Chapter 38

"Alright, today is an important day. You have trained long and hard for this, and we need to make sure all of this practice has been successful."

Wally's green eyes followed his uncle as he paced in front of him, a slow August breeze blowing his red hair.

It had been weeks since the incident and Wally had taken notice how training had taken a turn from him trying to control and conceal his abilities, to using his powers to the fullest potential that he could do at the age he was at.

He still had trouble stopping, not being able to instantly stop like Barry could, but having to skid to a stop. It was the better then not being able to stop at all. He could accelerate speed almost as fast as Barry, but he could never truly meet the Flash's speed.

He knew deep down he would never be able to match Barry's speed.

Blue eyes staring straight into his snapped him from his thoughts.

"Today, Wally, you put what you have learned over the course of the summer to test."

Wally's eyes moved from his uncle's gaze to the lightening blot donning the older speedster's chest. A swell of pride, and nervousness grew in his chest.

He moved his eyes to the obstacle course that Jay had laid out in the empty field, his eyes following as far as it could go.

Moving to the side, Barry motioned for Wally to line up.

Today was the day before school started; a day to make sure everything would go okay when Wally went back into the world surrounded by kids his age.

It would test not only his running, but his self-control at not zipping around the place and super speed. Seeing if the hyper active child could really contain his powers to walk to class or run in gym.

Wally licked his lips nervously, waiting for the signal. Out of the corner of his eyes he saw Barry nod in reassurance just before the word go left his lips.

Without a second thought, Wally was off.

Wally easily weaved around the obstacles in his way. He had learned quickly that turning and avoiding was hard, but now it was becoming a little bit easier, needed work but practice did make perfect.

The first part of all this was to make sure he could move without running into anything.

Wally moved around the hay barrels as gracefully as he could, all the time Barry was running beside to watch over him. Making sure he could see the little streak that was his nephew.

As Wally reached the end, where a wall of hay had been made up the boy knew what to do. He stopped his feet and skidded to a stop like he had worked on. His chest moving up and down in short breathes as he looked over at his uncle to see if he had done it good.

Barry gave a small nod and smile, proud of what he saw. Now came the true test, making sure Wally could control his powers long enough to be accepted.

The kid was okay at it, but Iris and Barry had been the only ones he had really been around. He didn't have to control his super speed so he had the great habit of slipping into his powers when he talked or was doing a common task.

As Wally walked the length of the school hallway at a normal pace, Barry watched carefully. His blue eyes never leaving the boy. Same with when Wally had to run a mile, only thing that was off was the Wally had made himself a little be faster than what the previous records before he got his powers had shown.

Now if Wally could do this for a whole school day for a five day week for one hundred eighty days he would be very proud and amazed that a speedster had sit still for that long.

Beep. Beep. Beep.

A groan escaped the boy's lips as he rolled over and swatted at the noise, not efficiently making the blow to the infernal contraption.

Bleary green eyes opened to his room and looked at the red numbers on the clock. Seeing that he had about five minutes to get ready and still have time to eat made him shoot up fast. He hit the off button on the clock and jumped out of bed, running around the room to collect everything he needed for the day.

He put all his books in his bag, pulled on jeans and a yellow t-shirt, racing down stairs with one shoe on to find his uncle also rushing. With Iris on the side shaking her head.

"For the fastest people alive you both like to cut it close to the wire, huh?"

Wally only shrugged and grabbed the toast she had laid on the table, chewing on it quickly as he tried to put on his shoe properly.

Barry gave his wife a shy smile, "Something has to balance us out, right?"

Iris only shook her head and pushed Wally into a chair before he fell over and placed a plate in front of him. After receiving a grateful smile from her nephew she walked over to help Barry with his tie.

Wally ate quickly, before jumping from his seat and running upstairs. Grabbing his bag, a light red jacket, and brushing his teeth he was downstairs before Iris had even left his uncle's side.

School. For most of his short experience with the thing he had thought of it as a safe haven, now though, he hadn't been here for five minutes and he was already losing his mind.

Iris had dropped him off before driving to work and now he was just sitting in his seat in his classroom, listening to the slow words of his new teacher.

He didn't even have enough patience to figure out his name. Wally practically was doing everything in his will power to not tap his foot or shake his leg at fifty miles per hour.

The slow tick of the clock was starting to annoy him, the slowest tick and tock noises he had ever heard.

When he tuned back into the teacher as regular time he realized that people were getting up and sharing three things about them. The normal drill on the first day, make everyone uncomfortable by making them get up and introduce themselves.

Wally sighed with resentment at the fact, and it didn't help that his last name out him in the last few kids to be called up. No one would care anyway.

When his name was called, he controlled himself enough to get up to the front of the room and scanned the kids' bored eyes with disinterest. This was probably the slowest class he had ever been too.

This was going to be one LONG day.

A/N: MORE TRANSITIONAL CHAPTERS WOO! God I hate these, can't they just never exist. All of these transitions just seem like shit no matter what I do to them, and sadly it is going to take a few more of these before we get to the big BOOM of the story.

…still…ANYONE SEE FLASH'S MID-SEASON FINALE! I MEAN…WTF MAN! *dies* So awesome.