BACK IN A FLASH

“Wait what?” Bart looks up from his position on the ground of the training room. He shakes his head as he stands up despite the bruise on his skin. “I’ll be fine, Rob! I’ll heal soon enough.” He promises with a proud smile as he poses too. There’s a laugh that leaves his lips though as he thinks about what his friend said. “That’s a new one, never heard you say that before. You okay?”

Bart frowns for a moment, but then he brushes it off after a second. “Well it was the quicker option!” He protests as he takes a seat down on the edge of the roof to look at the scene below them. The police weren’t there yet and he thought they were just so slow, everyone was just SLOW to him it seems.

“We should go on a road trip sometime. You, me, and Pep.” Bart says while imagining it, not sure where they’ll go, but it’ll be fun nonetheless. They could always go to Keystone, that would be a long drive, but it’d be a good bonding experience. After the kiss he smiles with a bright grin though. “I’ll always feel that way, no need to worry.”

“I bet I'll beat you there!” Bart says with an excited grin before he’s racing away to head around the back of the building. He’s running along the outside of it along the bricks to get to the top instead of using the stairs. Alright maybe it was cheating, but he was too excited to take the longer way.

“Pep has to be the cutest name I’ve ever heard.” Bart says with a smile as he thinks about it. “Something funny? I’m serious here!” His expression is anything but serious though. He leans into her touch, liking the feel of her fingers against his skin. “It has, and it’s been the best year of my life with you.” He admits as he leans in to kiss her softly.

Bart would hate to beat people up for no reason, but it was enough amusement to have the threat there. He smiles at his cousin, and when hearing the sirens going off he looks at Wally. “Where do we go now?” He asks as he prepares to run off on Wally’s mark.

“I think so, isn’t that the weirdest name? I think Pepperoni is better than that by default.” He smiles though as her hand reaches up to his hair. “Yeah, I should probably trim it soon, huh? I’m so hip, I’m what they call cool.” He says trying to do a cheesy pose with his arms as he speaks, but it wasn’t really working out for him.

Bart jumps up to high-five his cousin. He doesn’t mind having to do it, having gotten pretty used to how short he was, especially compared to Wally. He looks over at the bad guys as he peers from behind the other’s tall frame. “Yeah! Don’t even think about running! It would be stupid!” He shouts and places his hands on his hips.

“Perhaps, or maybe they made you forget. Which sounds spooky.”  Bart says with a grin before he squeezes his hand with the quarters in hand. “I’ll be back! One phone call to the police coming right up.” He says as he’s running off to find the nearest payphone. It takes longer than he expects, but he makes the call, running back over to his cousin. “I did it!”

“It’s the best name we could have chosen. Everything else is too normal. You know I saw a guy that named his dog Brody the other day.” Bart says with a chuckle before kissing her back. “Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. You can pick the movie, and I’ll get all your favorite snacks.” Bart promises as he looks at her face, wanting Rose to feel relaxed too. Work was important, but so was having time to yourself.

“If anyone would know that’s you!” Bart says when looking at his cousin. “I don’t know, maybe? They could have one at one of those corner stores.” He reaches inside of his skintight suit, since he did have one pocket. He had a couple quarters, but that’s it. “It’s all I got.” He says handing it over to Wally with a grin. “This is so old school, cool!”

Bart places a hand on her leg as she puts her feet up into his lap. He smiles as he listens, wondering when they got to such a point, but when he’s looking over at Rose while she talks he can't help to feel so much love. “You want to just lay around for the night? We can do that, I can run out and get all your favorite snacks. Maybe pick up a movie? It’ll just be me, you, and pepperoni.” 

“We deal with so much stress that I'm not surprised if I'm meant to have a bunch of wrinkles. It’s awful, but hey, makes us wiser, right?” Bart teases as he squeezes her hand again. “You know I’m down for any date with you right? Sure we could go out to dinner like normal people, but what’s the fun in that? Unless you totally want to do that of course.” He asks looking at her. “You look great.”