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Until around ten minutes ago, Wally West identified as straight. He liked girls, especially Linda Park. Of course, I did mention that this was up until around ten minutes ago. You see, on this day in particular, Wally West got the chance of a lifetime: a sleepover with his best friend Dick Grayson. Now, this might not seem like much to most people – but it was huge for both of them.
Dick Grayson was Robin after all, meaning his father was the notorious Batman. And while Wally West was Kid Flash, his uncle was the Flash – who had just seriously ticked Batman off at the last Justice League meeting by mocking the Dark Knight’s role on the PTA.
Needless to say, it was Alfred’s doing that this sleepover was even happening, rather than Bruce’s. The billionaire was not even in Gotham – he’d gone to Central City to defeat all of Uncle Barry’s villains and be extremely petty while the police gushed over the Dark Knight.
Wally had packed his things into an overnight bag and zipped straight to Gotham, racing through the city before arriving at Wayne Manor. He and Dick had played video games, eaten pizza, pulled a prank on Dick’s new younger brother Jason, and then had sat down to watch a movie in Dick’s room with ice creams.
That’s when it happened.
Dick yawned and stretched, his shirt slipping up to reveal a strip of pale skin and strong muscle. Then he took a long lick of his ice cream, his tongue darting out to swirl around the ice cream. A little of the sticky sweet treat caught on his lip – so Dick licked his lips.
Cue one poorly timed gay crisis for one Wally West.
He waited a couple minutes to calm his racing heart, then quickly excused himself to the nearest bathroom. His first instinct was to look for Klarion or some other entity that might have cursed him. Then he realised that none of them could:
a) make it anywhere near Wayne Manor or
b) knew his civilian identity.
So, then he went to his second instinct: wikiHow. And now we’re back to the present.
“Okay… this is fine… now… what to search…” His foot tapped rapidly against the tiles of the bathroom, as he thought. And thought. Nothing came to mind.
“You okay in there?” called Dick. Wally’s eyes went wide.
“Yep! Just… busy?” Wally winced, and prayed that Dick didn’t follow up on that pathetic line.
“Okay – just get out here soon. You’re going to miss the best part!”
Wally’s eyes went wide.
“You mean the epic battle?”
“Yeah dude! He’s about to destroy those villains!” Wally leapt to his feet and sprinted out the bathroom, his phone tucked back in his pocket.
“Then what are we waiting for?”
“You,” sniggered Dick. Wally had the decency to look guilt, blushing faintly – not quite enough to disguise his freckles, but still enough to highlight his jawline. Dick found himself blushing in return – not that Wally noticed, already racing towards Dick’s room.
The climax of the movie was set on a tropical island and featured the hero – a chiselled man wearing a bulletproof jacket over a ripped tank top – rescuing several scantily-clad women from an evil villain in a black suit. As Wally watched, he found his eyes taking in everyone’s features, and finding to his surprise that he was infinitely more attracted to the women on the screen than the dude.
And yet, when Dick stretched beside him, curling himself around in an almost impossible manner to itch at his upper back, Wally couldn’t keep his eyes on the screen.
The moment the end credits began to roll, Wally quickly excused himself back to the bathroom, and went straight back to wikiHow.
“Uh… what if I type in: ‘have feelings for male best friend but am attracted to women’? Could that work? No… uh…” Before his mind could catch up, his fingers had already typed in the words he’d accidentally said aloud. In Batman’s house.
His phone screen filled up with… no answers. None. It was all about telling girls about your feelings or buying the right bouquet of flowers for a social event. WikiHow seriously did not have an article for this! Wally silently wondered if any of these other wikiHow articles could help – then shook his head. As if buying the right bouquet of flowers would do him any good at this point.
Sighing, the speedster shut off his phone and slumped down against the marble and mahogany sink cabinet.
“What am I supposed to do?” he quietly groaned.
“Do about what?” Wally just about jumped out of his skin as Dick dropped down through the vent to land, perched, on the toilet seat. It would have been a lot cooler if he wasn’t wearing his pyjamas… or squatting on a toilet seat.
“Dude!” groaned Wally. “Not cool. Were you spying on me?!”
“You spent nearly twenty minutes in here,” Dick retorted. Wally’s eyes widened, and he checked his phone. Oh… so he had.
“Oops.”
“Want to tell me what’s wrong?” asked Dick, sliding off the toilet seat to come sit beside his best friend. Wally noticed far more exposed skin than he meant to in those few moments, and wondered quietly if it was normally to wear such a droopy shirt with such short shorts.
“No… no it isn’t,” came the blunt reply. Wally’s eyes widened.
“I… said that aloud, didn’t I?”
“Yeah, yeah you did,” chuckled Dick. He slotted himself into Wally’s side, and gazed up at the redhead, showing off his beautiful blue eyes. “Want to tell me something?”
“Well… I… uh…” Dick chuckled softly.
“Cause, I want to tell you something. You are incredible Wally… and talented, and funny and… okay, you’re pretty damn good looking too. I like you, Wally. A lot.”
“I… I like you too,” admitted Wally. “And I didn’t even really think about it and then I panicked and wikiHow is no help!”
“WikiHow?” asked Dick slowly, a smirk creeping up onto his face. “You seriously googled your feelings?”
“I didn’t know what else to do!” spluttered Wally, blushing almost red enough to hide his freckles. Dick just laughed softly, dragging himself up to his feet and pulling Wally up beside him. Then, he spun around and pinned Wally to the sink cabinet, grinning up at his best friend.
“If I like you, and you like me – then what do you think we should do next?” Wally’s brain malfunctioned, and all he could do in reply was tug Dick a little closer and claim a kiss. His first kiss; absolutely perfect. And with that, he knew. WikiHow may not have a clue what to do, but he did.
He knew that Dick Grayson was the man he wanted to be his boyfriend.