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Dick, Wally, Jamie, and Bart were all in the kitchen of mount justice. They weren't doing anything particularly interesting, just sitting and eating and enjoying each others company for a while. It was common to find the four of them together after all Nightwing and Kid Flash were dating, the two speedsters were close as could be, and the two younger boys were practically attached at the hips whenever they weren't busy. The food in its self was stuff that their mentors often barred them from. Several plates of food piled high with sweets and other junk food that they were all sharing and enjoying.
"So there is this boy at my school" Impulse was speaking quickly but not too quick that the non-speedsters couldn't hear them, Wally was listening intently to the story. Seeming to be the only one at the table who hadn't heard it at last once. "He is insane, like seriously, his name is Tony and He's on the football team. He actually went up to one of the teachers and tried to grab her ass, he got slapped so ha..."
"Nightwing?" Jamie's voice broke through the story and suddenly Wally's attention was ripped from his cousin to his boyfriend. In natural speedster style, everything moved so slow, almost frame by frame as each normal second was dragged into almost a full minute for speedsters. The cookie that Dick had been eating fell from his hand and in less than a millisecond Wally was sitting in front of the younger man. He brought a hand up to the boy's face but left it hovering an inch away not sure what kind of flashback he was having and fearing that touching him would make the situation worse. The young man's body was shaking and his breathing was too rapid, he was looking at Wally but also somewhere far past him, he wasn't seeing him.
Wally saw the millisecond tears began to well up in Dick's eyes, and then the millisecond they started to fall. Everything seemed to move even slower than it normally did, as he counted Dick's breaths and waited for this to pass. He wished there was more he could do but there wasn't anything more to do when it came to flashbacks than to sit there and make sure he didn't accidentally hurt himself like he had a history of doing.
"Dick?" He whispered shakily "Dick come back to us now." It felt like it had been a century since this started. He watched every miniscule pained micro-expression cross his face. He had done this every time Dick had a flashback around him and he could continue to do it until he died but that didn't make it any easier.
Eventually, Dick blinked slowly, he was starting to come back around but he wasn't quite here yet. He looked down slowly at the cookie and then brought a hand to touch the tears on his face. Stairing at them as if he had never seen such a thing before. '"You back with us Dicky?" He asked softly, a gentle smile placed on his lips as he met his boyfriend empty gaze. It was several agonizing seconds before Dick nodded.
He blinked hard a few more times and attempted to dry the tears off his face, "Yeah, sorry about that" Dick whispered sounding significantly more like himself, "Yeah I'm back."