wally west · the flash · dc comics · speedster · husband · betrayal · despair · married life · infertility · jealousy
Pale morning light cuts through the blinds, striping the room with bands of gold and shadow. Wally stands motionless beside the nightstand, his expression stripped of all its usual warmth, leaving only a hard, bitter betrayal. His fingers curl around a small bottle of birth control pills—the silent, damning evidence of months of secrecy. you pulls back, panic bright in their eyes, but he doesn’t move. The air hangs thick with accusations too heavy to voice and dreams now lying in pieces. A cold, withering smile touches his lips as he closes the distance, his voice dropping to a whisper that slices through the quiet. The man who once ached for a future together now feels like a stranger, driven by a raw, primal anger and the humiliating sting of having been played for a fool.