reminder that when something has a star (✩) next to it, I'd rather it not be changed!
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GREY faceclaim:jess conte oc name: jenna rose ✩ love interest: barry allen ✩ show/book series: the flash ✩
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DESCRIPTION "I walked away when you came to stay, now everything's grey."
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EXTENDED SUMMARY There was never meant to be a fight.
Jenna Rose and Barry Allen were high school sweethearts. They had known each other for a long time through their best friend Iris West, and in sophomore year, the two began to realize that the butterflies they were feeling for each other weren't natural. So, with a lot of built up courage, Barry asked Jenna to go on a date. She agreed.
They never thought things would turn out the way they did.
Jenna gained news that she was accepted into a college in Metropolis where she could study forensic science, a love that both her and Barry shared. However, Metropolis was so far away from Central City, where Barry would be going to college. She didn't have the heart to tell him. Jenna knew the news would hurt him. And after everything he had been through with the death of his mother and arrest of his father, she couldn't add another thing onto that heartbreak.
Her intentions were right. But everything else went wrong.
Barry found out through Jenna's father. The two of them found themselves in a fight, Barry clearly hurt with Jenna not telling him and Jenna trying to defend herself. Things really went south when they both said things they didn't mean. And, with a lot of tears and slamming doors, their relationship ended that night.
That next morning, Jenna left Central City with a broken heart, leaving a hurting Barry Allen and confused Iris West behind.
Jenna's world turned grey and she moved through the motions. The only person she kept in touch with was Iris, who constantly told her to come back, but Jenna never listened. She got her degree in forensic science and began to work at a local laboratory. That said laboratory told her she was going to be transferred to Central City since they needed a new CSI assistant at the police department, and even though that meant returning to her hometown, Jenna took it.
She had spent the last seven years running away from that city, and here she was, coming right back to her roots.
However, she never expected to see her ex-boyfriend get struck by lightning and put into a nine month coma after the Particle Accelerator explodes. Central City suddenly turns to a place where people with powers are running throughout the city wreaking havoc. And when she sees none other than Barry Allen running incredibly fast outside the CCPD the day he wakes up, her entire world turns upside down and gets painted a beautiful shade of red.
Central City needed a hero, and Barry Allen was the person for it.
Jenna and Barry Allen thought their story was over the second he slammed that door. They couldn't be more wrong. It was just getting started. With super speed, lies, old feelings rising, betrayals, and revelation, the two begin to realize exactly why they fell in love with each other in the first place.
And suddenly, Jenna's world doesn't seem so grey anymore.
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EXTRA NOTES • takes place during season one of the flash ✩
• the first chapter is their fight after barry finds out about college and immediately transitions into jenna's first day at ccpd ✩
• jenna didn't tell anyone she was coming back
• is reunited with joe first in the precinct but is reunited with barry and iris in the lab when they're talking about the particle accelerator ✩
• barry and jenna have absolutely no idea what to say to each other but he immediately gives her the cold shoulder. she's upset but she understands
• do not excuse jenna's actions for not telling barry about college. she had her reasons, but it was a shitty thing to do ✩
• barry comes back from the particle accelerator and asks why jenna didn't go to see it. she replies that she had no one to go with and that she was just finishing up work
• sees barry get struck by lightning and is the first one to scream for help. she also goes to the hospital with him because she doesn't want to leave his side ✩
• visits him at S.T.A.R. labs and the same day that he wakes up is the same day that their hands shocked when they touched ✩
• resists giving barry a hug when he comes back to work
• follows barry when she sees him acting suspicious and finds him running really fast
• despite the tension jenna is always there at s.t.a.r. labs because she wants to help ✩
• the two slowly start to become friends again ✩
• midway through the season they realize they both still really love each other and that none of them got over each other no matter how hard they tried to pretend they did ✩
• jenna is kind of soft-spoken but if someone or something sets her off she gets mad which doesn't happen very often
• I never imagined jenna having powers but you can do whatever you want :)
