Author's Note: Here we are with another chapter! I'm super excited for Halloween just around the corner – it's definitely my favorite holiday, even though I hate scary things. It's kind of ironic in hindsight, isn't it? Anyways, this chapter is dedicated to Guest for figuring out the 'A Streetcar Named Desire' quote first. If you're wondering, the quote was, "Never inside. I didn't lie in my heart." Blanche says it and it's really quite a depressing scene. Anywho, read, review, and enjoy!

Responses to Guest Reviews:

Guest – Congrats on the chapter dedication! I hope you thought that play was as good as I thought it was. Thanks for taking the time to review!

Stranger ways – You're definitely not late. You were actually one of the earlier reviewers :P Yes, the ship is starting! Talk about slow burn though, yikes. It's only been 35 chapters and they still aren't even displaying even the tiniest hint of a relationship. Haha, Robin is such a corruptor. Dude, scientists might not be able to answer those burning questions, but I certainly appreciate the all-caps. Thanks for taking the time to review!

Zatannagurl – House arrest is starting this chapter! Which means that Wally is locked in a mountain with the Team 24/7. Glorious days. Thanks for the amazing review as always!

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Wally would forever deny the pang of disappointment that settled under his collar bone when he woke up that morning and it wasn't Robin outside of his glass, staring at him with curious white eye slots. Instead, it was Aqualad, who was possibly the worst person who could have been there first thing in the morning.

Wally groaned and flopped back over, hissing a little bit as his ribs and back protested the night spent on the floor. Were his ribs seriously not healed yet? This was getting ridiculous! Aqualad broke through the silence that had settled, "Are you awake, Wallace West?"

That woke Wally up. He carefully rolled over and glared at Aqualad, "Uh uh, nope. Not happening. Never again. You do not get to call me Wallace West. To you, I am Momentum. Got it? Momentum. It's not that hard of a name to grasp."

Apparently his scolding only served to amuse Aqualad because his lips curled at the very edges and his eyes grew slightly lighter as he said seriously, "I do believe that I deserve some retribution for the harm you have caused me over our past interactions."

Wally shrugged, "Not my fault you're either the easiest to catch or the one who goes after me first. Get better and I'll stop taking you out."

Aqualad still seemed slightly amused and Wally narrowed his eyes at the Atlantean. There was a challenge waiting there. He would get Aqualad irritated, or, better yet, mad enough to yell at him. There had to be some way to break that perfect calm mask. Wally started to grow more uncomfortable the longer the silence lasted, "So… I'm on house arrest now, right? That means that I can get out of this tiny little cell and start wandering around, right? Because I've gotta go to the bathroom and I needed food, like, six hours ago. Honestly, you guys are just terrible hosts. I feel like if you were better hosts, more villains would give themselves up. Just saying. That's an option."

Aqualad looked at him oddly for a moment, setting to work opening the cell. Wally was so focused on seeing how he opened the cell that he almost missed the hero's words, "You talk when you are uncomfortable, do you not?"

Inwardly, Wally froze. Whoa, whoa, whoa. This due has known him for like a total of twenty minutes. This was not the point in a relationship when you started asking serious questions. Outwardly, Wally lounged back against the wall, idly shrugging a shoulder, "Not particularly. If a topic makes me uncomfortable, I'll stop talking about it." That was the truth, too. He did stop talking about the topic that made him uncomfortable, choosing instead to talk about literally everything else.

There was something in Aqualad's expression that made Wally feel as if he'd seen right through Wally's comment into the truth that laid beneath, but Wally wasn't going to try to confirm that. He'd let sleeping dogs lie for now.

Finally, finally, Aqualad got the cell door open, stepping through warily. Before he got more than a couple steps in, he stopped, seemingly deciding that he was far enough away. Wally sat up a little straighter, wondering what was going on.

Suddenly, Miss Martian floated up behind Aqualad, a smile on her sunny face, "I'm just here to make sure you don't try to take Aqualad out! But I'm sure you'll be fine!"

Wally laughed, the sound coming out easy and, surprisingly not malicious, "Anything for you, hot stuff. Who would have guessed you were hiding a cute little smile like that?"

She blushed prettily, eyes lowering slightly, but smile never dimming. Aqualad had moved closer during their conversation and was now crouching next to Wally. He clearly projected his movements, showing the scissors and cutting the zip-ties before showing Wally the key and unlocking the cuffs. He did this with Wally's ankles before moving onto the hands. Wally felt some of his anxiety fade away as each cuff hit the floor with a solid clunk.

As soon as all his limbs were free, Wally pulled his feet in towards him and started rubbing one of his wrists with his other hand. He grimaced a little at the pain of slightly chaffed skin. Wally started to calm down now that he was free to move mostly on his own terms. His speed still hadn't come back, but that was okay. He could work with what he had. He just… he just didn't like small cells or being confined to one spot. It was wrong. It felt… there wasn't a word for how perverse it felt to not be able to move where he wanted to. That was something that was innately feared by a speedster – by someone who could lap the world without breaking a sweat.

And now? Now he was still confined to a space that was inherently tiny to a speedster, but it was better than that cell with limited movement. Most anything was better than that.

Wally glanced up to see that both Team members were watching him wearily, Aqualad's water-bearers in his hands and Miss Martian's hands extended slightly. He rolled his eyes, "You guys know that I don't currently have my powers, right? It's not like I could even do that much to you. So, where are we going? Bathroom or food first? Because both are gonna happen."

Miss Martian frowned slightly, "You are being very rude."

"Yeah, well, you are too. You attacked me, hurt my teammates, kidnapped me, held me in a cell, and are currently keeping me from going… from going back to where I belong." Wally shot back, expression souring. Did they really think he was going to play nice after they captured him like some wild animal? Seriously? If they had really thought that, then they were stupider than he'd thought.

An equally sour voice called out from the side of the hallway, "Maybe if you hadn't broken the law on multiple occasions we wouldn't have to arrest you."

"Was that an arrest?" Wally questioned the female archer, glaring fiercely at her, "Because I don't remember hearing my rights. Or being charged with a crime. Or hearing any sort of reason as to why I was targeted for arrest in the first place."

"Yeah right," Artemis snorted, "Like you weren't out there with other incredibly well-known supervillains about to steal something."

Wally's jaw clenched slightly, but he kept up the verbal banter, "We were just dressing up like villains and you have zero evidence proving that we were about to commit a crime. People dress up like the Joker every Halloween and I don't see them getting arrested. Besides, you sure seemed to have some sort of beef against the one dressed like Sportsmaster. And the other time you had a problem with the one dressed like Cheshire."

She rolled her eyes and growled, "You can drop the pretenses. We know that that was Cheshire and Sportsmaster and we know that you're Momentum. Denying isn't going to get you anywhere, Wally."

Wally stalked forward, startling the other two into flanking him, Miss Martian eventually floating to put herself slightly between the blonde archer and the ginger speedster. Wally snarled, "I've said this to Fishboy over there and I'll say it to the rest of you: don't call me Wally. I am Momentum to you. Got it?"

"Sure thing, Wally." Artemis responded with a flip of her huge, long ponytail.

Forgetting where he was, who he was with, Wally lunged forward. He wasn't sure what he was planning or what he was going to do with her, but he didn't like her attitude. He didn't like these people calling him Wally so casually. That was his name. It was one of the few things that was his and had always been his and he wasn't going to let these heroes sully it on their tongues.

Before he could attack her – wrap his hands around her throat or just out and out punch her, girl or not – there was something slamming into his neck, sending bolts of electricity through him. Luckily, the arrow taser only lasted a few seconds. Still, it left Wally gasping and scrabbling to pull the arrow away from his skin.

After a few seconds of futilely twitching his fingers at the arrow, a gentle hand pulled it off, helping him to his feet in one move. Wally blinked up at the tall figure of Roy. Red Arrow was frowning at him, "We literally just had a conversation about this last night. You cannot tell me that you've forgotten our conversation. Remember the part where you said you'd try your best to reign in the sarcastic comments and the escape attempts? You've been out of your cell for, what, two minutes? Less? And I'm already having to tase you."

"You really, really didn't need to tase me." Wally grumbled.

"Yes, I really, really did. Consider it payback." Roy answered easily. Wally swore at him under his breath. Roy rolled his eyes and asked, "So what was it that set you off so early on?"

"Her!" Wally said, glaring at the female archer. He'd caught a glimpse of a completely startled and unprepared expression on her face just before he'd been tased, so he still counted the experience as a success. Wally continued, "And, you know what, him to!" He pointed at Aqualad who blinked and tilted his head to the side inquiringly. Wally threw his hands in the air, "The only nice one is the Martian! Tell the others to call me Momentum. They don't get to call me by my name."

Roy raised an eyebrow, visible through the mask, before saying curiously, "Hate to break it to you, but you don't have a lot of rights here. Like it or not, we can call you whatever we want. But I'll spread the message…. Didn't take you as being so strongly opinionated on what people called you."

"Yeah, well, there are some things that irritate me and that's one of them. I don't call you by your name, you don't call me by mine. Got it?" Wally growled.

Roy sighed, massaging his temple, "Got it. Come on, we better get to the kitchen for breakfast."

Miss Martian shot straight into the air, crying out, "My pancakes!"

Roy shook his head, "Luckily Zatanna and Robin are in there with the pancakes otherwise we'd been eating charcoal again this morning."

"It is sweet that she tries to cook for us, though." Aqualad responded, watching the spot where Miss Martian had disappeared off to. The four left behind started walking at a more leisurely pace towards the kitchen. Roy was on Wally's right side and Artemis was on his left. Aqualad was slightly behind and to the side of him, almost between Wally and Roy, but a little too far back to be quite there. Roy and Aqualad struck up a conversation, but Artemis and Wally were silent. There was nothing for them to say to each other.

When the finally reached the kitchen, it grew silent too. Robin was just as cheerful and lively as he'd been sitting in front of Wally's cell the night before, but he was staying silent, a curl to his lips like he knew something that the rest of them didn't know and he thought it was the funniest thing he'd ever known. Zatanna was a more somber kind of silent, but it was obvious that she was prepared to try to act nicely. There was a set to her expression like she was trying to show that she was happy, but she was actually fighting against a frown. It was the thought that counts, right? The other one, Superboy, was definitely not smiling. He had a deep-set scowl on his face as he stared intensely at Wally. The speedster was tempted to ask if the clone knew that his face would get stuck that way if he kept scowling like that, but figured that he should lay low for a little while after that scene in the hallway.

Miss Martian was the only one moving around, bustling from one side of the kitchen to the other as she filled up plates and set them out in the living room area slightly kitty corner to the kitchen. There seemed to be specific people who usually sat in each spot because each plate was filled to a different amount and, occasionally, with different things. The largest plate was sat on a coffee table facing away from the TV and that was where Wally was led, pushed down to sit on the floor to eat his meal.

Once everyone had settled in their chosen spots, Zatanna spoke up, "I'm sure you already know who each of us are, but I'm going to go ahead and introduce us anyways." Wally held back hiss acerbic comment and allowed her to introduce the Team.

When she finished, she looked at him expectantly and he rolled his eyes and responded, "I'm Momentum. Ta-da." There was a slightly hurt and a little bit irritated expression on her face, so Wally added, "I really think that would have been more spectacular if you'd have introduced me. Everything's better when introduced by such a gorgeous young woman." It was kind of amusing how quickly her blush traveled across her cheeks.

"You're such a perv." Artemis grumbled from the sofa she was sharing with Zatanna and Robin (although Robin only took up the arm of the chair so the other two had room to spread out).

"Do you hear what she's saying about you?" Wally asked, turning to Zatanna. He shook his head in mock disbelief as he said, "She's saying that the only reason someone would complement you was if they were a pervert. Such a cruel friend."

"Oh my god." Roy said loudly, interrupting anything Artemis might have said in return, "What is your problem with each other? I mean, I don't particularly like Artemis either, but even I'm not that bad. Have you guys had a single conversation where you didn't fight?" Wally and Artemis looked at each other, both remembering a scene that will forever haunt their nightmares: Roy and Cheshire kissing during a battle. They had had a civil conversation after that, but… that really didn't bare thinking about. Wally shivered a little bit at the memory.

Robin honest to goodness cackled in response, sending another shiver up Wally's spine at that horrible noise before he said, "I have to know what that conversation was about. You two have had a civil conversation. I have to know."

"You really don't want to." Artemis said, pointedly not looking in Roy's direction.

Wally nodded emphatically, "For once, I actually agree with her. You really don't want to."

Roy sat forward, "Wait, now I want to know too."

"No." The two said in unison, glancing at each other, startled.

Aqualad said calmly from his seat, "Perhaps if you shared this information with us, we would be able to create a better environment for the group and would be able to prevent a situation like that of this morning outside of the cell."

In the background, Wally heard Robin inquiring about what happened this morning, but he was locked in a silent debate with Artemis. Were they going to tell them what happened? Or would they keep that horrible scene out of the others' nightmares? As one, they came to a consensus.

Artemis closed her eyes and said, "Alright, I'll tell you. But, trust me when I say that this situation will not be recreated in order to create a happier environment or whatever. I don't think I could ever bare to see that again." She paused and everyone leaned forward in anticipation, "The only civil conversation we have ever had was when we commiserated together over the horrifying sight of Cheshire and Red Arrow… kissing."

There was a long, long pause of silence before Robin was sent into a fit of cackles, rolling onto his back on the couch arm and somehow not falling off. Roy, from his place on the ground next to Wally, went beet red, expression morphing into one of absolute horror. He hissed to Wally, "You two saw that?"

"Unfortunately." Wally nodded. Roy groaned and put his head in his hands, ears reaching the same red color as his face.

Miss Martian was squealing and asking something about if that meant they were true star-crossed lovers or something and Zatanna was almost as red as Red Arrow. Superboy was tilting his head and squinting at Red Arrow like he couldn't quite figure him out. Aqualad simply responded, "Congratulations on finding a mate." Before he went back to peacefully sipping his orange juice.

Aqualad's comment (and he knew exactly what had happened, but made the comment anyways, the evil little bugger) sent Robin into another fit of hysteria and sent Miss Martian clapping in joy. At this point, Zatanna and Artemis had started laughing, leaning into each other and trying not to upset their food. Red Arrow had slunk onto his back, covering his face with his hands and moaning as if he were in physical pain.

Watching the group fall into laughter and giggles (and, in Superboy's case, confusion), Wally couldn't help the small laugh that came out himself.

Author's Note: I figured that there was as good as spot to stop as any. I hope you liked the chapter! Thanks for reading!