Nightmares (Part 3)
Genre: Angst
Rating: High K+ or medium T not sure
Pairings: Spitfire
Guest Stars: Artemis and Others
NOTE: None
Wally awoke to loud beeping, why do I even keep my alarm clock? He thought wearily as he reached a hand to shut it off, or destroy it whichever happened first.
Only to stop suddenly as his whole body to light up in pain, screaming he drew back his hand, biting his lip as more pain erupted inside him.
Instantly multiple people came running in.
His Uncle Barry followed quickly by The Team and Batman.
"Uh…hi?" Wally mumbled as he blushed wildly. "Sorry I didn't mean to I mean—" He stopped suddenly as he realized that he wasn't in his bedroom and the beeping sound was a heart monitor not his alarm clock. "What happened? Where am—" Wally froze as memories came rushing back, the reporters, the dead boy, the death that would now forever weigh on his shoulders.
"Oh…" He muttered, staring down into nothing. "Right."
The adrenaline he had gained from the situation was over and suddenly he was reminded of the dead body he had held moments ago. The death that he had caused.
"Hey Walls," Robin spoke softly as if he was talking to a scared pet. "You gonna be okay?"
"Huh? Oh ya sure thing Rob," Wally forced a smile to his face, but his thoughts were far away and they both knew it. "Better than ever, you know me, always bouncing back."
"Wally it wasn't your fault," Robin's sudden change in topics startled Wally and he found himself looking up into Robin's masked eyes, before breaking off.
"Sure it wasn't," he mumbled.
"There's wasn't anything you could do, he—"
"That's not true!" Wally screamed suddenly, his head shooting up. "I should've been able to do something! If I had been you I would've ninja'd my way out of there, if I was Supey I could've broken down the door! If I was faster, if I was Flash I could've gotten out of the building, I could've saved him." Wally's eyes were distance and lost. He didn't see the way Flash looked at him, or the way his Uncle shifted nervously. "If I was anyone else I could've done something, any other hero could've done something."
"But you did something, you tried, you—"
"Trying isn't good enough!" Wally screamed, before once again falling into silence. "Trying doesn't save life, there's no almost there, there's no close enough you either save a life or you don't…and I didn't save him. I'm a cheap knock off. I'm not even the second knock off, I'm the third."
"Flash, Flash, didn't even want me, I had to push him into it. He agreed because he was guilty that I blew myself up. Face it, I'm only good at messing things up." The Flash winced and a look of hurt crossed his face, Wally didn't care.
Robin looked at Wally as his hand tight on his friend's shoulder, "Wally it wasn't your fault."
"HOW DO YOU KNOW?!" Wally screamed and this time everyone jumped at the outburst. "I promised I would get him out Rob, I promised he would be okay." The red head felt tears come to his eyes as he tried to keep his voice steady, "and he believed me. Oh my gosh He believed me, I looked a kid straight in the eye and lied to him."
Wally was crying now, "How can I trust myself after that?! How can I have anyone trust me, when I can't keep a promise like that?"
"Wally I—"
"Oh enough of this crap!" Everyone jumped as Artemis made her way to the front of the group and shoving Robin away glared at Wally. "Listen here you over grown baby, it may have been your fault, heck if that's what you want, then fine!" She got down in his face and with grey eyes that would give storm clouds a run for their money said, "Wallace Roudolph West."
Robin winced and shifted nervously, "Uh Arty, maybe you should—"
"This. Is. All. Your. Fault." She hissed.
Wally stared up at her in shock, but the blond haired spitfire was far from done.
"But will you stop going on and on and on about it?! You're still here, you're still around to save other people, to help other people. Heck you did save other people, you got hundreds out of that building, more than any of us. So who cares if you're not the Flash? Who cares if you aren't as fast? You," she jabbed a finger into his chest. "Are Kid Flash, the fastest boy alive. You are the amazing yellow and red blur that rockets around saving people or annoying them depending on your mood."
He smiled slightly at this.
"You are the one who has saved millions in his life time. You are the one who copied Flash's experiment with a junior science kit and your brain. You are the only you I—we have and I want him back right now. I want the Kid Flash who annoys the heck out of me and dyes my hair pink. I want the goofball and heart of the Team. I do not want this sobbing pile of junk that you are giving me. You got that wise guy?"
After a few moments of shock, Wally smiled, it was small, but it was real, "Yes sir….uh ma'am."
Artemis sighed and backed away and smirking at the shocked faces of the other said simply, "he felt like he needed to be punished, so I punished him. There was no use comforting someone who didn't want to be comforted, so I waited until he was ready and then did so."
Smiling she looked over at Batman, "and you tell us that screaming at one another never gets us anywhere."
Batman glared, Artemis glared back, and after a few moments laughter broke into the air, everyone turned to see Wally sitting up in the bed, laughing loudly.
"You guys should've seen your faces you were all like, what? And then Supey was looked ready to throw Arty out the nearest window and then I smiled and you were all confused then the next thing I know Arty's staring down the creepiest hero of them all," his face broke into a huge grin. "It was awesome!"
And with that the tenseness of the situation stopped and the room filled with laughed as Wally smiled, sure he wouldn't forget the boy's death, he never would, but Artemis was right, he couldn't dwell on the fact, he couldn't let it control his life. There were others that needed him and he was going to help them.
Sighing he lied down in his bed, a look of content running across his face. The boy's face would forever remain in his memories. He would be one of his biggest what ifs, but for now the nightmares were over.
So this is the chapter where all the OOC-ness seemed to come in and Wally's mood swings again I blame post dramatic stress disorder :D
Anyways so I'm thinking about having a 5 year time skip somewhere soon instead of covering the five years….unless Legacy comes out before then (and it probably will) then I'll work off of Legacy and have certain time skips set in between
What do you guys think? Stall until Legacy comes out or just skip five years to start with?
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