Welcome back to So Far Away. Enjoy :) Kinda random, but I'm getting somewhere...I promise. Kyer, looking forward to your review in this one for sure.

They had made it to the Watchtower and everyone was celebrating Kara being back, and Flash was always right behind her. He was smiling the whole night, never stopping. At last, once everyone went to bed, him and Kara were alone. Alone in the hallway outside of her bedroom. He took his cowl off and looked down at her, and she looked up at him.

"I'd better get showered and go to bed. Long day, you know with the time traveling and all."

"Yeah, that," he said. He was just frozen there, not saying anything, and all his plans on what to do went blank. Stashed in the back of his brain. Gone.

She stared at him, confused at his confused look on his face. "Sleep well Wally."

He nodded. and she shut the door slowly and quietly. She always did that. She didn't want to wake anyone up. Just another beautiful, wonderful thing that Wally loved about her.

He looked down and slapped his forehead. Stupid! First time you were alone with her and you stood there like you were a statue. And a stupid statue at that! Jeez! He went to his room and went to bed. He didn't sleep however. At around midnight, two hours after he had tried to sleep, he heard soft footsteps in the hallway. He got up and opened his door as quietly as he could, and as he suspected, Kara was walking down the hallway. He shook his head a little and stopped staring. But he did notice she turned a corner and was out of his sight. He slipped out of his room, barefoot and in his PJ's, looked around, and then followed her. He knew he was hanging on a thin thread of being heard, with her super hearing, but he kept tip-toeing along the hallway. He peeked around the corner she had turned and saw nothing. Man, she's fast for someone so small...but then again, she has super speed too... He saw the door to the newly finished lounge open. He hadn't been in it yet, what with all the drama about Kara being gone. He figured there was no need to be silent anymore, so he just walked normally to the Lounge and walked in. To his surprise, he saw not Kara, but Zatanna staring back at him.

"Hello," he said quickly.

"Hello. How are things this late at night?" she answered.

"Just fine, thanks. I must be going now. Goodbye, Zatanna."

"Bye," she said, waving him off.

He again started walking again, until he heard talking in the lounge. He used super speed to go back and peeked in, leaning in the doorway.

"Talking to yourself, Zatanna?" he asked, suspicious.

"Is it a crime now?"

"Maybe. But as we all know, normally you wouldn't talk to yourself in the middle of the night in case a certain Scarlett Speedster," he used his thumb to point at himself, "like me, would hear you and question you. Much like I am now." He was just saying random things to buy time and look around the room. He knew she wouldn't talk to herself. Even though he didn't know her well, he knew her well enough to know that wasn't like her. Or was it? Because he didn't see anyone in the room. He wondered why she was talking to herself, and why she ignored his last comment. He shook his head and walked out. Kara could be anywhere by now. He first checked the cafeteria, and then her room. Still, he couldn't find her. He checked everywhere. When he checked the one place he didn't think she'd be, he found her.

"Kara, what are you doing in the Monitor Room?"

She looked startled to see him as she whirled around after hearing his voice. She turned back to the screen and typed something in.

"Kara?" he repeated. "What're you doing in the Monitor Room? From what I remember-"

"Its not my shift."

He nodded and stood next to her. He looked at the screen and studied it. And then he remembered and his heart broke. He had seen this before. This was the same thing as when she had contacted the Watchtower when she was in the future. But this time it was the other way around. She was trying to contact the future. Trying to contact Braniac 5.

"Wally," she said, "I miss him."

This time his heart didn't just break. It shattered.

He nodded slowly, as if to say 'I understand.' But he didn't. He didn't understand it.

"I came back because I missed you guys. But now that I'm back I miss them," she said, voice cracking, pointing to the screen.

He still said nothing. When she said, "You guys" seemed to echo in his mind. So she didn't come back for Wally. She came came back for all of them. He looked down. And then looked back up quickly. He knew she expected him to say something, but he just couldn't. She lowered her head and sniffed, ovbiously holding back tears.

Little did she know, so was he.

"Kara..."

She looked up at him, hopeful for something he didn't know of.

"If you want to go back," he said, choking back all the emotions inside of him. He wanted her to be happy, and that was bottom line. He tried to finish his sentence, tell her to go back, for her to be happy again. But he couldn't. She finished for him, though.

"I should, right?"

Now these three words echoed in his mind. Over and over...then it became just two words. I should...I should...I should...

A few moments passed and neither of them said a word. Then Kara broke the silence.

"I was talking to her. Zatanna, I mean. I was up, and so was she. We were talking via comm-link, though." Her voice was still lowered from holding back the tears, and she didn't look him in the eye.

"Oh," he said simply.

"Wally, honestly, should I?" she asked helplessly.

"I won't answer that question for you."

"And I'm not asking you to. I'm asking for your opinion. I need it now more than ever."

"I think you should do whatever you want to do."

There it was. The sign he was looking for. When he had said the above, she had slowly look back at the screen. She really did want to go back.

"I want..." she muttered. She seemed to gain strength, and said, "I know I love him. I know that for a fact. It was stupid for me to leave just because of one fight. Not because I don't want to be here with my friends and family, because I do, really. But its so hard to be away from him, so I've learned this past day. Its only been a day, Wally, and I already miss him. How am I supposed to just leave him like that? After all, he loves me too."

She had sat down in a chair. He had stayed still.

"I bet he does," Wally said quietly. He knew what Braniac was going through. He knew exactly what he was going through. Suffering. Sadness. No sleep. Barely eating. In other words, depression. It was either Braniac or Flash who was going to suffer. And as each second passed and she just stared at the screen, he knew what her choice was. She didn't love Wally.

She loved Braniac 5.