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"You'll recognise it as soon as you approach it", echoed Dick's voice in his head while he climbed the great entrance wall.
He was 'visiting' his friend whom he hasn't seen in ages.
Given it was only like one week, but that's totally way too much time to not spend with your best friend.
The only explanation why he wasn't going to see him was something his brothers not liking him pranking strangers. Why so ever.
He managed to sneak into the enormous garden and started looking for a big tree near an open window, because Dick has said there was a big and old tree, he remembered it being an oak, standing beside his window.
Looking carefully around the façade, searching for his object of desire, he spotted an enormous tree.
He almost cheered out loud as he saw the opened and brightened window to its left side. Remembering the whole sneaking part and why he had to be this silent, he swallowed it down and made his way to the window.
"Dick sure was right. Climbing up that wall is as easy as walking." Wally thought to himself as he began his way up to the opened window on the second floor.
He pushed the slightly ajar glass away and jumped into the room.
As soon as he stood in the room he looked around.
The furniture and wallpaper looked nothing like those in Dick's room. He leaned against the windowsill.
"Wait a minute… That's not Dick's room… What the… did he mess around with me?! And in what room am I in anyway? Well, I guess I'll leave and have a little adventure by myself, trying to find the room wonder." he muttered to himself, pushing away from the leaning position he had been in.
He wanted to make his way to the door in front of him as he heard a sound coming from the left.
Apparently that door led to the bathroom out of which Damian stepped.
Damian spotted the 'intruder' and without trying to light the lamp to check who it was, threw a batarang at it. Wally ducked under it without any problems and it got stuck in the wall behind him, where his head had been just seconds ago.
During that time he avoided the sharp thrown object, Damian had finally lit the ceiling lamp and the room was flooded with light.
Damian looked closely at the one barging into his room without permission and in an unusual disbelieving tone he asked: "Wally? For whatever reasons are you breaking into my room?”
Wally looked rushed around, trying to find a possible escape route that didn't involve him jumping straight out of the window.
He came that far, he won't be retreating without seeing his buddy for who he came here in the first place.
His eyes landed again on the front door and he said in his usual light manner: "Sorry won't bother you any longer. Be gone in a flash!"
Damians eyes widened in shock and anger and shouted after him: "Do not leave! I am not done with you"
And with that he rushed in his super speed past him and exited the room. While he ran around in the mansion he looked around the walls and halls, searching for things he knew.
He just had entered the next hallway, pictures of flowers and old people were hanging on the walls.
Why did people even have pictures of flowers?
They should watch the flowers they had, not paintings of somebody else’s flowers.
He passed a door and almost ran further down the hall when he made out a colourful writing on one of the doors.
Rushing back he looked at the familiar 'DICK' in green, red and golden letters. He quickly entered the room and locked the door from the inside, delaying the entrance of Dick's brothers.
Looking around he found Dick standing by the window, looking out. He had turned his head towards the door at the sound of a closing lock.
Wally approached his best friend and said slightly accusing: "Dude, not cool. 'Window with a tree beside'? Yeah, I barged into your brother's room. Into Damian's room. Way to go, man."
Dick's eyes widened in slight shock. He drew closer to him and said: "Well, that didn't go as planned, but they, you now saw Dami's room. Feel honoured to still be alive" In the end a smile had crept its way on his face. He laughed at the thought of that.
Wally walked past the latest Robin and dropped on the bed, letting himself fall backwards, the arms stretched out. Dick grabbed a bottle of water and threw it on Wally's stomach.
He got up from his laying position, opened the bottle and thanked him by toasting towards Dick.
He almost finished the bottle in one sweep. From downstairs the TV made noises. It sounded like an advertisement for babysitting services.
"Who even books a babysitter because of an ad seen on the TV?" Wally asked out of the blue.
"I don't know… A lot of people, actually. My brothers once ordered one as well, because they all had to go on patrol, the bad guys were quite active these past days and Alfred was in England, visiting his niece. They got me a boy who thought it was cool to act like he was my best friend after being around me for, like, 10 seconds. Plus, he suggested playing the game 'clean as fast and properly as you can'… I mean, how old was I back then, 10? Can't believe I still fell for that trick. Luckily we didn't have to book one again so far.", Dick replied, smiling at the memory of him and Josh playing the cleaning game.
Dick sat cross-legged on the floor by now, looking up at the ceiling, trying to find figures in it. Wally took another gulp, a peaceful silence settling over them which both of them enjoyed.
The week they both had spent away wasn't the longest time they couldn't see each other, but the forbidding for both of them as a punishment made the time seem longer and longer and harder to overcome.
Wally sat up straight, taking another sip of the bottle and asking, curiosity thick in his tone: "Soo, how long do you still have?"
Dick snorted at the phrasing, Wally making it sound like they were prisoners or something like that.
Nevertheless he said: "Well, I had to wait only a week, but now that we pulled that one here, I am not sure if they will settle with only another week on top of it."
"Yeah, well Uncle Barry is relatively calm about that. I even told him where I was going today and he was kinda okay with it. He said he wouldn't punish me for going to a friend. So… guess I won't be having an extension", Wally explained, smiling brightly at the end.
He looked more serious for a little moment and said: "Dude, for the next meeting we could just do it after school or during the breaks. I totally would come to your school so we could hang that time then. Plus, that might prevent me from entering any rooms of your brothers."
Dick laughed openly at that and Wally soon joined in.
When they calmed down and only smiled a bit at each other a knock on the door echoed through the newly set silence. Dick got up from the ground and asked through the door what they wanted.
Apparently it was Tim standing outside the door. He was sent because he was the calmest of the brothers as he said. "Will you open the door so that we can talk properly, please? I would highly welcome it. I normally don't talk to wood."
Dick hesitated only a moment before turning the lock and opening the door. He looked into the faces of Tim, who was standing right in front of it and Damian and Jason who were standing on each side of Tim. Dick stepped to the side, gesturing them to get in. Once the door was shut behind Jason Tim asked: "Why did you break into our house? Or at least into Damian's room?"
"Because not being able to see my best buddy isn't that nice", Wally blurted out, looking determined to protect his opinion from anyone who would say anything against it.
Jason lifted an eyebrow and asked: "But you weren't seeing each other longer than a month and there it seemed quite unproblematic with that topic."
"Yea sure it was the stink of not being allowed wasn't radiating around us, reminding us constantly that it would have been possible to see each other, were it not for the prohibition."
Jason hated to admit it, but the kid's got a point. He wouldn't tell him that, though. Instead he pinched his nose and said, an annoyed tone in his voice: "But that doesn't allow you to just enter houses as you please. Some punishments have to be made and endured. That‘s at least what B has said to me“
Damian had called Barry to pick up Wally to get him home and make sure he stayed there.
As the Flash arrived at Wayne Manor Dick and Wally looked into each other’s eyes and silently agreed that they would do this again. After all, not being allowed to see your best friend really sucks.
Dick's brothers didn't tell Bruce of that incident, but they kept an eye on him for the rest of his two weeks (they settled with giving him 'just' another week on top) when he was home. However, Dick and Wally met during Dick's break at school and that eased the duration of the punishment