Wow this is the fastest I updated! Well from the reviews I got so far, I am very much whelmed. Anyway this chapter is going to be a very angry Wally…just a little heads up. So suggestions and ideas are welcomed as always, and please review! REVIEWS make me happy (: Enjoy!
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Wally stormed out of the house and looked back at his house. It was like every other house in the neighborhood; it had two stories and a basement, no sidewalk so your roof underneath the second floor and on top of it was hanging over the street. The only difference was there was a cheating bas- ….meanie was having intercourse with a woman that he wasn't married to.
Wally turned away angrily and walked away from the house to a bus stop. He would normally run to the pharmacy, but he wanted as much time away from his house as possible. He could deal with the abuse, but this was just ridiculous. He wanted so bad to tell his mother what was going on, but he didn't want her hurt in two ways; he didn't want her heart to break and he didn't want her to die early.
The bus arrived and he got on and gave the man his money and sat down. He looked out the window and began to think about how his life got so screwed up. He was supposed to be the normal one on the team. Dick's parents fell to their death; Megan basically got disowned from her mother; Conner is a clone for heaven's sake; Kauldar doesn't even have a mother and father, just his mentor; and Artemis…well all he knows is that she has a mom in a wheel chair with no dad.
Yeah, Wally meet Artemis's mother before. Artemis got hurt during a mission and was sent to the Med Bay. The medicine made her sleep and he offered to take her home so she could be more comfortable. That day he learned that the sneaky devil actually lived in Gotham. She still doesn't know that he took her home. Her mother let him go into her room and put her in her room. He remembered laying her down and pulling the stains of hair out of her face, and the smile of her mother when she watched him do this.
Just thinking about this memory made Wally blush. The bus stopped and Wally got out giving a quick thank you to the driver. He walked into the pharmacy and went to the pill section. He grabbed three bottles for his mom just in case and one for himself, upon his father's request. Wally scoffed angrily just thinking of him. "Please mommy," he heard a little girl say.
"No honey, I just brought enough money to buy your medication." Said a woman that Wally guessed was the little girl's mother
He looked over into the other aisle to see the little girl put back a candy bar. She trudged after her mother in which she was carrying a few items. He looked closely at what they were, and suddenly his anger and problems for his father went away. The medications were Advir, Singular, an inhaler and a liquid medication for a nebulizer. In other words, this little girl had asthma, and by the looks of it, and extreme case of it.
Wally looked back at his bottle of Pain Killers, and decided that he didn't need it. He put it back and went over to the little girl. "Hi, I'm Wally," he said with a smile as he crouched down to her level.
"Hi, I'm Mary Lou, but everyone calls me Mary." She said as she smiled, and when she did, he saw she was missing her two front teeth
"Mary, what a lovely name," Wally said as he thought back to his mother, who was also a lovely lady. Mary, just like my mother's name, and weird how when my mom was a little girl, she had bronchitis, which genetically passed down, can give someone asthma. Wally thought
"Here, go get your candy bar," Wally said as he gave her his money for his Pain Killers to Mary Lou.
She smiled and gave him a hug, which he returned. He watched her go off back to her mother with the candy bar. I had asthma, but it went away as soon as I became Kid Flash.
Wally arrived back at his house to see that his mother was home. Well isn't this going to be an exciting evening. It started to rain, so Wally ran to the door and went inside. He felt like punching a wall when he saw his father watching TV with his arm around his mom. He pushed some of those emotions aside and cleared his throat. They turned around and Mary West asked, "Where were you honey?"
Wally took the Pain Killers and showed his mother. She smiled and said, "You are so sweet, can you put them in my bathroom honey?"
"Of course," Wally said as he went upstairs.
He entered his parent's room and froze. There it was; the scene where the unspeakable happened. He just stared at the bed and noticed small details. The bed was made and it looked as though nothing happened. Although two pillows were switched, and his mother made sure each one was on the right side. "You know, you could've prevented this," said a voice behind him.
It was his father. Wally went into his parent's bathroom and put the pills in the cabinet and faced his father. "And how could I have prevented you and your cheating ass from having an affair with another woman?" Wally asked with an angry face
His father wasn't angry though, he was amused. "It's easy; if you haven't pissed me off those many nights, I wouldn't have the urge to drink, and then do things like that. YOU are the problem once again," his father said with a chuckle at the end.
Wally had nothing to say. He didn't want to say anything, because if he did, he would be yelling and his mother would get suspicious. Instead he said, "You should switch those pillows, mom will notice."
With that he walked out the room and clenched his fists and went straight into his room. He grabbed his hair and clenched his teeth, and he let out the tears. He needed to tell someone, anyone. He didn't want to tell them what was going on, but he wanted to tell them he was upset and needed comfort. He thought of people. Uncle Barry; no way, I don't want him to see me like this. Robin; his parents are dead and mine are alive, he'd think I'd be rubbing it in his face. Artemis; no way in hell for she would make fun of him for crying. Conner; his parents were like his, and he didn't want to ruin that for him. Suddenly, he thought of someone that could help him.
He picked up his cell phone and dialed the Wayne Manner. "Wayne Manner, how may I help you?" said a British voice
"Hey Al, it's me." Wally said with a sniffle
"Hello Master Wallace, I'll go get Master Dick on the phone."
"Actually Alfred, I was wondering if I could talk to you…"
"But what of, sir?" Alfred asked in concern. He knew what was happening to him, Dick had told Alfred. Wally was here almost all the time. He thought of Dick as a grandson, and he thought the same of Wally.
"Um, it's just I'm going through a rough time here and I was wondering if you had any advice, like maybe that would make me feel better?" Wally asked
Alfred could hear the slight tremble in his words; he must be crying. "There is no advice that I can give you. Only that if there are many things going on in your head that is making you sad, then write them down. Write it down twice I suggest. Burn one copy and keep the other. Therefore you can release the stress from yourself but still remember."
Wally smiled through the phone and said, "Thanks Alfred, I'm going to do that."
"Well good luck to you sir," Alfred said as he hung up.
"Alfred, who was it?" Dick asked as he appeared into the main foyer.
"It was Master Wallace requesting to speak with me," Alfred said as he began to dust a photo in front of him that had a spider web.
"Why did he want to speak to you?" Dick asked out of curiosity
"Curiosity killed the cat, Master Dick."
"But satisfaction brought him," Dick countered.
Alfred smiled and said, "He wanted advice on how to feel better."
"Oh," Dick said in a low voice.
"Yes, now you know. Now go off and slaughter the English language Master Dick." Alfred said shooing him off
Dick cackled and disappeared to nowhere. "So you were the one encouraging him to do that," Bruce said stepping out of the shadows. Alfred only smiled and continued cleaning into the next room with a hum.
That night Wally did exactly what Alfred said, and he did feel better, despite the stormy weather that was outside. It was currently a blizzard outside, but Wally didn't let the weather affect his mood. He was finally happy for the first time in a week. That was until he heard his parents arguing downstairs. He frowned and went downstairs to see what they were arguing about. He sat on the stairs and listened in. "He is not!" Mary yelled
"He is too, he can't do anything right!" Rudolph yelled back
"Yes he can, you know lately you've been putting Wally down and I want to know why!"
Ah, so this fight was about Wally. Wally listened even more closely. "He's stupid! He doesn't know what he's doing! He's being irresponsible by doing whatever he wants while being Kid Flash! If he can't even spend time down here as a family, then what use is he?" Rudolph screamed
Wally grew really depressed and ran upstairs. He grabbed his winter jacket and cell phone and put it in his pocket. He put boots on and went downstairs. His parents saw him as he went to open the door. "Wally, where are you going?" His mother asked
"I'm going out," Wally said.
"But you'll freeze to death out there!" She pleaded
"If only," Rudolph mumbled, but everyone heard it.
Wally pointed and tears formed in his eyes. "See? He doesn't care, and only his opinion matters, doesn't dad." He said in a sour tone
Rudolph grunted and didn't look at him. "You want to know why he's been a jack ass to me lately." Wally said
A moment of silence, and then Wally spoke again. "He's been beating me up for the past week, sleeping with another woman, and not letting me not say a damn thing! He said if I did, he would kill you, but I know he won't anymore because he just loves to see me get kicked when I'm already down, and I'm done." With that, Wally slammed the door and ran out into the blizzard.