere? Did she want that?

Conversation was light, both of them were nervous. Wally, because he didn't want to go too fast and scare her away but he also didn't want to go too slow and make her lose interest. Rachel, because she was going to kiss her best friend. She knew she wanted to, maybe she had always wanted to and never realized it. She never realized how cute and grown up Wally was. He was taller than her and he had filled out over the years. He had red hair, and freckles, and his shoulders were so broad she could just reach her arms around him and…yup, welcome to puberty.

"So, uh, where to now?" asked Wally. There had been a debate over who should pay, with Rachel getting her half. Was that bad? Wasn't the guy supposed to pay? Whatever, she was holding his hand again.

"Um, I know a great park not too far from here." Said Rachel shyly. There, they could hang out and then she could run home, change into her Robin civvies, and then meet him there again. Yes, this could definitely work.

"Cool." Said Wally with a nervous break in his voice. He wanted to kiss her and other things which he knew would with a question scare her away. How old was she, anyway? She was probably a freshman so like fourteen he guessed. They walked to the park, making small talk along the way. Apparently she was in more clubs than she had time for but it was OK because her dad wanted her to be well rounded or something. He knew she was adopted but she talked about Bruce like he was her real dad.

Wally talked about his aunt and uncle but not why he didn't live with them. He was grateful that she didn't pry. He wasn't sure if he was ready to tell anyone about that, he hadn't even told Robin yet. Wally told her about his school, about how he wasn't that popular and he got picked on a lot. She listened to everything he said, he knew she was paying attention to him, the real him.

"…and yeah, Babs is cool I guess. People are pretty cool to me but some people aren't. Sometimes they call me stupid stuff like charity case and circus freak but I don't let it get to me." Said Rachel. At some point she and Wally had found a bench and ha gravitated towards each other almost magnetically. His arms was around her, keeping her close. She liked it.

"I don't think you're any of that." Said Wally, his hand tracing patterns on her arm. Uncle Barry was wrong. He knew he loved her now and not because of his powers combining with hormones or whatever. He just knew that he loved her.

"I don't think you're a geek or anything like that. I, well I like you a lot." Said Rachel. She and Wally had been close before and she knew that she had felt the ghost of whatever this was. It felt warm and safe and right…and Wally was looking at her like that again.

"Rachel, is this alright?" asked Wally as she leaned closer to him. His hand traveled down to her waist, his other hand was at her back. They were so incredibly close.

"Yeah." Said Rachel leaning up to him. She closed her eyes and leaned forward.

"You missed." Said Wally. She had kissed him on the corner of his mouth and he was sure that that wasn't where she was aiming.

"Sorry." Said Rachel, turning bright red. She hadn't even known that it was possible to be so embarrassed. He probably thought she was a kid, or a spaz, or-

Wally leaned down and kissed her full on the mouth. She was wearing some kind of sticky lip gloss, he didn't mind. He was just happy that he was kissing her. He could count the number of girls he had kissed before on one hand and he wasn't sure if he was doing it right. She was kissing him back, and that was good, so he must have been doing something right. She was so small, and her skin was so soft. Her body was hard, muscular, but not like Superman proportions or anything. He brought his hands around her back, up her arms, and then down to her waist. She pushed herself against him, her arms were around his neck now and they were closer and he tasted…bubblegum. Yup definitely bubble gum.

Rachel never knew that kissing could be like this. It was the slobbery kind, but slobbery with a purpose if there was such a thing. He wasn't cramming his tongue down her throat or trying to pull her shirt off and she honestly wasn't sure if she wanted him to do that. His hands were everywhere and nowhere at the same time, who knew her arms were so sensitive. Was this just kissing, or making out? Was it making out only if they were tongue kissing? Oh…there was his tongue. That was…nice.

He had acted on impulse, he was doing a lot of that lately. He just wanted to know if that was her lip gloss he was tasting. Yes, it was. She made the most delicious sound. Was that the right word, delicious? Or just licious? Robin would know, he was good with words. Wait, why was he thinking about Robin now? Oh, now her hands were in his hair. Why was his hair suddenly sensitive?

Rachel was debating French kissing him when her Rachel phone started to ring at the exact same time Wally's did. She collected herself and answered it. She was needed. Duty called. Judging by Wally's reaction Kid Flash was needed.

"Um, I've got to go. Bruce says I have to come home now." Said Rachel

"Yeah, my uncle needs me too. So, um, tomorrow?" asked Wally holding her hand again.

"Tomorrow." Said Rachel reaching up to kiss him…and this time she didn't miss.

Someone had stolen Kryptonite from Lex Luthor. Everyone was in shock but it was Wally who vocalized it.

"Someone had the balls to steal Kryptonite from Lex Luthor?" asked Wally, now in Kid Flash mode. He was thrown a disapproving Bat look. Someone had the balls to steal Kryptonite from Lex Luthor, yeah, now was the time.

"They also left a note." Said Batman, his cowl hiding his eyes. He watched the way his daughter was distractedly looking at Kid Flash. Now was not the time for another Speedy situation.

"What, like a list of demands?" asked Artemis. The bad guys didn't leave 'hey, how's it going?' note lying around at their crime scenes.

"No." said Batman displaying the note on the screen behind him.

'Dear Mr. Superman,

We didn't steal the green stuff from Prof. Xavier's evil twin because we want to kill you. I don't want to kill you at all actually. Mandy just wants to talk to you is all so we need a way to keep you from flying away. We're not going to hurt you in any serious way, Mandy's just going through this whole "What am I? Why am I here?" thing and she thinks she's part super alien. I don't know, she's been weird ever since Jr. was born. Anyway, when you get bashed over the head with a bat with kryptonite glued to it please try to look surprised. Please and thank you.

-Jeremy Malone

P.S. Also ask The Flash if he wants to race me and tell him I'll find him and kick him in the balls if he doesn't.

"That was…odd." Said Kaldur. He shared a similar mental sentiment with Artemis, the bad guys didn't leave friendly notes.

"At least he bothered to tell us his plan, so who is this guy?" asked Artemis. This was shaping up be a simple mission. Find this Jeremy Malone guy, get the kryptonite back, and kick his ass.

"He's an alright guy." Said Wally before he could stop himself. Everyone stared at him.

"Yes, you came into contact with him yesterday and we have reason to believe that his sister broke into Wayne Tech labs and stole something of interest." Said Batman giving Robin a small nod as if to say, job well done.

"You're hanging out with the bad guys?" asked Artemis giving him a pointed look.

"I swear I didn't know he was a bad guy when I met him." Said Wally with his hands defensively in front of him.

"For those of you who do not know Jeremy Malone is a mutant and part of a faction that is currently calling itself neutral. He is, however, considered highly dangerous." Said Batman. This time the screen changed to show many bloody bodies of guards with their heads partially bashed in. Gasps, retches, and sobs could be heard from everyone except Rachel. She had seen worse.

"He can run fast enough to break the sound barrier but that was recorded when he was fifteen three years ago, his powers could have grown by now. He has been known to use his speed to murder humans and incapacitated others. You will not be pursuing him." Said Batman

"But he killed all those people!" said Megan

"We can't just let him get away with that." Said Artemis, her eyes cold and focused and honestly a little scary.

"Forgive me, but such a crime cannot be left unpunished." Said Kaldur respectfully. Wally felt like it was his turn to say something but he didn't. This day had gone from great to awful. He knew that kid, he was even on his way to making friends with that kid, and now it turns out he's a murderer. He was also a little scared, of himself, it would be so easy to kill someone as Kid Flash. The human body could only take so much and go so fast. He was always careful when carrying someone not to accelerate too fast or decelerate too slow.

"It will not. Your mission is to catch him, away from all the other mutants. You will be guarding Superman."