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WALLY'S FIRST CHRISTMAS IN THE WAYNE HOUSEHOLD

Bruce had invited friends and family to the Christmas party and, even though he was starting to regret a couple of the invitees, the regret all went away when he saw the bright smile on Wally's face. The boy was sitting in Selina's lap (Bruce wasn't entirely certain who invited her because she did come in with an invite, but Bruce suspected that Dick had something do with it) and Barry and Hal were fighting with each other over who was better with poor Iris sandwiched between them. Damian and Colin were curled up somewhere behind Selina with Talia looming behind them (Bruce also wasn't sure where she got the invitation, but he was pretty sure that Tim had something to do with that). Tim had Steph in his lap and they were kissing… vigorously. Alfred was talking with Dinah while Oliver was trying to get Roy to smile. Needless to say, he was not succeeding. Roy was ignoring Oliver in favor of talking to Dick, who was waving his hands around animatedly in his excitement. Cass was listening to Dick with a small smile on her face. Jason was standing guard next to Selina and Wally, seemingly prepared to interfere if she tried to corrupt him. Jason had been trying very hard to make Wally the perfect wingman and he didn't want anyone else corrupting his perfect partner in crime. Bruce thought it was adorable.

Time continued to fly and it was later in the night (after a very large dinner fit for a ton of superheroes, a villain, and two speedsters) when Dick shouted excitedly, "Presents! Come on, we have to open presents now! I've waited sooooo long!" The others laughed and Alfred started pulling the presents out. Wally had an expression of wonder on his face that he always had when someone got him something. He still wasn't used to presents or any sort of kindness that people might show him. It had been six months since he had adopted the vibrant red head and he had become more and more open. Bruce was pretty sure that only himself, Alfred, and Barry knew everything about Wally's past and he dreaded the day that the others found out about it.

He pushed the thought from his mind and decided to help Alfred hand out the presents. Everyone tore into them, cheering and sending glares (normally at Wally, Dick, and Roy) when appropriate. People threw hugs at each other and occasionally knives (normally from Damian aimed at his mother; Bruce wasn't sure if he approved or not). Finally, everyone turned their attention to Wally who was still opening his presents. It was one of the only things that he did slow and he did it excruciatingly slow. He always wanted to preserve the wrapping paper as a souvenir type thing. It was as annoying as it was adorable and sweet.

Wally finally finished opening all of his presents and then he started running his fingers across them to try to figure out what they all were. From Damian he got several weapons including a new cane that had a dragon resting on the top that, if you pulled the wing open, a catch would release and a sword would pull out of the cane with the wing as the hand guard. It was beautifully crafted. From Dick he got a Braille book of Harry Potter insults and another two books of Shakespearean insults and Doctor Who insults. Based on the grin they shot each other, there were some not 10 and 12 year old appropriate insults in there. Wally got a lot of Flash, Green Lantern, and Green Arrow merchandise for his room with retaliatory Red Arrow, Red Robin, and Batman merchandise from Roy, Steph, and Cass. Tim gave the young blind child another chemistry set for his room along with two new Braille chemistry textbooks. Selina gave Wally a cologne that she claimed wouldn't burn his nose the entire time he had it on. Talia (Bruce didn't think that she would get the youngest Wayne a present) gifted him with brand new black glasses that were much sleeker and Bruce was pretty sure there was some kind of weapon built into them based on the fact that Talia whispered something into Wally's ear and he grinned back in her direction. Dinah and Alfred both got him food and Iris gave him a key to the Allen house. Colin gave him a giant teddy bear that he claimed reminded him of the younger red head. Bruce decided to ignore that in favor of giving his youngest son his present. Wally smiled as their hands brushed and he recognized his father's calloused fingers.

He slowly opened the present and Bruce watched as he ran his fingers over the bumpy surface. He ran his fingers over it again and again as his brow furrowed in thought. Those standing close enough to see the present smiled as Wally continued to feel along the present. Eventually, he pulled his hand away and started methodically going over the picture one square inch at a time. Slowly, a smile spread across his face and he flipped to the next page in the little book. He felt it over again and his smile grew larger. He kept flipping through the pages, over and over again, going through each of the sheets and feeling them. When Wally finally tilted his head up at Bruce and that blinding grin that stretched across his entire face and made him look like a little angel, all the hard work that went into creating the present was worth it. Sitting in Wally's lap was a book that held pages with imprints in them of each of the people who were invited to the party. Wally could feel the edges that made the shapes of his friends and family because Bruce knew that it hurt Wally knowing that he didn't know what most of them looked like. Wally's smile lit up the room and soon everyone was smiling. It was beautiful.

WHEN WALLY BEAT DAMIAN FOR THE FIRST TIME

Jason watched as Damian and Wally fought with their escrima sticks, fighting and fighting and fighting. The battle kept going and the advantage kept shifting from one person to the next. One minute Wally lost his weapon but then he grabbed Damian's, but Damian swept under his blow and rolled to the side, grabbing Wally's abandoned stick.

Then, suddenly, Wally was winning. He swept his weapon to the side, deflecting Damian's stick to the side slightly and grabbing Damian's wrist. Before Damian could react, Wally struck Damian in the side with his escrima stick with unrivalled speed (Wally's training with Batman had made it so even without accessing his superpowers, he was still faster than the average person). Wally then turned slightly and disarmed Damian by striking him in the wrist. The stick clattered to the floor.

Damian reacted quickly, moving his hand in for a punch to Wally's face, but Wally moved his weapon hand up to block it, pulling on Damian's arm and striking his just above the elbow with his escrima stick. He moved in with a quick final blow with his elbow to the nerve cluster behind Damian's head. Momentarily stunned, Damian couldn't react when Wally grabbed one arm and then the other, using them to form a sort of lever system that he used flip the significantly larger Wayne over and onto the mat, holding him down until Jason counted to ten and called the game. Wally ran super speed across the room and into Jason's arms hugging him and whooping before rushing back to the mat and helping Damian stand up. Sometimes it was almost hard to tell that their youngest brother was blind the way he zipped around places without running into them. He knew that he had been training for the past ten months, but this was impressive. Damian laughed as he stood, "You only won because Talia gave you those glasses at Christmas."

"Did not!" Wally shouted, indignant, "You just can't admit that I'm too awesome for you!"

"Wait, what's up with the glasses that demon brat's mother gave you?" Jason butted in. He and Damian currently weren't on speaking terms, so Wally was their go between. Apparently he never minded being their messenger.

Wally answered brightly, "The glasses have this echolocation thing that they do where they make clicks that are fast enough to keep up with my brain but not just blur together and now I can just let that go and figure out based on the echoes where things are and how big they are and their general shapes and I'm getting better at finding out the densities too. It's so cool!"

"Why did I not know about this before?" Jason asked, slightly offended.

The goofy, confused expression Wally adopted melted something in Jason's heart (not that he'd ever admit it, of course) and he answered, "I didn't tell you before?"

"No doofus, you didn't. We are definitely going to do some cool stuff with that. Do you think you can echolocation to be a peeping Tom?" Jason grinned lewdly at Wally just to get Damian to give him that glare he was giving him just then.

"Um… what?" Tim asked from the doorway, Steph on his arm and Cass, Dick, and Roy trailing behind them. It was slightly amazing how often other people could just trail into the manor without anyone caring about it.

Wally's face brightened even further and he grinned, "I beat Damian! I beat Damian!" They all started laughing and cheering him while Colin came out of nowhere and hugged Damian from behind. Jason then saw Bruce smiling behind them all in the door to the training room. Jason would deny what happened next for the rest of his life. Bruce turned and saw him and they smiled at each other. In hindsight, it was sickening and Jason still isn't entirely convinced that he wasn't under mind control at the time. And, of course, Grayson got it on camera because he is a freaking creeper and carries his stupid camera all over the place to take embarrassing pictures. Although, it was mildly impressive how quickly he gets the camera out to take the pictures. Jason laughed to himself and shook his head. Their family had certainly gotten much more interesting after Wally joined.

WALLY'S FIRST HERO SUIT

The look on Wally's face when Bruce told him that he could start fighting crime with them was one of the most amazing things that Damian had seen (unless you count anything that had to do with Colin; he would always win). Bruce told the blind soon to be hero that he would have to create his own suit and that Alfred would either make or get in contact with someone who would make the suit, but he had to design it first. Wally was beyond ecstatic. He had nodded enthusiastically while Bruce gave him the customary speech that they had all gotten before they made their costumes. The expression on the red head's face made one think that he wasn't paying attention, but after knowing him for almost a year now, Damian could tell that he really was paying attention because this was important to him and he always payed attention when thought something was important.

Finally, Bruce finished his spiel and Wally zipped upstairs, scooping Dick up, wrestling a squeal from the slightly older boy. Damian could hear the door to Wally's room fling closed and he sighed to himself. Knowing the two of them, the color scheme of the suit was going to be a disaster. He was obviously going to have to go help them. He strode around for a little bit, debating if he really wanted to go in there when two of the terrible trio (the nickname they gave Roy, Dick, and Wally) were together. There was no way they were doing this by themselves.

When he finally got to their room, Wally was in his chair at his desk, drawing in his Green Lantern drawing book. Dick was crouched on top of the desk, leaning over and giggling before making comments that would cause Wally to giggle and mess up a line. He would then scowl in Dick's general direction and go back to drawing. Damian wasn't entirely certain how Wally drew, but when he had asked the one time, Wally had said something about being able to smell the graphite where he drew and being able to feel the dips in the wind pattern where the pencil pushed into the paper. Damian didn't really understand, but he was still impressed by Wally's drawing skills. It was one of those things that Wally secretly loved to do, but would never willingly tell someone.

Damian walked over and leaned against Wally's bed frame, looking at the costume so far. It… actually wasn't that bad. Damian was mildly impressed actually. Written across the top of the page was the word SWIFT. The former assassin smiled to himself. A swift was one of the fastest birds on Earth. Apparently Wally was trying to stay in touch with his speedster side and the bird theme that the family had going on. There was a cape made out of the same material as Batman's cape: memory cloth and it was labelled as being gray with the slightly bluish, purplish, greenish tinges of a chimney swift bird. The cape would work as a glider as he flew off of buildings and the like. The boots looked to be military grade and made with the same material that the Flash used for his boots. They were black and had the option of knife ejection at the tip of the boot, reminiscent of talons. He had slick black goggles with an echolocation device perched on either side of the goggles. The suit itself was a dark gray with lighter gray highlights hiding the Kevlar. The outside material was made of the same material that Flash used stretched over the Kevlar. Around his waist was the customary utility belt that all Bats use and keep on them at all time. It was a Bat secret where they put it so no one could see it but they could still easily access it. Not that much of what they did wasn't a Bat secret.

Damian shook his head and looked back at the suit. There were smoky black gloves that went up to his wrist and sported a gauntlet computer on one arm and several hidden knives on the other. Held in the suit's arm was a black cane with a silver dragon settled on the top. Damian smiled to himself when he recognized the gift he had gotten his brother for his first Christmas here. The cane would work as the sword and as the escrima stick. Damian counted several other hidden weapons on the suit. He smirked when he tuned back into the conversation and heard Robin exclaim, "Your red hair won't go with the suit though!"

Wally refuted hotly, "You don't understand how amazing it is to feel the wind going through your hair when you're going super speed! My hair needs to be free!"

"Uncle Barry's hair is covered!" Robin responded.

Damian wasn't entirely certain when Grayson started calling Barry that, but decided to ignore it in favor of saying, "Father has hair spray that will make it seem like your hair is black. That way your identity is better disguised and it matches the suit and you get to leave your hair out." The expressions of pure hero worship sent his direction caused him to puff out his chest a little and stick his nose partially into the air to show his superiority.

Then there was a moment of furious scribbling that was so fast that Damian was slightly surprised that the paper hadn't been set on fire and then Wally showed his two older brothers the final result. The top of the suit covered most of his face, the goggles resting on the top part of the mask. His ears were covered by dark gray hard spots with light gray wings flat against the head. There was a comm built into one of the ears and the other had a hearing aid type thing to correct for the hearing lost due to the comm in his other ear. Overall, it was quite the impressive suit and Damian knew that it would fit him perfectly. Dick high fived him and Damian just smiled before heading back to his room. He was going to get Colin to come over and they would watch a movie or something. Also, Damian mused as he walked across the hallway to his room, Wally's mainly lighter suit would greatly brighten the popular opinion of the Bat family. Now everyone would see the light Wally brought with him everywhere he goes.

WHEN WALLY BECAME THE FLASH'S SIDEKICK

Swift swept through the broken down warehouse, trying to avoid the pieces of debris his echo locator was telling him was falling around him. He could hear them whooshing around him, displacing the air around him as he ran. He did a baseball slide under the broken garage door of the warehouse and then stood up and continued running. Apparently some of Joker's current goons were running around and he and Robin were supposed to take them down while Batman and Nightwing took down Joker. It was a pretty good plan, but even good plans had to take a turn for the worse.

It took them a week to find him. Robin had spent almost every minute of that time looking for his little brother. He only slept when the exhaustion overtook him and he couldn't keep his eyes open. He only ate when Alfred forced him to stop and eat. All the other Waynes were the same. By the time they got the hint they had been looking for, they were all bone weary and tired, but it didn't stop them from going out to rescue him.

When they found him, it wasn't a pretty sight, but they had prepared for that. A week in the hands of the Joker can't ever be good. His head was hanging down to his chest, dark purpling bruises in the shape of fingers on either side of his jaw. There were rope burns on his neck and his wrists and ankles were bleeding from the tightness of the cuffs that were around them (Wally, unfortunately, hadn't been able to master vibrating through things yet and it had cost him dearly). There were cuts all along his suit with healing scabs and Robin could tell by the way his legs and arms and fingers were sitting that the Joker had taken a crowbar to him as was his MO. Then came one of the worst parts of being kidnapped by the Joker; Wally's suit was ripped open at the chest, exposing a shakily carved J on his left breast, right above his heart. Then Robin's eyes moved a little to the right and he was horrified to see something else on his chest. The little gasps from his siblings told him that he wasn't the only one who saw it. There, in the center of his chest, someone (Robin distantly realized that it was from long ago, before they knew him probably) had carved the Flash symbol on his chest. Robin wondered how he didn't know that it was there even after almost two years of being his brother.

Before anyone could voice their questions, Joker came out from a door to the side, laughing with his switchblade held in one hand and his crowbar in the other. Both were covered in Wally's dry blood. Needless to say, it didn't take long for the Joker to be taken down.

When Wally finally woke up after being treated (everyone had heard his screams as his bones were reset and they had valiantly tried to ignore it), the others crowded into his room and they all talked for hours. Bruce didn't say much and Dick could tell that Bruce had something that he was trying to say, but didn't want to say. Eventually Tim brought up the question they had all been avoiding, "Wally, what happened to your chest? Before… before the Joker, of course."

Wally stilled and they all stilled with him, worried that Tim had gone too far. Then Wally took a deep breath and began to talk. He told them about the abuse he had suffered at the hands of his father and the neglect had suffered at the hands of his mother. He told them about the bullies at school and constant fear he lived in. He told them about the excruciating pain of being electrocuted into a pool of mixed chemicals and about waking up from a coma with superpowers. He told them about his father carving the image into his chest and calling him a freak and blinding him. He gave them the story about his life in the orphanage. It took several people to stop Jason from hunting his parents down and finding Father Gregory and the bullies from his old school. It took the rest of the family to restrain Damian from doing the same thing. Robin was just… numb. He hadn't known that his little brother had been through all of this and he couldn't believe that Wally was still so strong even after all that he had gone through. It didn't take long after Wally started crying for others to start crying too and it was generally just depressing.

After the conversation had taken a lighter turn, Bruce cleared his throat and said, "I have something to tell you Wally." Dick could tell from the tilt of Wally's head and the expression of worry that took over his face that Wally was picking up on Bruce's discomfort. He nodded for Bruce to continue and he did, "The Joker issued a statement as I was taking him into the police station. He said that as long as Swift was in Gotham, he would keep trying to get Swift for himself. He has some convoluted idea that he's going to make you into some Joker Junior. He won't stop until he gets it either. I don't think it's safe for you to fight crime in Gotham anymore. The Flash is willing to take you on as a partner in Central City and you can keep your suit the same as it is. Joker said that he would not come after you if you leave Gotham."

Robin had never seen Wally angry before that day. Wally had become sad and slightly peeved, but he had the natural speedster attitude that was just too cheerful for life and someone pulled everyone together. But now, Wally launched up in his bed and started vibrating he was so angry. He tried to get words out, but ended up with them stuck in his throat. After a second of pause, he swept out of bed and raced down the stairs and out of the house. He hadn't done that in a couple of months, but Dick knew where he was. The acrobat threw himself out of house after his younger brother and ran to the tree where Wally had run that first day at the Wayne manor. He leapt up the tree and found his brother sobbing on the same branch he had gone to every time he was upset. And, just like all those days, Dick let Wally lean into him and sob for a while until he finally stopped and they talked. Dick explained to him about why Bruce said what he said and he showed all of the good things that came with the situation. Wally told Dick about his reservations and they talked everything out until Wally fell asleep. Dick gently held Wally and brought him down from the tree. Damian was waiting at the bottom of the tree like usual and he carried Wally home. Dick knew that Jason and Damian would sleep in Wally's room that night and that Jason and Damian wouldn't wake up in time to stop Dick from taking a picture of them. It was just what always happened.

Three days later, Dick and Cass were watching TV in the living room when they saw the BREAKING NEWS flash across the screen. It flipped to a grainy picture that was obviously someone's cell phone camera that showed the Flash running alongside Swift. After the robberies, Flash and Swift stood side by side and announced their new partnership to the world. There were a lot of questions about why Swift would leave Gotham and Wally just quirked a smile and said, "Central City is more my speed, so I figured I'd hang out with my fellow speedster and mentor here instead." He gave a small shrug and a bright smile and everyone laughed at the corny joke that was so Central City. Wally had brought his light to another part of the world.

HOW WALLY MET THE ROGUES

Flash sped down the alleyway and came out into the streets just in time to meet up with Swift who was running between the cars so fast and so gracefully that no one would be able to tell that he was completely blind. Wally grinned at Barry and shouted over the wind, "I'm getting way faster, Flash! Pretty soon I'll beat you on our grand races!" The two of them ran races around the world twice a month and had been doing that since he became the Flash's partner a couple of months ago.

Barry was about to answer when there was a call over his comms. It was Iris calling it and letting him know about a Rogues attack on the Flash museum a couple of streets over. She was supposed to cover it and she wanted to make sure that he knew about it. Flash thanked her and smiled goofily like he always did when she called him because she was perfect and she was his wife and he loved her. Wally turned to Barry and ran sideways for a second before turning again at the last minute to avoid a collision with a telephone pole (the time that happened had been embarrassing for both of them). He called out, "Are we going to go deal with that, or are you going to take that by yourself?" Barry had been avoiding letting Wally meet the Rogues after his interaction with the Joker.

Flash hesitated for a moment before saying, "Why don't you have your first Rogue encounter, kid? I'm sure we can take them down easily together, yeah?" He thought it was finally time. He knew, logically, that Wally had faced a ton of hard opponents in Gotham and that he was probably more than ready to face off against the big Central baddies. Wally grinned brightly at him and they did a quick U-turn, running in the direction of the Flash museum.

Flash stopped quickly, watching Swift skid to a stop next to him. The kid hadn't quite gotten used to stopping quickly. He wasn't able to connect stopping with the correct scents of locations and so he had to skid. It was endearing according to news reporters that always flocked around Swift. The Rogues were just about to leave the museum, hands filled with the money made from merchandise at the gift shop. They stopped and smirked at Flash, but then they saw Swift standing next to them and their mouths hung open. Captain Cold laughed, "Couldn't handle us yourself, Flasher? You had to bring Kiddie Flash with you?"

"Kiddie Flash?" Wally spluttered behind him.

Barry simply ruffled Wally's dyed black hair and said, "I could handle it myself, but why should I when the two of us can do it two times faster." He added a winning smile at the end and Cold just smirked back. Then he pulled out his cold gun and made a shot.

As first battles go, Swift didn't do half bad against the Rogues. He was a little slower than usual reacting to the blasts because he wasn't used to villains who fought against a speedster weekly and were used to shooting fast enough to hit something running faster than a speeding bullet. He always connected his hits, using his escrima stick with blinding speed and bruising force and he took the villains down about as easily as Flash himself did. It must be convenient to have super speed and Bat training. There was no one else in the world who could boast that mixture. Once the villains were all taken down, Flash waited for the police to come back with Belle Reeve level transport vehicles and decided to introduce Wally to the peculiarities of his new villains.

"Hey Rogues, say hi to Swift. He's your new hero! Swift, this is Captain Cold, Captain Boomerang, Trickster, Pied Piper, Heatwave, and finally, Mirror Master." Flash smiled at his villains and they glared back.

Eventually, Captain Cold sighed and said, "Hey kid, how old are you anyways? You look too young to be fighting crime out here in Central."

Swift bristled and said, "I'm old enough to fight crime in Gotham, so I'm old enough to do it here."

Piper's eyebrows rose and he said, "No need to get so defensive Swift, jeez. This is just friendly villain hero conversation while waiting for the police to get here. I think it's nice to have a hero who's a teen like me."

Barry couldn't help it when he accidently said, "Not quite a teen yet." He paled and whispered, "Bats is going to kill me," low enough that only Wally would be able to hear him. Wally was giving him a look that, if he had eyes, would be a terrifying Bat Glare. Actually, it still was a pretty terrifying Bat Glare.

From the ground where they were handcuffed around a pole and sitting on the ground, Trickster gasped dramatically and his eyes filled with crocodile tears, "Kiddie Flash isn't Kiddie Flash anymore? He's actually Baby Flash?"

Wally turned his murderous expression on Trickster and said, "It's neither. It's Swift."

Trickster's attitude did a complete 180 and he chirped, "You're going to come play darts with me in the hospital after I'm arrested and you're going to play darts with me at the bar once I get out, right? You have to because you're a hero and that means that you help people and if you help people, that means that you'll spend my time playing darts so I can't go out and steal stuff, right?"

Barry was still trying to muddle through the kid's logic when Wally answered, "Sure, Trickster. It'll be fun."

"What?" Barry spluttered, "You can't just play darts with your villains! That doesn't make any sense!"

"But what Trickster said makes sense! I'll be helping people and it'll fun and that way I can practice throwing things too! It's a win-win all around. How can you say no, Flash?" Wally flashed (pun intended) him his puppy dog face and Barry just melted. The only person he had seen resist that face was Bruce when he was Batman and Alfred, but no one could resist it when Wally and Dick got together and both used their puppy dog faces on them at the same time. It was pure evil personified as an adorable kicked puppy with giant cute eyes. There was no resisting that.

Barry muttered, "Fine, you can play darts with Trickster. I'll show you the bar and the hospital. The police are here, so I'll show you now." He pointedly ignored Trickster and Swift's twin whoops and instead chose to speed off. Even the villains of Central were attracted to Wally's huge personality and personal bright light that could make anyone feel better. Looking back at the bliss on Wally's face, Barry couldn't help but think about how perfect it was the he was adopted by Bruce. There was a chance that his light would have been blown out by now if Bruce hadn't found him that night and saved him. Oh well, Barry thought, no use wondering about what could have been. He just needed to focus on the wind in his hair and the smile on Wally's face.

Author's Note: Thank you to everyone who's kept up with this story! Next chapter starts the main story back up again. We're getting closer and closer to the Team's formation. Yay! Alright, so let me know if I did anything wrong and keep the votes on Wally's ship coming in. I'll need twelve more reviews before I make another chapter. And here are the numbers for the voting thing: Artemis (17), Jinx (2), Roy (5), M'gann (7), Zatanna (7), Dick (5), Kaldur (4), Conner (3), Barbara (16), Linda (1), Jason (1), Damian (1), No Pairing (2), and Donna Troy (1). If you want a certain person to win, keep voting for them and fight for the person you want! I hope you liked this chapter!