Title: Privacy

Characters: Flash, Bats, and Superman

Word Count: 589

Rating: PG-13 for language

Disclaimer: Not mine, never will be, and no profit is being made from this story.

Summary: Wally West gets taken to the Watchtower for questioning. Before the events of star-crossed, so no one knows each other's secret identities. Also, before whenever batman figured out Flash's identity.

A/N: I didn't really change anything significant here. Just cleaned up some awkwardly worded sentences.

~JL~

Wally was screwed. So very, very screwed.

He was just chilling, minding his own business when BAM; surprise mini-interrogation by Supes and the freaking Batman.

Worst part was, Wally had no clue what he could have done to generate the conversation he was currently having.

Supes had, for some reason, felt the need to use his shoulder as a stress ball while Bats did his best to find a way to actually maim someone with his glare. Too bad he seemed to be the target.

Had he mentioned he was screwed?

"Are you Wally West?" Supes' grip leveled-up from being mildly uncountable to really freaking uncomfortable as Bats repeated his question.

Lying would only succeed in Wally being stalked to his house and later hung over a building or worse until he answered truthfully. If six months of working with Batman had taught him anything, it was that.

So, seeing no other option, Wally slouched his shoulders, put on a surprisingly genuine look of confusion tinged with a bit a fear, and mumbled out a shaky "Yea?" Inflecting his voice just so that his answer came out as a question.

Besides really downplaying his intelligence as the Flash, his personality didn't change significantly whether he was in or out of costume. Right now, that was a major problem.

If he somehow tripped Bats' Déjà vu sensors, the Dark Knight was just paranoid enough to look into it. And that would be extraordinarily bad for Wally, 'cause when Batman decided he was going to figure something out it got figured, usually within a week.

So for now, Wally would play a completely unhandsome, charm lacking, totally not a superhero geeky college student.

It was the perfect plain. Or the perfect plain as far as Wally was concerned.

Which he ruined about .05 seconds later when he let a smug expression fall on his face that Batman immediately noticed. Bats then proceeded to raise an eyebrow that clearly said 'I am suspicious of you'.

Well, that was what Wally imagined Bats' eyebrows would be saying if he could see them underneath the bat-cowl.

'Maybe I should look into inventing more emotive masks.'

~JL~

Kid was really suspicious.

One second he's pretending to be meek and shy, suspicious enough on its own, and the next he's wearing an expression that could only be described as disgustingly smug.

He should know, he'd spent a good portion of his life wearing that exact expression out in public to keep up his playboy persona.

Bruce looked hard and long at Wally. How a child who was so obviously bad at hiding his emotions had managed to become a member of an international crime syndicate was beyond him. But he was going to find out.

But not on a college campus surrounded by curious students.

"We need you to come with us for a while" Superman tightened his grip just a bit more causing Wally to flinch.

"Well fellas, I'd really like to come with you and all but I still have classes and other… stuff to do. So maybe we can reschedule or something?"

"Or something, you're coming with us. The league will send a notice to your remaining classes." Bruce made sure his tone was extra icy as he turned toward were they had left the javelin.

He had been waiting nearly a year to get his hands on someone from the origination he believed had set in motion the attack in CSU's chemistry lab two weeks ago.

He wasn't going to waste this chance.

~JL~

-With love, Gilded.