MASK OR MENACE IC INBOX

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WALLY WEST
"You've reached the personal voice mail of the Wall-man. The honor is yours! Leave your deets, I'll holla back atcha."
[ BEEP. ]

KID FLASH
"This is the contact for Kid Flash. If it's an emergency, call Robin; he'll know where I am. Otherwise, leave your info and I'll get you back ASAP."
[ BEEP. ]


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( Please specify in tag subject line if the contact is for Wally West or Kid Flash! )

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Now what?

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dear lord

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im coming over dont do anything

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Don't do anything? That could be

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like fifteen minutes ok dont touch anything jeez

[There's actually a knock on her door seventeen minutes later, too. Wow.]

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[lyingheart]

What does he mean fifteen minutes?

[ You know it's basically impossible for her to still have managed to miss every incidence that would point out that Wally's a speedster turning this into sitcom variety laugh track moments when she hears a knock on the door and twists her head around to the bedroom door. What the...

Annie takes half a minute getting down the stairs, phone in hand, looking heartily suspicious when she opens the door a sliver. ]

... Wally?

[ HOW THE HELL okay that's it there is something going on here that she's been missing what is it where's the studio audience laugh track while she makes a sudden realization already?! ]

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Hey. [JUST COMIN' INSIDE HOPE THAT'S OK] Are you trying to do it on your phone? Lemme see. [give him that comm]

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[lyingheart]

I haven't gotten around to purchasing a laptop yet. Tony said it wasn't necessary for now.

[ She hands it over, still giving him an openly surprised look. ]

But... where were you?

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Heropa. I have super speed. [OKAY THEN just no preamble or anything, just laying that down there for annie to do with what she will. don't mind him, super speedy teenager scrolling through her phone.] Oh my god you have like forty tabs open, do you know how to close them? How is this thing still working? I don't even want to look at how much RAM your browser is taking up, this is terrifying.

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[lyingheart]

[ Yeah Wally sorry this is Annie just staring at you not responding to anything you've said.

The.

Fuck.

Super speed?

Wow that's incredibly unnerving she knows the distances involved that is a lot of miles and time only he did that in fifteen or so minutes? It's not the most frightening thing she's heard here, that people had before or ended up with. Certain gifts, mind controls, those are frightening for what they might take away from her without permission. This is less so, but it's still - surprising. Unsettling.

From the young woman who turns into a Titan, it's hilarious, but it's also honest. ]

Ah... I don't...

[ Even know what he said since she mostly tuned it out in favor of all this wide eyed staring. ]

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[Okay well to be fair, he took it easy and just ran to the Heropa porter, then ran to her house from their porter. So he wasted some time actually putting on pants and sneakers, and obeying speed limits.

Still, that's not much by way of an answer and when he looks up, she's staring at him.

Oh.

Of course.

Wally sighs before resting a hand on her shoulder.]

Look, Annie, I know you have the hots for me. It's okay, really, it's very understandable; but I'm just not ready to start an intimate physical relationship with you. Don't get me wrong, you're pretty cute, like in that adorable petite way even- [for the love of god silence him]

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[lyingheart]

[ Does silencing him involve moving automatically to hook a hand around the back of his neck, pull forward, and kick out his legs from under him in all one smooth, forceful action, expression going from surprised to surprised to fed-up all in swift succession?

Because if so, Annie will so happily, gladly silence Wally with a throw, staring down at him with a look of perfect judgment of his idiocy on her face after the fact. All in an adorable, petite, going to kick his ass way... where Annie plants a bare foot on his chest to keep him down for the moment if she can.

Annie's enunciation becomes clipped and clear, her blue eyes cold and calm as she looks down at him, loose hair framing her face in a soft, misleading manner. ]

You need to learn when to shut up... and how to talk to girls.

[ A+ job on making yourself be that much less frightening just like that, Wally. You barely even tried ]

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[Yeah super speed does not equate to having one's guard up, and Wally doesn't have his guard up even half the time he's in an actual fight. Annie flips him like a pancake and he wheezes when her foot stomps down right onto his sternum. Oof.]

Wait, so...you don't have a crush on me?

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[lyingheart]

[ She takes her foot off him, crossing her arms over her chest. ]

No.

[ And no duh. ]

I like you well enough, Wally. I don't have a crush on you.

[ She supposes it's not impossible in a technical sense, but possibilities don't really concern her - she deals from where she's at, and this is a silly preoccupation on his part. Mostly fed by ego. ]

So... super speed, huh?

[ F r e a k y

Not as freaky as turning into a giant skinless woman but

f r e a k y ]

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[Wally gingerly picks himself up, rubbing a fist against his back. Ow. Felt like getting thrown by Black Canary. Luckily, he didn't land on her comm and break it or anything, so he goes back to closing what are probably irrelevant tabs to make more processing room.] Ugh. Yeah. We all get powers when we show up here, right? [you little liar] How many tickets did you wanna buy?

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[lyingheart]

[ Annie just uses whatever tab's open... which leaves many behind she doesn't even know are there. Switching between browser and text function is pretty big stuff for her, and she still messes that up!

Though she sounds pretty chalant when she answers: ]

Two. How many would it be if we checked out the Florida one with Artemis and the rest of the guys?

[ On your team.

On your team from the world before this one.

Annie quirks up her eyebrows and waits. There's lots of people with pre-existing teams, but Artemis is pretty keen on the vigilante thing, and for all of how Wally talks, it's not hard to hear where he falls on the "what is a hero what measure is good" spectrum. ]

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Probably not that much, if they give us a group dis-

[wait a second]

Hold on, you know Artemis? And who the heck are 'the guys' you're talking about?! Is this a prank, am I getting pranked?

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I've known Artemis longer than I've known you.

[ She points out, casual as can be. ]

As for the guys, why would I know? I only learned you both knew each other about fifteen minutes ago. She recommended theme parks and the beach as well.

[ Peas in an American Pod or something, Annie still doesn't get it. ]

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[Wally has taken over the flabbergasted thing now Annie, if that's cool.]

You what? She what? [wait a sec] Hold on, she did?

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[lyingheart]

[ She's happy to hand it off - and raises her eyebrows a hair. Seriously... two peas in a pod right down to reactions, too. ]

Yes, yes, and yes. She thought the water park might be interesting too. A good distraction.

[ From, you know, recent events. ]

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Oh.

[Not sure what to think of that.]

...well, it would be. So...yeah, if you wanna do some kind of group outing, I definitely vote water park. Thanks for inviting me on this not-date, I guess.

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[lyingheart]

[ Annie shrugs her shoulders. ]

It was your idea in the first place. Why wouldn't we?

[ Really, she wonders if she should be paying attention to that social interaction as well. The more she knows, always the better, though tracking intrapersonal relationships gets messy. For the moment, she redirects her attention to her comm, in his hands. ]

We can look into that after we get my roommates taken care of?

[ She's called Reiner a friend all of once, to civilians who couldn't possibly understand what that meant for her to claim, last week. She hasn't said it since, and hasn't made the claim to Bertholdt.

Actually, she's... really bad at that period, but that's not the point. ]

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Sure, yeah. [Now Wally kind of wants to snoop through her comm, see what she and Artemis have been talking about, but he won't. Since she can apparently throw his ass right over her tiny shoulder with very little trouble.]

Okay, here, look. You select this and it brings up ticket options. Just go to the daily tickets, because we don't want a season pass or anything. Looks like the cheapest ticket issss $24.99 per person, but that doesn't include meals and lockers. We're gonna want at least one locker to put our stuff in, like wallets and sunscreen and whatever.

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[lyingheart]

[ No comment on the "we're" - planning both at the same time is what she'd proposed, after all. ]

Mmm, is theft a worry? I suppose a locker makes sense... Are you allowed to bring your own meal supplies along?

[ Her exciting life of texts is ... not actually exciting, but hey, the more he imagines, the more fun for him in the end. ]

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Usually parks don't let you bring in your own stuff, but you can always pack a lunch and go like, "It's medical, I have a gluten allergy" or something and they'll let it slide.

[He adds up the tickets.] So the two people Artemis mentioned are probably our friends. Who else is going? -Ooh, can I invite anybody else? Is this a closed party?