"Cait, it's been a rough night, what's up?" I asked her.
"Dr. Wells wants to see you and Barry."
"I'll be right there." I sighed and hung up the phone.
XXX
"Why do I got a feeling that we just got called to the principal's office?" I asked as Barry and I walked into a room with a glaring Wells and Joe.
"Starling City vigilante." My heart dropped at these words. This was about Oliver.
"He calls himself the arrow now." I told him.
"Oh does he, Velocity?"
"Wait, what's the problem?" Barry asked them. Me, equally as confused.
"We don't trust him." Wells said bluntly.
"You guys don't even know him." I defended Oliver.
"I know that he was wanted for murder in at least 12 different cases dating back the past three years." Joe informed us.
"I know there's been at least two major terrorist attacks in Starling since he became active." Wells added.
"All right, but the cops there a cool with him now." Barry tried to explain. "He doesn't kill people anymore."
"And what about all the criminals that he put arrows through? Those don't count?" Joe asked rhetorically.
"He's a hero, Joe." I told him.
"You're heroes Becca. You offer protection, light, hope. What that man does is carry out a dark reckoning for his city." Wells adjusted my statement. "It is a brutal, violent vision of justice, one we do not share. You truly think he's a hero? Fine, so be it. But he's not the kind either of you should be looking up to." We heard a glass shatter and Barry and I raced into the cortex again. We watched as the boomerang Felicity, Oliver, and Dig gave us flew around the room and destroyed anything it came into contact with before landing in a wall.
"That's my bad! That's on me!" Cisco took the blame for the boomerang's antics.
"I want that arrow out of my city." Joe told us sternly using his dad voice. He was dead ass serious. "Tonight."
XXX
Barry and I walked into Jitters where Felicity and Oliver were. "Hey." We greeted him.
"The bad guy you're after, the one who robbed the bank, his name is Roy G. Bivilo." Oliver told us.
"Uh, thanks." I hesitantly thanked him. "How did you find that out?" He looked away. "The guy's still alive, right?" I asked him nervously. He gave me the side eye. "I'm just asking." I clarified.
"I thought you didn't want to help." Barry pointed out.
"I'm not. It's just a name."
"All right." Barry nodded.
"Hi." Iris came over with two cups of coffee. "One non fat latte, extra sugar, for Felicity." She put her coffee down in front of her. "And one coffee, black, for Oliver." She swooned over him like practically every other woman on the planet, other than me of course. "I brewed you a fresh pot, so..."
"Thank you." He awkwardly thanked her as at this point, Iris was resting on the table.
"Yeah. Barry, Becca, can I talk to you guys for a second."
"Yeah." We both agreed.
"Bye." As soon as we were out of earshot, she slapped our arms.
"What are you doing?"
"You did not tell me that you two knew Oliver Queen."
"We know Oliver Queen." We said simultaneously.
"Oh my god, he's even more handsome in person. And his arms are like twice the size of yours, Barry."
"Technically, they're not twice the size." Barry defended himself.
"He's on my three list." My eyes widened and I nodded.
"What's a three list?" Barry asked clueless.
"It's the three people she's allowed to cheat on Eddie with." I pinched the bridge of my nose.
"You usually don't meet people on your list, but now, here he is, and I just can't stop staring at him." Iris added.
XXX
"Okay." Oliver approached us.
"Okay what?" I asked him.
"Okay, we'll help you catch your bad guy." Oliver answered quickly.
"Great. Meta human." Barry corrected.
"I am not calling him that, Barry." Oliver told him sternly.
"Partners." Barry stuck his hand out and Oliver reluctantly shook it.
"Partners." He agreed.
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The Pain and the Pleasure-Leonard Snart
AkcjaRebecca Allen's life has always been painful. When she was 14 her mother was murdered in front of her. Then, her and her younger brother Barry moved in with Joe West. She fell into a depression and started committing crimes. Finally, after high sch...