Across Every Universe (You are Home)
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In which Barry Allen has a massive and probably hopeless crush on academy award-winning movie star Iris West, and Iris West is decidedly enamored with The Flash, Central City's resident superhero, and when they meet, they're both just a little (a lot) star-struck.
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- Part 1 of Across Every Universe (You are Home)
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Iris and Barry meet at a wedding that isn’t their own, but it’s only ever been a matter of time before it is.
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- Part 2 of Across Every Universe (You are Home)
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Barry swallows his fear and his stage-fright to audition for Central High's spring musical with one goal in mind: to be cast as the love-interest of the character his long-time crush Iris West will no doubt be playing. He never expects that he might actually have a shot at that role in real life, too.
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- Part 3 of Across Every Universe (You are Home)
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He begs and he pleads for them to make him human, to let him be with her. If he really does exist because of her, for her, then this is what he feels like he’s meant for. Not just to protect her, not just to guide her, but to be with her. Maybe he was made to love her, he says. Maybe he’s different. Maybe it was meant to be this way. They don’t listen.
((Barry is Iris's guardian angel who's kept her alive far past her death date, and he's about to pay the price.))
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- Part 4 of Across Every Universe (You are Home)
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"That’s…that’s not the problem though. The problem is…um, well, I sort of, kind of, might have told him that you were my boyfriend? I thought it would make him back off, and it worked, I think, but he still tried to get me to go to this party with him this weekend and I told him that I was already taking you and—oh my god, Barry, I am so sorry, I don’t know what I was thinking, but it was all I could come up with at the time."
Iris sounds nervous and out-of-breath by the time she’s done talking, and it’s all Barry can do not to drop his phone as it nearly slides through his numb fingers. His stomach is churning, and his heart is pounding wildly in his chest, and it’s a good thing he’s so close to a bathroom, because he just might lose his breakfast. He knows what she's asking, and he doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry at the cruel irony of being faced with the prospect of pretending to be Iris’s boyfriend.
((pretty much exactly what it sounds like, because who doesn't love fake-dating scenarios?))
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- Part 5 of Across Every Universe (You are Home)
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Iris really didn't expect her housewarming party to end with her best friend bleeding out on a bed that she hasn't even gotten the chance to sleep in yet, but she'll be damned if she's going to let him leave her like this.
(or: Barry gets seriously injured, and Iris conquers her fears to stay right by his side and help him through it.)
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- Part 6 of Across Every Universe (You are Home)
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Iris discovers the surprising benefits of running when she ends up sharing a trail with a cute stranger and his adorably sunny smile. Turns out physical exertion isn't the only thing that can make her breathless.
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- Part 7 of Across Every Universe (You are Home)
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When he wakes up from his coma, he can’t remember what happened, or how he got here in the first place. He can’t remember names and he can’t remember faces, he can’t remember where he’s from or what he does or even what his name is. He can’t remember a single thing about his life, or the people, the places, the memories that defined it. He can’t really remember anything.
Except…well, it’s strange, but the only thing he can remember are feelings. (Which, for someone who wears his heart on his sleeve, who feels as much as he does for people, ends up making things a lot more complicated than it should.)
[written for the prompt: “I have amnesia and you say you’re my best friend but I keep on forgetting and thinking we’re lovers AU”]
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- Part 8 of Across Every Universe (You are Home)
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“And do you two know each other?” Joe demands, pointing at them accusingly.
Iris blurts out a ‘yes’ at the same time Barry stammers out a ‘no’.
“I mean, yes—”
“—I meant no!”
“Um.” Barry rubs the back of his neck, determinedly avoiding Iris’s gaze. “What we mean is, uh, we’ve met before, briefly, like, in passing. But we don’t really know each other, um. You know?”
[Barry Allen is simultaneously the luckiest and unluckiest guy in the world. Also, he totally just slept with his boss's daughter. Go figure.]
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- Part 9 of Across Every Universe (You are Home)
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Barry dreams about Iris. A lot. Late at night, alone in bed, in ways he's not entirely proud of, but hey. No one has to know.
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- Part 10 of Across Every Universe (You are Home)
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He tries to recall what he’d been doing last, before he’d been sleeping, but the only images his mind manages to call up are that of a face that’s already becoming blurry, already fading, but that he’d known so well in his sleep.
The girl in his dream, the one he’d seemed to know from some other lifetime, the reason he had been so reluctant to be forced back awake. He squeezes his eyes shut and tries to burn the image of her smile to the back of his mind. He doesn’t want to forget her—whoever she was, whoever she'd been, she’d seemed important.
[After the Reverse Flash alters the timeline, Barry wakes up from his coma a little differently. This time, it's in a world where he's never met an Iris West before, although that doesn't mean he's forgotten her]
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- Part 11 of Across Every Universe (You are Home)
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While working in her university's library, Iris finds herself intrigued by a certain regular there: none other than the elusive, incredibly dorky (but equally adorable) Barry Allen. And she's determined to figure him out.
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- Part 12 of Across Every Universe (You are Home)
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She hastily pulled the sheets up to cover her exposed chest as he averted his gaze, abashed and embarrassed, squeezing his eyes shut and pressing the heels of his palms against them as though expecting the sight before him to disappear any second. Which it didn’t, because when he opened his eyes again a moment later Iris was still frozen to the very same spot in mortification. He opened and closed his mouth like a fish out of water, seemingly at a loss for words, until he finally managed to find his voice.
“Well—uh, wow, this is awkward,” he blurted, “but is there a reason why you’re, uh, naked…in my bed?”
[Seriously, Iris, how do you even get herself into these sorts of situations?]
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- Part 13 of Across Every Universe (You are Home)
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Barry is perfectly entitled to be in a relationship. That's not what's bothering her. No, what's bothering her, what she's not ready to admit, is that she really wishes that relationship would be with her. Not Becky fucking Cooper.
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- Part 14 of Across Every Universe (You are Home)
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“I don’t know…” he says, conflicted, glancing back at the classroom where he’s supposed to be sitting in right now, working on shading his miserable square. On the one hand, he’s never skipped class before, and the thought is sort of terrifying. On the other hand, it means spending time with her—which is a pretty gigantic plus. And then, as he’s mulling it over, weighing out the pros and cons in his mind, she pouts at him at bats her eyelashes, clasping her hands together with an adorable little ‘pleaaase—for me?’, and any objections he might have had vanish on the spot. “Okay,” he nods, feeling a little dazed, and before he can process what happening she's beaming at him and grabbing his hand, tugging him down the hallway.
[Barry gets unexpectedly interrupted while in art class, but considering who it's by, he's not exactly complaining]
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- Part 15 of Across Every Universe (You are Home)
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When Iris meets him for the first time, it's at a masquerade party, but Barry Allen is already no stranger to wearing a mask.
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- Part 16 of Across Every Universe (You are Home)
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"I’m usually in a hurry," he smiles cryptically, as if indulging himself in some inside joke, "but it’s raining out tonight, and it’s cold, and I couldn’t just leave him outside alone." He gestures helplessly to the puppy he’s just placed on the counter, and she feels herself melt a little at his thoughtfulness.
"Alright, fine. I’ll let you slide," she huffs, scratching the puppy behind its ear, "but only because you’ve come bearing a puppy. My one weakness."
He grins at her, his smile warm and bright and incredibly adorable, and she’s vaguely aware of the raindrops still clinging to his impossibly long eyelashes. Maybe puppies aren’t her only weakness, after all.
[Iris works at a pet shelter, and she finally comes face-to-face with the mysterious stranger who's been saving stray pets off the streets of Central City]
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- Part 17 of Across Every Universe (You are Home)
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When he still doesn’t lift his head, or even acknowledge her presence, she sighs, and reaches out a hand to tilt his chin up. She gasps when the light falls on his face—red and swollen and puffy, already starting to bruise. “Oh, Bear—”
He clenches his jaw tight and averts his eyes, but she can see that he’s hurt, embarrassed, and thoroughly miserable. She doesn’t relinquish her grip on his chin, though, his tears falling onto her hands and making her palms wet. She waits as long as he needs, until she knows he’s ready to talk, until she feels him finally lean a little into her touch. “What happened?” she whispers, finally letting her hand drop and scooting closer to where he’s huddled. He squeezes his eyes shut, and when he speaks it’s in short, gasping breaths. She feels a sharp pang in her chest. It always breaks her heart to see him crying like this.
[Missing class is a small thing when it comes to being there for her best friend after dealing with bullies. Tony Woodward better not even think about crossing her path any time soon]
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- Part 18 of Across Every Universe (You are Home)
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Iris and Barry have always been each other's warmth, in a way that no amount of blankets or coats could ever replace.
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- Part 19 of Across Every Universe (You are Home)
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She took a deep breath and rolled him over, feeling for a pulse. He seemed to be okay, just passed out, and—her heart caught in her throat as her eyes rested on his face. No.
'You’d hate me.' The words replayed themselves in her mind as she pushed his cowl back, revealing the rest of his face, one so familiar it made her heart ache. 'You’d hate me.'
She felt the hurt, the disappointment, the anger, the betrayal all welling up in her chest and making her feel fit to burst, making her want to throw up or cry or scream or maybe all three. But what she didn’t feel, what she couldn't feel, was hate.
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- Part 20 of Across Every Universe (You are Home)