Ok, it's been a long, long while since I've updated, but here I am with the final chapter. I'm sorry to leave on such a cliffhanger. I hope this makes up for it. I'm glad people thought the last part where Dick kicks Wally was funny because it was meant to be sort of funny. It was the only thing I could think for Dick to have a chance to get away.
Thank you to TheWickedWizardOfOz for being my beta for the story and to Sincerely Seven for helping and giving the ideas of the swimming trunks and the poem stories when I couldn't think of anything embarrassing. (don't worry, it will make sense as when you start reading)
Chapter 10- Forgiveness Comes With A Price
Wally heard a knock on his bedroom door, but didn't bother to call out to whoever it was. He instead he pulled the blanket over himself as he curled up in a ball in his bed.
"Come on Wally, you can't keep this up forever," it was Barry from the hallway. "It's been how long since you've been like this?
The young speedster merely groaned. He'd been stuck in his room for nine days, only leaving to go to school, and wouldn't tell his parents why. Every time they tried asking he'd get flustered and refused to tell them. He guessed they finally gave trying to figure out things on their own so they called his aunt and uncle, Iris already tried, but Wally couldn't even bring himself to tell her. With Barry, who already knew the situation, he couldn't hide it from him. "I screwed up! I screwed up so bad that I'm not leaving this room until I'm 40!" After saying that, Wally heard Barry laughing at him from his comment. "Quit it!" he yelled, throwing a pillow at the door.
"Sorry, couldn't help it. I mean, seriously, you should hear yourself talk right now." Wally could still hear his uncle trying to hold back chuckles. "But anyway, I'm not going to stand outside your door all day. Now quit moping and do something about this. When you do decide to come out, I'll give you something that you might want."
Wally was going to say a witty remark, but he heard Barry's footsteps retreating. With a relieved sigh he grabbed his other pillow that was still on his bed to bury his face in.
He felt stupid for what he did. He hadn't seen Robin since that day. Robin didn't even bother coming back to the hideout when the Team had a mission, which made Wally feel worse. He tried approaching Batman about why he wasn't around, which he admits freaked him out. He expected the dark knight to do something threatening, considering he knew all that was happening. To Wally's surprise Batman didn't do anything life-threatening at all.
"Robin is fine, he's letting off some steam right now," Batman told him. "He will be back eventually so don't worry about it too much."
Hearing that from Batman made him feel a little better, despite the long talk about 'keeping their secret or else' afterwards. Still, he felt horrible that Robin wasn't there. After that day he went home to his room and never came out again. Not even missions with the team made him want to go.
With a sigh he threw the blanket off of himself and planted his feet on the ground. He might as well see what his uncle wanted to give him.
In the living room Barry was talking with Iris on the couch. Taking a look over at the staircase he saw his nephew. "Finally!" Barry announces when he sees Wally coming down the stairs. "Need something to eat or are you curious about what I have?"
Wally rolls his eyes. "Just give me whatever it is so I can go back to bed."
"What? You don't want to spend some time with your aunt and me? Do you hear that Iris?"
Iris nudged Barry with her elbow. "Just give him the note so they can both get over this already."
This perks Wally's ears. "A note?"
"Yep," Barry reaches into his pocket and pulls out a folded piece of paper. "After you're done, I'm sure you'll want to leave. I'll just tell your parents I made you feel better and that you're off to an arcade somewhere."
Wally didn't know what he meant, but he took the note and began reading it. As he read it his expression turns into awe and astonishment. The note wasn't long, so he was gone as soon as he finished. Iris was surprised that he wasn't there anymore and left her and Barry so quickly without saying anything. Wally had dropped the note when he ran upstairs to change into clean clothes. He ran out the door before the note could even drop to the ground.
When the front door shuts Barry picks it up. "I hope the boy knows what he's getting into."
He reads it with Iris looking over his shoulder. "Dear Wally," she begins mumbling the note out loud. "Dear Wally, I know it's been few weeks since the last time we have talked, but please come by Gotham so we can work things out. I have something to show you. Follow these directions and-"
"Hey!"
Iris looked up to see Wally in front of them once again. His face was flushed in embarrassment and anger. "Give that back!"
"Why? Forgot how to get there already?" Barry asked jokingly as he waves the note in the air.
"No! I… I came back for something else," He snatched the note away from Barry. "But I am taking this back so you guys don't read it anymore!" Without saying much else he runs back out the door.
"How do you think it's going to go?" Iris asked with worry in her voice.
Barry leaned back into the couch with a relaxing sigh. He put his arm over Iris's shoulder and pulled her close. "For Robin? It'll go completely as planned. Wally however… He might have some trouble with what Robin has planned for him."
"Should I be worried for Wally?"
"Don't worry, with his healing he'll only come back with a bruise or two."
Meanwhile…
It didn't take a minute for Wally to find Dick's house. Well, he wasn't quite there yet.
Wally stood in front of a giant gate with a large courtyard behind it. He looked to see a mansion that he can only assume was where Dick could be. He stared at the large home of his boyfriend's and suddenly became very unsure of himself. It was finally time to have a straight talk about the situation, hopefully without any kicking. But after all the weeks without a word, how was this going to go?
The worse thought came to mind, that Robin took all this time to come up to the decision to break up with him. Why wouldn't he? Wally invaded his privacy, something that should've been respected, the only thing Robin ever really asked for.
Wally leans his head against the bars of the gate, "He never even asked me for a freaking date. I'm the one that forced his feelings out of him."
"Master Wallace," a voice announced his name.
Wally backed away from the gate in surprise. He looked around but didn't see anyone around. "Uh, hello?"
"The intercom, sir," Wally turned to his left to see a box with a speaker and buttons on it. "I'll let you in. Come by the front door and I will be waiting for you."
Before Wally knew it the gates were opening on their own. "Thanks, uh, um..."
"Alfred."
"Right! I knew that! You totally sound like an Al."
"I'm so sure sir…"
Wally figured those were Alfred's final words, he sped up as fast as he could to the front doors of the mansion, making the trip across the large property in only a few seconds. As he got to the front doors he didn't have time to to marvel at the size of the place up close before Alfred opened the door.
"Master Richard is waiting for you in Master Bruce's Study. If you will follow me I will lead you to him." Alfred steped aside to allow Wally through. "If you are worried about Master Bruce I will assure you he is away on a business trip and won't return until later tonight."
"R-right…" Wally steps inside, wondering if this Alfred guy was aware of the situation. This was the first time meeting the old butler, but the older man seemed to know him pretty well. Without a question he followed closely behind. Every step he took was nerve-wrecking. The note said Dick wanted to work things out which meant that could only be a good sign. But, what was puzzling was what Dick wanted to show him. It's obvious it wasn't anything good because of Wally's snooping around. Hopefully, it wasn't anything painful.
Alfred stops in front of a door and knocks.
"Yeah, Alfred?" Wally's heart skips a beat when he hears Dick's voice.
"Master Wallace is here to see you."
"Oh, okay. Let him in please."
Alfred opened the door open and stepped aside for Wally to get through. The young redhead took an unsteady step forward into the study. He looks around, the room filled with ceiling-high shelves with books shoved into them all. There wasn't a window, which made the small lamp on the giant desk the only light source, it didn't emit much light, so the room was fairly dark anyways. The large chair behind the desk was turned around towards the wall, making Wally faced to the back of it. Dick wasn't around, so Wally was only to assume he was sitting in the chair.
"Will you like anything else Master Richard?" Alfred asked.
"No, thanks." Dick said from behind the chair.
"Very Well. Master Wallace, I wish you the best of luck."
With that, Alfred closed the door. Wally turned to the now shut door and heard Alfred's footsteps leaving to someplace else in the mansion. He turned back to look at the chair. He held his breath as he came to the realization that this this could end worse than he thought possible.
"Um, Rob?"
The chair behind the desk suddenly spun around, making Wally now face to face with his boyfriend. He had his elbows resting on the armrests and his hands closed together with his fingers intertwined. On his lap was a large white binder full of pages. Robin was in his usual civilian clothes and sunglasses. "I'm glad you could make it, Wally." Wally flinches when Dick tells him in a dark, serious voice he was not used to. "I wanted you here for a very good reason.."
"Which is?" Like he even had to ask.
"I brought you here so I can have my revenge." Robin declared as he held up the thick binder. He leaned back in the reclining chair after setting said binder onto the desk. "You invaded my privacy Wally. So, I decided to invade yours."
"What?" Wally blinks a few times trying to figure out what Robin meant. He tells him pretty much everything all the time, what else could there be for him to know?
"Why don't we see what I have here, shall we?" Robin without any signs of emotions, opened up the binder to a random page inside.
"Um…What's exactly in that binder?"
"Oh this? It's nothing really, just… Your life." Robin flipped through the pages, his eyes scanning through each paragraph. He stops when he catches something interesting. "Age 5, encountered a clown for the first time at a birthday party. Got scared shitless and proceeded to pee your pants. Age 9, you encountered another clown….Again you peed your pants…"
Brief flashback of his childhood appeared from the back of his mind. His friends were laughing at him for months on both occasions. "How do you know about that?"
He seemed to be ignored as the raven-haired boy continued. "Age 11, got ganged up by a group of girls at your school. An hour later a janitor found you tied up to a basketball pole and gagged in a dress with makeup on."
Wally turned red. That was something he has never told anyone on the Team. The girls' reason for doing this was because they made a bet to do it on the first boy they saw. They even took pictures which were spread out everywhere around the school.
The boy wonder scrolled his finger down until it stopped on a paragraph on the bottom of the page. "Hmm, this one seems interesting. Age 13, tried showing off how fast you were at swimming by going back and forth in the pool. You didn't notice it at first, but when you got out your swim trunks came off. To this day you still refuse to take laps in a public pool."
"How the hell do you know all of this crap?" Wally yelled.
"Be patient and I'll tell you in a minute." Robin flips through some more pages in the binder. "Oh! This is a good one. Age 15, got kicked in the balls by boyfriend and then said boyfriend went out to find every bit of information he could find about you. Now the boyfriend has more blackmail than he knows what to do with."
"Rob, you-"
"Don't say anything just quite yet. Let me speak first…" Robin finally closed the binder. He leaned back in his chair and pulled off his sunglasses. Wally silently gasped: this was his first time seeing his eyes up front and instead of a computer screen. His blue eyes were shining with a sense of seriousness. Seeing them in person was different than seeing them in pictures. Robin seeing that Wally wasn't going to say anything else, continues. "After leaving you curled up in a ball I had a lot of thinking to do. You see, I was angry that you went beyond my trust, behind my back, to actually Google me. I mean seriously, you Googled me? Who do you know, besides stalkers, that actually do that about other people, without their permission? You know, at one point I thought I shouldn't be so mad at you, you're my boyfriend after all, my best friend for many years now. You were curious, I mean, who wouldn't want to know? But before I could forgive you, I had to let this go without any grudges. So, I started making plans…" His lips curled into a smirk; his eyes now holding every bit of amusement in them. "To get my revenge."
There was a long pause of silence. There was nothing Wally could say at this point. This was something he should have expected to happen. This was Robin after all. "How did you get all of that?"
"Easy, I contacted every person that you ever met. Some people didn't give me any details, but the ones that did were very generous." Robin got up from the chair and walked around the desk. Wally took a couple steps backwards as Robin approached him. "Did you honestly think you could get away with this?"
"No, but I-"
"Don't. I don't want to hear your excuses." Robin finally stood in front of Wally, looking at him straight in the eyes. "I know it was my mistake of just leaving my papers around, but never once would I have thought you'd actually do something nice as to cleaning up after me. So in a way, I was angry in myself. And while I wasn't talking to you, I thought about our relationship…"
Wally's heart stopped. He could feel it slowly begin tearing apart.
"I wasn't sure why you wanted to be with me, there are so many reasons of why you're with me that I don't really know which one to believe. Then Barry started coming by everyday telling me how much of a wreck you've been."
"He has?"
"Yeah, he made me think that maybe you really do care… Do you though? We're pretty much even, now, with that binder on the desk, so you don't have to be with me anymore. You don't have to feel bad like Barry says you have. You can go ahead and like girls again."
"No, I…" Wally smiles sincerely. "I think I'll be happy having you back. No one like Megan can replace you, ever."
Robin held onto the seriousness that he has shown this whole time, but after Wally said that he relinquishes it. He smiled like a big weight has been lifted and wrapped his arms around the redhead's waist. "Just promise me that if you do something this stupid again just come to me right away, got it?"
Wally stared down at him for a moment before getting the courage to hug back. He couldn't tell if this was a trap or no, but getting to hug him again was worth the risk. "I'm sorry dude. It was an accident."
"Hey, don't worry about it. But remember, next time you piss me off I'll tell Artemis about the one time where a teacher thought you were writing a note in class and they made you read it out loud."
"…You're not talking about the time I wrote a love poem are you?"
"Who's to say? Now come on, let's go make out before Bruce gets home."
Wally wanted to continue to argue about the poem, but making out did sound a lot more fun. He leaned down and placed a soft kiss on Robin's lips. He tried pulling away slowly, but Robin pushed his head upwards to hold onto the touch. Wally lays his forehead on his, looking into his blue eyes, making Robin feel nervous inside. This was the first time Wally looked deep into his eyes, he wondered what it was he was thinking now.
"Soooo…" Wally grins. "Does this mean-"
"Make a joke about my name being Dick and this relationship is over."
"…I always did like calling you Rob."
Robin lets out a crackle of laughter. He was right on the bull's eye. "That's what I thought."
With those final words, Robin leans up to give Wally another long lasting kiss.
End of Story
I had to end the story like that. It just had to be done.
Thank you to everyone that has read this story. And thank you to everyone that reviewed, I read all the reviews that I get, even though I don't respond to them all.