Prompt: Wally knows a lot of statistics. Morbid statistics.
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Beat The Odds
Wally's fairly certain that, when he receives the acceptance letter to Gotham U (with its exceptional criminal justice program), isomething/i will happen to keep him from going. There's a %68.97 probability of it, given that he's a superhero, and this is what happens to superheroes.
He's right. The world ends the night before he's supposed to be packed and gone. It un-ends – due to the combined efforts of the Justice League, Young Justice, and alternate reality versions of themselves from about six different realities - slightly before the clock ticks over to the day he's supposed to be gone, but still, he ticks it off as a point on the 'Wally was right' side of the folder. Thus far, the other side is empty.
His parents don't like it, he knows: the list making, the calculated probabilities. They ate it, actually, but Wally... He's not sure he can't get by without it anymore. He's not sure that his nerves would survive a trip to the store without calculating the odds of having to face Captain Cold, Professor Zoom or Captain Boomerang II on the way home.
His parents, Uncle Barry, don't think it's healthy. He doesn't see how it can be anything ibut/i.
And then he wakes up one morning on the day of a test to a phone call from phone. Happy Birthday, they tell him.
Happy Birthday. He's twenty.
He's twenty and they want him home tonight.
For once, he doesn't object and pretend that he can't run home faster than the bus can make it to the end of the block. So he speeds through the test, stops a mugging on the way (%96.02 probability, and another checkmark) and goes home.
There's a Marvel comic X-men theme going on, apparently. That... he didn't predict, because he hasn't read comics in years. But all of Young Justice is there (%32.57 probability), and Uncle Barry bought three 4 gallon tubs of ice cream (%100 probability that he'd eat one all by himself).
He eats himself sick on cake and ice cream (another checkmark), and then finally gets around to asking about the theme.
Robin gives him a blank look. "X-men?" he asks. "Who're they?"
"You know, the comics?" Wally prompts.
"Dude, this isn't about comics," Robin says slowly.
"So, what is it about?" Wally asks, honestly stumped. Robin pulls out the book. The Book. The one that's got all of Wally's lists and statistics in it. He opens the book to page one, and points to a single entry.
Die before 20 y.o. %89.54
"It's about the fact that you beat the odds," Robin says, and hands him a pen.
Wally smiles, and puts a big X next to that one.