Short on Time

Chapter 49

As I walked out of the high school from grading I stopped in shock when I saw the heart in front of me made out of flowers, "it's too much?" Barry asked when he saw my shocked face. "Yeah, it's too much.It's the heart, right? Is it too cheesy? Hold on," next thing I knew there were some with my name made in them. "Is that better? That's...That's worse? We'll go back to the heart."

I quickly grabbed his arm, "no, Bar. Wait, wait, wait. It is so beautiful, and you are so sweet, but tonight, I want to be with you. Barry Allen, the man I love. Not the Flash. So..."

"So no Flash talk. No speed. No problem. All right. Starting now, the Flash is officially off-limits," Barry said.

"Where are we going?" I asked curiously.

"It's a surprise," Barry said holding out his arm. When we arrived at the restaurant I was blown away, "is it too much?" Barry asked nervously.

"As long as you didn't have to donate a kidney, I love it," I told him. "Anytime I can spend with you makes me happy." 

"So how was work?" Barry asked.

I smiled, "well the music students are fun. I just wish I didn't have to grade so many terrible papers. How was work for you?"

"Well, Julian had me write up a carbon dating report," Barry said with a face. "Then a DNA sequencing report. A couple chemical compound reports. So he pretty much just gives me all the work he doesn't want me to do, so..."

I shook my head, "Julian has always been a bit of a lazy bum since we were kids."

"You knew Julian when you were little?" Barry asked surprised.

I gave him a look and then laughed, "you don't know... I mean he's always been a pain, but like my little brother loves the guy."

Barry shook his head and then we heard sirens, "what's going on?"

"Apparently, a robbery's in progress across the street," the server said.

"Go, go, go," I told him.

"Are you sure?" Barry asked.

"Yes, go and use your speed," I told him and Barry was gone and back in a second. Just when I thought we were going to get a moment of piece our phones went off. "Cisco... We should go."

"Yeah," Barry said and we walked out. We arrived in the breach room to see a breach activated and Joe and Cisco pointing guns at it, "what's going on?"

"Why'd you open a breach?" I asked. 

"I didn't," Cisco said. "That's why we called you."

"Well, can you close it?" Barry asked.

"Once again, wouldn't have called if I could," Cisco said.

"Somebody's coming through," I said.

"Get back," Joe said and then Harry jumped through.

"Allen."

"Wells."

"I need your help," Harry said.

"With what?" I asked.

"With that," Harry said as Jesse ran through.

"Hey, guys," Jesse said brightly.

"Jesse. You're a speedster?" Wally asked.

"Yeah. It's pretty cool, right?"

"I mean, yeah, I would say so," Wally said.

"When did this happen?" I asked.

"A few days ago," Harry said. "So, when I got Allen his speed back, Wally and Jesse were hit with the dark matter. Turns out she was affected," Harry explained to Caitlin's confused look.