#speedsters

you nod in reply, trying to convince not only yourself, but also your boyfriend that you understand what he just tried to explain to you in about two minutes, give or take. 

thinking back on it, maybe it wasn’t the smartest idea to ask your boyfriend to explain the chemistry homework to you, because you currently feel like a total idiot after admitting that you keep getting subscripts and coefficients mixed up, even though it’s such a simple topic.

you know you’re not stupid, and your grades can prove that easily. but you certainly know now that you’re not chemistry smart by any means, at least not by your standards.

what can you say though? your boyfriend wally is a literal genius, like seriously, who else could recreate their uncle’s accident to perfection to obtain super speed? certainly not you, that’s for sure.

“hello? earth to y/n!!” wally exclaims, waving a hand in front of your face, pulling you out of your thoughts and back to reality. 

“right, sorry about that.” you mumble out, trying to fake a smile and not worry your boyfriend. wally tilts his head and squints, not convinced. you let out a sigh and look down at your bouncing leg, hands coming to rest in your lap.

wally places a hand on your thigh, stopping the movement of your leg, and gives it a loving squeeze, which makes you look up at him.

“what’s wrong babe? is all this chemical equation stuff messing with your head? do i need to go over it from the beginning?”  your boyfriend asks, concern lacing his voice. you shake your head, feeling ashamed now. 

“it’s not that wally, you explained the topic fine, it’s just that; you’re like a chemistry wizz and able to understand this stuff on the first try while i’m struggling to understand the basic concepts. and i know that i’m not dumb or anything, but it just kind of sucks that you’re like a total genius, and i’m not” you mutter out, looking anywhere but your boyfriend’s face. 

“hey babe, i need you to listen to me for a second, okay? we’re literally taking AP level chemistry, and more than half of our class dropped the course in the first week. not only do you have a freaking ninety-six percent average, but you aced our last test without even studying! 

so what if you struggle on something simple? the exact same thing happened back in biology last week when you had to explain to me how the hell a sixteen-box punnet square worked!”

you let out a scoff as a small smile forms on your face, wally’s humor cracking your mask of sadness just a bit.

“you really mean that?” you ask, tilting your head and raising your eyebrow in scepticism. 

wally shakes his head in disbelief at your question and with super speed, stands and pulls you up with him, holding you close with his chin on the crown of your head; ignoring your yelp of surprise at the sudden movement.

“of course i do, why would i be explaining how awesome and smart you are if i didn’t mean it?”  wally says, smirking. 

you let out a chuckle and wrap your arms around the ginger’s middle, pulling him closer to you. 

“Thanks for not letting me get in my head all the time wally, i don’t know what i would do without you,” you mumble out, a small smile splayed across your features.

“oh i’m not sure, explode from anxiety?” wally says, teasing evident in his voice. you slap his back in response and let out a scoff, forever amused at his antics.

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"Aren't you a ghost? Why don't you believe in magic?"

"I'm an ectoplasmic entity, actually. Ghost is just the nickname for my species because we're intangible, invisible, capable of flight, and form after death."

"You said one of your previous rogues could grant wishes, isn't that like textbook magic?"

"Obsessions are a powerful thing, and Desiree's (as well as any other ghost's) powers can fully be explained by science. There just hasn't been enough funding put into the research of ectobiology for us to have discovered everything about it. "Magic" is just science we don't understand yet."

"First the speedsters and now you? What is it about Central City that makes you all skeptics!"