A/N: Hey guys, first I want thank you all for the reads and reviews! XD I also want to say that we're almost done with this story, just two or three more chapters to go! I also want to make it known that this WAS going to be the last of the Ever Spinning Compass Verse, but I've been considering doing a spin-off of chapter 10.
The pairing would be The Justice Lords/ Wally, and it would follow how they became a JL7 up to Wally's death by Lex, how that would have affected them into becoming the Better World Lords we know, how they would have reacted to see the Justice League Flash alive and follows up at the end of chapter 10.
This pretty much a rough draft, and I'm not SURE if I will write it, what do you guys say?
Anyway enjoy.
This chapter: Guess who.
Building A Family
The sky was grey, clouds rumbled loudly threatening to open up and unleash heavy rain, Wally hoped it didn't.
Speedsters and rain didn't mix well.
"Flash, duck!"
Flash does just that, avoiding a purple ray, grinning he run towards Star Sapphire avoiding blasts aimed at him; playing bait for John to take the villain down.
"Is it me, or are they getting easier?" Flash says when he zips over to Green Lantern who was securing the now unconscious woman.
"Remember that talk we had about cockiness?" John says.
Flash smiles, the smile growing as he readies himself for the reporters and civilians that were starting to surround them.
"Flash! Green Lantern! Over here! Over here!"
Over the loud cries for attention the sound of sirens could be heard, craning his head the Speedster could make out the flashing lights in the distance, happy that the police were on their way to collect Star Sapphire Flash turns his attention back to the reporters. Taking their attention away from an annoyed John.
"One at a time please, I'll be happy to answer any questions you—"
Flash trails off much to the bewilderment of the reporters, the Speedster takes no notice, instead his focus is on something behind them.
Green eyes.
Green eyes as familiar as his own.
"Flash?"
The Speedster jump
s when a hand places itself on his shoulder, the hero looks and meet's the curious and considered expression of John.
"You alright hotshot?"
Flash looks back at the eyes only to find them gone, heart hammering, Flash looks back at Lantern.
"I'm fine"
Above thunder rumbles.
When he decided to live his life on land and away from the Team's headquarters it was obvious his new home had to be near the sea, he found it in a small town where the neighbors were friendly and didn't ask questions. His home was on the beach, far from tourist and the occasional mischievous youth, when he got the house he had told his friends that they were welcomed (and they took the invitation, sometimes coming around unannounced, staying over and leaving the next day, at some point they're things started appearing).
"Wally?"
He just wished they didn't come at three in the morning; the Speedster was dressed in his civilian clothing that was too little for the cold wind and moist air courtesy of the dark rumbling sky above, he was shivering, though Kaldur wasn't sure if that was from the weather or the Speedster himself.
"I-I'm s-sorry for waking you up so late, erm I mean early, b-but I-I was in the neighborhood and I- uh—"
Kaldur's brows furrow at the stuttering and fidgeting, before looking at the Speedster's face, more importantly his eyes. The green eyes that remained him of the ocean were darting about, never staying still, but the thing that worried the other most was the fear he saw in them.
Wally was afraid.
With the state the red-head was in, Kaldur knew he wasn't going to get any answers to his many questions, so gently he took hold of the fidgeting hands.
"Come inside" he says already leading the other man inside.
"O-Okay"
Kaldur leads Wally to his room where he sits the other down on his bed and wraps him in his comforter before going to his kitchen to make hot chocolate knowing it would ease the Speedster, he was hardly in there for a minute before Wally comes in still wrapped in his comforter. He says nothing as he fixes two cups of hot chocolate; when he was done he went back to the room with two hot cups in both hands, Wally right behind him.
He places the cups on his nightstand then resettles Wally back in his bed before giving the red-head his hot chocolate, the Atlantean settles into bed with his own cup, the moment he does Wally leans against him resting his head on the broad shoulder. They say nothing, the silence only broken by the ocean and the rumbling sky.
Kaldur doesn't ask why Wally came to him, because he knows.
He knows his presence calms the Speedster, lets him fight through the fog and think clearly, and unlike the Founding Members of the Justice League and their friends, he does not hover. Instead he patiently waits in the distance for Wally to come to him, this practice as yet to steer him wrong.
After turning on the TV (it was the weather channel and looked like it was going be rain clouds all day tomorrow), Kaldur's rests his cheek on top of Wally's head and waits.
"I turned off my communicator "Wally says during a commercial break.
Kaldur hums as his fingers dance around the ring of his cup.
"That was three days ago"
Kaldur chokes, three days!? Neptune, the League must be in chaos! The Atlantean felt bad for the Heroes that had to deal with the no doubt frantic Founding Members. Now that he thought about it, he wondered why he hadn't been contacted about Wally's whereabouts, then he remembered his communication center was down, Cyborg was supposed to have come and fix it but never gotten around to it.
Which meant no one could contact him, it also meant he was going to get more visitors soon.
"Are you hiding from them?" Kaldur ask, voice calm despite everything.
"Kind of," Wally answers after a pause, "something happen a few days ago and it's got my head all messed up"
Kaldur nods and doesn't push.
At some point he must have fallen asleep, because he wakes up with the sun in his face and covered up in his comforter, the TV is off and he is alone, the smell of breakfast cooking tells him his guest was in the kitchen. Yawning Kaldur rolls out of bed and makes his way to the bathroom, at the sink there are seven different toothbrushes each had a logo of their mentors (Robin's toothbrush was going to have to be replaced soon), he picks up his brush and goes about his morning routine.
"Morning honey!" Wally chirps from the stove when Kaldur enters the kitchen.
The Atlantean's eyes turn playful as he goes over to the other man, he wraps on arm around the small waist his other hand takes hold of Wally's jaw turning his head towards him and kisses him. He pulls back to give the pouty lips a quick lick before pushing said tongue pass unresisting lips, Wally moans as his mouth was conquered, it's only when he gets slight dizzy from lack of air that Kaldur pulls back.
"Why did we stop being lovers again?" Wally pants.
"Because you were starting to realize that Artemis was a girl and not a replacement for Roy" Kaldur says as he places a kiss on the pale neck, wrapping his other arm around the Speedster's neck.
"Oh yeah"
Kaldur chuckles, even after all these years he's still no sure how he and Wally ended up as lovers a few months after Young Justice had been formed, he still remembers that day clearly. The then teenage Speedster had asked to speak with him privately (it was two months after Tulia and still fresh in his heart, though no one but Roy knew) and they had ended up taking a walk in the woods that surrounded their headquarters, and true to his non-tact nature Wally had blurted out if they could be lovers
He remembers drawing up a blank and just staring at Wally, when he did speak it was a squeaky "why?" and Wally gives him his answer.
"I saw Uncle Barry and Auntie Iris have sex" Wally said.
Kaldur wrinkled his nose as any person would at the thought of two people they saw in a parental way doing any kind of sexual act.
"They didn't know I was in the room, it was an accident really" Wally continues on.
The tone in the younger's voice told Kaldur that Wally had been unfazed by what he had saw, which was not surprising considering it was Wally.
"It was different from the porn I've watched, the people in it look like they're enjoying it too, but it wasn't like Auntie Iris and Uncle Barry. I asked Uncle Barry how sex could be different, and he told me it was the relationship of those involved that decided the intimacy. A sex partner is just a sex partner; while a lover is a lover, he also said there were other kinds of relationships besides those but he got called in…he looked kind of relieved when he left now that I think about it"
"So you want to experience the intimacy of lovers…or do you want to be just sex partners?" Kaldur finally says after Wally's explanation.
"I asked if we could be lovers" answers Wally with a confused expression as though he couldn't understand why Kaldur would even ask that question.
"Why me?" the Atlantean then asked.
"Because the adults will say no"
An expression on the Speedster's face told a story that spoke of experience that was best left forgotten, it was gone as quickly as it came, leaving a brief moment of confusion before patient waiting.
"Adults I can understand, by why not someone else you own age?"
"Older is better" Wally simply says.
"Then why not Roy?" Kaldur then suggests grasping for straws.
Not that he wasn't fluttered, or even disgusted by the suggestion, and though he was still a little confused by this whole thing in general, he just didn't think he was the best person for what Wally wanted. He wasn't even good enough for Tulia.
"Roy makes me nervous when he's angry, and at the moment he's angry all the time"
Well that answers that question, something must have shown on his face because Wally started explaining more.
"Age aside, I trust you, you know I do. I trust Robin but he's too young, Ma'gann and Conner are too new, I don't know them as well I do you, not to mention Conner is practically a baby with a temper as quick as Roy's. You though, you're calm, patient, and way mature for your age. Those are the traits of a good leader, and a good lover in my opinion"
"And if I say no?"
"Then you say no" Wally says with a shrug, "I won't hold it against you"
Kaldur looks up to the sky, his mind thinking of the pros (sex…hey he's teenage boy) and cons (one word: Barry) should he say yes. For a moment his mind sends him back to the League BBQ years ago when Wally had kissed him making him wonder if that may have something to do with this, perhaps it did or perhaps it didn't. Whatever the reason Kaldur decided to go with his gut.
"Yes, but only on one condition, we don't tell Barry"
The leader is tackled to the ground by a happy Speedster.
He never regretted that decision, despite a few close calls with Barry finding out, and when he noticed Wally starting to look at Artemis differently; it didn't hurt when he let the Speedster go, not to say he didn't feel pain. He did feel pain but it wasn't the same as with Tulia, no, that pain was fear of losing the bond that had developed between them, imagine his relief when he discovered that bond didn't break but got stronger.
"You're thinking" Wally says bringing him back to the present.
"Indeed I am"
"Care to share?"
"I'm thinking about how I missed you withering underneath me and how you screamed my name"
Wally blushes and smacks his arms with the spatula.
After breakfast, Wally went about cleaning the other's house and Kaldur lets him, the harmless flirting aside(he had a feeling Wally was happy for the distraction) he still needed to figure out what made the Speedster so scared that he'd turn off his communicator (along with whatever tracking devices Batman planted on him) and come here. Asking out right would result in a 50/50 answer, being subtle about it would be best though if he wasn't careful Wally would realize what he was doing and become closed off.
Humming thoughtfully Kaldur decided to be blunt, it worked for Wally most of the time, perhaps it'll work with him.
"So before the entire League, plus our friends come kicking down my door, can you tell me why you are here?" Kaldur asks from where he was sitting on the sofa watching Wally mop his wooden floors.
Wally looks at him, eyes wide and startled, before he slowly resumes his mopping, an emotion clouded the Speedster's eyes that made them look older then they should, he had seen it many times before and each time it made his heart ache, even now his heart ached.
"Wally, I know you came to me because you know I will not hover over you when you are troubled, but I am worried and wish to only help you as best I can. I cannot do that if you will not tell what's wrong"
"I-If-If I-I t-tell y-you t-then it m-might b-be r-real and I c-can't a-a-and t-the o-others t-t-t-they'll, I-I c-can't"
The Atlantean was up, and wrapping his arms around the panicking Speedster, gently shushing and murmuring words of comfort.
In the sky, dark clouds crackled with lightening.
Wally stayed at Kaldur's home for two days before deciding to return to his apartment (though not before calling the tower to let them know he was no longer MIA, apologize for just dropping off the grid and that no he wasn't hurt, no Superman he didn't have a fever of any kind and he'd see them later), yawning as he climbed the stairs jumping slightly at the loud boom of thunder from outside, the red-head wondered if he had time for a nap before he returned to the tower in two hours (and wasn't that going to be a fun lecture) .
He also wondered if it would be enough time to collect and ready himself for what he was going to telling the others what he thought he saw five days ago and the explosion that was going to be the result of it.
Finally getting to his door, Wally he fished out his keys, he unlocked the door and went inside, making a bee line for his bathroom, he decided that yes he needed a nap and taking a shower first was sure to help him go to sleep faster. After a warm shower, the Speedster put on his boxers, set his alarm to wake him and falls asleep the moment his head hits the pillow.
He is awaken an hour later by a caress of his cheek, murmuring softly his fuzzy mind tries to decides if what he felt was real or a sleep induced hallucination, he gives a soft sigh when fingers suddenly run themselves through his hair.
"Nice" he thinks, turning his head and nuzzling the hand the cups his cheek.
"Wally"
The Speedster's whole body goes cold and still, his heart hammers loudly against his ribcage, and it's suddenly hard to breathe, he's fully awake now.
"Wally, Wally open your eyes"
He wants nothing more than not to, but he learned from a young age not to disobey that voice, disobedience results in punishment and he doesn't want that, so he is a good boy.
He opens his eyes.
"Hello son"
Outside, rains falls.
Papa West is back! Quick someone call Batman and Hawkgirl!
Anyway Review please, and don't forget about the chapter 10 spin-off, you can review or PM me!