Of course he does. He can't say it out loud, can't mourn with the others, but he refuses to deny it. It's another raw wound, another reason to do better or else face losing yet more people that he...
Well.
He knows the man's secret identity, of course, found out a few months before Flash's death and never quite got around to using the information. He still refers to him as the Flash, even in his head. The man never gave him the permission to use his actual name, and it's the one sign of respect he can show.
He still wonders, on long nights with not quite enough crime to keep him busy and too much pain in his chest to keep him still... If the Flash would've one day given him permission. Would've pulled off his mask freely, smiled, laughed. Would've blushed as red as his suit, took his hand, arched up on tiptoes to kiss him. Would've, one day when they trusted each other enough-
Well.
It's a moot point, anyway. The Flash is never coming back, and all he's ever going to have are musings. The sharp ones, the ones that cut into his mind like shards of glass.
FILL: What If the Sky Falls? [Justice League Cartoon, Bruce Wayne(/Wally West), PG]
Of course he does. He can't say it out loud, can't mourn with the others, but he refuses to deny it. It's another raw wound, another reason to do better or else face losing yet more people that he...
Well.
He knows the man's secret identity, of course, found out a few months before Flash's death and never quite got around to using the information. He still refers to him as the Flash, even in his head. The man never gave him the permission to use his actual name, and it's the one sign of respect he can show.
He still wonders, on long nights with not quite enough crime to keep him busy and too much pain in his chest to keep him still... If the Flash would've one day given him permission. Would've pulled off his mask freely, smiled, laughed. Would've blushed as red as his suit, took his hand, arched up on tiptoes to kiss him. Would've, one day when they trusted each other enough-
Well.
It's a moot point, anyway. The Flash is never coming back, and all he's ever going to have are musings. The sharp ones, the ones that cut into his mind like shards of glass.