"Flash, wait!"

Flash turned in the direction the voice came from, already knowing who it was.

"Sup GL?" He asked casually once John had caught up to him.

John squeezed Wally's shoulder and looked him in the eye. "I want to make sure you're okay. After... yesterday, I was worried about you."

"I'm fine."

GL raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure? You didn't seem fine when Superman went off at you in front of all of us."

"Thanks for the reminder."

"Listen, I know Clark took it a little too far during that meeting, but he may have a point."

Wally glowered. "Don't even think about lecturing me," He warned.

"I wasn't going to. I'm just giving you some advice." He sighed, "I know you don't like Zoom. I'm not going to ask you why, and I'm not going to force you to be friends with him. You don't even have to like him. Just please learn to tolerate him. Everyone's on edge now that Luthor has escaped, and in-League altercations don't exactly help soothe people's nerves."

Flash was quiet. He supposed John was right. Fights within the League never ended well. "Fine," He says. "I'll suck it up and be buddy-buddy with him, just because you asked."

John grinned and patted Wally on the back.

Three Days Later:

Wally watched as Zoom loaded his plate with a healthy assortment of food from the Watchtower cafeteria. Zoom was now a full-time member, so Flash would have to interact with him at some point.

Remembering what GL had told him, he sighed and made his way over to where Zoom, Black Canary, Green Arrow, and Supergirl were sitting.

"Flash!" Canary exclaimed with a smile when Wally sat down next to her.

"Flash, it's good to see you," Zoom greeted.

Green Arrow waved, and Supergirl gave him a simple "hey."

"What's up guys?" Flash asked, wasting no time as he quickly got to work filling his stomach with french fries.

"Not much, we were just talking about how Gorilla Grodd can talk to actual gorillas," Green Arrow answered.

"Oh really? Listen, I have the funniest story about when Grodd-"

"Robbed a grocery store and took only bananas," Everyone at the table, except Zoom, finished in unison.

Flash blinked in surprise. "You've heard it before?"

Supergirl rolled her eyes. "You've told that story only about a million times."

"Fair enough." Wally paused to eat several more fries, then continued, "Hey, have you guys watched that new movie about the princess and that evil government that wants to assassinate her?"

Green Arrow and Canary exchanged glances. "Actually, Ollie and I were going to watch that tonight. Date night style."

Flash winked at the two of them. "Have fun."

Zoom snorted. "I don't doubt that they will."

Arrow suddenly gasped. "That reminds me! We have to go check out that crime scene, Dinah."

"Huh?" Supergirl asked as Green Arrow and Canary stood up.

"A city councilor committed suicide in Star City. He's convinced that it's actually an assassination, so we're heading to the scene to do some investigating." She pushed her half-empty tray towards Flash. "Feel free to finish it."

"Don't have to ask me twice," Wally replied with a smirk as the two heroes left.

"So Flash," Zoom said, "What have you been up to?"

Nothing suspicious about that. Just a simple question, Wally thought.

"Nothing much. Been rounding up the rogues as usual. What about you?"

"I've been trying to get to know everyone in the League. Trying to remember names and abilities and all that," Zoom answered.

"Yeah, that's tough. I remember when I-" Flash started, but Supergirl cut him off.

"Oh my gosh!" Supergirl screeched. "Flash Flash Flash Flash!"

"What?" Wally asked in confusion.

"You know that super cute boy I was telling you about?"

"Mr. Perfect Face? Of course I remember."

"He just texted me and asked if we could hang out today!" Supergirl could barely contain her excitement. "I'm meeting him for dinner!"

"Everyone seems to be busy tonight," Zoom joked at Kara.

"Yeah lucky me! I'd better go, I have to do my hair, find an outfit, do my makeup, tell my friends..." She rambled on as she gathered her things and left the table.

It was just moments after Kara left that Flash realized he was alone at the table with... Zoom. Of course.

Don't act like a tool, Wally. Just be casual, He told himself.

"Supergirl's been talking about that guy for weeks. I'm glad she finally reeled him in," Flash said with a grin.

Zoom just nodded in response, focusing on his food.

Flash took it as an invitation to continue talking.

"Superman made me do this training course yesterday, it was totally insane! Like, definitely the craziest course we have. We had to dodge water balloons being thrown at us at like 50 mph but we couldn't use our powers and..." Flash paused when Zoom turned and began to walk away. "Where're you going?"

Zoom shrugged.

"You have to be somewhere?" Wally inquired, frowning.

The man in yellow sighed, "Nope. I'd just rather be anywhere other than here, listening to you blather on about some obnoxious, irrelevant topic for hours."

Flash watched him speed away from the table in stunned silence.

A second later he snapped out of his daze and yelled after Zoom, "Yeah, well, jokes on you! You left before they served dessert!"

Wally slumped over in his seat, scowling like a brooding batman.

So Zoom doesn't like me. Fine, now the feeling is mutual.


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