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ft. nvghtwxng‌:

truth be told – dick doesn’t need the apology, but it’s nice enough to hear all the same. he knows it’s natural to want something to peg their hopes onto, knew what he would be signing up for as a team leader to provide that where he could. it’s not the first time the job had come before plain old dick grayson, sometimes that’s a saving grace. but all he can feel is relief when wally hugs him - proves they can have a second just as themselves.

“ don’t sweat it. i’m usually the asshole, remember? it’s fine if you need to take a turn. ” dick teases quietly, his arms wrapping tight and grateful around wally’s frame. deflection by humour is always first instinct; bad habit, and it takes another second before dick admits to himself that isn’t really going to cut it this time. he follows his own advice, taking the first deep breath while wally is there to ground him. what’s a little honesty compared to everything else going on out there? “ i’m sorry. I wish I could give you something more to do, but – ” this scares me, goes unsaid. he takes in wally’s warmth for a second longer before pulling back enough to look at him properly, hands unwilling to let go of his waist. “ for now, you’re already helping me, wal. what we do next … we’ll figure that part out together. ”

“ you’re not an asshole, ” wally says, squeezing a little tighter for a second. he’s found that this moment, this gesture, just a simple fucking hug has calmed him down exponentially. he listens to dick solemnly, meets his gaze when dick pulls back a little. the hands on his waist are comforting, though. warm and steady and familiar. “ i know we will, ” wally agrees slowly, finds himself taking a deep breath. there’s a moment, while wally looks at dick’s face that it occurs to him -- that their lives are about to get infinitely harder. that no matter what they figure out together (and they will figure something out together), things are going to get complicated.

the thought makes wally sigh, and his stomach twists. he puts his hands on dick’s face softly, draws him closer and gives him a featherlight kiss. not unlike the ones they’ve shared before, but its been a little while since they crossed that line again. “ i’m with you, whatever we figure out. ”

#nvghtwxng #its a bro thing

ft. hawkearrow‌:

the familiar contact is welcomed, connor’s shoulders relaxing by a few degrees as wally settles in beside him. he’s felt strangely adrift since hearing the news of joker’s death, another on top of countless others from the pinnacle of heroism. connor wishes he could say he knew how to process something on this level, but he’d rather avoid becoming a bold-faced liar amongst all else. “ i’ve… been better. the other’s are doing as well as they can, I think. ollie’s taken it the hardest, but – I just don’t like where this looks like it’s headed, you know? ” his lips purse into a frown, softening only with a light jog to wally’s arm. “ anyway, how are you doing? come to get some air too? ”

“ i know, ” wally agrees softly. he doesn’t say much more for now. there’s a sort of anxiety percolating at the back of his mind, and it tells him that, for now, he should play his cards close to his chest. “ i’m okay, yeah. my people are okay, so...that’s sometimes all i can ask for, right ?? ” it probably sounds selfish, but it’s true. if wally’s family and team remain intact and alive, then he’s alright. “ fresh air, yeah. figured i’d catch up with a pal while i had a minute. ”

#hawkearrow

ft. zatannazzataraz‌:

@wllyswest

Despite ongoing effort, the evacuation zone outside Metropolis remained a chaotic mess, and Zatanna had been devoting practically all her time to helping sort it out. The hard, tragic work left her mind feeling sluggish from all the spells and her heart heavy. When a reddish blur buzzed passed her, barely detectable on the edge of her senses, she whirled tiredly, the image already long gone. “Flash! Flash!” She shouted, hoping she didn’t look absolutely crazy, before remembering he was probably already miles upon miles away and keying into the comm device at her ear instead. “It’s Zee, if you’re in the evac zone, you may have passed me. Don’t, um, worry about my weird shouting if you heard. No emergency. I just- was glad to see something familiar.”

distance carries zatanna’s voice away when she actually shouts for him. either that or wally’s too preoccupied, but he doesn’t hear hr. wally runs with a king of single-mindedness. he has a job to do, a destination to reach, and now more so than ever, wally pushes himself so that he can be of some use in the face of such a senseless tragedy. but then the voice in his ear brings him back to the moment, back to something more human and certainly more compassionate than a streak of lightning and color. wally’s reminded suddenly how exhausted he is, when he makes the two second backtrack to zatannas side. “ doesn’t have to be an emergency to say hi, right ?? you okay ?? ” he asks, hand hovering near her shoulder, unsure whether that’s a kind of comfort he’s allowed to give. “ you look exhausted, zee. ” bold words from a man who’s practically dead on his feet.

#zatannazzataraz

@hawkearrow

a hand comes up and leaves what he hopes is a reassuring pat between connor’s shoulders. wally stays close, bumps his shoulder right up against the other’s and just tries to breathe comfortably for a moment. it feels like ages since anyone has breathed comfortably. “ you feeling okay, man ?? ” wally asks. it’s a dumbass question, but it’s all he’s got right now. “ how’s your family holding up ?? ”

#hawkearrow

@divincdfuture

silence -- there’s a lot of heavy silences lately. wally’s never done well with that; he gets antsy and agitated a minute in, but it’s almost hard to find words that are worth the air it takes. he can bluster about this shit show until he’s blue in the face, but what does it change. “ i’m -- guessing you and dick are of the same mind on this, right ?? ” wally asks. he knows, of course, that dick and barbara almost always are, even if he doesn’t know babs so well. if dick can already look days, weeks, months ahead and see disaster, then he’s sure everyone else in gotham is moving in that same direction. “ nerve-wracking, isn’t it ?? ” understatement of his life.

#divincdfuture

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nvghtwxng‌:

the impact of all that’s happened in the last day is – dick is still reeling, more shaken than he can afford to show with all that needs to be done. sorrow, mourning, dread, all churns to be let out until dick is feeling dizzy with it. but there’s no luxury to be afforded the time to do so here, not how it’s needed. this isn’t the end, he tells himself. he’s not even sure if that’s a comfort or forewarning anymore.

wally’s rapid pacing isn’t a new background sound to his life, a telling story of just how many times they’d faced times of crises together. of course all that does is steel himself, slip into the role of leader, nightwing, and summon up what strength he has to offer his closest friend while he can. “ i’m– figuring that part out. ” a deep breath, and dick pushes himself to stand, stepping in wally’s path of pacing to settle hands on his shoulders. the pause of footsteps, however brief, lets him think long enough to muster up his thoughts. “ I need you to take a second here, wal. you’re about to buzz out of your skin. i’m waiting to hear who’s responded - ” –survived– “ and can handle the fallout zone. they’ll need help transporting people once they’re out of the radiation. ” admittedly not the most long-term plan, or best, but no amount of training prepared dick for this kind of scenario. a short squeeze is given to either shoulder; an inadequate comfort, but dick is all out of magic fixes, no matter how much he willed to give one away. “ the rest, we’ll figure out. I just need – you need to take a couple breaths for me first. ”

the hands on wally’s shoulders do stop him for long enough to make him take a deep breath. he stops fidgeting and just kinda looks at dick for a second. okay, everything’s fine, right? dick’s clearly stressed, but there’s a calm to him that’s catching. he’s right, wally’s half a second from buzzing his freakin’ atoms apart or something equally terrifying.

“ hey, i’m sorry, ” wally says, instantly chagrined. he’s asking a lot of dick in the moment, expecting anyone to have a plan in the wake of a tragedy like this is a big dumbass move, the kind that wally does so well. it’s not fair. wally sighs and nods, then finds himself taking one of dick’s hands in his own. “ i’m acting like an asshole. i’m just...i want to help, but i don’t know how, and -- ” aw, fuck it. he pulls dick into a tight hug, hand between dick’s shoulder blades. maybe he just needs a second, and maybe dick needs one, too.

#nvghtwxng

canaryinfishnets‌:

“Yeah? Well, there is enough heroes in the world right now. I think a blonde with a good right hook isn’t saving the world anytime soon when you’ve got aliens and Amazons.” Dinah humored dryly, leaning on the door frame. “If your looking for a lesson, I am not really dressed.”

“ no, i’m not looking for a lesson !! ” wally’s pretty sure a lesson with black canary is an ass-kicking by black canary. wally’s already sore from his last ass-beating at the hands of a foe. no need for one by a friend. “ you up for a cup of coffee ?? ”

#canaryinfishnets

@nvghtwxng

wally’s happy to see dick, of course, glad to see him alive and relatively unscathed. but he’s also so incredibly keyed up and anxious, pacing around the room and barely lingering on dick. it’s no secret that he’s cried his tears today, and his eyes are rimmed red. the tragedy of their situation weighs heavily on him, as does the knowledge of just how many younger titans -- teen titans had been lost in the blast.

he wants, terribly, to be a source of comfort to his very best friend, but he finds himself unable to gather the strength or kindness or calmness to do so just yet. a fine vibration is almost imperceptible in wally’s hands. “ dick -- come on. what do we do? ” he knows that tucked away inside of dick is a piece very, very much like batman, and while sometimes wally has friction with that piece of him, he’s also desperate for an answer or a plan. and maybe he wants that genius detective nightwing brain piece to do some of the thinking for him. and maybe he needs dick to tell him to breathe. “ you’ve -- you’ve got a plan, right ?? ” he asks, voice cracking.

#nvghtwxng #im soRRY ur best friend is liek this dickie

cobblerofweapons‌:

relief immediately flooded his system just by the smile, one of his own quickly beginning to form. lian was okay. she was doing just fine, safe from all of this mayhem until it blew over. “i’m sure you was more than happy to see her uncle wally.” roy was thankful, beyond so, and as he took the folded up paper to look at the drawing, he was just so grateful for the things his friends were willing to do. “thank you, wally. really. it meant a lot to me that you did this.” and then roy’s reaching out, wrapping his arms around wally. “how’re you holding up??”

wally will take that in thanks, yeah. in a day ever-more-stressful, it feels easy and natural to slump against roy’s shoulder. he loops an arm around roy’s back and returns the embrace. “ i -- honestly, i don’t know. i’ve never felt...like this, like we’ve screwed up so colossally. ” in wally’s head, he knows that this isn’t their fault. they’ve dedicated their lives to stopping shit like this, god knows how many times it could have happened already if not for their interference. but knowing something in your head and knowing it in your heart, too, are different matters entirely.

“ it’s hard not to feel like we all failed. do you remember when coast city was destroyed ?? what it did to hal, god. that wiped out the entire corps for years. imagine what this could do. ” he shakes his head and tries to forget it, even if just for a moment. “ i’m sorry, i’m babbling. ”

#cobblerofweapons

cobblerofweapons‌:

was this selfish?? probably. wally could have been out doing other things, searching for people they weren’t sure on whether or not they’d been in metropolis at the time. but being apart from lian with this tragedy hanging over their head left roy completely uneasy. it had been the best decision to do should more had happened, but it didn’t mean he wasn’t worried otherwise. wally would be able to get to lian and back quicker than he would, and he was certainly one of the few roy trusted with her current location. on edge, roy was toying with one of his arrows as he waited at the meet spot to hear whatever news came back.

@wllyswest

wally doesn’t think it’s selfish. hell, he’s known lian since she was born, so part of him wants to check on her, too. it’s not just a favor to roy. he skids to a stop in front of roy, and tries to offer him the most optimistic smile he can manage in the shittiest of circumstances. “ she’s totally fine, ” wally announces, crossing his heart. “ i gave her a kiss from you and everything. and she gave m this drawing for you, ” wally says, fishing the carefully folded rainbow out of his pocket.

#cobblerofweapons

canaryinfishnets‌:

Dinah opened her door and leaned on the door frame. “Y’know, I’m used to being up at three am in the morning but tonight, I’m not getting into the fishnets and leather.”

“ i hear crime never takes a day off. pretty sure batman said it. you think that’s a good idea ?? ” wally says, mostly teasing.

#canaryinfishnets

rcdvenant‌:

❝ I just don’t think this is a coincidence. ❞ Jason snaps, clear edge in his voice. Everyone knows he always gets especially pissed at any time The Joker is relevant due to an escape or scheme he’s pulled. ❝ It seems really fucking IRONIC that Scarecrow is dead the same day that ugly motherfucker makes his grand escape, right ?? Because it’s not irony. It was fucking intentional ; I’m 95% certain the fucking clown killed Crane, and he’s planning some fucked shit because of it. ❞

“ so rogues are killing each other now ?? ” wally asks, tiredly. he yearns for his rogues sometimes. he’s best buds with hartley; hartley would never do something this heinous. which is pretty far from the topic at hand, so wally keeps that thought to himself. “ so if the clown killed the scarecrow, then why ?? i don’t see what he gets outta that. ”

#rcdvenant

daughter-of-kane‌:

“Likewise. So, is Dick’s best friend hiding from something, or just here for a drink?”

“ am i hiding ?? no, ma’am. i don’t hide. i’m just getting some coffee because i think i slept a total of forty seven minutes last night. what about you ?? ”

#daughterofkane

nctmyfears‌:

“Aw c’mon, you’re just saying that.” Jess says with a laugh. “I mean - they’ve protected people here for a long time, it makes sense people would want to see them fly in. It just - makes it hard when you’re the newest Lantern around, I guess, but we’re getting there.” She smiles gratefully and nods. “Thanks, Wally. I’ll definitely try and give her a call. So, what are you going to do about - Discount-Flash?”

“ oh, probably just lean into it and partner up with walmart. off-brand flash paraphernalia and appearances in all the country’s smallest cities. a flash for the little people, you know ?? the poor man’s flash. i can make that work for me, i think. ” wally’s only half-kidding about it. his ego can’t be totally decimated, he does still have a museum wing dedicated to him. that’s gotta mean something, right ??

#nctmyfears

rcdvenant‌:

❝ I’ve got my sources. ❞ Jason shrugs - he catches wind of the mutterings however, a prickish grin crawling onto his face. Of course, when Wally mentions the trading cards… He chuckles. ❝ I’m about to put this in the nicest, most gentle way I possibly can. ❞ He puts his arms off, about to speak before he’s cut off by his chuckling again. And then … ❝ Wally, you’re a fucking nerd. ❞

But he neither confirms or denies the suspicion about trading cards.

“ oh, we’ve all got sources, little wing. ” see ?? wally can play the embarrassing card, too ?? little wing has more attack points that rudolph, hopefully. god, what a creepy little weirdo this dude is -- all the chuckling and slow smiles. just be normal, jason. “ this may surprise you to hear, given how rakishly charming i am, but that’s actually not the worst thing i’ve been called. ”

#rcdvenant

daughter-of-kane‌:

@wllyswest

“Wally West, isn’t it?” Maybe she’s hiding from the reporters at the inane gala by heading into the coffee shop across the street, but if asked she would definitely deny it. “You’re one of Dick’s friends, aren’t you?” Offering a hand, “I’m Bruce’s cousin, Kate.”

wally’s taken aback, but he shakes kate’s hand regardless. usually strangers that know who he is spell trouble, but her credentials check out so far. “ yeah, i’m a friend of dick’s. best friend, technically, just don’t tell the others. wally. good to meet you, kate. ”

#daughterofkane

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