Bart Allen.

❝ When life gives you lemons, keep 'em. Because, hey! Free food! ❞ [Impulse, DCRP.]

[Bart Allen. @OfHyperspeed]

❝ ɪ'ᴍ ʙᴀᴛᴍᴀɴ. ❞

ʀᴇʙᴏᴏᴛᴇᴅ ɪᴍᴘᴜʟsᴇ (ʙᴀʀᴛ ᴀʟʟᴇɴ).
#ᴅᴄʀᴘ.
ʙᴀɴᴛᴇʀ/ᴏɴᴇ-ʟɪɴᴇʀs/ᴘʀᴏsᴇ.
ᴏᴘᴇɴ ᴛᴏ sʟs ᴀɴᴅ ᴘʟᴏᴛs.

♡ / ʀᴛ.

[Bart Allen. @OfHyperspeed]

@CleverIntegrity + make it better—? ❞

[Bart Allen. @OfHyperspeed]

Not for the first time, he doesn't think before moves; tiptoeing up to @CleverIntegrity and squeezing him like a killer.

What could possibly go wrong with hugging a vigilante from behind?

[Bart Allen. @OfHyperspeed]

@CleverIntegrity + something he's missing; a secret to coping with this kind of loss that the other vigilante simply hasn't shared.

❝ Flash told me. He's not so good. And I'm... I'm n-not so... ❞ He steels himself as he looks up. ❝ What did you do when Kon died? And Steph? How did you +

[Bart Allen. @OfHyperspeed]

❝ I want a bubble bath. One with a duckie. ❞

[Bart Allen. @OfHyperspeed]

@CleverIntegrity + can bet that the soles are worn through.

❝ ...You knew, didn't you. About Wally. ❞

[Bart Allen. @OfHyperspeed]

@CleverIntegrity Tim mostly just succeeds in cuffing the side of Bart's head, but the sentiment still gets a watered-down smile from the smaller vigilante... if just for a moment. Coming unglued, he breathes a sigh down at his shoes. They smell a bit like burning rubber and, without looking, he +

[Bart Allen. @OfHyperspeed]

@CleverIntegrity Somehow, he doesn't die. Cassie must've been right. Tim /is/ a hugger.

...Not to say that he isn't still tempted to run off. He doesn't feel like himself, and the last thing he wants is to bring his friends down too.

❝ Idon'tthinkIshould. ❞

[𝓒𝓪𝓼𝓼𝓲𝓮 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓼𝓶𝓪𝓻𝓴. @DEIFICLINEAGE]

“Well don’t let me stop you. Hug him for me too, okay?”

[Bart Allen. @OfHyperspeed]

❝ Pft...! What a dummy! There's nothin' lame about being a hugger. He should've said something sooner, maybe then he wouldn't have so many frown lines.

I've got /soooo/ much lost time to make up for! ❞

[𝓒𝓪𝓼𝓼𝓲𝓮 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓼𝓶𝓪𝓻𝓴. @DEIFICLINEAGE]

“Because he told me... He’s trying to to hide the fact he’s a big softie. Y’know he has a reputation to uphold.

It’s why he gives me hugs when no one is looking! I’m pretty sure he’d do the same for you!”

[Bart Allen. @OfHyperspeed]

His eyes widen; mystified.

❝ He— he /does/...? How do you know? ❞

[𝓒𝓪𝓼𝓼𝓲𝓮 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓼𝓶𝓪𝓻𝓴. @DEIFICLINEAGE]

“Tim absolutely /adores/ them.”

[Bart Allen. @OfHyperspeed]

❝ I dunno if my friends like hugs as much as I like hugs. I don't wanna make them mad. Last time I jumped on Kon, he Judo flipped me... ❞

[Bart Allen. @OfHyperspeed]

@BackInABlur + doesn't say. Tomorrow, once he has cried himself out, he knows not meddling is going to be close to impossible.

❝ But only if you stick with your friends too. Maybe don't ask Batman... but Wonder Woman looks like she gives good hugs. ❞

[Bart Allen. @OfHyperspeed]

He's still going at least 40 mph when he throws himself at @BackInABlur; huffing and looking, well, like he just exercised. For a speedster, it's saying something. He overdid it— but right now, as he whoops in celebration and wraps sweaty arms around the older vigilante in a +

[Bart Allen. @OfHyperspeed]

@BackInABlur determined to bring Wally's killer to justice. Not to mention that the mission seems to be keeping the man sane. But neither of them can run forever. Bart knows he isn't the only one who's going to need his friends to get through this.

❝ ...I will. ❞

"For now", he +

[Bart Allen. @OfHyperspeed]

❝ Man, I could sleep for a week... ❞

[Bart Allen. @OfHyperspeed]

@BackInABlur + that goes for you too. You were trying to make him better, Grandpa. You were trying to save him. ❞

[Bart Allen. @OfHyperspeed]

@BackInABlur + just say...?

❝ ...You think /you/ did this—? ❞ He whispers as if the words are forbidden, because they may as well be. They're wrong. ❝ No, don't say that. Wally is... was a grown-up. It was his decision to go. He just didn't know it would go so bad— how could he— and +