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[crimsonblur]

Look. I know you have ideas now. Even worse, I know you have AU ideas you want to write out. Well, here's where I tell you to stop it. Stop it right now. I like being the good guy. I don't want that to change. I don't ever want anyone else to look at me like they did that night.

Just find me Iris, or someone else to pine for, and let me be happy. Okay? Okay.

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[dr_wells]

Oh so yours is playing that game too is she? Mine wants to see me in the Flash suit as well.

[crimsonblur]

You can keep the yellow one, the red one is mine.

[Barry is secretly super protective of it. Just as much as Cisco is.]

[dr_wells]

[Harrison chuckles.]

I like my own suit actually. It makes me stand out in a different way.

we should make a verse where they are partners! or want to do some future plotline?

[crimsonblur]

Standing out isn't a bad thing. It's actually... a good thing.

[Not that Barry 'notices' him or anything. Nope, no to noticing.]

I have wanted a plotline like that since "Man in the Yellow Suit"

[dr_wells]

[Harrison laughs, he likes it when Barry tries not to notice him and ends up noticing him more]

You inspired the colors actually. Well when I say you I mean future you...the you that I first met.

we should do it then!

[crimsonblur]

[That was one of Barry's growing talents. He even had it before actually meeting Dr. Wells. Back when he'd rewatch interviews over and over again. Enough that he could speak along with him with his eyes close and on mute. Hopefully Dr. Wells would never hear about this. Like, ever.]

Oh... wow.

I can toss something on the musebox if you like!

[dr_wells]

[Harrison smiles at the memory. It's one of his fondest of his Barry, a quiet moment of friendly back and forth before Thawn, before the battles, before the Crisis tore everything apart.]

Yes...at the time I thought he was joking....I mean black, red and yellow....it sounded horrible. But like everything my Barry said and did I didn't understand then. It's the curse of the time traveler.

yes, definitely!

[crimsonblur]

Time traveler... I still can't get used to that. The fact that any of it exists. It boggles the brain. I'm into science. It's all I've known my entire life. But now you are from the future, and just...

[dr_wells]

I know it's difficult to understand. It was for me too even seeing that photo didn't really make it gel in my head. Not until you vanished did everything start to make some sort of sense.

[crimsonblur]

I vanished? I have no idea what you are talking about. I've been here all along, haven't I? There was no mind wipes or anything, was there?

[Now he's secretly kind of worried.]

[dr_wells]

[Harrison sighs softly]

Barry you have to vanish...it's how the timeline goes. 2024. If you don't the universe falls apart.

[crimsonblur]

...But, why? Why can't I change it so that doesn't have to happen?

[dr_wells]

Because the alternative is you not being a hero at all and dying horribly...I saw that and dammit I will not see it again. I am not Thawn.

[power_of_the_atom]

[All these young Barry's. God, that makes him feel old.]

Pining for Iris, Barry? You two aren't together?

Mun says never leave!

[crimsonblur]

[Barry shook his head.]

No, we aren't. Iris is with Eddie Thawne. Her being with me? More like wishful thinking.

Well, I might have to sleep sometime...

[power_of_the_atom]

Well, that's a damn shame. The two of you I know are a great couple.

If you have to~

[crimsonblur]

...That's really weird to hear. Iris and I have never been together in any kind of capacity. She knows I like her, but she's still moving in with her boyfriend.

[He's trying not to dwell on it.]

Re: If you have to~

[power_of_the_atom]

That's got to be hard. It's always difficult seeing someone you love with someone else.

[crimsonblur]

Yeah, but she's happy, and really, that's all that matters, right? If it's meant to happen, it will, or I'll eventually move on. Let's just hope one of those options happens sooner rather than later.

[power_of_the_atom]

[He smiles. Same old Barry, whatever the universe.]

Sometimes, I guess it is. Though my romantic history's a bit of a road map of bad decisions, so I might not be the best judge.

[crimsonblur]

I don't know anything about your history, but I hope everything works out okay for you! You seem pretty nice.

[power_of_the_atom]

Eh, I'm enjoying single life right now. I'm finally getting my life back on track. But I appreciate the sentiment. Thank you.