Wally stood staring at his misfortune. He didn't know weather to blame his boss, Roy, or some crazy hooligans, but his sleigh was covered in bright red poinsettias. He sighed with slight disappointment. He was already running late. He had to get the horses ready. And he was sure his boss didn't know about his speed. And with his stupid best friend giving him Batman paranoia, it just made it worse.
"Cinnamon. Toffee. Want to go give some good people a ride?" he asked getting them set with the carriage. It was then he noticed that there was tinsel in their manes, "Oh my gosh."
He cringed before finally getting in his seat driving off unaware of the holly on his hat.
-.-
"Thanks for coming Red- I mean Roy," said M'gann as they walked down the streets of Happy Harbor. Roy just gave her a look.
"I needed to get something for Rob and Wally anyway. So hard to say no," he simply explained. M'gann still held her perky smile. Everyone on the team knew a fair bit about Roy except her and Conner. But Conner really didn't care. She felt somewhat left out of this silent Roy's-being-an-idiot-again-so-who's-going-to-beat-some-sense-in-him look. She was sorry to say she actually chose to read their minds to figure out what their expressions were.
"What were you thinking about getting them? I got Robin- I mean Rob a book about a person named Sinbad. And I got Wally a tin filled with Twix bars."
"I'll know it when I see it," he said.
"What do you mean? Do you not know them that well?"
"Look Megan, you're dating Conner right?"
She nodded her head.
"But you don't know what to get him right?"
She nodded again slightly disappointed.
"Same way with Bird Boy and Happy Feet."
"You call Wally Happy Feet? Does he know?" she asked. Roy looked away slightly embarrassed.
"Well… He absolutely hates it when I call him that."
"Then why do you call him that? You earth people are so confusing. Uh. Hello Megan! It's because he's your friend right?"
Roy scoffed, "Wally's not my friend."
M'gann suddenly felt bad. Roy didn't see Wally as a friend? But Wally cared so much about him. Maybe Artemis was right. Maybe he was a jerk she didn't want to know more about.
"He's my little brother."
M'gann stopped walking and looked at Roy. They both did have messy red hair. Wally was smaller than Roy but there was a similar build. But Roy didn't have the freckles Wally had. And his eyes were blue and not Wally's laughing green.
"Then why were you with Green Arrow?" she asked. He sighed.
"I lived with Oliver Queen because my parents are dead. I met Wally after moving in with Queen. He was an annoying, wild, hyper, sometimes smart, and always curious kid. But he was the first one who made me smile after I came to live with Queen."
"But he's your brother? Does that mean Wally's an… orphan too?" she asked struggling with her words. Roy looked back at her.
"Come on. I'll explain while we walk and look."
She caught up to Roy and he began talking again, "Wally has parents. He lives with them in Blue Valley. When I said he was my brother, I meant he was as close as we could get without being connected by blood."
M'gann lightly smacked her head, "Hello Megan! You two are very close because your mentors worked together. Are you that close with Rob and Kaldur?"
Roy stopped for a minute, "Kaldur, yeah. We're good friends. We have similar forward thinking personalities. We're good friends. Rob, he's an okay friend. But I think he might be playing the part of Wally's little brother."
M'gann thought for a minute before she looked over and saw a very familiar yet more festive carriage.
"Roy! That's the carriage Conner and I went on," she squealed. Roy looked over. Despite his usual deadpan self, he had to work to stifle a laugh seeing Wally in the black carriage filled with poinsettias, tinsel in the horses manes and tails, and… Was that Holly on his hat?
"Driver! Driver!" Roy yelled loudly. A noticeable cringe went down the driver's spine. But the carriage did stop. It wasn't like this would be out of the ordinary. Older brothers lover to mess with their younger siblings.
"Can I help you two? Oh siblings! Brother and sister! How's the love life?"
"We'd like a ride. We aren't siblings. And Conner's great!" said M'gann.
"Shut it Rudolph," he said getting in. M'gann followed and sat next to Roy.
"Hey! I don't want to here that from you Mr. Auburn hair."
"I thought you were a red?" said M'gann.
"Dude, not this again. What up with the poinsettias?"
"Uh… I think my… employer put them up. Reminds me of a story my grandpa told me when I was little."
"You have an employer?"
"None of your business Roy-boy!" laughed the driver, "Oh your face still turns red when I call you that. I thought it was only when Ollie called you that. And that was years ago. Man your face is as red as the poinsettias."
"Why are they red?" asked M'gann. She couldn't help herself. They were just leafs. Why were they red?
"That is a wonderful story. Want to hear it? I know you do," he began. And without waiting for them to answer, "A poor little girl walks in tears of sadness, because she has no gift to leave at the altar for the Virgin Mary…"
"Who's virgin Mary?" asks M'gann.
"The mother of the Christian savior Jesus. Who we celebrate the birth of on Christmas."
…and the Christ Child as others do, an angel of the Lord appears to her. The angel suggests the gift was right beside the road. All she has to do was reach down and gather some weeds from along the roadside.
The poor little Mexican girl trusts the angel's instructions, picking some straggly weeds and walking on to the chapel. When the girl places the wilting weeds onto the altar, the weeds burst into big, bright red blossoms, with starry yellow centers from every stem."
"That's crazy man."
"Not all of life can be explained. And the real reason it's red is way to complicated and way less magical than that!" he jerked as they went over a pothole.
'I like to move it, move it
I like to move it, move it
I like to move it, move it
Ya like to move it
"Oh my gosh! My radio! It's gone crazy Roy!"
"That explains why people are staring."
'All girls all over the world,
Original Mad Stuntman Pon ya case man!
I love how all girls a move them body,
And when ya move ya body,
Uno move it, nice and sweet and sexy, alright!'
"Roy! Fix it!" he said tossing back the radio. It was blaring the song so loud that everyone was looking. Some bolder people were actually dancing to it. And M'gann was too?
"Come on. It's fun," she smiled. Roy stared for a minute before standing up. Not like anyone here really knew him. And Wally wouldn't dare speak of it. Not on his life. So here in the carriage were two dancing red-haired teens and a carriage driver whose face was matching the poinsettias saying softly to himself, "Please let Rob be somehow getting Roy dancing on video."
Hey it's Christmas. Crazy is expected. And this embarrasses Wally too. Hope you enjoyed this. It was prompted by…Sylviechic!
I'm not used to writing for Roy and M'gann so sorry if it's OOC.
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