Chapter 25

He didn't have to sit and wait for long, Alfred called him down for lunch. He made his way to the dining room like he remembered, he sat down and waited just like at Breakfast. Alfred placed a plate in front of him, it was a turkey sandwich it looked delicious. Alfred started walking off when Wally spoke.

"Um Alfred can you eat in here?" Sometimes he felt just like that shy, scared twelve year old. Alfred smiled but shook his head.

"It would be improper, but thank you anyway Sir." Alfred left into the kitchen and Wally sighed. He finished up his sandwich put his plate in the sink and went up to his room. He decided he could practice his martial arts moves, Huntress would kill him if he stopped practicing.

Wally continued kicking and dodging he worked on his right hook because it was still shaky. He did this until 5 in the afternoon, he decided to finish up training by working with his power. He sat on the bed and worked on shutting himself out from reality, that's what he was working on with before he was taken. His powers allowed him to cut off from reality and hide in his mind. Wally sighed, he hated practicing this because your body reacts to your mind and by cutting off from reality you relive old memories. Anyone could see him physically flinching and going through pain but his mind doesn't register the outside world. Wally knew he had to conquer this, he took it step by step. He concentrated, he knew his eyes turned black and he started to slip into his mind.

He opened his eyes to see himself at his fathers house, he sighed it always brought him back to here. By taking him out of the physical world he went into his mind in memories, the whole point of this is to take him out of a horrible place and put him in a happy memory. But sadly was still teaching him how to control it to bring him into a happy memory and not these ones.

"WALLACE!" His father screamed the only bad thing about it, not including the fact he don't know how to go to a happy memory, is that you have to finish out the memory before returning to your body.

He was in his old room, this was the memory of when he was 6, two days before the car crash. His door was ripped open, his father stalked over to him. He picked him up by the arm, his father walked downstairs and out the back door Wally in hand, he dropped him near the fence. It was a thunderstorm, he knew this memory all to well. His father went into the shed and brought back rope.

"This will teach you!" His dad yelled, Wally started crying.

"What did I do Daddy?!" He sobbed, his father walked over to him and kicked him in the ribs.

"For being a freak! For not being NORMAL!" His father screamed at him. His father took both of his hands and tied them to the fence. Wally started crying harder.

"Daddy! Don't, I'm scared! I'm sorry! I don't like thunder! Daddy please!" He screamed

"Well you should have thought about that before you were born, no one will ever love you." His dad laughed and left. Wally knew the memory ended soon but not soon enough.

Meanwhile, Bruce had left Wayne Enterprises and was pulling up in the driveway, he felt as if work would never end. Bruce walked in and looked to see if there was signs of Wally's hatred of the arrangement, in other words a tantrum that might involve a broken vase. When Wally was 12 he had a nasty habit of throwing tantrums and being disobedient, he didn't know if 15 year old Wally had the same trait. He found no evidence of one and went to find Alfred, Bruce walked in to see Alfred cooking dinner.

"Where is Wally?" Bruce wondered, Alfred looked back at him from the oven and smiled.

"Master Bruce, welcome home. Master Wally is in his bedroom he's been quite quiet." Alfred answered. Bruce nodded and went up to Wally's room.

"Wally?" He knocked on the door when no answer came he entered.

"Wall-UGH!" Bruce staggered back as he was punched in the face. He looked at Wally sternly waiting for an explanation. Wally stood there in shock, he shook his head and looked at Bruce.

"Bruce! I so didn't mean to do that! I was practicing martial arts, then I tried to practice powers, I went to a bad memory when I came out I was mad and practiced more martial arts to blow off steam..." Wally tried to explain and gave up. "Ugh nothing's going right for me!" Wally grumbled. Wally sat down on the bed and put his head in his hands.

Bruce sighed and sat down next to Wally.

"Wally I need to tell you something, it might help us both." Wally looked up at him curiously. "I'm sorry about everything that's happened between us the past few years, I know it don't seem like it but I'm just trying to protect you I-I love you. I want you to forgive me but if you can't I understand." Bruce explained awkwardly.

Wally shook his head his fathers saying still fresh in his mind, no one could love him except someone like him; a freak of nature. Bruce doesn't even have powers he can't possibly understand what he's going through! He didn't have an abusive father and careless mother, he couldn't understand what he went through! Wally sighed, he couldn't let his father continue to control his life he's dead the past is the past. He wouldn't let his fathers hatred and abuse ruin what is going for him, maybe Bruce really did care, maybe he was ready to apologize and forgive. Then shouldn't he be ready too? Wally took a deep breath and looked Bruce in the eye.

"I forgive you." It was the one of the most difficult things he's ever done, but there was a time when he felt that Bruce loved him. There was a time he thought of Bruce as a father, even when he was scared of Hawkgirl and Green Lantern he wanted Bruce. Was it so bad to want to feel like he had a real father again. He looked at Bruce again who looked relieved, then Bruce did something neither of them expected.

Bruce reached out and hugged Wally "I'm sorry and I love you." He said, he let go of Wally waiting for a reaction.

Wally sighed "Don't be sorry the past is the past, I do see know you tried to protect me. I'm sorry I didn't listen. But Bruce if you ever want to be like we did before, than don't you ever threaten me with a belt again. Even if it was a bluff, you don't know the fear and pain a belt can bring, I do. Alright?" He concluded

"I will never be sorry enough for that, I-I was so worried with losing you I wasn't thinking clearly. I will never to that again, I promise." Bruce said certainly. Wally nodded, and sighed

"But Bruce you have to understand, there needs to be trust. I know I have to earn it and you do too, but it's one way to start. And you can't forbid me from seeing my group they are my family too, and just so you know I'm still going to need time to heal I've been through a lot. The family thing isn't going to happen overnight, so don't expect it too. And you can either accept this or not but ill still do it, I'm going to continue being Nightmare. I trained I'm perfectly fine, you can train me if you find it necessary but it's staying." Wally finished crossing his arms waiting for Bruce to object.

Bruce sighed and nodded "Alright, that's doable." Bruce smiled "I'm glad we cleared the air, I think this helped us both." Wally smiled as Bruce got up and left, it did help.

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