( voicemail )

[chemistryinmotion]

Yo, this is Kid Flash, leave a message after the beep.

... Wait, did that work —?

Oh. Yeah. Okay. Cool.

[ BEEP ]

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( voicemail | the day before the raid )

[morzz]

[ considering she's been kind of avoiding him since the whole team pow wow, this call might be out of the blue. she certainly doesn't sonud too happy about it. ]

Hey... Wally? It's M'gann. Um.

I was wondering if we could... talk. Maybe. If you're not busy or anything!

( voice )

[chemistryinmotion]

[ wally's a little hesitant to return her message at first, anxious about what she could want to talk about the day before the big raid. he paces back and forth around the room before deciding to take a run around haven, eventually settling in the park in the haven to return her call. ]

Hey, babe, you rang? I'm free to talk if you still want to.

[ his voice sounds a little rough, almost like there's something stuck in his throat. that would be the anxiety he's currently feeling about this conversation, because of course he's assuming the worst. also nope, he still hasn't gotten out of the habit of calling her babe. sorry supey. ]

audio. backdated to when zee disappeared

[asterbatics]

Hey man - where are you?

(voice)

[foreveraclone]

[okay so he might have been a little worried after the earthquake happened. so it's only natural that he'd touch base with everyone on his team!!!]

Hope you've been holding up alright.

(voice)

[chemistryinmotion]

Yeah, I'm okay. Have you heard from Rob yet?

[voice]

[superissues]

Hey. Um, I got some questions about Luthor in your world. I mean, if that's cool. I know we don't know each other that well yet, but it's kind of -- important.

((ooc: Kon's not aware that at Wally's canon point none of the Luthor-Conner connection has come out yet, but I am! Let me know if you'd like to avoid future (for Wally at least) spoilers or anything like that!))

[voice]

[chemistryinmotion]

Uh. You mean Lex Luthor? The businessman? Founder of LexCorp?

What about him?

voice; 1/4

[pits]

[ Unfortunately, only the last one would be available for Wally to hear whenever he gets back from the pun off.

The rest are here to show his sadness in full. ]

Yo, KF. You around?

2/4

[pits]

[ LATER: ]

If you hit me up, I'll let you actually hit me.

C'mooooooooon!

3/4

[pits]

[ EVEN LATER: ]

Okay, real talk. You stop being MIA, I drop the deets on how crash your future girlfriend is.

[ Wait. ]

4/4 END this one is actually audible

[pits]

[ OKAY THAT LAST ONE HE'S GLAD NOBODY REPLIED TO. ]

—Okay, this is a spoiler-free zone. Swear.

[ And after sucking in his breath. ]

KF!! Hel-looooo!

[ This is sometime after Kite's final message... ]

voice;

[afflictive]

[Fujimaru's figured out by now that he was almost definitely hallucinating back then, given that the old hag's suddenly elected to stop appearing. And in that case, now that he's had the chance to calm down and think things over, then everything Kite said back then—about handing him back to her—is likely a lie.

(He's still not sure how he managed to break his ribs, given that that goes beyond the product of his own mind, but.)

Regardless, there's the nagging worry that won't leave him—because 'likely' still isn't the same as certainly.]

... Wally. It's Fujimaru. [...] Are you... functioning?

[Read: are you sane, in one piece, etc., etc.?

... It's just as well that Fujimaru has no idea that he encountered Wally during that time, or else this might be a lot more awkward on his part.]

voice;

[chemistryinmotion]

[ unfortunately for wally, he remembers everything. the feeling of something evil inside him, tainting him, torturing his friends. it's unforgivable. kite is unforgivable. and kite is the only thing stopping wally from blaming himself — though he still feels partially responsible for not being able to do anything when the demon turned on his friends.

he remembers the power coursing through his veins, the ability to break ribs and snap necks at the flick of his wrist or snap of his fingers. he definitely won't be snapping for a good long while, he thinks. he's still too worked up over what he did to fujimaru — the crack of bones breaking at his hand still rings in his ears; he can hardly sleep at night without dreaming about what could have happened if he hadn't decided fujimaru wasn't worth his time. he'd never be able to wash the blood off his hands.

he's hesitant to pick up fujimaru's call. their last encounter plays through his head on repeat, like an endlessly looping youtube video. he has to force himself to think about anything else or he thinks his chest might explode from anxiety. he swallows thickly, trying to reign in his nerves, and forces himself to laugh. laughter is the best medicine, right? ]

... Y-Yeah. Though, uh, I guess that depends on your definition of 'functioning'...

[ he's not entirely sure he is functioning, but he's... something. ]

video;

[loliternity]

[ WALLY ARE YOU THEEEERE-- WALLY HEY

HEY

WALLY

Sorry, she's just gonna tap the screen until you answer. She hasn't seen you in awhile!! ]

video;

[chemistryinmotion]

[ wally puts on his best grin for shirayuki. he doesn't want to worry her! he's fine, really... he's just... a little traumatized from nearly killing fujimaru. and conner selling his soul to him. he's... trying not to think about it.

he waves at her and tries not to laugh. kids, man, they're cute. ]

Hey, Shirayuki. What's up?

[ see... he's totally fine. ]

(voice)

[foreveraclone]

Are you feeling better now, or are you still being..... [a dick?] Do I need to find someone to help, is what I meant to originally ask.

(voice)

[chemistryinmotion]

[ for a split second, wally almost slips back into how the demon talked as him, just to fuck with him and joke around that he's totally okay because if he can joke about it, that means he's okay right?

but he knows better. it's way too soon for both of them, and he doesn't need anymore reminders of what happened. he doesn't want to remember. he wishes that when the demon left it had taken his memories along with it, but no. everything he did he remembers clear as if were happening all over again right now.

his chest tightens and he swallows thickly. after everything that happened, he's the most nervous around conner. he may not have tried to kill him, but... he feels like what he actually did was much worse than that. ]

Uh. No, I'm good. I'm better, I mean. I'm... me. Actually me.

Voice

[fortunefavored]

[ring a ding ding, dude]

Hey, Wally, you there? It's Newt.

Voice

[chemistryinmotion]

[ wow what's with everyone calling him these days. not that he's complaining. it's just. weird. ]

Yo, dude, what's up?

audio;

[weirdatlast]

[ As a small glimmer of hope on an otherwise bleak Haven landscape, Cecil has gotten his hands on a piece of technology he is probably not supposed to have. Which means it's important that he does not keep it. That he gets rid of it as soon as possible. That some scientist has it. And after meeting Yomiel down there, after being reminded of that day, and the days after... there is one particular scientist Cecil has on his mind for this.

He calls Wally's phone, and he gets straight to the point because, well. This is important. And not something he really wants to discuss over the network. ]

Hello, Wally? How are you? Where are you? Are you somewhere we could meet?

audio;

[chemistryinmotion]

[ of all the people calling to check up on him or otherwise ask him favors, cecil is probably one of the last people wally expects to give him a call. it takes him so much by surprise, he still sounds fairly taken aback that cecil is calling him at all when he picks up the phone and answers. ]

Cecil? Uh, yeah, I mean, I'm — [ slow down cecil, not too many questions at once! ] I'm fine. Well, better. I guess. Why, what's up? I'm on my way back to the apartment, if you want to meet there. Or somewhere else, it doesn't really matter.

audio;

[quipper]

[ her words are simple, even, but they lilt up at the end with hope, like everything stephanie says. ] Hey, Wally, are you you again?

[ since everyone else's maladies seem to be over, she hopes wally's rumored...demonization has passed, too. ]

audio;

[chemistryinmotion]

[ normally he'd appreciate all this attention, people wanting to check in with him and all that, but it's getting exhausting telling everyone he's okay. he's not okay, but it's easier saying he is than having to talk about why he's not. he even manages to laugh fairly convincingly this time, though it still sounds a bit forced. ]

Pretty sure. Haven't tried to make out with Conner again, if that's what you're wondering.

[ at least with steph, it's easier to joke about it, which makes it easier to stay in the comfortable bed of denial he's made his own. ]

voice;

[hasitsthorns]

[ For the record, this call is attempted approximately six times before she actually manages to send it. ]

So. The first thing I'm going to say is I'm sorry. [ Throwing stuff at him? Not cool. It made sense at the moment but she'd also been absolutely livid so now that she's not... There's a certain amount of embarrassment in her voice. Guilt. Worry. A lot, really, and she kind of rambles on the rest of the message as if she'll lose her courage to send it ( again ) sometime soon. ]

I know you probably don't want to talk me, like, ever again but I just wanted you to know that. Even if I was mad, how I acted was completely ridiculous and. It wasn't even your fault. [ No more than hers, anyway. ] I should have asked, or. I don't know. I guess it didn't matter, really, because I was just happy being with you too.

[ It's what she'd told Clark and, for once, it was something she'd meant wholeheartedly. Sure, she'd been pissed, but in the end... Did it even matter? Every frustration from before seems so insignificant now. Funny how horrible agonizing pain will put things into perspective. ]

If you do happen to want to speak to me again, there's... something I need to tell you. It's not about us, really. It's about me. Something I should have told you before you left but didn't because I was scared to. [ Terrified, actually, because he'd realize what a horrible monster she was and regret ever seeing anything in her.

But he needs to know. Now more than ever. Especially since it'll make other things easier to explain. ]

So, uhm. I hope I hear from you.

voice » action

[chemistryinmotion]

[ he doesn't really want to talk to her. it's been a little over two weeks, but she made herself pretty clear back then about how she felt. he tried to apologize, and she literally threw it back in his face — or, at least, made an attempt to. if rob hadn't been there to intervene, it likely would have hit him, since he actually felt like he deserved it then and was too emotionally exhausted to just step to the side to avoid whatever she'd chucked at him. ]

[ he could easily throw her own apology back at her — he'd at least be acting his age if he did, wouldn't he? it's probably what she expects, too, which is the only reason he doesn't just ignore her call. she wants to talk, so they'll talk, but he can't promise he won't still be guarded or upset. ]

Hey. We should probably talk in person. [ robin won't like it, but wally's done stupider stuff in his life than having a second chat with his (he guesses) ex-girlfriend. ] I'll meet you back at Block 1. [ since he hasn't left block 6 since he got here. it's just ... safer, constantly being around rob. maybe it's slightly unhealthy the attachment they've formed, but it's not like wally can't go out and do things on his own. it's just ... sometimes it's easier with rob as his shadow, acting sort of like a safety net in case something bad happens. ]

[ he ends the call and heads toward block 1, making some excuse as to where he's going. he knows better than to think rob won't get suspicious, but he can deal with the repercussions of lying to him later. he doesn't bother knocking, as technically block 1 is where he's supposed to live, but for some reason he's been able to stay with rob without any side effects and he's not about to look a gift horse in the mouth. he does knock on the door to the individual bedroom, though, just in case she happens to be indecent for whatever reason. he still has manners even if they're not together anymore. ]

Rose? It's me.