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          Lark Lennox would do anything for love.

          When she meets Wally West on a random Tuesday at the flower-shop where she works, she thinks it's fate. Wally is funny, honest, cute—he's everything Lark has ever wanted in a guy, and more. And she's his dream girl, who laughs at all his stupid jokes, who gets all his nerdy references. It's your perfect meet cute: a pretty boy, a prettier girl, a rainy day, a lingering glance. . .

          Then, right before her eyes, Wally disappears.

          Before she can even give him her number, he disappears—back into the Speedforce, where reality believes he belongs.

          Reality is wrong. And reality, as it always has been, is Lark's to control. In that instant, she realises the full extent of her powers; she feels the world turn fluid, malleable, changeable in her hands. In that instant, she realises the gift she's been given, the gift she's had since she was a little girl: the power to control reality. To change it.

          To make it her own.

          So she does what she knows she's destined to do—she turns back the clock, reversing the flow of time, and retrieves Wally at the exact moment of his disappearance. She saves him, and what follows is the romance she's always dreamed of, one right out of the romcoms she breathes like air. One that convinces her that saving Wally is worth it, that it'll always be worth it. She wants it, him, them.

          Wally, and his secret identity as the Flash—she wants it. She wants it all.

          And she has it. But in the new world she's made for herself, she fails to notice the omens, the warning signs. The cars that appear on empty roads, swerving to hit Wally just as Lark pulls him out of the way; the eleventh-hour heroism Lark is forced to perform to save Wally from a seemingly endless line-up of villains-of-the-week; the freak accidents that occur again and again, ones that Lark always just manages to prevent, that seem desperate to claim Wally. As if the place he belongs isn't by Lark's side, as she's come to convince herself.

          It's easy to write it off as a joke, as a coincidence. But Lark has always believed in fate and she can't stop now. It soon becomes clear to Lark—loved-up, infatuated Lark—that reality wants, no, needs, Wally West gone.

          It soon becomes clear that she needs to give him up. Give him back.

          Reality, ruptured, begins to consume itself. A hungry flood, a devastating storm, it draws Lark away from her future with Wally and back to the present, where her life with him doesn't yet exist. Where it will never exist, if she puts him back where he belongs. If she chooses not to save him. If she chooses to let him go.

          But she can't. She won't.

          Lark Lennox would do anything for love.

          Lark Lennox would do anything to keep it.

simone ashley
lark lennox / the heartrender

whatever will win you, i become. i disguise myself as your rescuer so that you will be mine.

linus wördemann
wally west / the flash

it doesn't matter. i die all the time.

🫀 and here we are again. please welcome back berenstain (if you know you know) to the line-up of fics i made graphics for but will probably never write. berenstain follows wally and lark's relationship and lark's attempts to evade and manipulate the speedforce. lark is an extremely powerful (read: op) metahuman whose abilities (telepathy, reality-warping, psionic energy creation) are offset only by her emotional instability.

🫀 i love her. i support women's rights. i also support women's wrongs.

🫀 other than the fact that my friends totally enabled me, the reason i've brought this back, new and improved, is because i've been watching the good place. obviously there's a lot to unpack with the concept of an afterlife, as well as schools of thought in morality and philosophy. what i'm taking away from this is the idea of soulmates. they are made, not found, and lark takes this to the furthest extreme by forcing fate so that wally effectively becomes her soulmate. wally, however, has had his own hand in their relationship—in ways he doesn't yet understand. i can't wait to explore this.

🫀 my main inspirations for this fic, as well as lark, are wanda maximoff, sitcoms, romcoms, life is strange, christopher nolan's entire filmography, time-travel movies and doctor who.

🫀 as far as canon goes, this fic is set right after wally returns from the speedforce. he has returned but his team, the titans, do not remember him and he has convinced himself that everyone from his old life—specifically, dick grayson and linda park—are better off without him. in this continuity, he and linda were only engaged; not yet married and not yet with kids.

🫀 i know the entire disappearance stuff is kind of complicated and very much confusing, so i will try to simplify it for this story. also, i will be making the speedforce do whatever the fuck i want. dc does it all the time so why can't i. expect time travel, reality bending, so on and so forth.

🫀 berenstain itself is an au of a young justice fic i have in the works. i'm not sure if i'll ever publish that other fic, but i love heartflash and i really wanted to explore it independent to the young justice universe. so here we are. i hope you enjoy!

🫀 layout inspired and created with permission by wulfhall.

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