Present: The Silent Conversations...?

Wally was very confused. One minute, Dick was being a teenager again. Laughing and playing with the wolf, Stan, then he started coughing blood. Yeah, Wally was concerned about his best friend, but at the same time, Wally hasn't seen Dick this happy for a long time.

Whoever Winter Angel is, she is really important to Dick. You can tell by how they interact, even with the blood, she was calm and didn't freak out. Though, Wally was concerned over the fact that they made it seem like Dick coughs up blood often.

Wally doesn't know what to think anymore.

After Winter Angel introduced herself, Dick had frowned, pulled her away from the room with Stan in tow. Lucy had said they would be back, and true to her word they were back ten minutes later dressed in clean civilian clothes.

Batman and the other bats wanted to say something, but Winter Angel cut them off, saying that she had to make sure Nightwing was okay.

So, everyone stood around talking to each other to pass the time.

"West, shut up." Winter Angel's voice echoed through the room, stopping all conversation.

All eyes on the Dick and Winter Angel. She was doing something's with Dick's neck as it looked like they were having a silent conversation.

At first, when they came back into the room, many gasps ranged out as Dick's neck was exposed with an ugly, red scar looking like it could open at all moment.

Coming back to the present, Wally responding with confusion on his face. "But I wasn't talking..."

Winter Angel frowned and turned. "You weren't...I could have sworn you were being loud..." She trailed off. She gasped and glared at Dick. "Shut up! I am not!" She exclaimed. "Oh, don't look at me like that...Oh please, you're worse than I am...That doesn't mean anything...Can you shut up, you are being very annoying?...Thank you! Someone actual listens to me!"

She smiles, before frowning and glaring. Dick raised his hands in surrender, then Winter Angel started laughing a little later.

Wally has never seen his best friend this close to a girl before. Sure, he had dated many girls, but never this comfortable, not even Barbara. And they had known each other for years as kids.

"You are talking telepathically." Martian Manhunter commented.

Every other hero in the room got into a fighting stance, ready to attack just in case Winter Angel does anything. Wally thought that was a little overboard seeing as she's been here and hasn't done anything threatening.

"Thank you, Wallace!" She exclaimed, not looking away from Dick's neck as she worked doing something...

"I wasn't talking." Wally frowned, wondering why she was reading his mind.

She stopped and frowned. She looked over at Wally, staring at him intently. "Are you sure?" She asked like she needed some reassurance that she wasn't going crazy.

"Yes."

Lagoon Boy stepped forward, looking a little angry. "You're the one who is reading his mind, shouldn't you know what you're doing?!"

Wally watched as Dick looked ready to do something, if his clench fists and tense body were something to go by. It wasn't until Winter Angel noticed then put her hand on one of his fists that made him relax. They seemed to share a moment, before Winter Angel calmly spoke up.

"I apologize for making it seem like I was reading your mind. I...I sometimes hear thoughts and I think they were spoken out loud, but weren't." She took a breath, and turned to look at Wally. "You were projecting your thoughts to me subconsciously, and it's because Lucy and I have abilities that are connected to something like the speed force. Due to how close you were to Nightwing for years, and with how I'm telepathically connected to Nightwing, your thoughts concerning him or me with such powerful meaning, well, come to me. So, yeah, I didn't read your mind, your thoughts drifted over to me..." Winter Angel finished explaining, looking a little uncertain at the end.

"But why just me?" Wally wondered seeing there are a few flaws in that theory.

She stared at him like he didn't get a simple math equation of 2+2. "Wally, you were in the speed force for about two years. My abilities are connected to something similar to the speed force. I actually knew where you were in the beginning. While everyone thought you were dead, I knew you weren't, and that was one of the reasons that-" She cut off by her own muffled yelp, due to the fact that Dick covered her mouth and they seemed to be talking mentally.

Wally was really confused.

While Wally was confused, Lucy was suspicious.

She knew that Wing and Winter could take of themselves and each other just fine, but she had a feeling that when she came back she wasn't told the whole story of what happened during the time of her being dead, but really the last five years. What had they gotten themselves into.

"What did you two do?" Lucy asked, crossing her arms and ready to scold them like the secretly child-like adults they are.

The two froze. Lucy raised an eyebrow and demanded after a few moments of silence. "Well?"

Winter swatted away Wing's hand before looking at her in a nonchalant manner. "What do you mean by that?" She asked, and if Lucy had been anyone in the room, except a certain few, she would have believed her, but she knew Winter when she was a kid. She knew that they had in fact done something.

What the something was, Lucy didn't know, but had a feeling it was something bad . It was always something bad when it came to those two.

"Winter..." Lucy scold, sounding just like their mother had when she was alive. Judging by Fred's suddenly tense form and Winter's slightly pale face, Lucy figured they thought the same thing.

"What's wrong?" Superman asked, looking around concerned.

Lucy shifted uncomfortably, waiting for the moment when one of her siblings to snap...

Thanks to Wing's fast thinking, he quickly grabbed Winter's hand and seemed to have started a conversation that no one was able to hear. Unfortunately, Fred stormed away to the zeta tubes.

"Fred!" Lucy called out desperately.

Winter looked over. "Fred! Fred! FREDDY!" Fred stopped, waiting for what she would say next. All three siblings knew what was going to be said, but Winter said the words anyway. "Please. I know I messed up and you wanted me to be punished for what I did, but that's not how our parents were. They were kind and gentle people, protective and violet to those who threatened or tried to hurt us." Winter took a deep breath and closed her eyes. Lucy could relate, the burning sensation of tears as someone talked about their parents.

...and it was all her fault for what happened...

"I'm so sorry. I shouldn't have done it. And I will forever live with the regret that came with everything that happened...just...stay and help...?" Winter asked, probably wanting to keep him from killing again, Lucy thought.

Fred just continued walking to the tubes, calling out over his shoulder. "Call me when you're ready to execute the plan."

Winter and Lucy shared a smile as Fred's guest designation announced his departure.

~MsPenguingirl1234.

Published: June 24, 2017.