Not to put too fine a point on it, say I'm the only bee in your bonnet [CLOSED]

[centralsgreatest]

WHO: The Flash and Kat
WHERE: A small Indian restaurant downtown
WHEN: Valentine’s Day, 12:30pm
WARNINGS: None
SUMMARY: Wally/Jailbait you know you ship it
FORMAT: Prose

Wally was not nearly as nervous for his dates as he might have been had the girls been older and more attractive. Not to say that they weren’t attractive, they were both very beautiful young women, they just didn’t quite live up to people like Wonder Woman or Fire. What could he say? He had a type, and it was way out of his league, so to speak.

Being less nervous, as it turned out, made dates a whole lot more fun. There was no pressure to perform well because he had no intention of taking his relationship with either of them further than a meal. Kat, at least, didn’t seem to have any ulterior motives for going out with him. They were going to have a good time, enjoy lunch together, probably get stared at, and that would be the end of it. No boyfriends involved.

The Flash waits outside a small Indian restaurant (friendly to imPorts, of course – he had helped them out once when a couple of kids decided to try to rob the joint) and tries to look relaxed. He got there a touch early and he has never been particularly patient with waiting.

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[redshifting]

Up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a... blonde girl in her black onesie falling out from the sky. Plummeting, really, falling head over heels, and then--

--right before she hits the ground she stops short, a little bubble briefly flashing around her before fading. She floats there, almost upside-down, and gives the man a smile and a warm wave. "Hi! I'm Kat."

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Wally doesn't suspect a thing until he glances up at the sky in his own frustration. He stares up at the girl falling from the sky, moments from panic before she stops herself. It takes him a moment to remember how to breathe.

"Hey Kat. I'm the Flash."

[redshifting]

It doesn't take long for her to right herself up, and the bubble around her flares out as her boots touch the ground. She smiles again. "It's good to meet you, the Flash!"

A pause. "Uh, is that your only name?"

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"For the time being, yeah." He didn't like lying to her, but his secret identity was far more important than her comfort. If she wanted to bail, she could.

"They've got a table ready for us, if you wanna..." He gestures vaguely towards the restaurant.

[redshifting]

The only name she knows is Kat, so it doesn't bother her at all. That smile turns brighter. "Oh yeah, I'm super hungry."

"You said this was... India food, right? I'm excited!"

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"Best Indian food this part of town," he assures her with a grin. He's relieved when she doesn't push the identity issue. He won't take his mask off either. They'll just have to deal with funny looks.

He walks with her until their table is in sight, then zooms over to pull her seat out for her.

[redshifting]

And at that, her eyes go wide. "W-whoa!"

"How did you--?!" And then it hits her. "Oh, right! Super powers."

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"Fastest man alive," he informs her with a cocky grin. Somehow they had missed that part of the conversation on the network. Now was as good a time as any to make up for that.

"That's why they call me the Flash."

[redshifting]

"Seriously?" She's openly gaping, quite impressed. "The fastest ever? In the whole world? Wow, that's really neat!"

"I can shift gravity, which is why, um, they call me the Gravity Queen...?"

[centralsgreatest]

"Faster than the speed of sound. Pretty close to the speed of light, theoretically speaking." He had never tried it. Never had to, really.

[redshifting]

For a moment, she looked unsure. "That's... really fast, isn't it? How fast is it, exactly?"

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"The speed of light?" He pauses only briefly to remember the number. He enjoys sharing knowledge. He's got plenty of it. "In a vacuum it's about 300 million meters per second. It's not actually possible to go any faster."

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"Wow..." Kat looks quite visibly impressed. "That's way faster than I can move even at the strongest gravity there is!"

"Did you just get that power here?"

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"Nah, I've had it for years now." Ever since the accident in the lab. He can barely even think how long it's been now. It feels like a lifetime.

"What about you?"

[redshifting]

"Well," she looks thoughtful for a moment. "I woke up in Hekesville and met Dusty, and then I had these powers. That's pretty much the short of it."

That look turns sheepish. "It's not a very interesting story."

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"Yeah?" Wally eased into his seat and opened up his menu. He had to keep the conversation going since it was a date, so he found a subject and went with it.

"Where's Hekesville?

[redshifting]

"Hmm," she looked thoughtful for a moment. "Well, it floats around the World Pillar. I guess it seemed about halfway up, but I don't actually know how tall it is so there's no way to really tell."

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"Oh. Huh." He had no idea what any of that mean, and he was quickly deciding that it wasn't worth the trouble to try to figure it out.

"So you have no clue at all how you got your powers?"

[redshifting]

She shakes her head. "I don't have a clue about much of anything, really. I don't remember a thing before a few months ago when I woke up in Hekesville."

"But I met Dusty, and poof! Gravity shifting."

[centralsgreatest]

Right, that was why she didn't know how old she was. He's dating an amnesiac. For some reason that feels skeevier than dating someone ten years younger than him. Good thing he's such a good guy.

"I'm sorry, that must be... weird."

[redshifting]

"It doesn't really bother me, though!" She assures him. "I mean, it kind of... did, for a while, at first. But even if I don't know who I used to be, I know who I am now, and I have plenty of friends. So I try not to let it get to me."

A pause. "Though actually I kind of think I might maybe be a queen of someplace?"

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"A queen, huh?" Wally grinned. Joking around was something he was much more at ease with. "Well, your majesty, I'm honored that you would go out with me."

[redshifting]

That earns a sheepish, slightly nervous laugh from her. "Oh, that's... haha, I'm not even sure I'm really... it's just kind of a weird flashing sort-of-memory I have, but it might have been a dream, you know?"

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"Heeey, don't be modest." It didn't really matter whether she was royalty or not. She was a nice girl, and there was no reason for her not to think she was a queen.

"You say you're a queen, you're a queen. Simple as that."

[redshifting]

"I guess it's mainly that I'm not sure," she says with a frown. "I just remember that there was a big palace thing. Or maybe it was a temple? And there was someone I saw standing from behind a really fancy outfit, and she had hair like mine."

A shrug. "But I'm not sure what it meant! Maybe I have a long-lost sister, too?"