The Ever Spinning Compass
"Um Uncle Barry?"
Wally? Why are you calling me? Aren't you supposed to be in school?
Wally looked around the dinner, looking at the people either eating or chatting, then he looked over at the waitress who was kind enough to lend him a phone.
"Yea, about that, I'm…well…I'm not"
Then where are you? And please don't tell me you were skipping, your Aunt is going to have a cow!
Wally flinched at the thought of how upset his Aunt was going to be, that fear suddenly focused on the fact that he was now in another country with totally strangers, miles and miles away from his relatives.
"U-Uncle B-B-Barry" He stuttered, his body instinctively move towards the closet corner.
Wally? What's wrong? Are you hurt? Where are you?
Wally took a deep shaky breath before answering, "I'm in Canada"
Silence.
What the hell are you doing in Canada?
"I-I don't know" Wally stuttered, his breathing heavy eyes moist with tears, "One minute I'm running from gang of bullies—"
Bullies? What bullies?
"And then I'm here, Uncle Barry please, please come get me"
The fear and loneliness was heavy, and Wally, he just looked so small.
It's okay Wally, don't cry, I'm coming, do you know where you are exactly?
Wally told him the name of the diner.
Okay I'm coming don't move.
Wally sniffed, "Okay"
The scene faded into white.
The next scene showed Wally sitting on the sidewalk in front of the dinner, a man came out and stood next to him.
"Hello boy, what's your name?" he asked, grinning when Wally gave him a weary glance and scooted away from him.
"Aw don't be like that" he coo'd.
"Please leave me alone" Wally said softly.
Fear
"Now that's just rude, all I wanted was to be friends" the man reached out to touch Wally, when a red covered hand grabbed his.
"Don't. Touch. Him"
Wally looked up and gave a smile at seeing the Flash.
The man gulped.
"Leave"
The man nodded and once he was free, ran.
"Hey little guy. You okay?" the Flash asked kneeling down.
Wally nodded.
"Good, anyway your Uncle asked me to come get you, he thought I'd be a bit fast getting here than him"
Wally smiled, though in his mind, something didn't seem right. It wasn't that he thought the Flash was lying it was just that something seemed …off, lately he been noticing some things between him and his Uncle that he couldn't really wrap his mind around.
"Okay you ready to go"
Wally stared at him for just a moment before nodding.
The scene faded into white.
The next few scenes went by in a blur, and they saw as Barry revealed his identity to Wally, helped to control his Speed, even teaching him some tricks, and though it all not one of Wally's thoughts was about becoming a Hero, so how did Kid Flash come to be?
Finally the blurs settled and they were greeted to the halls of Wally's High School and there was Wally.
Wally flowed with the sea of students all of them heading to the front doors to freedom. With a sigh he looked for his Aunt's car, he spotted it across the street and started to make his way over when something made him pause.
He knew her, she was in his Advance English class…and she was crying.
Curious and concerned he wanted to go over to her and find out what was wrong, but was hesitant as always. It was times like this that he wished he brought his Compass to school.
It's been a while since they seen or heard about the device, and they weren't sure if they should be happy about that or a bit worried.
Five minutes later, his decision was made.
"Summers"
The girl looked up at him, eyes shining and wet…and just so sad.
"Something's wrong?" he asked.
She shook her head, sniffed and turned away from him.
Wally frowned and studied the girl, he didn't know what was wrong, but she remained him of his Auntie Iris, the look in her eyes every time his Uncle would leave for his other job, at the time he didn't know his Uncle was the Flash. At that time he just knew that he didn't want to see his Auntie so sad and worried looking, and tried everything to cheer her up and the one thing that seem to work the most was a little saying he had made up.
"A good woman shouldn't cry so easily" he said to Summers, Summers looked at him in confusion and perhaps a little anger, which he knew was deserving after all he didn't know what she was crying about and here he was practically telling her to stop being a big baby. He wasn't done though.
"And why is that?" she snapped.
"A lady should never let others see her tears" Wally continued on unfazed, "because those tears are much more beautiful than any jewels in this world!" he then gave a big smile.
Summers blinked at him, then slowly she smiled, and even though there were still tears falling Wally thought she was the most beautiful girl in the world.
Just like his Auntie Iris.
"Damn it!"
All heads turned to Shayhera who was watching the scene, the look on her face was one of affection though her eyes were wet.
"Something wrong?" Superman asked.
"Damn right there is" Shayhera said, "now I can't get mad at him when he starts flirting with me!"
The others blinked when it clicked by what she meant, but it also made them wonder if what Shayhera concluded was true, did Wally really flirt with all those women, because of the desire just to see a smile and not wanting a date? And as they thought about it more, they came to realize that when they had first started out as a team Wally would pay extra attention to Diana and Shayhera when they seemed upset…they also noted that Wally was the only one who was willing to actually go near the girls when they were in a mood.
"Diana?" J'onzz asked worriedly, while John give an amused grin to Shayhera.
Diana blinked out of her thoughts and looked at her friends.
"He said" she paused, her voice soft gaining the others attention, "he said the same thing to me….that night I was banished from my home…I didn't understand it, but I thought it was a sweet gesture…we then spent the night eating ice-cream and watching old movies… and I forgot about my pain for just a while"
If anyone saw the soft smile on Batman's face they said nothing, probably because their faceS showed the same.
Summers and Wally became best friends after that, though they suspected Summers wanted to be more than friends, and the scene that showed them now was Wally walking to the movies, he was to meet Summers there, it would have taken him less than a minute to get there, but they knew that Wally still wasn't use to his speed yet.
Wally only ever went to the movies with Barry and Iris, so to go with a friend was just so exciting.
"Wally!"
Wally smiled when he saw Summers waving him over, and after checking for oncoming cars he crossed the street.
"Made it huh? Was starting to get worried" Summers said.
"Sorry, my Uncle was umm prepping me about the movies" Wally said with a slight blush.
They grinned as they imagined Barry "prepping" Wally, that man was such a mother hen, more so then Superman.
"I didn't know you had to be prepped to go to the movies" Summers said.
Wally shrugged before following Summers to the line, they paid for their tickets and entered the building.
The movies was loud with explosions and all action, Wally seemed to enjoy and after the movies they decided on a late lunch.
After placing their order, Wally step to the side and waited for their food, absently he looked around observing the people sitting around, he eyes found Summers sitting in a booth by the window and he froze.
There was a car coming straight towards her, and it wasn't stopping!
And Wally did the only thing he knew how…he ran.
The first time Wally tapped into his power, everything had moved by so…fast, this time it was different, everything, everythingwas so slow, almost like no one was moving at all…
There was screaming, glass breaking, people running.
Wally saw all this as he sat there in the corner, wide-eyed and shaken, Summers in his arms, her eyes staring at the car that nearly hit her.
"W-Wally" she stuttered.
"Y-Yea?" he stuttered back.
"I-It's a c-car"
Wally just gave a shaky laugh.
After that it seemed that everywhere that Wally went, something dangerous would happen, and Wally would end up using his powers usually saving people, so it wasn't really a surprise when the scene settled on Wally's room, the boy curled up with his Compass in bed.
Next to him was a sketch book and they could see a design of a familiar custom, to his right was the Teddy Bear.
Wally watched the needle spin round and round, round and round and round.
It stopped.
He looked in the pointed direction.
The moon and stars watched as a legend was born.
The scene faded into white.
Wally's life a Kid Flash moved by them as fast as the Speedster himself and when everything settled, even Batman gave a soft groan.
"What's wrong?"
"It's the JL annual barbeque"
It's also where Barry nearly commented first degree murder.
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