#21 - Grief

( SPOILERS: The Flash Season 1 finale... )

BARRY ALLEN
the flash (tv series)
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#26 - Blanket

Barry was feeling the exhaustion right down into his bones. Lying on his stomach on Felicity’s bed, his Flash suit strewn haphazardly on the floor nearby. He could hear her in the bathroom, but he was barely awake.

She came to bed just as his eyes were closing, and tenderly pulled the blanket up over him. She was quiet and gentle crawling in beside him, careful not wake him when she tucked the edges in around him. The last thing he was aware of before sleep fully claimed him was a soft kiss to his forehead.

Finally, he could relax.

For Barry/Felicity AU: with someoneobviously

BARRY ALLEN
the flash (tv series)
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#26 - QUIT
I can’t quit her, I don’t want to. She’s my life, my world. She owns my heart. She was the only thing that kept me going when I was trapped within my own bod, but controlled by another mind. After everything that’s happened, being away from her is still the hardest thing I’ve ever had to deal with.

I don’t know why she didn’t move on. I wouldn’t have blamed her if she did. But I never stopped loving her, not even for a moment. We’re going to set things right one day. That I’m going to make sure of.

Ronny Raymond
~ F I R E S T O R M ~
the flash, tv series 2014
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#13 - Queasy

Nightmares weren’t foreign to Barry. What was foreign was dreaming that the woman he loved was being tortured and murdered by the person who had killed his mom and very likely wanted him dead too. The nightmare was so vivid, like he had been right there watching it and he woke abruptly, heart pounding, breathing shallow.

He sat up in bed, blanket pooling around his waist. Sweat was dripping down his temple, and he wiped a hand over his face, feeling queasy and woozy. Lines were so blurred right now; what if this was a memory of an alternate reality?

For Barry/Felicity AU: with someoneobviously

BARRY ALLEN
the flash (tv series)
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Ten things that changed your life

(1) The Reverse Flash
(2) Mom's murder
(3) Dad's unjust imprisonment for it
(4) Joe and Iris
(5) Meeting Felicity Smoak
(6) Getting struck by lightning
(7) Metahumanage... metahumanism... metahumanity?
(8) S.T.A.R. Labs
(9) Cisco & Caitlin (I'd be dead many times without them)
(10) Murdering, evil bastards

BARRY ALLEN
the flash (tv series)

#32 - Snuggle

The first time Barry surprised Felicity for an impromptu snuggle when they first started dating, he was second-guessing his choice, wondering if she would think he was a creeper. When she woke, he was lying on the bed beside her dressed in a cow onesie to match her PJs with a bunch of pink roses.

“Uh, is this okay…?” he asked sheepishly when she definitely got a fright waking up to a surprise bed warmer.

She broke into a goofy giggle with an inelegant but adorable snort. “More than,” she confirmed, paving the way for many more surprise Flash visits.

For Barry/Felicity AU: Felicity used with permission.

BARRY ALLEN
the flash (tv series)
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"I wish my brain had a map to tell me where my heart should go…" - Unknown

Barry wanted to smack himself when he woke up feeling all too comfortable naked and spooned up behind Felicity in her bed. His arm was wrapped protectively around her slender waist, and her favourite perfume that he loved made him feel like he never wanted to move from this position. That didn't stop the cold-hard reality hitting him, closely followed by being drowned in guilt about what they had just done.

( He managed to stifle a groan, but he didn't make any immediate attempt to move... )

For Barry/Felicity AU: Felicity used with permission.

BARRY ALLEN
the flash (tv series)

Ten things that fascinate you

#1 - Christina Hendricks' boobs
#2 - Star Wars fanfiction
#3 - The Batmobile
#4 - Novelty t-shirts*
#5 - Swiss Army Knives, though they need a technological advancement - I VOLUNTEER!
#6 - Female ability to wear six inch heels
#7 - The Science of Stupid
#8 - Stephen Fry getting my dream job
#9 - Post-pubescent transition of the dude who played Neville Longbottom
#10 - Gadgets

* Baz, Caitlin, I've already started my Christmas list by the way...

Cisco Ramon
= the flash, 2014 tv series =

"When did the rain become a storm?
When did the clouds begin to form?
Yeah, we got knocked off course by a natural force
And we'll, we'll be swimming when it's gone."
• Beautiful Goodbye, Maroon 5

( SPOILERS: for The Flash 01x19 'Who Is Harrison Wells?' )

For Barry/Felicity AU: Felicity used with permission.

BARRY ALLEN
the flash (tv series)

#27 - Shiver

It was easier these days to visit his mom’s grave, so he visited more often. That morning, when he was crouched there placing some roses on her grave, the winter chill caused a shiver to sweep down his spine, goosebumps prickling his skin beneath his Flash suit.

His head whipped around with a suspicious narrowing of his eyes that skimmed over the sprawling cemetery. Was he being watched, or was he just even more paranoid than usual now? “You took her goddamn life, at least give us some privacy!” he shouted into the nothingness.

He had to get her justice.

BARRY ALLEN
the flash (tv series)

#09 - Bed

Barry was discovering yet another perk of being the Fastest Man Alive. The morning after a super hot date the night before, you could make a romantic breakfast in a flash. Collectively, he was absent from Felicity’s bed all of two minutes, now he was proudly carrying through waffles, juice, coffee, strawberries, and a single red rose, proud grin in place… which was all he was wearing.

He set the tray on her dresser where it could wait for a few moments longer. Instead of serving it up, he slipped back under the covers with her for a morning ‘snuggle’.

For Barry/Felicity AU: Felicity used with permission.

BARRY ALLEN
the flash (tv series)

#43 - Surprise

Barry just arrived in Felicity’s living-room to surprise her when his phone started ringing with a call from Cisco. His arm still wrapped around her waist, he brushed a kiss to her a lips and then answered the call. Something was going down, he needed to get back ASAP.

He stifled a groan, giving Felicity a mischievous smile. “Can’t. Bad stomachache. Really bad diarrhea,” he lied. Before Cisco had a chance to ask him if it was at turbo rate, he ended the call. The inside joke had them both laughing as Barry caught Felicity’s lips in another eager kiss.

For Barry/Felicity AU: Felicity used with permission.

BARRY ALLEN
the flash (tv series)

"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is." - Jim Morrison

Felicity's first trip to Central City had been when Barry had his wake-up call. It was just a wake-up call that confused him because he had been stuck so hard and fast in the comfort zone he had built up around him over the years, that he actually convinced himself that their instant attraction and connection was just because they were so alike.

The Iris Factor, that he had come to think of the whole thing in his head, was the biggest roadblock. He thought he was still very much in unrequited love with Iris that when he had come out of his coma, he was stuck on it like a scratch CD. He kept skipping over and over that old scar, back-tracking because it was familiar and it was easy. But he didn't really want familiar and easy. What he wanted was someone who got him, someone he could laugh with, and someone he didn't have to hide with.

( And that was Felicity... )

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BARRY ALLEN
the flash (tv series)