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"Where are you you weasley little....?" Billy silently wondered to himself.

He looked around from the air and fumed. Under most circumstances, Rathaway would be with Wallace but that was a no-go. How is it rodents who always seem underfoot are never around when you actually need one? He closed his eyes and started to focus....

"Where are you....?"

Billy's eyes started to glow brightly as he focused on one thing, and one thing only -- Hartley Rathaway. He continued to hover high in the air over the campus when after several moments, he smiled.

"Gotcha."

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Billy peeked through the glass pane of the door where Hartley was serving detention. He cloaked himself so as not to alert Miss Harkness. He looked at the pen on Hartley's desk and smiled. He brought his forefinger up and gave it a twirl...

The pen on Hartley's desk came alive and proceeded to scratch a note on a sheet of paper...

"Been looking for you Hartley. We have to talk. Billy."

Billy dropped his hand and the pen fell to the floor with a clatter, drawing Miss Harkness's attention back up to the boys again. Billy smiled and turned and walked back down the hallway.

Linda was in her room when she had gotten Clark's message...

" Belinda...? Aww how sweet! He's already come up with nickname for me."

Now to find the right outfit. Linda put on a pair of tight black jeans and a low cut yellow sweater. Just enough to show some cleavage but not to much. She didn't want to over do it. Linda then put on some sparkly lip and brush her hair... Linda was soooo excited as she looked in the mirror to make sure that she would make a good impression for her da... interview with Kid Flash.

Teddy had felt bad that Hartley had shouldered the blame, and had therefore done the honorable thing of ...well, absolutely nothing. But, he still felt bad. He felt even guiltier as he looked over the bowl of popcorn he was sharing with Wallace to look at his current companion. He had invited Wallace over to his dorm room, and Wallace had lamented the lack of a glory hole, then had shrugged. It was kind of like old times, except for the fact that Billy could walk in at any minute and start drama --

-- oh wait. Yeah. Exactly like old times.

He picked up a piece of popcorn, chucking it at Wallace so that it bounced off of his head and landed on the floor. "Sucks that Hartley is in detention, but ... thanks for taking me out. I think it was kind of worth it anyway."

This girl was WAY hotter than he remembered. Just in the nick of time, Wally remembered that she thought he was a jerk. Him! Wally West! Of the awesome catchphrase "West is best!" A jerk!

There was no way he was going to spend money on pizza for this, this...jerk-accuser!

Kid Flash smiled and held open her dorm door for her so she could step out of her room.

"Well, it's actually a pretty nice afternoon for a stroll, Miss Park. How about we step outside and see where things go from there?" That's right, Wally, he thought to himself. Go slow. Find out just why she wants this interview in the first place...the slow approach.


Arrrgh. The slow approach was...so...so slow! Kid Flash scooped Linda up and suddenly they were both outside of the dorm.

It was the next day and Jen was a bit heartbroken that they had never found Achilles. They had spent the afternoon playing with the super-puppy who had been just the cutest thing she had ever seen.

'Great I am so easily distracted, got to focus Walters!'

She brought the banner back to the Art room and was touching it up. It had been covered in elephant snot, snow, puppy drool and dragged around by She-Hulk all of yesterday. It was looking a little tattered. She knew that their little club was still waiting for an official club room and even then Jen wasn't sure how much time she'd have. Her studies were still her number one priority but then again a depressed Greek hero was something she couldn't ignore.

"What do you think?" She asked the dark goth girl that was always hanging around.

"It looks bright an tacky." Raven huffed,

"Fantastic!" Jen beamed. "Maybe some more sparkles."

"Whatever..." Raven said. "Now can you get off my art work... you've been sitting on it!"

"Oh what?" Jen looked down and saw the sheet she had been using did seem like it had been drawn on. "Eh...sorry."

Raven didn't reply and took back her project and skulked off to a corner.

Jen took that as a sign to leave and picked up her now extra sparkly banner.

Wally thought on that for a bit. It was actually a pretty good question.

"You know, I've laid my claim to being the fastest boy alive, but I've never actually tested myself against Superboy. I mean, if we were in a race, I'm pretty confident I'd come out on top, but it's never actually happened yet."

The two of them walked down the path that looped around the school as they talked.

"But all the other ones, yeah, I'm totally faster than them."

Well, that was a weird question. Was it just out of left field? Was this like TMZ where she was just trying to see his reaction? Or was she trying to tighten the jerk-noose around Kid Flash's neck, too?

Wally decided to stall for time.

"Er, exactly what sort of article was this anyways, Linda? Is it all right if I just call you Linda?" The two of them came to a snow-covered bench next to the school's lake.

"Hold on a sec." Within seconds, a snow shovel appeared in Kid Flash's hands and he cleared a path for them to sit on a now-clear bench. He smiled at Linda. "I've used vibrations to thaw out the bench a bit. So it'll be a warm sit despite it being the middle of January." Wally sat on one end of the bench, casually and put one leg up.

"I think that, sometimes, you have to get to know someone, really know them before you judge their actions. I can't tell you how many times working with the Flash he's impressed on me that, despite our super-speed, we should never jump to conclusions. I'm uh, I'm still working on it a bit." Wally blushed under the mask. Why was he blushing?!