Aw, they get into a fight...
Rating: K+ (use of 'damn' and bad mouthing Skyrim, sorry!)
Timeline: Alternate tangent, around a year as a team
Standard Disclaimer
Wally was having a no good, very bad day.
Recognize, Robin- "Oh my god, would you just shut up?" Wally practically yelled at the robotic voice. The Boy Wonder looks like a deer caught in headlights when he came through the zeta beam.
"Uh, I'm pretty sure I didn't say anything…" Robin trails off as he sees Wally fuming. Angry Wally is weird. The team is used to seeing hyper Wally, whining Wally, hungry Wally, happy Wally and so on. However, Angry Wally is something different and even more disastrous. Heavy on the dis.
The first time the team had to deal with Angry Wally was when he got a broken arm (as well as other injuries that may or may not have included some cracked ribs and a broken foot) on a mission was apparently demoted to house work until he got better (it only took a week, but he had to be careful. If it healed wrong, it had to be re-broken). When they came back from a successful mission, he was in a brooding mood and actually snapped at M'gann. His words cut and carried every malicious feeling that he could force out. Angry Wally wasn't simply a mood swing or a temper tantrum. Angry Wally suddenly made everyone on the Mountain feel worthless. The worse part was it was very difficult to get Angry Wally to stop. He was very careless with the anger he threw around and the team usually had to hold on until Angry Wally finally turned into Apologetic Wally.
Robin doesn't quite know how to act at first. Usually, he let's Wally cool off and try not to get his head bitten off during the waiting period. But Connor and M'gann are out on a date and… 'Oh crap. That's what this is about…' Artemis was out on some training with the Green Arrow and Aqualad was using this week break to go see his family and friends in Atlantis. Usually Superboy and M'gann stayed at the mountain, but they were out and on a date. Robin had just come back from his own break. Batman had called him home early.
He quickly calculated that Wally probably had been at the mountain for at least four hours (if not more), pissed off. He felt like, as his duty as a friend, he should do something.
He approaches Wally slowly, like Kid Flash is an untrained lion in the wild. "Hey, maybe we can make an Oreo pie or something and then stock up on game play hours on MW3?" Robin tries. He is a delicate persuader, and by delicate, he really means he sucks at it. He knows which buttons to push to get Happy Wally back or at least Whiny Wally.
Maybe?
Angry Wally is still there, on the couch, staring at the blank screen, fuming. In a way, he seems a lot like Superboy.
Robin tries again. "Uh, what about Skyrim?" Wally whips around and glares at him.
"You are a brat, you know that? You think because you've got the Bats behind your back, you seriously can do anything you want around here. You don't give a second crap about any of us, do you? Probably not, because you're too high and mighty to care. You just can't wait until the day you can leave us behind, but you know what, Wonder Boy? Eat my dust." Wally gives him a look so full of anger and hatred, it sort of shocks Robin.
He tries to cover up by saying, "It's the Boy Wonder!" It's a joking manner but all he gets is Wally stomping off to his room.
Okay. So maybe that plan was a failure, but the Oreo pie was still a go. For as long as Robin had known Wally, Wally was a eater. Any food went straight to that boy's mouth. Anything pie or Oreo or pudding related was suddenly territory and anyone who took some was on the 'going to get maimed or shot' list.
Robin busied himself in the kitchen. He wasn't a bad cook, but he wasn't the best either. He did, however, practice an Oreo pie enough to get it almost as good as Alfred's. He cheats and uses pre-made whip cream on top. Alfred makes his own. Cooking is a good outlet for Robin and Oreo pie is a good angst food for Wally.
He goes to knock on Wally's door. He's not giving up yet. "Hey, KF," He waits for an answer but gets none. "Care to come out? I made pie. Like, three, because I know you'll eat-"
"Leave me alone, you stupid kid!" Wally shouts. Robin is hurt by that. He knows that Wally knows how much it hurts him to be just a 'kid'. He's been dealing with being a 'kid' for like, forever.
It's only a few more seconds of this fuming and then Robin has had enough. He kicks down the door (and by kicking down the door, he means he hacked the key lock). "Jesus Christ, KF. You are the biggest child alive! What are you, five?" Robin holds out five fingers and sneers at Kid Flash.
Wally looks lost, sad, and hurt. Robin is taken aback and then there's a moment of realization.
"Dude, I'm-I'm so sorry. I just though-" Robin tries to explain himself.
Wally is sitting criss-cross apple sauce on his bed with a giant bat pillow in his arms. He really does look like a kid. Robin had gotten him that pillow for him for Christmas last year. And then Robin realizes the real reason why Wally was mad.
Robin sighs and pinches the bridge of his nose, trying to apologize. "You know how Batman is. He tells me to come and go whenever. I can't control it and it wasn't even a mission, KF! Just staying with Batman for an early break, because that's when he was free and there was…" He trails off. "Um, I have pie?" He tries to make up. He has a sheepish smile, the kind that only Wally will ever see because it's only in front of Wally that Robin will ever admit he's made a mistake like this.
Wally sighs and flops on his bed. "Robs, you are the most ridiculous person ever. I swear. Every time you leave, you know what Red Tornado tells us?"
Robin answers, because he knows. "'Robin is temporarily unavailable. He is on a mission with Batman and his time of return is unknown.'"
Wally looks at him, eyes filled with mistrust, worry, and a little bit of anger. "Do you know how worried I get? And when I got to the Mountain today, everyone's gone. What if you called in 'cuz something bad happened? How am I gonna get you out of trouble if whatever baddie you are fighting can take you and Batman down? Do you know how fast I think? I think super fast, yeah. It comes with being a speedster. So I am worrying my butt off every second…" He sighs and then groans into the pillow. Damn his stupid fast brain.
Robin looks at his best friend. There's a moment of silence and he sits on the bed, next to Wally. "…Yeah, I know."
They both look at each other for a moment and there's a million unspoken words. I'm really sorry. I should've told you by comm. link or something or texted you or something. I know I'm being selfish. I'm so sorry. I know you can take care of yourself. I know that if anything happened to me, I can count on you. I'm sorry, you know that. I can't tell you how sorry I am. You have no idea how important you are to me. You know that I trust you with my life. I know you could save us no matter what. I know I should've told you I as going to be gone. It's my fault. No, it's my fault.
Robin lays down next to Wally and they're both looking at the ceiling.
"So pie?" Wally says, softly.
There's a small grin on Robin's face. "Yes, pie."
"Dude, also, Skyrim is for scrubs."
-o-
When Connor and M'gann come back from their dinner date and moonlit walk, they are expecting some silence. Just a few hours to sit together and mull over the perfect evening they've just had. Instead, there's lota of… noise?
On the big television screen is some sort of shooting game. The screen is in half (a different point of view for both people in front of the TV) and Kid Flash and Robin are shouting at each other through headphones, despite they fact they are right next to each other.
"Nonono! Right, right there!"
"Shut up, Wally! I don't know if you mean right or right!"
"What the heck are you talking about, Robs?"
"Oh, damn! I just-"
"Holy crap, did you just see that?"
"No, Wally. I was looking at the floor. Of course I saw that!"
"Aw what? Now you're seriously just hacking the game, that's not even-"
"Totally is, KF. Don't even."
They're playfully shoving each other and don't even feel that M'gann and Connor are there until Connor clears his throat and M'gann says a rather loud, "Hello!"
The duo pauses the game and looks behind them. "Oh, hey guys!" Wally says. There's Oreo and pie kind of all over his mouth. Robin looks at them. "Hey!-er, do you need us to leave or something?" Robin is polite, giving them the 'okay' if they want some alone time. He can't help but smirk a little.
M'gann shakes her head, just a little appalled. There's at least six empty pie tins strewn all over the floor from the kitchen area to the sofa.
Superboy chuckles a little bit. Seeing Kid Flash and Robin like this is a little bit comical. Wally just gets even more excited. "Holy crap, Robin! You got a camera? Superboy is laughing!"
Everything is fine at Mount Justice that night.
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