S/N: Wally's legacy is more than just memory...
"Wally West," calls Persephone.
"Yes?" answers Wally.
"You remember Linda Park?" asks Persephone.
"Yes I remember her."
"She is visiting your grave today."
"She is?"
"She is still one of the more frequent goers and a decision has been made to grant her heart's desire."
"What is that?"
"It is to have you back with her if only for a day."
"You would do that for her?"
"She loves you, and she could never really realized it at least more so until you died."
"How am I going to explain this to her?"
"Just tell her it's a gift for the day and also if wish to make love to her, you can so long as she wishes it too."
"I understand…"
"When the day is done, you will return here."
"It'll be hard to leave her like that, at least I could try to tell her more than just leaving a note."
***
"I don't know why I keep coming here and talking to someone who is still dead."
"I wouldn't be so sure of that, at least not today."
"Flash… I mean Mr. West… ugh… Wally!"
"Yeah it is me Linda…I was given a mortal day pass for you."
"Really? How? Why?"
"I have been in the afterlife more or less since that day. Technically I'm still in there, but for now I'm here with you."
Linda walks towards him slowly, wondering if her mind is playing tricks on her, just like those dreams about him used during the first few months after his murder. She puts her arms around him and kisses him. He had forgotten what kisses felt like aside from the memories and she had for a long time sought to know how it felt to kiss him instead of just imagining it. She pulls him along and phones in for a day off as if wondering if she went to work he would be gone by the time she got home. They went to her place, which incidentally had a small shrine to him, to some it seems freaky, to him, it is better than a museum to his exploits, and she makes some Iced Mochas, using a mocha maker she got as a birthday gift.
"So what is it like there?"
"Peaceful, entertaining at times, but usually I stick to myself, I mean everyone's got their own slice of incorporeal paradise down there. I miss having a body sometimes and to my surprise they tell me Linda is at my grave today. Today being kind of relative since time is nonexistent there."
"I bet you are hungry."
"You become telepathic while I was gone?"
"No silly, I remember your hyper metabolism requires more recharge than anyone else."
"Just being silly I am, well whatever you have is fine."
She cooks a couple cheese sandwiches and they eat quietly for awhile until he notices melted cheese on her face. He presses his finger against her face yet before he can pull his finger away, she grips his wrist and tells him....
"Put your finger in my mouth."
It seems a little strange at first yet she seems to find it enjoyable. He had some similar bits on his face so she reciprocates; it was a new thing for them so they start doing with all sorts of food until they start kissing again later on. She leads him to her bedroom and they lie down there for awhile. She just wants to feel his arms around her, to feel his breathing on her, to be totally certain that he is there, and not her indulging some want of a dead love.
"I don't know how I ever went back to work after you were killed, it was not the same, everything felt different, and of course that Near 09 business made a lot of people panic yet your friends did the impossible again plus your cousin took over for you after Near 09."
"You mean Inara?"
"Yeah, I met her, nice girl, but you know me I only have eyes for you Wally."
"Yeah I know, I never knew exactly how you felt and me I was kind of a slacker."
"Your way of handling the bad guys is what made you my hero. You would talk to them, try to find common ground, instead of just going head to head with them more often than not like Superman. You didn't use tactics against them though I know Batman has his own way of trying to reach them even though most never see it."
"Yeah usually you find yourself have way between them with me. I wanted to do the right thing yet I didn't want to be rough around the edges."
"One thing I miss most is your hair and your humor."
"Wondy said it suits me and John always had a trip up with my funny though I think he gets it."
"Yeah, they all got together finally awhile back to rededicate and honor a park in your name."
"Way to go my friends…"
"You sure you don't want to go see them?"
"My pass is bound to you alone."
"Well I could go with you."
"No I had my time with them during Near 09 when Persephone brought them to visit me. Today is your turn."
"I love you Wally West…."
"… Love you too Linda Park."
She starts to undress him slowly and taking it just as slow he undresses her. She kisses him full on the lips and he responds in kind so they go about the whole experience slowly. It is a relieving feel to have his body up against hers and so they just sort ebb then flow with each movement. Linda nuzzles against him, stroking his hair after awhile, and he holds her close to him. They eventually eat again as doing this is quite a pull for a man with a hyper metabolism yet after they return to the bed for more. Linda recalls an old poem she read years ago that went for who could foresee the two would become one and such is true in the act of physical loving or so she wants to believe for as long as he is here with her today and tonight.
They slept soundly that night and by breakfast the next day, she could not help herself except cry, but he said so long as you remember what I mean to you, how you feel about me, about all the things we are to each other, I'm never gone. She whispers between tears I know, I just wish we had more time, but I'm grateful for what I got just the same. He left her more of a gift than either of them knew almost as if Persephone had been prophetic. Linda would be late in a few weeks, and not the late for work kind of late or late for an appointment, no it means the kind of late that spooks a woman. It is spookier for a woman who slept with a man who had come back to life for a day, but of course she wonders who to tell, the only ones she could risk were Wally's friends though how to reach them.
***
Somehow she got lucky on the way to the rededicated park to Wally as Shayera is there with her little boy. Linda is hesitant to approach as telling someone about this sort of thing is really new territory to her.
"Hello Linda," murmurs Shayera.
"Hello Shayera," whispers Linda.
"How are you doing?" she asks.
"I'm well… I'm… pregnant."
"Who is the lucky man?"
"It is…Wally."
"What? Are you messing with me?"
"No, you saw Wally during what happen with Near 09 didn't you?"
"Yes, one of Diana's goddesses took me and John to visit him."
"Well I think she gave him a mortal day pass to see me and we… well had sex. I haven't slept with anyone in a long time so to be find out I'm pregnant less than a month after is…"
"We should have a paternity test or something to be sure."
"Okay, I just wasn't sure how to broach meeting a briefly resurrected Wally."
"It is alright, let's just get you checked out just the same."
A purplish glow appears and out steps Inza.
"She speaks the truth Shayera; I'm reading signs of high level magic or energy around her."
"You sure, when have I or Kent been wrong about that?"
"Right, I just thought we would be sure."
"I know, I will take you both to J'onn then."
***
"I ran all the tests I could think of and all point towards her pregnancy beginning not long after when she apparently slept with a temporarily resurrected Wally. The tests are conclusive, she is almost two months pregnant now."
"See I told you."
"I'm sorry I had my doubts, but you know we saw him die, so it is disbelief though I'm sure we should have been more believing after seeing his specter."
"It is alright, I didn't believe myself at the time or even after my doctor told me after I found I was late."
"Yeah, well, here's to the future kid in there, now if you three don't mind I need to get back to my son."
"Also when the time comes I want to deliver the child among Wally's friends."
"We could do no less to honor him or his legacy within you Miss Park."
"Call me Linda."
"As you ask, so shall it be."
The memory and bloodline of Wally West would endure through the love Linda Park felt for him and for their child. Linda finally read the note Wally left for her that day almost two months ago.
One could pass an entire lifetime and never know what living truly is or one could have only a day and know only what it means to have someone special like you Linda.
P.S. I love you and if there's a kid in your future, that is my precious gift to you.
A/N 1: Persephone keeps popping up in my stories, don't know why exactly, but most versions I have seen of her except that one in the Matrix Trilogy, have appealed to me on an emotional level. She has at any rated come to an agreement with other Goddesses including Hera, her mother Demeter, and Aphrodite to grant something to Linda Park.
A/N 2: Another bump to make the future just a bit different is in this segment's expected revelation. I made it all very simple to give Wally a one day mortal resurrection before having to go back to the afterlife a third time. The first being him going to comfort Diana in the midst of the Near 09 trouble, the second in the present/future that was overwritten, and now to go be with Linda.
A/N 3: Lifted the whole P.S. concept off the movie P.S. I Love You. Its one of those movies you either like or find too cheesy or both or something else. I personally liked it then again I'm a lover of most things Irish be it music, the countryside, literature, or movies that are set there.
