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[runningstart]

I'm pretty sure the stuff you guys have in your harbor can't actually be classified as water anymore, chemically speaking. [Wally shakes out some Skittles into his palm and offers the packet to Robin.] Rainbow?

[performance]

Thanks. [ nom nom ]

... You know, we should have another beach day. Since you missed the team one and everything.

[runningstart]

Um, do you mean since you guys had it without me? Is that the one you're talking about?

[performance]

It wasn't on purpose. It's not our fault you started school way early.

[ though it was kind of a dick move not to wait ]

[runningstart]

Not my fault either. You guys abandoned me. To public schooling.

[performance]

[ Feeling guilty means getting touchy. ]

Dude, I'm offering to make it up to you.

[runningstart]

Huh? No, dude, it's not... [Wally trails off and pulls his leg up a little.]

You don't have to. Besides, if we do a re-date for that I want everybody to be there. SB and Kal and Megs. Especially Megs, with a bikini if possible.

[performance]

Give it a rest, dude.

[runningstart]

I'm serious though. [Wally opens another packet of Skittles.] Next beach party, I want everybody there. So...let's save it for when we make it home. Everybody can skip school and everything, we'll be so rebellious.

[performance]

You kidding? Bruce would kill me if I ditched.

[runningstart]

So make sure he doesn't find out. Consider it a training exercise.

[performance]

Wow. Peer pressure much?

[runningstart]

Well, I am your peer. It's kind of my job to pressure you.

[performance]

[ all mock serious: ] They warned me about this. Dangerous gingers from the wrong side of the tracks...

[runningstart]

Hah- Excuse you? First thing, I'm from the right side of the tracks. Secondly, I am not a full-blooded ginger and therefore am exempt to the rule about gingers.

[performance]

That only makes you more dangerous. Unpredictable.

[runningstart]

I'm like that all the time though, that's just part of the entire package. [Wally thumps his chest with an open hand.]

[performance]

You can't be unpredictable all the time. That's predictable. Like, by definition.

[runningstart]

No it's not, because it'll just mean my method is unpredictable, like it's predictable for me to be unpredictable but I'm still unpredictable. [what a stupid debate they are having]

[performance]

But if you're unpredictable all the time, people are gonna start predicting that. That's when the really unpredictable thing would be to do something predictable.

[performance]

... That doesn't sound like a word anymore, does it?

[runningstart]

I don't even know why we're still talking and not running into the water with all our clothes on. [Wally hops off the rock and tosses the shopping bag aside.]

[performance]

I'm gonna regret doing this in skinny jeans, but here goes nothing.

[ aaand he's off ]

[runningstart]

You mean you didn't regret the skinny jeans before now? [Wally lets Robin get an impressive head start so that when he beats him into the waves, it'll be that much more cool.

Wally throws himself into the water like some kind of super speedy dog, bodily tossing himself into the waves and shouting out laughter when the water bowls him over and sucks him down to the sand.]

[performance]

You're just jealous 'cause I can pull them off!

[ He runs for the surf, laughing, knowing that Wally's going to beat him there but enjoying the chase anyway. Wally's already rushing into the water by the time Dick catches up. He wades in up to his knees, hands on his hips, grinning down at him. ]

Wally West in Swan Lake!