Thaddeus's heart rate sky rocked that he could feel it trying to break out of his chest as he stared at the man. One he didn't recognized nor had he ever seen.

Where was his father?

When Thaddeus had woken up in the destroyed house with little food he thought he was being punished,than a woman with black hair showed up many days later, she looked worried before leaving. Thinking that she was gone Thaddeus had laid down to sleep to fight of the pain of hunger and was abruptly awoken when a red blur scooped him up and Thaddeus had passed out from the added hunger.

The next thing he knew he was in a cold room, no water or food and only a bed hanging off the wall. Thaddeus hid under there for maybe two hours but it felt longer.

Than someone came into the room and offered him some food, little snacks and talked to him softly and very... nice. This person didn't even hit him!

The person picked him up carrying him to a strange thing that somehow made them appear in a box place before they went into a strange small house that the person called 'apartment' .

For a few minutes the person talked to another person when the name Bart came up and Thaddeus tensed. was this a new test? Did he fail again and Father sent him here to be punished? Still holding on he thought of why he did wrong?

Father wanted him to be better than Bart even though Thaddeus had never meet him before but his father said they looked almost exactly alike except their hair color. But he had to be better than Bart! Stronger than him, faster, smarter and everything!

Thaddeus had been so into his thoughts that when he noticed the sound of water running he snapped out of it and started screaming.

So it was a punishment, he did mess up again failing to please his father and now he was going to be held down under the water. Pleading to the person in hopes that he wouldn't hurt him because the person had given him food so maybe he wasn't to mean.

"It's okay buddy, I ain't going to hurt you... do you want to leavethe bathroom? Is that it?"

Slowly Thaddeus nodded and cried out in fear when he was scooped up and carried out. The person rubbed his back before setting him down.

"Thaddeus, you need to listen to me okay?"

Slowly he nodded still shaking.

"I got to clean you off and get you in some new clothes, okay? I'll give you a bath in this okay?"


It was a small wash tub Wally had bought to use as a toy box but looks like of would be used for what it was meeting for. Wally showed the kid that it was okay before filled it with water from the sink and help the kid undress and frowned deeply.

A small collar was wrapped around his neck. It wasn't even an inhibitor one! it was made from dogs! Leaning over Wally took it off watching Thaddeus rub his neck on awe before he help the kid into the tub and scrubbed him off as the speedster's body started to heal.

Gold eyes looked at him. "Are you going to hurt me?"

"No." Wally ran his hand over his head. "No one's going to hurt you now. Thaddeus, I'm going to take care of you and get you something to eat and than I'm going to ask you some questions and you try to answer them okay?"

The little boy nodded.

Wally managed to wash the kid off in the wash tub thing him and Bart wore the same size. Getting the kid dressed wasn't a problem because Thaddeus dressed himself.

"Alright, bet your hungry right? I'm so going to be shopping at Costco from now on. What would you like to eat?"

"Wally?" A little sleepy voice called.

Turning around Wally smiled at Bart who was walking out of the room dragging his blanket and rubbing his eyes. Going over Wally picked up Bart and brought him over to Thaddeus and set him in front of him.

"Bart, this is Thaddeus, Thaddeus this Bart." Wally didn't even pause when he said the next part. "Your brothers."

Thaddeus let out a scream and lunched himself at Bart.

"Whoa! Thadd calm down!" Wally grabbed him in mid attack. "It's okay you don't have to fight!"

"I need to kill him!" Thaddeus looked desperate clawing at the air. "Father says so! I must pass his test or Father will hurt me again!"

"Thaddeus, stop!" Wally yelled.

Both boys went stiff and Bart covered his eyes as if something bad was going to happen and seconds later Thaddeus did the same except he was trembling.

'Poor kid...' Wally thought before looking at Bart. "Go play with your toys, Bart. We'll be right there."

"Okay Wally. Bye bye, brother."

Thaddeus tensed up horribly. Wally rubbed his back gently.

"Thaddeus, I want you to know you don't have to hurt Bart. He's your brother. Your ... uh, your twins. And your Father was wrong to tell you to kill him, okay?"

"Is that why I'm here?"

"You're here to be a normal little boy with your family."

Thaddeus suddenly started sobbing leaning into Wally's shoulder. At first Wally was hoping the somehow made this giant breakthrough but that's wasn't it when Thaddeus spoke again.

"I failed daddy and now he doesn't want me anymore."

Wally wondered if the poor kid even knew what love was. We'll there was plenty of time to learn.


After the breakdown Thaddeus had slipped into depression. Wally was concerned and decided to call Captain Cold who got some papers that said Thaddeus belong to him. Anyways that's how he got guardianship of Bart, and called a doctors office setting up appointments for both kids the next day.

Wally first had to drive to the store and buy another car seat.

Once he managed to get the second car seat in Wally picked up Thaddeus who tensed as he was set in and buckled up Wally pet his hair to try and comfort the poor kid before doing the same to Bart who giggled.

Getting into the front seat Wally pulled the seat belt over. "Alright who's ready to go?"

"Me!" Bart yelled happily.

Thadd just slumped sideways eyes watery.

"Alright, after the doctors, than Costco for food, than home to put away all the food and than if your we'll go to the play place in the mall."

"Yay! Wally, ice cream too?"

"Only if you behave."

"We will!" Bart promised. "Thaddeus, you like ice cream?"

Wally looked in the review mirror as he turned on the turning single to pull out into the street. Thaddeus still look utterly depressed and Bart looked sad and reached over to hold his brother's hand trying to comfort him.

"It's okay, Thaddeus. Wally's here with us and no one is going to take us away."

Wally smiled sadly as he looked back to the street pulling out. Bart had complete faith in him and after hearing of Bart's past he had made a promise to protect his cosine not matter what. However now he had another child to take care of and the kid was so starved for love that it was sickening.

Frowning Wally focused on driving to the doctors.


An older man watched as a car pulled in before a redhead turning off the car and getting put. The young man opened the back door to the car pulling out a carry bag before setting a small child down next to him and reaching back in to pull out another small child with blond hair who was limp like a rag doll.

The young man carried the blond boy as he locked up the car and lean down to scoop up the giggling brown haired child carrying them both into the doctors building as the older man followed keeping a close eye on them.

The man took out a camera and took a few pictures of Wally West.


Bart sat on a step watching the grown ups pulling along a cart filled with things on it. All kinds fo things! Big things, little things, funny looking things. Bart watched h is mom and dad work with others as they pulled and took things off of the cart and carrying it down into the base.

Everyone was bundled up in whatever they could find on the freezing cold day.

As he watched Bart felt his stomach growl horribly making Bart whine clutching his stomach. It had been such a long time since he had food. That's why Bart wasn't helping. It was because he had fainted and couldn't keep helping. The pains in his stomach hurt so bad at Bart cried without making a noise as he rubbed his stomach trying not to be loud.

Looking around Bart walked a little ways off to search for anything that he could possibly eat. It was so barren that he doubted that he would be able to find anything. Instead he ended up finding a broken plastic bowl that was covered in dirt.

Tossing it away Bart walked on until when he found a tree. It was dying of course but one of the branch was hard to break off which meant it had some life in it. Bart pulled and tugged at the branch but it gave no hint of breaking off so Bart started to chew on it like a dog trying to get any water out of it.

He sniffled and cried as he tried to eat the branch when something stopped him. Whipping around in fear Bart calmed down when he saw it was another human like him. But Bart had never seen this person before. The man had bright green eyes and fiery red hair. Bart stared at him for a moment before turning back to his branch chewing on it again as his stomach screaming.

"Whoa, there," The man said taking Bart away form the branch. "That's not food, buddy."

Bart's eyes watered more. "Please, I hungry…"

The man sighed sadly before carrying Bart away form the tree. "I know."

Bart reached out helplessly for the tree as he was carried away until they ended up in one of the hideouts where the man pulled out something from his coat. it was wrapped up and the man pulled it out. It was soft, fluffy and warm and it smelled so good.

The man pressed it against his lips. "Eat up, Bart."

Bart didn't ask how the man knew his name but he bit the fluffy white stuff moaning happily at the taste of the food and started to gobble it down until the fluff was gone. Bart licked up the crumbs too when another piece was pressed to his lips and Bart ate at it crying because for the first time in his life his little stomach wasn't hurting.

"Did you like it?" The man said gently holding Bart closer. "It's called bread. I found it frozen away and it was still good."

"Thank you so much!" Bart cried wiping his tears away.

The man chuckled before reaching back into his coat again pulling out something. "Here, you can have this too."

"What is it?" Bart asked looking at the strange little square offered to him.

"It's frozen milk. Come on, you need it."

Bart licked the little cube before sucking on it until it was almost gone before he looked up at the man who was holding him and keeping him warm.

"What's you name?"

"I think you mean 'What's 'Your' name." The man laughed softly.

Nodding Bart took the man's two fingers that had the melted milk on them and sucked on them trying to get every last bit of food.

The man let him knowing it would be a while until he could find more food for the kid. "My name's Wally."

A year later both Bart's parents would watch as Wally would scavenging for food and no mater what came back with food for their son. If it hadn't been for Wally West they were sure that their only child could have died years ago.

Than one day Bart was with his mom and dad when suddenly Blue Beetle appeared.

Wally jumped up hearing Bart screaming. Rushing into the room picked up a wailing Speedster and rocked him back and forth as he hugged and kissed the trembling child.

"It's okay, Bart, shhh, it's okay, I'm here, I'm here, shhh…" Wally comforted patting his back.

Bart hugged him tightly. "W-Wally…It w-was- and they, and they, and they…!"

"I know, buddy, I know." Wally said softly. "Everything's okay now. I'm here now and nothing's going to happen, shh, shh, shh,"

Slowly Wally managed to rock Bart back to sleep before carrying the little boy to back to his bed and tucked him in there since Bart rarely sleep in his own bed anyways. After tucking in Bart the redhead went to get a drink of water when he noticed that Thadd was also awake but he was looking at Wally as if he was expecting the Speedster to start hitting him.

"Hey, Tadd." Wally said gently like he did with Bart. "Do you want to sleep with us?"

The blond boy looked away. "No…"

"Are you sure?" Wally walked over to him and the little boy backed away looking afraid of him. "Are you not tired? Maybe we can play a game."

"No!" Thaddeus screamed tears falling a he backed away in fear. "Please, don't! I don't want to play a game!"

Wally stood there frozen as he watched the little body reach down between his own legs as if… No. Dear god no…. not to a little child. Wally's blood went cold at the realization of that Thadd's father must have done to him and it was only confirmed when Wally reached for Thadd who cried and begged Wally not to put the big thing in him.

Standing Wally pulled out his phone. "Heartly, I need you to come over asap. No, everything's not fine. I need to go out and find a bastard."


I would like to point out that his will no be a Wally x Piper story.

I want to thank you all for your amazing reviews and I'm sorry for not answering them but to be honest I'm falling asleep at the computer. Please review and I will answer them in the next chapter.

Also I'm going to let ask you guys to please say what you think should happen with both Bart and Thadd when they have flashbacks.

For the person who give me the best idea I will write them a one shot.