Oh. my. GOD people I am so sorry I left you hanging for so long. Especially TheWickedWizardOfOz who had it beta'd like, a million years ago... I was just in a pretty bad place for a while and school was stressing me out and I kind of lost the drive to do anything, and I am so sorry for that. Really, I know how it is when a fic doesn't get updated in, like, forever.

So please, please, please accept my deepest apologies. I truly am sorry. And to all those people who commented: I WILL reply, I just have to figure out to which one's I already replied. I'll get to that once I've arrived at my grandparents. If you feel the need to scold me for my laziness, please do! I love you guys for still commenting and faving this fic and... pretty much not leaving me 3

TheWickedWizardOfOz: I know you aren't able to beta at the moment, just let me know if you'll be available somewhen and I am so terribly sorry for not replying, I just had a really bad time. I really am sorry! Please don't hate me . I love you!

It was horrible. Wally saw what was happening, what he was doing but it wasn't him. He was trapped inside his body.

Before, when the woman, Rose, he reminded himself, when Rose had brought him to her base, Wally still managed to move slightly but she had noticed.

He didn't want to repeat that again. When she had injected this... stuff into him, it hurt. It hurt badly.

He had screamed and bucked but his body hadn't been moving at all.

It was a horrible feeling.

But it was bearable.

What wasn't bearable, what was really horrible was to listen to her speak.

"Don't you wonder why they haven't rescued you yet?" she would whisper in his ear every time she sat next to him, uncomfortably close, petting him like he was some sort of animal she had brought home.

"It is because they don't really care about you."

And Wally wanted to shake his head because he knew she was lying and that she only said that to completely break him.

Wally was sure they tried their best to find him. He knew his friends, his uncle, they wouldn't stop searching for him but it made her words all the more painful because why weren't they here yet?

He knew they were searching for him but he needed them to find him now.

Because she injected him this stuff often. Wally had lost count of the hours, [which] really could have been minutes in his mind.

"They don't want to find you."

No, they wanted to find him. Wally knew.

"I made it so obvious where I brought you."

She didn't. She just wanted him to believe that.

Wally knew he shouldn't listen to her. That he shouldn't believe her. And he didn't. But he wanted out of there. Because she kept on touching andpetting him. She ran her hands through his hair and over his cheek and she talked about how he was her most valuable possession.

And Wally wished he could close his eyes so he could imagine that those were Robin's hands. He wanted to imagine Robin- Dick smiling at him and telling him that everything was going to be alright. He wanted to close his eyes, shut his ears and dream of Dick.

But he couldn't.

"You know?" Rose asked the boy sitting behind her, motionlessly. "I wish you could talk right now. I always enjoy witty comebacks the best."

The woman laughed and brushed her hair out of her face while fumbling with some ingredients.

"I heard you and the Flash were the best at those. Always throwing in a joke."

She snorted and shook her head. "I bet it is easy, looking at your villains... The Rouges. They don't seem that much of a threat- ah!" She raised a hand as if she wanted to stop the redhead from interrupting her. "I'm sure they are dangerous, but I heard you were really friendly with some of them."

Rose turned around slightly, glimpsing at the boy on the couch, and laughed.

"It doesn't matter though. I am the one controlling you now." She turned to face the teen completely and strode over to him, touching his cheek. "I could make you do anything."

She chuckled. "I bet you want to know how and why."

"Well," she started, walking back to the desk with the plants, "the how is simple, really. You see, I created this venom. Just a bit of it rids the victim completely of it's own will. It's a little bit like that of a snake, you know? When the body of their victim goes limp; but, mine not only cuts the neurons that connect to the part of your brain that moves your muscles, it also separated the mind. Traps it."

Rose casted a pitiful glance at the boy before she continued.

"I could explain how it works exactly but I know, Kid Flash, that you aren't the biology type, considering what it took for you to become who you are."

She bottled the liquid she was working on, turned to lean on the desk and tapped her chin.

"But for the why, that's actually a bit complicated. You see, I really admire Dr. Cane and Pamela... Oh, you might know them as Scarecrow and Poison Ivy."

Rose curled a strand of hair around her finger and smiled. "I met them once, not together of course, but I had a nice chat with both of them and I realized: If I alternate their powers and combine them... wouldn't that be great?"

She started to laugh quietly.

"But, you know, once people figure out you admire Gotham's villains, they tend to react a little bit... repelling. Some laughed, some declared I was crazy and some stopped talking to me but that is alright because I've got you now, right?"

She walked over to the boy again and snuggled up against him, hooking her arms around his neck, burying her face in his shoulder.

"You aren't going to leave me, right?"

Robin tapped his foot on the floor impatiently, his arms crossed and an annoyed look on his face. Three days already. They had searched Wally for three days and still hadn't found anything. The brunet sighed and ran a hand over his face. No matter how long he stared at the screen, he couldn't find anything.

The tracer he had put on Wally, the tracer that could be found on every team member, had given out just a few minutes after Wally had disappeared. Most likely this... Vermillion Rose broke it and threw it away. Robin had tried to get it to work again but it was completely shattered and now, the only thing they could do was to scan every surveillance and traffic camera for any trace of the redhead and let Megan and J'onn go over every city and search for Wally's brain waves.

It was extremely tiring and they took turns in front of the computer.

"Robin." The voice of his mentor made him jump. "You should go to sleep, you've been sitting here longer than anyone." A big hand was put on his shoulder and the brunet slumped down in his seat.

"I know but..."

"You want to find him, I know. Everyone knows. But you will be useless if you exhaust yourself too much."

"Batman, I-"

"WE FOUND HIM!" Megan shouted as she ran into the room, her expression relieved and tired. J'onn walked in after her, also carrying a tired look on his face. Robin jumped up, the chair he had been sitting in rattling to the ground. His eyes were wide.

"Where is he?" the brunet wheezed out.

They gathered the whole team to discuss their next actions.

"We located him in a small town in France. However, the wavelength of his brain is very weak and appears to have been suppressed on purpose."

"France?" Artemis asked.

Robin interjected with, "What do you mean, suppressed?"

"Considering the footage you showed me, Vermillion Rose has injected Kid Flash with a poison, that weakens his wavelength and lets him act according to her wishes." J'onn answered Robin calmly.

"That is still just a theory, though." Batman said and the Martian nodded.

"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's get him out of there." Robin ground out, his hands shaking at the thought of someone poisoning the redhead.

"Wait," the Dark Knight said and clamped a hand over Robin's shoulder.

"What?" his protégé hissed and turned around to glare at his mentor. Batman looked down on him, his mouth tight and if he didn't have the cowl over his face, Robin was sure, he would be frowning.

"We have to prepare." Robin shrugged the hand off his shoulder and faced Batman fully.

"For what? We know where Wally is, we have to go and get him. ASAP!" Robin's mouth twitched when his mentor shook his head.

"Wally is currently under her control. I know you sparred with him but you have to train to fight a speedster on full power." That got the attention of the rest of the Team.

"Fight?"

Batman nodded and the Flash stepped up beside him. "He is mind-controlled and as much of a goof as he is usually, he is a serious threat."

They thought about it. Wally was a speedster, he could – hell, they didn't even know how fast he could possibly go. On every mission, he had restrained himself as to not hurt the bad guys too much, but, mind-controlled, all restraints cut loose, thinking of fighting Wally was terrifying.

Training with the Flash was the wisest thing at the moment as much as Robin wanted to get to Wally fast, he also wanted to be able to help him.

Wally had never been able to vibrate through a wall and he had always, secretly, wondered why that was. Sure, he made jokes with Robin about it, but it always hurt his pride when he tried, but couldn't make it.

Now, he knew that, deep inside, he had just been afraid. Afraid of going too fast. Afraid of hurting people if he couldn't control himself, afraid of vanishing in the speed-force.

Rose didn't have those fears and what she wanted, he did.

The first time he simply walked through a wall – because that was what it had felt like – he had been awed by the possibilities his body held but the more Rose explored his powers, the more he was afraid. He was strong and Wally knew that this woman would use this strength against those dear to him.

So, every time she tested his body, he curled up into a ball inside himself and tried to shut everything out. He was too scared to witness what he was able to do.

Too scared to even watch.

He hoped Robin and the others would be there soon.