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He was mad--no, wrong, he was pissed. How could they do this? It just wasn't fair. First, the girl he was pretty sure he loved dumped him because she wanted to be normal, then he found out his best friend was leaving too, only Dick didn't get a choice like Artemis did. Ok, maybe Wally wasn't exactly pissed, per say; he was veering little more to the side of heartbroken. What did he do to deserve losing his girlfriend and his best friend all at once?
At least Robin wasn't breaking us with him. He'd just be far away. When you were a speedster, that wasn't to big of a deal. If Wally was desperate, he could always just run out to Jump City. Oh god, he was going to be all the way out in California, with a different team, and way too far away from Kid Flash. If Wally was really desperate, he'd just have to go with Dick, because he really couldn't stand being that far away from the Boy Wonder.
He wanted to be happy for Dick, he really did, but it was harder than he thought. To Dick, this was his chance to prove himself, to show that not only was he capable of doing just fine without Batman breathing down his neck, but that he was able to lead his own team, the Teen Titans, as they were being called. Robin had been so excited when he told Wally about it, too, so he had attempted to feign happiness over the news. He did so pretty well, in his opinion.
Only, he really didn't hide it that well, because the second Robin's smile fell, he knew he'd been caught. Dick had put a comforting arm around his shoulder, telling him that it'd be ok, and he'd call as much as he could, and that he'd zeta over to visit as often as possible. Wally tried to keep smiling, he really did, but it didn't work and he'd broken down. He'd blubbered in a very unmanly fashion about how first Artemis left and now Dick was leaving too and he couldn't take it. The arm slung across his shoulders turned into a tight embrace, with murmured words of encouragement against the skin of his neck. And ugh, it made Wally feel like he was being such a girl and un-hero-like (Dick had used the word unheroic but it really wasn't what Wally meant).
Now, however, Dick was gone and all the redhead could do was mope. His teammates tried to console him, but nothing they said helped at all. Kaldur had awkwardly patted him on the back, saying that Robin and Artemis were both still his friends, although Wally didn't think it felt very sincere; at least he tried. M'gann's solution was to binge watch a ton of movies on Netflix, which she had roped Kon-El into as well. Kid Flash lost interest about twenty minutes into the first flick, and Conner had been angry that it didn't help. Zatanna used food, shoving all kinds of sweets into Wally's stomach--several of them came back up later.
When no one was able to comfort Wally, he'd fallen into a pattern of lethargy and over exertion. One day, he'd spend the entire day hidden away in his room, refusing to get out of bed, and the next he'd obsessively train until he grew dizzy. Then he would refuse to eat. His advanced metabolism required the speedster to eat much more than a regular human, but his frequent trips to the kitchen had become sporadic. The team chalked the cause of his mood swings up to be his breakup with Artemis, when in reality, it was the absence of one Dick Greyson that was killing him.
The first time Wally's phone rang, he ignored it. Unless it was Dick, he had no interest in talking. However, when it immediately rang again, he rolled over to check it, and was greeted with a picture of Robin and the contact name 'Boy Wonderful :P'. He couldn't answer it fast enough, which was saying something because he had super speed.
"Hey KF," Robin said, sounding like a weird mix of exhausted, excited, and sad, if that were even possible. Which it was. When it came to Dick, Wally could almost always tell how he was feeling, because of how close they were.
"Hey Rob! How's Jump City?" Wally responded. All at once, all the light, the energy, the life that had left him in the week that Dick had been gone, returned to him, just from hearing the younger boy's voice. He was glad to be in his room, where the rest of the team couldn't see him. They would have made fun of him if they could.
"It's not Gotham, so it's a lot safer, but it's just not home. I'm sure I'll get used to it eventually," Dick easily admitted his homesickness to his best friend. "The tower is awesome; the tech here is so, so...outnovative."
Wally laughed at Robin's struggle with English. "I'm not even going to ask. So what about the team--the Titans, right?" Wally asked. He hoped that there weren't any lovable, albeit dorky, redheads there to take his place.
"You already know one of them. Garfield's on the team. He's still green, of course," Robin began. That was good; these kids were probably all younger than Dick if Beast Boy was there. "There's this genius that they call Cyborg. He's, obviously, a cyborg."
"Any hot girls?" Wally inquired, the accompanying eyebrow wiggle lost on Robin since he couldn't see it. "Come on, dude, I know there's got to be at least one."
"Well, there's Raven, although I can't exactly say she's hot, since I haven't seen her without her being completely covered up with this full body cloak she wears. I've barely seen her face. But there's also Starfire. She's from the planet Tamaran--she's the princess, actually, and oh man."
"She's that hot? Tell me about her, bro." He sort of didn't want to know; the idea of just having come out of a relationship and then hearing his buddy's new potential relationship might make him jealous. He supposed it wouldn't be too unbearable if it meant hearing Robin talk.
"She's kind of ditsy, I guess, but that's because she's still getting used to Earth. She has a hard time understanding some things--that's kind of cute in a way. She's really hot though. Apparently, on Tamaran, they don't exactly try to cover up well. Maybe it's really hot there and they can't wear a lot of clothes. She's got this super long red hair, well, it's got a sort of pink to it, but it's closer to red." And there it was. the lovable, dorky redhead. And it was a girl. Robin's attention would be given to her easily, and Wally would be left in the dust (metaphorically, of course; he was too fast to be actually left in the dust).
"Sounds great. You think anything will happen there?" Wally asked. If he knew Dick, and obviously he did, the Boy Wonder would probably try to ignore it at first, because a girlfriend was the last thing he needed, and he'd probably say that dating someone you worked with could be risky. But eventually, he'd go for it.
"Maybe. I'm really busy, you know? And it might be a little weird, dating someone on my team, especially since I'm the leader." Yep, called it. Wally knew Dick better than anyone else. "Hey, is something wrong? You sound kind of down."
The only problem with being the person who knew Dick so well was that Dick could read Wally just as well. "I'm ok. I'm still getting over Artemis, and I kind of miss you a little, but I'll be ok. Really, it's no big deal."
For a few seconds, the line went silent and Wally thought he might have lost Robin (Mount Justice had terrible phone signal). Then he heard the younger boy sigh and realized that he wasn't fooling him at all. "If you say so, Wallman. I've gotta go. I know it's kind of late there, so I don't want to keep you up, and Beast Boy and Cyborg just ordered pizza and it should be here by now."
"Alright, Rob, I'll talk to you again soon, dude," the speedster replied, and then the call ended and he dropped his phone down on the bed. It just wasn't fair; it wasn't fair for his best friend to be all the way in California and he was stuck going between Mount Justice and Central City.