Food Storage Warehouse, Gotham City:

Quick Flash moans as she wakes up, her head was throbbing like a bitch. What the hell had happened anyhow, " Quick Flash? "

Quick Flash keeps her green eyes firmly shut, " I'm here, you remember what happened, Kid Idiot? " Quick Flash asks.

She can feel it when he lifts her into a sitting position, and she turns into him instinctively, " Yeah, we got caught by Penguin on a mission. "

" Ketamine? "

Kid Flash winces at this, only Ketamine could affect her for any decent amount of time and she always ended up with a nasty headache afterwards. Explained why she was currently curled up in his arms, " You alright? "

Quick Flash's response to that was to tighten her grip on him, telling Kid Flash all he needed to know, she was currently unable to fight, or use any of her powers, and he couldn't phase through things yet. He blinks when the temperature starts to noticeably drop in their cell. Quick Flash stiffens at this, " We need to get out, now. " Quick Flash states.

Kid Flash can feel the tension in her body, " Why, Quick Flash? "

The answer became all too apparent as the telepathic link that he had come accustomed to clicked off. Quick Flash was huddling even closer to him now and his eyes widen, his empathy was still up and working so he tentatively tried to reestablish the connection he just couldn't do without. It worked and he tightens his hold on her, Why didn't you mention that your powers clocked out with cold temperatures?

Never been an issue, why do you think Batman never sends me on missions to cold places?

I hadn't really noticed, but now that you mention it… how long can you last, babe?

Longer than if I'd be alone, I know that much. I never figured out why this happens, but any temperature below freezing causes my powers to clock out and it's not pretty. Whatever you do, Wally, don't let go.

The tone of her telepathic voice scared him more than anything, she never sounded this vulnerable, ever. Being a speedster had its perks and his body temperature ran at above normal, so for now they'd be okay and they both still had their cupboards filled to capacity, no villain was ever able to open the cupboards, a security feature put in by Uncle Barry in their costumes. He wasn't used to Quick Flash not being the same temperature or close to his, it was a very whelming experience, as Robin would say. Rob.

KF, where are you two?

Not sure, Rob, but you need to find us fast. Quick Flash's powers clock out in freezing cold temperatures and I don't know how long either one of us can last in this situation. I'm having to use my special talent just to reach you.

I'll see if I can't back trace you two, but stay alert, Walls.

Kid Flash intended on doing that, but the shivering girl in his arms was starting to take precedence. He didn't like it when his girlfriend was in danger and this was the worst kind of danger, he'd never thought he'd have to worry about hypothermia with her overly much, but it seemed as if he did. The female speedster was shivering in his arms, but her grip was still strong and she was muttering under her breath about stupid flightless swimming birds and their obsessions with Ketamine.

His eyes flicker over to the door, " Why hello there, I would like to have a brief meeting with Quick Flash. " The female speedster jerks in Kid Flash's arms as she looks up at whom had spoken, she pales considerably at this, taking in the appearance of whom had spoken. She wasn't shivering now, she was trembling in abject terror, the warmth of the door being open was allowing her to at least read his mind. Kid Flash tightens his hold on her, he'd never felt such terror from his girlfriend before.

She was too cold and too scared to actually move, her forest green eyes wide in terror, " I think I'll decline, thank you. " Quick Flash says, with venom in her voice.

" Oh, you're good, girl, do you think your fellow speedster can protect you from me. Your father should never have existed, and one day soon, I will make sure you either submit to me or no longer exist. "

A birdarang and an arrow both zoom past him, missing him by millimeters. Artemis was pissed, no one threatened her friends. The Boy Wonder was also pissed, but he had different ways of directing his wrath, " You'll have to go through all of Young Justice for that. Trust me, it will be a whelming experience, to say the least. "

Miss Martian was able to get them out of there easily enough and to the Bioship, but Quick Flash had frozen, the threat replaying in her head over and over again. Only Wally's arms around her kept her grounded. The male speedster remembered what Green Arrow had said. Apparently Captain Cold was an illegitimate child and his existence and that of his daughter was not appreciated. Kid Flash longed to be able to actually comfort his girlfriend, but they had a mission debriefing with Batman. Quick Flash allows herself to relax when Kid Flash sets his body to humming at the frequency that he knew would calm her. Soon she's relaxing in his arms, still cold from their freezer ordeal as well. It always took a while for her powers to come back on line fully. She literally needed his warmth for the next little while and she wasn't going to complain about being in his arms.

" M'gann, can you slow the trip down? " Kid Flash asks.

Robin looks at him and sighs, " He's right, until QF gets sufficiently warmed up we need to go slower. "

" Okay, obviously some of you know something the rest of us don't. " Red Arrow says.

Robin makes sure the conversation won't be recorded and then turns to the others who didn't know, " KF and QF have been dating for the last two years, while he has her calm, freezing temperatures cause her powers to clock out, until we can get her core temperature back up and get her to the point where she can face Batman without flinching, we can't go back. "

Quick Flash looks at Robin, " Bird Boy, I can handle the Big Bad Bat. "

" Not when you're in clingy mode, QF. " Robin retorts.

Quick Flash groans at this, " Damn observant little birds. " She mutters.

Robin grins, " I was trained by Batman after all. "

" Rob, back off, she's not up for it. " Kid Flash warns him.

This gains him looks from everyone who didn't know he was an empath. Kid Flash didn't care, he knew his girlfriend was putting up a strong front, but it was just that, a front. " Kid Flash, I think the rest of the team needs to know about your other talent. " Kaldur says.

Kid Flash sighs at this, " Alright, so maybe I was an empath before I became a speedster. "

M'gann winces sympathetically, knowing Wally would have known exactly how his father had felt about him. Artemis flinches, " Damn, had to suck growing up, hell, high school has to be a bitch. "

Kid Flash can't help it, he laughs at this, " It is, if I don't have my emotional buffer with me, and I'm her thought buffer, works out pretty well. "

" Wally, you have no idea how many members of the student body want to jump you, male and female. " Quick Flash mutters.

Kid Flash blinks, " How the hell do you know this? "

" I always get surface thoughts, plus there are too many guys that glare at me like they want the Earth to swallow me whole so they can have you, which isn't happening, but, well, you get my point. "

Kid Flash blanches at this, " Okay, I need to pay more attention to the emotions of my fellow students apparently. "

Quick Flash smirks, " Oh, but I like it when you're adorably clueless. "

Kid Flash actually blushes at this, shocking the rest of the team, except for Robin. Robin knew exactly what QF meant by that, and apparently so did his now red friend. Quick Flash smiles at her accomplishment, Wally wasn't the only one who could do innuendo. Slowly, with banter, Quick Flash is back to her charming self and she's warmed back up, but she gave Wally a quick, speedster quick, look. Kid Flash knew what that look meant all too well. It was a look that said she was okay for now, but cuddling was going to be in their future, as soon as they were done with Batman and Mt. Justice. Hopefully Uncle Barry would let them off of patrolling tonight, as neither one of them felt up to it.

The Bioship rocks just then and everyone jolts, " M'gann, what is wrong? " Kaldur asks.

" It's Bizarro, he's attacking the ship, and I don't know if I can get us away from Bizarro. " M'gann states.

Quick Flash curses at this and gets up from her comfortable position, her eyes glowing as she accesses her powers, entering Bizarro's mind, " M'gann, punch it, KF, get ready to pull me back, his mind is worse than Joker's, if you can believe that. "

Quick Flash nearly collapses at the sudden distance and Kid Flash, judging them to be safe grins, he could finally kiss her in front of the team. He only relents when he can sense her in the kiss fully. Quick Flash settles back into his arms, " Shouldn't have done that, but no other choice, now can we get the debriefing over so I can get some much needed down time, away from the eyes of a prying bat. "

Kid Flash sits back down, allowing Quick Flash to make herself comfortable. She only truly snuggled when a mission had gone to hell like this one. The few times she fell asleep, and wasn't in his arms she'd hunt him down soon enough after a nightmare and snuggle up to him. Only he ever saw her truly vulnerable. " I take it this remains a secret? " Zatanna says.

" Hell, yeah, Bats wouldn't exactly take kindly to two speedsters hooking up. He'd hate it. " Kid Flash states.

Quick Flash smirks, " When the time is right or if the situation forces one of our hands I'll deal with the Big Bad Bat, okay. "

" You rest, that way we can get home quicker. "

" Crashing at Mt. Justice would be easier. " Quick Flash mutters.

Kid Flash and Robin share a look, She must be tired, she's never suggested staying at the mountain.

Well, it the mission was an aster, heavy on the dis. Can't really say I'm surprised she's wiped out. Might help if she were to get some actual food in her instead of protein bars.

You have a point there. Kid Flash admits as his arms shift slightly as he holds onto his girlfriend.

Quick Flash somehow made it through Batman's debriefing, due to the fact that she had been dosed with ketamine and exposed to freezing cold temperatures he only debriefed Kid Flash, but noticed the male teen speedster seemed anxious, he was practically vibrating in place and the Dark Knight nearly curses aloud when it all comes together for him, " Kid Flash, how long have you and Quick Flash been dating? "

That got the female speedster over by Kid Flash's side immediately and her Flash-glare made Batman pause, he did not want her rewiring his motor functions again. " Two years. " Kid Flash answers.

Quick Flash levels Batman's own weapon at him, the bat-glare, and he admits that he was scared, " Why keep it a secret? "

" Hello, villains. Plus, there was my dad, and well, I didn't want to deal with you. Rob's known the entire time. " Kid Flash states.

" Do you two date in civvies as well? " Batman asks, knowing damn well if he blew Quick Flash's secret identity she would make him pay horribly. He'd had to listen to Joker whining about Quick Flash and Trickster after the Dominatrix Batman thing. Personally anyone whom could scare and annoy the Joker had nothing to fear from Batman.

" Of course, our entire school knows we're going out. " Quick Flash retorts.

" Very well, I won't say anything, as I have a healthy respect for Quick Flash's temper. Now, Wally, get her home, she needs the rest. "

Quick Flash didn't argue this, " Actually, can we crash at your place, have Agent A have some food ready when we get there. " Kid Flash asks.

Batman sends the message ahead and punches in the coordinates for the Bat Cave. Kid Flash was right, the quicker the female speedster got some food in her the quicker she could sleep. Kid Flash zipped out of the Bat Cave with Quick Flash and was at the dining room table in a second, " Ah, young Master Wallace, Mistress Rachel, how pleasant to see you again. Dinner will be ready momentarily, until then, have some of these breadsticks. "

Both speedsters look at the breadsticks and the marinara sauce, Rachel however gives Wally a hopeful look and the red head sighs. Every so often Rachel wouldn't be able to feed herself for a short time, and after what she'd been through today he honestly couldn't blame her, so while he was finishing his first breadstick he feeds one to Rachel. He knew it would take a while before she had enough fuel in her body to actually feed herself, though a protein shake or even some chocolate would go a long way in getting her up to feeding herself.

Dick came along just then with a chocolate peanut butter milkshake and hands it to Wally. With Wally holding it Rachel drinks as Wally continues to feed himself one handed. Once she finishes the milkshake Rachel is able to feed herself and so the race for the food began. Wally smiles happily at this, he loved being able to compete with his girlfriend for food, " Oh, Daddy Bats knows, Rach has him sufficiently cowed. " Wally states.

" Thanks for the shake, Dick. " Rachel says.

" I figured you would need a jump start, so to speak, Rachel, so you two are staying here tonight? " Dick asks.

" Yep, and it's a whelming thought. " Wally says.

" Hey, quit stealing my neglected positives, Walls. "

" It's your damn fault, Dick. If you didn't want us whelming you with your own vocab then you shouldn't whelm us with it in the first place. " Rachel says, smirking.

Dick sighs at this, " I need new friends. "

The speedsters both look at him with the puppy dog eyes look and he groans at this, " Rachel, damn it all, did you have to teach Wally the puppy dog eyes? "

" Oh, I just refined his technique is all. " Rachel quips.

" Oh, hey Bats, thought you'd stay in your cave forever. " Wally says suddenly and then he groans, " Tell me I didn't guys? "

" You did, Walls. " Dick says.

" Wally, how did you know I was there? " Bruce asks.

" I'm an empath. " Wally mutters, cursing himself for his lack of guarding.

" That's how you beat Mind Slam then? " Bruce states.

" Yeah. " Wally states as Alfred brings the rest of the food out. Once Rachel is refueled she makes her way upstairs, she was going to at least get cleaned up before she collapsed, plus she had some clothes here, just in case. Once cleaned up and in her pajamas he reserves give out and just before she hits the floor arms are wrapped around her, " I'm surprised you lasted this long, Rach. "

" Consider yourself glared at, too tired to actually do so at the moment. Now, Kid Taxi, could you please haul me to our room here at the Manor? " Rachel murmurs.

Wally smirks as he swings her up into his arms and zips to their room at the Manor, " Be right back, 'kay, Rach. "

" Bett'r be. " Rachel says, sleep almost completely taking her.

Needless to say wally took the fastest shower he has even taken and was back with his girlfriend in two seconds. The Bat knew all now, however there was still the mystery of his girlfriend to work out, he just hoped that she would finally tell him one day, though she had said only when he was ready, that meant he wasn't yet. He'd told her about the fights with Klarion and his utter disbelief in magic. Wally groans to himself, the disbelief in magic was holding her back from telling him. Why though, why was his firm belief that magic didn't exist keeping Rachel from telling him everything?

His brain was firing on all cylinders now and his green eyes widen, " No, it couldn't be. "

The whole of the Justice League and their sidekicks, partners had heard of the crystalline city in Japan, of the queen with supernatural powers. GA had said Rachel had said her ability to heal came from her paternal grandmother. It was said one of the queens guards had the ability to traverse time. What if the queen had, had an affair with someone other than her king, it would explain why double C didn't kill anyone, and why he was the good parent. Rachel was illegitimate royalty. Come to think of it that guy earlier, shit, he knew, the King knew and Rachel was now in serious danger, that was why she had been so scared.

Disclaimer: I do not own Young Justice!

Author's Note: Yes, I know I'm alluding to Crystal Tokyo and that will be the next story, The Heritage of Quick Flash. This story has come to a close as the Bat now knows everything, though inadvertent on Wally's part. I hope everyone has enjoyed this little tale of mine.