Wally stood, mouth agape, for several moments. It was the longest he had ever stayed completely still in his life, but this moment deserved such a record breaker. Dick's eyes were beautiful. They were the rare type of ice blue that shone and attracted everyone's attention. So Wally stood, entranced by those eyes for several moments and then he moved.

Quicker than he ever remembered being able to move, Wally was at Robin's, no, Dick's bedside and holding him in a tight embrace. "I-" He didn't know what to say. What could he say? What should he say? After the team had been so cruel to him, Robin hadn't stopped trying to be their friend, and now…now he was allowing Wally – Wally, of all people, who had betrayed him the worst – to know his most intimate secret. "I-" He wanted to say, 'I love you,' but he didn't think he deserved it at this point. "You're beautiful," he said finally. "You're beautiful."

Dick froze. As his true self, it had been quite some time since he had indulged in physical contact unless it was for comfort. Robin was the touchy feely type of kid and Dick enjoyed the contact, but he didn't really know how to do it anymore. It was strange because it all came to him so easily as Robin and yet it was all escaping him as Dick.

Wally moved away awkwardly when Dick didn't return the contact. It kind of hurt to be rejected like that, but he kind of deserved it so he didn't say anything. Now he didn't even know what he should do and, he realized when he looked at Dick's gaping face, it didn't seem like he did either. The two of them just stood their staring at each other for several minutes, Wally rocking back and forth on his heels with indecision on whether he could get closer or should just leave, until Dick finally reached out and grabbed Wally's sleeve.

"I'm sorry," he said, looking at the other hand in his lap. "I'm not used to getting hugged by people. I wasn't expecting it."

"I hug you all the time," Wally said, but he sat on the seat at the desk, pulling it close to the bed so that he could listen to what Dick had to say. He was done making assumptions that would tear them apart. It was time for him to grow up even if it was just for this moment. Dick was trusting him more than he deserved and he was not going to screw that up.

"But that's Robin."

"You are Robin." Wally just wasn't getting it.

"No. I'm not." Dick shook his head. "I'm Dick Greyson. I'm only Robin when I wear my mask or my sunglasses."

Wally really didn't get it. They were no different when they put on the suit. None of them were. They were always the same person. Well, maybe they were a bit more free since they got to truly let loose all of their abilities, but that certainly didn't make them a different person. Yet, he could see that Dick was more withdrawn then his hero counterpart. And much less self confident. Wall had even heard on the news that Richard Greyson was a very standoffish boy for his age, some people had even called into question Bruce Wayne's parenting methods that led to such behavior from a child as young as Dick, but now Wally could only see a shy boy who had been through a lot.

Still, "You are Robin." He would convince this boy of how amazing he was even if it took him the rest of his, possibly short, life. "Wearing that mask is just like me wearing my suit. I can't show all of me until I put it on because I can't use my superpowers without it, but that doesn't make me any less Kid Flash when I'm not wearing it."

"You just don't understand," Dick sighed. He really didn't want to talk about this anymore. In fact, he would much rather drop the subject for the rest of his life. He never thought he could hate so much to be compared to himself, but now it almost felt like Wally wasn't even giving him the chance to be himself because he kept saying he was Robin. It was a weird and entirely unpleasant feeling to not want to live up to your own name.

Wally frowned. True, he didn't understand, but he wanted to. He wanted to know everything about Rob- Dick. Unfortunately, he had long since learned how to tell when Dick didn't want to talk about a topic anymore. It was one of the first things you learned when trying to be friends with Batman's son. And the next thing you learned was that, when Dick did not want to talk about something then the conversation was over, though he often liked to push that when he got the chance. He was a chatterbox, after all.

Instead of speaking, however, Wally moved to sit next to Rob-Dick. He didn't like sitting still at all, but he always felt comfortable next to his friend even before he thought to date him. Dick just calmed him to the point that the vibration he could feel in his very bones didn't bother him anymore. That wasn't even something he could say about his own family, which kind of made sense since they were more used to allowing his Uncle to move as much as he wanted and allowed Wally the same.

"Are you going to show the rest of the team who you are?" Wally asked after a few moments of silence.

"I don't know," Dick shook his head. He wasn't really sure that he wanted to show the rest of his friends who he was. He just wanted to go back to the way it was before the whole training fiasco. Where he was just Robin and his friends didn't care about his true identity. Where everyone trusted him without needing proof.

"You don't have to yet," Wally said.

As much as Dick wanted to believe that. He really couldn't. Even if his friends would accept him back into their lives without knowing who he really was, he knew now that their lack of knowledge about him lead to the doubt that caused them to mistrust him. If he didn't tell them now, then he was just setting himself up for something like this to happen again. Besides, Batman wouldn't have given him permission to give away his identity if he didn't think it was necessary for him to tell everyone else. He needed to tell them.

He just had to figure out how.