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O'Connor found Clark sitting quietly at the desk, her sharp eyes noting that he was jotting down notes from their earlier interview.
"Problem all settled?" He asked politely, flipping his notebook to a new page.
"Quite." She responded crisply, settling herself down with a quiet sigh. "I'm afraid we will have to cut the interview short."
Clark nodded, "Of course. Just one last question, Ms. O'Connor…"
She glanced up at him, eyeing him with her patented frosty glare, "Alright."
"Why was Bruce Wayne talking about an unlawful arrest?"
She folded her hands neatly over themselves, tapping her fingers against the wood in a simply pattern, letting the sound fill the silence.
"Mr. Wayne is unfortunately mistaken. He believes that his money and status gives him and his…ilk some sort of right to be above the law. Laws are meant to be universally applied and no one gets to abuse that sort of power."
Luthor held Wally's chin roughly in his hand, forcing Wally to turn his head to the left and then to the right, his dark eyes scanning over the redhead for something only Luthor knew to look for.
"There are some meta humans whose powers are so obvious, you know? With the mutations or something equally disfiguring…but you- you look normal."
Wally pulled his chin out of Luthor's grip, shooting a look of pure venom, "I am normal."
Luthor smirked, reaching out again to stroke Wally's cheek, causing the other man to slap his hand away.
"Don't touch me."
"I remember when you would beg for my touch—" Luthor was suddenly forced to take a step back when Wally's fist shot out at his face. Luthor slipped his hand into his pocket and brought out a slim remote, still moving another step back as Wally threw another punch. Luthor pushed down on a button and Wally stopped short, letting out a scream as an electoral jolt moved from the collar and through his body, sending him sprawling back.
"I assume either all or part of your power is healing and speed," Luthor stated calmly as he watched Wally struggle to catch his breath, "I don't know how you're managing without it."
"…go to hell." Wally wheezed out, forcing himself up as best he could. Luthor stepped forward and dropped his foot onto Wally's back, keeping him back down.
"Now, we have a few things to discuss."
"Oh yeah? Like what?" Wally gritted out.
"I know you're a meta human, Wally. That goes without saying, so now I'm just interested in finding out which one."
Wally strained his neck to look up at Luthor, who was staring down at him with a grin, the black remote shining in his hands.
"Shall we begin?"
Bruce headed back up to the WatchTower. He had just gotten off the phone with his lawyers and had asked that they place every possible pressure onto Callaway, hoping to find a crack in the man' defenses. He needed to keep up the appearance that Bruce Wayne was going to do whatever it took and he was willing to let his lawyers pad their checking accounts for their effort. He wanted Wally back but he knew that Wally's secret identity was on the line. If the Justice League approached saying that one of their members had been taken, it wouldn't take long for someone to piece the information together and figure out that Wally was the Flash.
Clark arrived fifteen minutes later, nodding at Bruce as he entered the conference room.
"How did it go with the media liaison?" Bruce asked as Clark sat down heavily in front of him.
"She didn't give up anything, basically called you a spoiled brat as well…" He held up a hand before Bruce could start talking, "I did find Wally's information through when she went to talk with you. He's in cell 1401 under suspicions of meta human connections."
"Nexus is going to stonewall my lawyers for months," Bruce ground out, "We can't go through legal channels for this."
"Batman and Superman can't be seen breaking into a federally funded prison either. We'd be asking for another Cadmus paranoia-fueled investigation."
"No, they can't…unless we can connect them to something illegal. Help Mr. Terrific finish his investigation, one of those anonymous sources has to be dirty."
Clark nodded in agreement as Bruce got back to his feet, "Wait, what will you be doing?"
"One way or the other, I'm going to check on Wally."
Wally had never had to think so fast in his life. The questions that Luthor was throwing at him came either before or after a shock, making it impossible for his body to predict what would happen next. He knew Luthor was just trying to throw him off his game, hoping that would cause a slip up. The pain, Wally knew he could take…he just wasn't sure about anything else.
"Who are you affiliated with?" Luthor asked, "The Justice League, perhaps? They have expanded quite a bit lately."
"N-no…" Wally had to get Luthor off the League track, "They wouldn't t-take me."
"Oh? I didn't realize they had such high standards." Luthor shocked him again, letting it go for another minute. His tone was completely mocking and Wally was slowly getting the feeling that something worse was going to follow.
"You know Wally; this doesn't have to be so hard…in fact, say the word and I'll stop." He kicked Wally onto his back, letting the younger man breathe for a few moments.
"Really? It's that easy? Well…tell ya what Luthor—go to hell."
"Wally, you're completely at my mercy. No one knows you're here and I could do whatever I want…"
Luthor let the threat hang in the air as his words washed over the red head.
"I'll say it again. Go. To. Hell."
Luthor suddenly let out a deep laugh that sounded hollow and managed to send a chill up Wally's spine.
"You're so brave Wally…unbreakable really. That's because you think you're protected by your so called secret identity or even by Bruce but that's not the case. Bruce can't help you here and I already know who you are…"
Wally wheezed out a shaky breath, just wishing he could close his eyes for a moment to just let everything come to a halt, "Congrats….you figured out I'm Wally West."
"I think I know more than that, Flash."
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