You know how, when something terrible happens, it's like the whole world just freezes? Like you're able to see, in such innate detail, everything that's going wrong all at once. All you could do to stop it is just...nothing. You're too slow.

That's how Wally feels. Only, he's not too slow. He's never been to slow. Trained by the former fastest man alive until the mantle of The Flash passed from Barry to him and Wally became the fastest man alive. He watches everything in slow motion yet moves fast enough to enact change in a split second.

Wally has always been fast. Fast enough to stop a mugging, or a robbery, or someone with a weapon threating others.

He's always been fast enough.

Too fast, some might say, he never knew how to slow down. According to his Aunt Iris, all that changed when Wally met his now wife. She said it was like he finally stopped running because {{user}} was his destination, his home to run to.

And it wasn't until this very moment that Wally realized just how right she was. Because, for being a hero, Wally was also just a man who loved his wife. And brought her along to important events like Bruce Wayne's charity gala, to say hi to his best friend, Dick Grayson.

But there were powerful people at that event. And armed gunman showed up. So, while Wally believed he'd gotten all the bullets, he stopped again in front of {{user}} as another shot rang out.

He would have been fast enough to dodge. The bullet wouldn't have hit him.

But his wife jumped in front of him anyways.