And here goes chapter 23 :)
Chapter 23
Wally woke up to see he was still in his bedroom. He looked down to see a shadow looming over him, he quickly got up and backed away. Once again he saw the face of Batman frowning down at him, he was alone with Batman once again. Wally looked around frantically, where was Black Canary? Batman noticed his eyes scanning frantically around the room.
"Black Canary is not in here, Wally. I am here to make a deal with you, this is my proposal...You stay here with me and don't try to run away. If you agree I will release Black Canary, and leave her and your little group alone. But if not, Black Canary will be taken to prison and your group hunted down and thrown in prison with her. And in case your wondering, the charges are kidnapping, and being a danger to society." Batman said emotionlessly. Wally was outraged, he had no right. He shouldn't have to pick that, Batman had no right to do that to his family. A part Batman said made Wally's skin crawl.
"Kidnapping?! They didn't even kidnap me, I RAN AWAY! And they can't kidnap a boy who doesn't have parents!" Wally yelled at Batman, eyes ablaze. Batman smiled slightly, his eyes held a look of amusement.
"Yes, Wally, you did run away. But by them accepting you into their group, and not bothering to return you even after they found out who your guardian was, is indeed kidnapping. So yes or no. Will you stay with me therefore protecting your little family. Or say no and get them thrown in prison, either way you come back to me...just one is your better choice." Batman said slyly.
Wally sighed there really was no choice "WillI get to see them again." Wally asked hopefully.
"No, it would be better if you didn't." Batman concluded
"Then may I at least say goodbye?" Wally begged.
Batman thought "So you are agreeing to the terms-" Wally nodded sadly. "Well then, yes you may say goodbye." Batman smirked and made a "follow me" motion with his hand. "We will go and release Black Canary take her back to the group so you can say goodbye." Wally nodded he had to be strong for Black Canary. He had to protect his only family, he sighed this was going to be hard.
They reached the holding cells, and Batman whispered at Wally "I'm going to lie to her, this way she will leave instead of trying to keep you. You will go along with it, remember if you run away I hunt down your group and put them in jail. Don't forget." Wally felt the sadness swell up inside of him, he forced it down and nodded at Batman.
Batman opened Black Canary's cell and glared. "I'm taking you both back to your group, it has been brought to my attention that you are not breaking any real laws. Whether I like it or not you will go back to your group, but rules say I must escort you back." Batman lied.
Black Canary looked suspicious "Wally, too?" Batman nodded and Black Canary smiled, they went into the escape pod, Batman typed in their location and was off. No more than three hours later, they were in front of the orphanage. They stepped out and was immediately crowded by the group.
"Wally are you, alright?" Huntress questioned worry showed in her face, Dr. Light smiled warmly at him, Vixen looked at them and said "We just got back from looking for you two, good thing we came back early. Black Canary you should go see Green Arrow, he's worried sick." Vixen sighed in relief, then glared at Batman "You should leave before I turn into a tiger and tear you to shreds." She turned away from him and then faced Wally.
"Come on in, we were all worried sick, lets go." She smiled, they all started going inside when Black Canary realized Wally wasn't following.
"Wally? Come on, we're home." She looked into his eyes and saw tears starting to pool. "Whats wrong Wally we're home, let's go." The rest of the group turned and watched Wally carefully, Green Arrow finally came out of the house. He ran over to Black Canary and kissed her, she stepped back smiling a little and looked at Wally. "Let's go." She motioned seeing him still not following.
"Wally your time is up, let's go." Batman said impatiently. Black Canary's eyes widened.
"You said we were both coming home! Was this just a ruse to get the whole group?!" Black Canary yelled, everyone got into fighting positions except for Wally and Batman.
Batman squared his jaw "Of course not, you get to go home but Wally made a deal to come with me." He said gruffly. Black Canary straightened, eyes wide, she looked at Wally.
"Wally?" She begged trying to convince herself it wasn't true. Her eyes brimmed with tears.
Wally took a deep shaky breath and looked her and the rest of the group in the eyes "It's true." He said quietly "He said if I stayed with him he would release you and leave the group alone." Wally replied biting his lip to keep from crying.
Black Canary was freely crying, tears streaming down her face. "Wally IT IS NOT your responsibility to protect us, we protect you." She yelled upset at Wally's choice and her own stupidity.
"You're my family, I felt I mattered with you. Like I wasn't a burden, I never felt loved before. You'll never know how much that meant to me, I had to protect the only family I've known. I don't regret it, it was my choice and I don't want you to miss me. I want you to forget you even met me, it will help us both. I'll always remember the love I felt around you guys, I love you. Goodbye." Wally smiled sadly and turned to leave with Batman.
Black Canary fell to her knees "WALLY! PLEASE! PLEASE, COME BACK! WALLY!..." She tried to run after him but Green Arrow held her back.
"We can't help him now but I promise we will get him back later." Green Arrow soothed. "Do you know where you were kept during the time you were taken?" Black Canary nodded to upset to answer. "He might be there then-" Black Canary shook her head. "You don't think so? Alright do you know Batman's secret identity?" Black Canary cried harder and shook her head.
"Wally said it when we were being interrogated but I was too busy trying to come up with a plan I didn't hear it..." She sobbed.
"This might be hard..." Green Arrow sighed.
Wally followed Batman to the bat mobile, "I'm taking you somewhere different." Batman stated." I think you'll be more comfortable there, but of course I won't be dressed as Batman." Wally stared out the window, ignoring Batman's useless conversation. After sitting in awkward silence, they arrived at a huge mansion. Wally stared at it in disgust, Bruce had taken him to his million dollar home. Batman looked at him.
"Wait here." Wally got out of the car and watched as the bat mobile disappeared and Bruce walked out from the backyard dressed in formal attire. Wally suppressed a laugh even though it was around 9 at night he still dressed formal.
Bruce glared "Try not to be seen because if the media finds out I adopted a child ,it won't die down for weeks." Wally glared back
"No worries hate to be seen with you anyway." Wally spat "I would hate to ruin your playboy image."
Bruce frowned "I was more concerned with you not being able to go outside because you were trampled with paparazzi." Wally rolled his eyes.
"Wally, they will find out I adopted you sooner or later I'm just preparing you." Bruce sighed
Wally laughed dryly "So if you adopted, me why did you never tell me." Wally questioned.
"I was worried you wouldn't want me as a guardian." Bruce stated.
"Well you would be right." Wally glared at Bruce. Bruce started inside the house looking back at Wally, expectantly. Wally sighed and followed.
He made it in the house and heard the door shut behind him, he jumped and created a bubble with his aura trapping something. He felt Bruce's hand on his shoulder, he tensed.
"Wally let him down, he won't hurt you it's my butler, Alfred." Wally took down the bubble and an old man fell out.
"He's a bit jumpy Master Bruce, you forget to mention he has powers." Alfred smiled, and walked up.
Bruce smiled "Yes I'm sorry Alfred I forgot that little detail when telling you his history." Wally's hands clenched so Bruce had told this man about him, because he knows about powers, he must know about Batman.
"I have some criminal files to update, can you take him to his room, Alfred?" Wally watched as Bruce left and the butler smiled at him. Wally sighed, he was never good with new people.
"Follow me Master West." Wally flinched he hated his last name, it was his fathers. Alfred noticing his discomfort changed it. "Would you prefer I use Wally?" Wally nodded, he never felt 15 when around new people, he felt as nervous as a 6 year old.
He followed Alfred up a grand staircase, it led to a medium sized living room. Then split into two hallways. Alfred went down the left one it was very wide for a hallway, it continued down until it made a right turn. But Alfred stopped about halfway down the hallway, there was only one door on the right side Alfred entered it. It was apparently his room Wally stopped, oh my, he thought, this room was bigger than his first house.
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YuriAMANDAyaoi: good thing you like the explanation I think it helps when it's not dragged on, the part I made for you I decided to appear at a random time but don't worry it's not too far away, this way it spices things up!