DEF: Wow, I am really close to getting 100 reviews to this story, come on guys, make my year by giving me the pleasure of seeing 100 reviews on this story.
Vita: So Young Justice this week was comme se, comme ca. Personally I think M'gann is cool but that's just me, can't wait for the next on though, saw Bats and Robs fighting, damn the angst storm is inevitable!
The base was empty when the speedster found himself there again. Thanksgiving had been a fiasco he didn't want to revisit. The Garricks had come over as usual and they'd laughed and chatted as usual and then his phone went off at the table. Rudy'd gotten mad but hadn't said anything until the guests left.
He pressed his forehead to the cool counter as the incident replayed itself behind closed lids.
'What the hell did I tell you about turning off that damn phone at the table?" Rudy yelled grabbing him up by the shirt and slamming him into the wall.
"Why do you even have it still? What you think I like people thinking we're a charity case? Give that back to Robin next time you see him or so help me boy..." Rudy growled, brown eyes bright with malice.
He nodded listlessly, it didn't matter what he said, what excuse he made up, Rudy never listened to what he had to say. He didn't have to listen to what his son had to say to know it was complete and utter bull. Why waste precious seconds of his life with his annoying dead beat of a son?
"It's gone, won't see it again," he promised glancing at everything in the rooms, all the available weapons and all the pain it would amount to later. There was a belt on the upper shelf of the wares cabinet, not a good thing, there were the wares, they could be broken over him, used to cut his skin. Then there was the wares cabinet itself, it could be pushed down on him and he would stay still while it happened, let a four hundred pound wooden cabinet crush his body
"It better be Wallace, who the bloody hell called you anyway? I thought you told all those friends of yours not to?" Rudy asked slamming him into the wally again, he grimaced in his head as Angeline appeared perched atop the dining room table.
'Oh do tell Wallace.' She cooed sending an air kiss over to where he was being held.
"It was a text," he murmured not daring to look up and meet the glare he could feel eating into his skull.
"From who Wallace?" Rudy bit off through tightly clenched teeth, breathing heavy as he prepared to hurt Wally in some way.
"Robin, he's going on a covert mission soon and wants to hang out before he leaves," he admitted, turning his face flush with the wall, he didn't need another broken nose. They tended to bleed a lot when he ran and the blood flying in his eyes wasn't something he needed at 700mph.
"Hang out? You spend nearly all your time with that runt, all I ever get out of you is Robin this and Robin that! What do you like more than just a friend, is that it?" the brown haired man questioned pulling back his arm as far as it would go and letting it snap forward.
Now came the worst part of it all, the blow would come so very slowly that when it finally did come, it would hurt more than it should. These the times he hated his super speed with a super passion, he would wait and wait, thinking up worse tortures for himself, and what did that help?
A fist the size of his cheek, slammed into his cheekbone with enough force to fracture it, he wasn't sure how he knew it was fractured, he just did, guess he'd just learnt over the years. He was thrown to the ground, kicked hard in the ribs, had a plate broken over his head, gotten cut up and down his arms.
Throughout the beating Angeline laughed mercilessly, her laughter high pitched and malicious, devoid of pity, not that he wanted her pity. Rudy used a belt on him again, catching the edge of his mouth with the heavy metal buckle, leaving a cut from the right side of his mouth to his chin. He didn't say anything at all, Rudy didn't like it when he did, said the least he could do was take his punishment like a man.
He sighed, Robin, Roy, Megan, Artemis and Conner were gone on some covert mission for Bats, he knew where they actually were though, playing a part of Hayley's Circus. He pursed his lips, how Robin could hold it together to perform as an acrobat where his parents had been murdered, then again, he heard the little bird wasn't doing so well.
He'd called of course, what was a best pal for after all? But honestly, the part that had hurt was the simple fact Robin didn't trust him enough to let him tag along, what wasn't he good enough to be a part of their act? He was fairly good at acrobatics and he'd been practicing a lot, he should be good enough to work with them, I mean, come on, Megan?
She was horrible at the warm ups, much less for the real deal, she would use telekinesis no doubt and get through it no sweat but no Wally was too much of a liability. He grit his teeth as his hand formed into a fist, holding back the urge to punch something as he so wanted to, but the Bat had this place wired worse than Fort Knox, he didn't dare.
'Poor, poor Wallace. This is the way it's gonna be from now on, now that Roy's a part of the team. They don't need you anymore, you should just do them all a favor and leave.' Angeline crooned cupping his face, he could feel her hand there, she was real and only he could see her.
'Such horrible nightmares you've been having. Don't sleep, they'll only get worse and then what? What if you break down in front of the team, if they get to learn all your dirty little secrets?" she hissed dragging her fingers along his cheekbone.
He shuddered violently, he could never tell, never let them know. They would hate him, hate him so much for his stupid weakness.
'Feeling down are we? Don't worry, I know just what to do to turn that frown upside down.' Angeline sang dancing over to the knife block and pulling out a wickedly sharp steak knife, pressing the flat of the blade to her cheek lovingly.
'You know as well as I do how much you want to, need to. No trust, no regret, no promises, forever secrets. All it takes it one small cut!" she hissed spinning with the knife outstretched and nicking his cheek.
He clapped a hand to said cheek, mouth hanging open in surprise as the flash burn of pain died away, his hand came away with a single red line and he stained at the crimson stain intently. Angeline had danced away to sit atop the counter, knife twirling in her hands, licking the slight blood off the blade.
He sucked in a shuddering breath, sh-she was right, the pain had helped quell the rush of emotion he felt, but it wasn't enough he needed, he needed more. She smiled, a cunning Cheshire cat smile, holding the knife aloft for him, his hand shook badly as he reached for it.
'Ah ah ah, not here Wallace, did you forget the Bat has this place wired? No go to your room, disable the cameras because you can't let them see how much of a coward you are,' Angeline reminded him tossing the knife in the air, end over end, before catching its blade.
"You were amazing today Robin, the crowd loved you," Megan praised as computer announced their arrival back at base, he smirked, of course he was great when people weren't stealing his acrobatic prowess.
"What, did you grow up in a circus or something?" Roy joked, he laughed along with the rest of them, he'd never told Roy who he was, just that he had the nickname Dick at home but he was sure Roy had guessed by now.
The three of them, Roy, Wally and himself were the original sidekicks before it became a fad, he was first, the Boy Wonder after his parents had died next came Wally and then Roy. Robin, Kid Flash and Speedy, dubbed TLS by the Underworld and Justice League alike 'Those Little Shits'.
"Yeah right, can you imagine me living in a circus? I'd let all the tigers out the cage for fun!" he snickered referring to the time he'd actually done that, Pop Hayley had been so mad. Speaking of Pop, he really shouldn't have assumed Pop had been fooled, the Flying Graysons had been a part of the circus for generations, each more skilled and daring than the last.
"Damn, now that I think about it, you'd be one little shit if you grew up in a circus," Roy mused resetting the coordinates for Star City, he might be a part of the team now but that didn't mean he wanted to stay at the base.
"Takes one to know one Roy boy!" he called as he made his way to his room at the base, he didn't use it much, just enough to have a few changes of clothes, both civie and hero and a few personal items, like his comics and math books.
He plopped down on the bed, the mask he'd worn as Dan Danger in his hands, it was so whimsical, working at the circus had brought back so many memories, some good, others not so good. He shrugged, he'd gotten over the death of his family, accepted it long ago, that didn't mean he didn't miss them though. He missed them all the time but mamica had always said when you died, you didn't cry for the dead because they were a better place. You cried for yourself because you were forced to go on without love for a long time, the time it took to put the broken pieces back together and move on.
He sighed heavily running a hand through his ink black locks, Bruce had wanted him to run some scans on the mountain's security system after an attack on the tower a while back. Someone had gotten advanced enough tech to implant a virus into the Watch Tower main computer and it had glitched the whole system, Bruce'd been working for weeks to fix it and wanted an update on the base incase whoever it was tried again.
He pulled up the base specs on his wrist comp, starting with the cameras, every six months all footage was reviewed thoroughly, backed up onto the BatComputer then deleted completely. They'd done that last month so there wasn't much footage to go through, the cameras in their rooms were a little stalkerish but there were blind spots, if you knew where to look. He scanned Wally's room absentmindedly, guess the red head was in one of the blindspots, it being at the foot of his bed.
He shrugged, Wally was entitled to his privacy and he really didn't care much for what the red head was doing just then, he switched over to the landing bay and gagged when he caught sight of Supey and Megan sucking face. He stuck out his tongue, they did that way too much, couldn't they at least have the decency to use a blindspot?
He shook his head firmly, none of his business, pretend you didn't see anything and move on with your life Boy Wonderful. He smirked, Joker'd called him that at first but then Wally took over, somehow he liked the nickname coming from the red head, the slightly sarcastic way he'd say it.
The truth was, the Boy Wonder in fact, bisexual. No one except Bruce and Alfred knew and he wanted to keep it that way for a while, he thought women were beautiful and as for the male well. Honestly, he'd had a crush on Wally ever since they'd met, sure they were best bros but people fell in love with their friends all the time.
He winced as he recalled his reaction to Wally almost drowning last month, it had been as though a demon were trying to cut his heart from his chest and devour it. Alfred was right, he watched too much Kuroshitsuji, demons like Sebastian didn't exist and no matter how much he looked like Ciel he was not him. Yes he'd lost his parents as nine, yes he'd been taken in to a rich home with a butler who catered to his every want but he was not a cold, vengeance driven person.
He continued the scan on the mountain's system, ignoring the slight niggling feeling at the back of his mind that something was wrong. Magic might exist, he might know a sorceress but that didn't mean he was any different from said Babera, gut instinct was not this feeling so he ignored it. It was simply paranoia.
'That's it Wally, press it to your arm, higher up, don't want to slice through a vein now do we?' Angeline purred in his ear, he shuddered violently at the cold metal cut open his skin, for once he was doing this to himself and for once it felt good.
'What did I tell you? You need this, this is the coward's way and what else are you Wally but a coward?'
DEF: So you might have noticed that my writing towards the end got a bit formal but that's because I've been reading a lot of Kuroshitsuji (watched all the anime) and want to write a story for it.
Vita: CielxSebastian is hot! I don't care who calls it pedophilia, all I can say is Twilight. Sebastian is simply one hell of a sex God and Ciel is well, I think you know, plus he wears dresses for those of you who prefer BxG.