Central City, Missouri: Home Sweet Home

[bluelonewolf]

Central City, Missouri. Home of the Flash, one of the biggest cities in the Midwest, population of around 650,000 people. Kind of one of the smaller cities in superhero scale, but hey, it's home. Well, at least to Linda Park-West and Wally West.


Superman's totally going to kill me for this, but I promised Linda I'd be back for her. He'll understand if he ever gets married.

Flash arrived at his apartment rather quickly and changed into civilian clothes- he could hear his wife in the shower. She must have just gotten back.

Since it's in-RP canon that he married her, hope you don't mind me just assuming her character without a profile <_<

Once his wife got out, he greeted her with a bouquet of wildflowers he'd snagged along the way. Luckily whatever he touched could go the same speed with him, otherwise they'd just be a bunch of stems.


"Told you I'd be back in time to go shopping for furniture with you," said Wally, smiling to his wife.


"I still bet you had to ditch on something," she said with a slight smirk as she wrapped her arms around him, "Something up?"


"Nothing they couldn't handle without me. Hope you like the flowers."


"They're lovely," she said, taking them and putting them in a vase.


"Let's get out of here. Sorry I ate dinner on the way around the States, but if you want, we can get a shake or something on the way to the furniture store."


Linda laughed. Typical of her husband to have already eaten and offer to eat with her anyhow. "You'd better be glad for all the running you do or you'd be bigger than a cow."


"Hey, I've met some very nice cows," said Wally, laughing.

[AnT]

And his cell phone would ring.

(PS: Did icons for Wally, Flash, and Dinah)

[bluelonewolf]

Christ on a crutch, he thought to himself as he saw the phone ringing, Try and get some time alone with my wife and boom, out of the blue...
"Hello?" he asked, his voice masking his complete disdain for having to answer this.

Linda gave him a look, but she sighed knowingly. He'd really tried this time, which, considering who he was and how short his attention span could be, meant something. He'd remembered, he'd been there before she left. Heck, she got flowers this time.

Noted.

[AnT]

"Hey, Wally. Barbara here. You know your first cousin removed? Well he's making a bee-line to-"

A sharp whoosh was heard when the young costumed speedster appeared. "Cousin Wally! Cousin Linda!! Wow, so crash!"

".......he's there, isn't he?"

(Note: I decided to return Bart back to grandson of Barry Allen.)

[bluelonewolf]

Oh...bother.
"He is, thanks," said Wally, shaking his head, "Thanks for trying to give me the heads up."
He hung up the line.

For her part, Linda was definitely confused.

"Cousin? Wally, since when do you have a cousin his age?"


"It's...a bit complicated," sighed Wally, "Call it...business related and a bit...chronologically skewed."

[AnT]

Looking around with such energy, "So where's cousin Jai and Iris?"

[bluelonewolf]

"...Cousin Jai? And Iris?"


"...They don't exist?" blinked Wally, confused, unless, "Wait, you're...no, we haven't..."

Linda was smart enough to get it.

"Oh, he's from the future," she laughed a bit, "There aren't any kids here."

[AnT]

@impluse@ And he flinched. "Oops. Spoilers..."

[bluelonewolf]

Linda looked at Wally and blushed.

"We haven't even talked much about having kids yet..."


"And neither of those names would even be my fourth choice for naming my kids..."

Linda laughed a bit.

"So if we eventually name our kids differently then we break the future?"


"I don't know, I'm a forensic tech, not a temporal physics professor..." said Wally, blinking.

[AnT]

"Uhhh....best name them those names. Not doing so, will...uh, defiantly crash the mode." he nervously yelped.

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"We'll see about that," said Linda coyly.


"Maybe we'll just go have kids now and see what happens to you when we come back?" asked Wally with a smirk, wrapping an arm around his wife.
Of course he knew that wasn't how it worked, but come on. This was just plain funny to them. Weird, too.

[AnT]

"Oh yeah...uuhhh....why I'm here," Looking away, rubbing his chin, "Whatever happened to my grandfather, Barry Allen? History was a little clear on that..."

[bluelonewolf]

If this is not going to be good enough or timing-appropriate, message me and we'll talk something out.

Wally looked down and away, sitting down at the kitchen table.


"Just...well, there wasn't much in the way of detail," said Wally, "It's...there was an accident. Something even he couldn't run away from..."


"There was a cover-up," said Linda, sitting next to her husband, "Just..."


"It has to do with...Barry Allen was the one fatality of the Three Mile Island partial meltdown. He was the superhero that responded and helped with the cleanup. He dissipated a lot of the radioactive gas that was released into the atmosphere..."


"It probably says in the future that he passed away due to cancer. That was why he got cancer in the first place..."

[AnT]

"....." He just didn't know what to say to that. As much as he liked Wally West, Barry Allen was THE Flash, and it seemed so sad hearing how he died...

And suddenly, Linda's phone rang.

[bluelonewolf]

Linda was more than slightly surprised.

"Hello, this is Linda Park-West," she said, blinking as she flipped her phone open. She still had a flip-phone, it was smaller and she could carry it places easier when she was doing reporting work.


"Yeah, kid, it was tough on me, too. He helped me out a lot when I was just starting out. I was a pallbearer at his funeral," said Wally, sighing.