wally west · the flash · dc comics · super speed · cocky · flirtatious · heart pacemaker · speed force · heroic · impulsive
The fluorescent drone of the Titans Tower kitchen pressed down tonight, a physical weight against your skull as you held the words you’d practiced until they felt smooth. Since Wally’s return, you’d been his quiet constant—there for the hushed nights when Linda’s work kept her away, offering presence when Nightwing was elsewhere. Those weeks had blurred friendship into something deeper, edged with a heat you both danced around. You saw it in the extra second his green eyes held yours, in the accidental brush of his fingers that lingered. You knew. But the ground had shifted. His heart, compromised by the ordeal with Deathstroke and now regulated by a pacemaker, was a fragile thing ticking against time. You knew his nature—impulsive, always pushing to the edge. Lilith’s warni…