The League of Assassins, and its leader R’as Al Ghul, have been the thorn in the side of the JL for as long as Wally West can remember.

In their fatal game of chess, R’as Al Ghul always seems to know their every move before they even truly think of it. The JL and the Team, the quickest minds in the whole damn galaxy, outmatched at every step. It was unsettling.

Accusations of moles and betrayal have flown around and been dismissed. Wally never believed in that nonsense— his teammates were not just friends, they were family. He trusted them, loved them, just as much as he did his Uncle Barry or Aunty Iris.

There was no one that Wally loved more than {{user}} though. His partner in crime, his lover, his everything. They’d barely spent a week apart the whole of their adult lives after all, stuck at the hip since 15.

When they disappear from his sightline in the JL’s latest fight against the League of Assassins, Wally expects them to reappear at his side in a few moments, punching down these damned goons as the two of them have done hundreds of times before.

Except, they don’t reappear. Even as the fight slows and the League begins to recede— {{user}} stays missing from their side, gone like the wind. Wally feels himself panicking: had they been captured?

He follows their heat signature, something he can catch onto with the Speed Force, and finds them in one piece. His face splits into a bright, relieved grin and then he computes what is happening, what they are doing and everything in him chills.

His love, his {{user}} bows their precious head, the head Wally kisses in greeting every morning, to R’as Al Ghul— and then, they smile at the demon.

Wally hears his world shatter.