The first robin stood stationary, lips slightly parted and eyes widened in surprise. While part of Dick had somewhat expected what Wally had just confirmed, actually hearing it out loud was more than enough to make his heart skip a beat. He – Dick Grayson – was a lightning rod? Wally's lightning rod? … Wally's point of focus whenever he ran?... The reason why his best friend wasn't currently trapped in a cosmic dimension?

When he didn't immediately respond, the former kid flash bit the side of his bottom lip and averted his gaze to look at the landscape of San Francisco before them. Usually he would have thought of something to say, but at that moment, he was speechless.

"I know, I thought it was weird too" he continued, "I think I've just always been in some kind of weird denial about it, but what happened just then really made me open my eyes. My electricity didn't affect you at all. But now that I really think about it, it was always you. Even when we were kids, I would subconsciously use memories of us having fun to focus on when I ran. You wer-ARE my best friend. The first person that could fully understand me, y'know?- being a sidekick, the double life and the all secrets that came with it. I was too young to use a girl as my focus point like Barry did, so I used my best friend, and I guess I just …never stopped. But something isn't…" He trailed off before awkwardly shifting on his feet. Dick knew that gesture VERY well - He was thinking about running.

Ignoring all his questions and confusion about finding out his best friend uses him to help control his powers, Dick grasped the redhead and crushed the slightly slimmer body to his chest. He ignored the surprised "Oh!" and tightly wrapped his arms around the redhead, ensuring he couldn't run away.

Dick knew Speedsters HATED being trapped, but he couldn't bring himself to let him go. Even he felt Wally shift in his embrace, he just held him tighter. There were so many emotions going through him, and he had no idea how to put them into words – but he knew they never needed words to communicate.

Despite the fact that his arms were practically pinned to his sides, Wally somehow managed to bring them up and return hug wordlessly. He closed his eyes and buried his face into Dick's shoulder, inhaling the calming scent of his expensive cologne. Because he needed to calm down.

They both felt each other flinch as the door to the roof was thrown open with a bang. Roy was standing there and watching them with a puzzled expression, looking to and from Wally and Dick with a raised brow. When he felt Wally squirming in his arms, Dick let him go and focused on pulling himself together. "You found em?" Jason's voice asked before he walked up next to Roy. His smirked once his eyes found who they were looking for.

"Jesus West. Had I not known who you were, I would have mistaken you for a teleporter"

"Flash fact, Wally's faster than instant teleportation. He's done it multiple times"

Everyone looked over to Dick in surprise and Wally in particular was fighting the urge to laugh.

"Oh hello Uncle Barry, didn't see you there"

Dick rolled his eyes and makes a face at the speedster, "Don't even go there. We both know who I got that from"

"Woah. Back up, you can outrun instant teleportation?"

Once again, Jason was eyeing Wally in both fascination and surprise. Green eyes blinked twice at the intense stare the second robin was projecting. "Um yeah. It's not that big of a deal.."

Jason's eyes softened as he cocked his head slightly to the side, "Wow. Mischievous, cute, powerful, and Humble? I don't think I could've asked for a better life saver" he said with a wink. Wally looked up at Jason through his lashes and gave him a coy smile.

"Watch it. If you keep flattering me like that, I might feel like 'saving' you again" he replied.

Jason raised a brow as his smirk grew, Wally West was definitely a keeper.

All of a sudden, a painful and baffling spike of jealousy stabbed viciously into Dick's chest. He rubbed at it uncomfortably in his absentminded state of confusion.

What the..?

He looked over at Roy, who was watching the ordeal with an expression mirroring his own. If he didn't know any better, Dick would have thought the archer was just as pleased with this new development as he was. Interesting.

When he focused his attention on the other two again, he had to fight off a glare. He didn't know why, but Dick did NOT like the way Jason's eyes were wondering ever so subtly over the speedster's lithe muscles. Every instinct in his body was screaming at him to make it stop.

So he did the most logical thing that came to mind:

"It's freezing up here, let's go"

"…..I'm not getting on that."

"Come on, the N-cycle is literally the fastest vehicle ever created – even faster than the Bat mobile"

"yeah for you, but for me it will be like riding a slug. Besides, that's not the point. I want to come with you Dick, but i really need to spend the night with Wallace. The kid's getting all agsty and saying I'm never around and blah blah blah "

"He's not exactly wrong" Dick muttered, wondering if it was the wrong thing to say straight after.

Apparently it was, because Wally frowned as he became slightly defensive in his reply.

"Look, I've been really busy and when i'm busy i get scatterbrained and when i'm scatterbrained i can't do anything properly, so just-"

"Okay okay! sorry! i didn't mean to-"

Wally cut him off with a sigh, "No i'm sorry. I've just been feeling kind of messed up lately"

The acrobat's brows creased in concern,

"...Are you okay?"

"Yeah I'm fine. I'm figuring it out"

"Wally, you know if you ever need me for anything, I'm here for you. Right?"

The speedster meets his gaze with a tired but genuine smile. "I know Dick. Thanks. Now before Kid Flash kills me, I better go. I'll catch up with you later"

Dick opened his mouth to try and convince him some more, but the speedster vanished right in front of him before he could get any words out.

Well. That was a complete fail.

He didn't even know why he bothered, there wasn't a being alive that could keep up with Wally West.

As Dick began his journey home, his thoughts went back to the moment his brother and best friend had not long ago. The memory of it alone left an unsettling feeling inside him.

Jason was flirting with Wally.

What the actual hell?

Wally's reaction to it wasn't exactly abnormal, although it has become significantly less frequent, Wally was one of those people who just flirted with everyone. Hell, He'd even done it to Dick a few times when they were kids.

But Jason?

Jason was one of the most serious and reserved people Dick new (including Bruce!) and seeing him so openly happy and playful with another person was just so…uncharacteristic.

And since when was he into guys?!

Sure, Wally wasn't exactly what he'd call unattractive, but he was no girl.

Something that didn't fit into Jason's usual category of interest.

This is so weird Dick thought as he slammed on the breaks when he reached a red light.

He tried his best to keep his mind occupied so he wouldn't think about what was really troubling him, but by the time he reached the disguised Zeta Tube, he couldn't fight it off any longer.

Why was he so against Jason's interest in Wally?

Notes:

Guys, i have a plot going on here.

Something is going down with Wally.

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