How a Villainess fell in love

Chapter 32: Go on, Apologize

-----------Wally's POV:----------

"Dude, you good?" Dick asked, looking over but making sure to keep his Uno cards out of view.

Oh yeah, I was a-okay! I broke up with the girl I'd been dating for weeks and oh, did we forget? She was a Villain the hole fu *WHOooo Take that ANnabeth!!* time.

I looked over to Dick with my best smile. In other words a semi grimace. "I'm fine dude, the whole thing's just eating at me, that's it" Obviously it was a lie, but I knew Dick wouldn't press on it. He just gave me a half smirk, patting my back lightly before turning back to the game.

I allowed myself to get enamored in the game, trying my best to forget about Percy for the minute. That was until I heard my name.

"Wally, can you come over here for a minute." I looked over to see Bruce in the doorway, his lips pressed into a thin line and I couldn't help but feel my heart drop as I knew he was about to lay into me for a second time tonight. My super healing had just cursed my ears, I didn't want to start the process all over again. I sighed as I placed my cards faced down on the ground. I got up slowly, Dick sending me a resourceful look before I walked over to Bruce.

"Hey Bat, ready for round two?" I barely tried with the sarcasm but luckily it still came out. Bruce grunted, looking to the side momentarily.

"Actually, I came to apologize. I shouldn't have yelled at you. Obviously it was the girls fault and I shouldn't have accused you of such a thing. Please accept my apology and I hope you have a good game." I felt my eyebrows scrunch together as I looked up at him. Bruce never apologized, even to his own kids. What was with the sudden change?

"I had a chat with Orca in the hallway and it was apparent that you were manipulated. Sure, we will be having classes on better ways to resist that but for now I will give you the benefit of the doubt. Please, enjoy your night. Also alert everyone that they are relieved of their duties to watch over Orca. She will be residing in a more private area until she is to come out for the party." Bruce awkwardly patted me on the shoulder, leaving me wildly confused, and with a bunch of things dumped on my shoulders, though I was relieved that I wasn't getting accused anymore. But more importantly, he'd talked to Percy? She'd run off in a hurry though I'd assumed that was to find Annabeth. I admit I was a bit surprised but relieved to see her alone.

What had Percy said to get Bruce to apologize?? I looked back to the group, curiosity eating at me until I had no choice but to get answers. I looked back to see Dick looking over at me. I gave him a small smile, waving to him before running off.

I made my way to the main computer. The only way I was gonna find out what happened was through security footage, luckily I'd seen Dick hack into it enough times to know what I was doing. Yeah, I was mad at Percy. I mean sure, I was hiding something as well, but I mean, a Villian?? I feel that this should be stated sometime within the first few weeks, just so that the other person knows what they're getting into. Though I guess I could say the same thing about being a hero...

I pulled up the footage of the hallways, though one camera happened to catch my eye. It was a live video of Percy laying on the ground, hands over her eyes as starred up towards the ceiling. I looked at the title of the camera to find that she was in the cell. What? I thought she was being monitored? Well Bruce did say we'd been relieved of duty.

I watched as she removed her arms holding her hand out as fish made of water appeared above her, floating around like they were swimming. I needed to know what happened.

I quickly went back a couple minutes watching as Percy left the room, I watched her poke Batman's chest, staring him in the eye as they seemed to be in some sort of altercation. I looked around for the sound turning it on just so that I could barely hear it.

"Oh so now we lock away our issues instead of handling them? You're just mad cause I'm right. You should apologize to Kid Flash, because no matter how I look at it, I'm the one at fault. I swear on everything, if you don't apologize I'll burn this city. To. the. Ground."

I let it play and it seemed to lead to this moment. I felt a twinge of guilt build up in my chest as I resumed the live feed, finding Percy still watching the fish.

Okay yeah, maybe I felt a little bad.

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