runningstart: (kf; quiet moments)
Wally West / Kid Flash ([personal profile] runningstart) wrote in [community profile] gingercupboards 2014-10-02 04:03 pm (UTC)

[Wally's heart sinks down into the pit of his stomach.

I can't go home.

Even if he found a way to go home, he couldn't. Even if Barry showed up to take him back to his time, with his friends and family, his mom and dad, Robin and the team, everyone, he couldn't go. Even if something forced him home, he'd fight to come back.

Defenseless camps bombed, hopeless, scared citizens, everything that stood for goodness and hope destroyed- he can't leave this. He can't just turn his back and go. He can't help this poor kid out of his collar just to about-face and leave him to deal with this on his own. Not when his eyes are wide, when his voice is tinged with something he's unfamiliar with but to which Wally is very, very accustomed. It's the same look mothers give him when he plucks their children from the windows of a burning building, the same look bank patrons give him when he's disarming a robber. It's muted, it's squashed down and it's been throttled almost into submission, and Bart's trying so hard to fight against it, but-

He has Aunt Iris's eyes.

Wally reaches over and sets a hand on Bart's head, like how Barry did when KF went on his first run, when he took out his first criminal.]
I'm going to get that thing off of you. [Somehow. It's a reckless promise to make, he has no idea if he can do it but he's going to do it. And then he's going to uncollar everyone else, and they're going to find whoever is doing this and tear them down.] And you're gonna run again.

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