Chapter Text
Wally laid on the couch watching TV, he was too tired to sleep. So he was watching infomercials and running his fingers through DIcks hair. Dick had been watching TV with him hours ago back had quickly fallen asleep with his head on Wally's chest. Not that he minded, he always thought it was cute the way DIck slept. Curled up partially and snuggled close to wally for warmth. It was something wally loved, one of the many things he had always loved. Dick stirred slight muttering something in Romani and settling back down. Wally couldn't help but laugh quietly, he may be a twenty-something-year-old man but to wally, he would always be that same scared ten-year-old he met so long ago.
It was so weird to think about, that Dick had been so young back then. Even weirder to think Wally himself had been only twelve. Having had his powers for only a few months, still new to the whole hero business. When Barry had told him he was meeting another kid hero today, Batman's sidekick, Robin, he wasn't sure what to expect. He had seen Robin on the news, only ever for glances and seconds. He never seemed to sit still and Wally appreciated that. Still, he had been terrified, he heard rumours of Gotham and how scary the bat was. He wondered if the Robin was being to be just as scary. It was much to his surprise when he first met Dick.
The first time he met Dick he actually tripping and sent both of them spirling to the floor, he expected Robin to be mad. He expected to be yelled at and stricken down with a bat glare. Instead, he got laughter and a joke. Everyone would say from that moment on they were attached at the hip. Immediate friends. And that was true in a way, but standing there that day. Looking at this boy standing at the feet of the bat dressed in bright colours and making obnoxious puns all while completely ignoring the bat glare that burned the back of his head, Wally couldn't tell if the boy was incredibly brave or plain stupid but Wally wanted to possess that characteristic. Whatever it may be.
The two of them had always needed each other. They were both missing pieces of themselves that the other person seemed to fill perfectly. Like a lock and key, always perfectly in tune with the other.
When they first met Wally hadn't realised what they were doing, building on top of each other. Becoming so integrally ingrained that there were times when it was difficult to determine where he ended and Dick started. When they first met Wally was still living with his abusive father, he needed to seemingly impenetrable emotional strength that Dick seemed to have. Wally didn't know it yet but Dick had needed the emotional vulnerability that Wally offered since there was so little to be spared in the manor.
Dick was the first to learn of Wally's abuse, Wally was the first to learn DIcks identity and his history. The bond they had been tying up to that point became stronger. More ingrained. More unbreakable. What they needed from each other changed and grew with them but never did it leave. They always needed each other for something. When Dick was twelve he needed to move and change, he missed travelling. Wally was 14 and needed the unquestioning emotional support childhood that the abuse had taken from him. They would run away with Wally's speed to places that they had never been before. Dick would return all the unwavering friendship that he had.
Dick was 13 and needed a sense of direction in his life, to feel like he was in control of something ANYTHING. Wally was 15 and needed to feel like he belonged like he was a part of something. They knew the mission they went on was stupid but they did it together and the young justice league was formed. Still one of the high points in their lives. That league meant to much to the both of them, it always had.
Dick was 17 and struggling to not suffocate under the Bats name, Wally was seventeen and felt like he had no idea where his life was going. They moved in together. They had lived together ever since.
They had always needed each other. Perfectly in time with the other. They couldn't be separated and sometimes Wally thought about what they would have been like if they never met. The very idea of having never met Dick felt like a hole in Wally's chest. He would have probably found someone different, but he would have always felt like a key without a lock. He could have loved someone else but he couldn't imagine ever being so ingrained and perfectly compatible with someone else. Even now, as adults, they needed each other. Dick needed to feel like he was still capable of love and that he wasn't emotionally frozen like Bruce had been his whole life. Wally needed to feel like he wasn't damaged goods, too broken by abuse to be loved. They filled that hole within each other. Just like they always had.
"Babe, you okay?" DIcks voice broke Wally out of his thinking. He looked at the sleepy blue eyes looking up at him, those eyes filled his heart with love. He brushed Dicks hair back kissing him softly.
"I'm fine, just remembering how much I love you" Wally smiled. DIck just shook his head and curled back up against Wally's chest muttering something about him being a hopeless romantic. That might be true but Wally wouldn't have it any other way, his life just wouldn't be complete without his blue eyes Robin.