Short on Time

Chapter 73

The sun shown through the curtains of my room. I smiled as I rolled over, but Barry wasn't there. My eyes widened in alarm for a moment as I panicked, but then I relaxed when I saw his shoes by the door. I slowly got out of bed and grabbed my robe before I proceeded to waddle downstairs.

When I got down there I saw Barry laughing, and then frowning, and then very confused as he watched the tv. Except I had no idea what he was watching because it was going much to fast for the normal human eye. "Barry."

"Hey," Barry said smiling as I sat down heavily next to him and looked around at what he had made for breakfast, and also not finished.

"Hi, you're up early," I said as I kissed him. "Doing what, exactly?"

"Uh, I'm just catching up on all the TV I missed while I was stuck in the Speed Force. When you've been gone four months, the world is a minefield of spoilers. But Cisco hooked me up with the 1,000-times sped up version of my favorite shows. Aw, Jon Snow died.Oh, he's alive! Huh."

"And here I was thinking you'd need a jump start for your loopy brain," I said teasingly.

"Nope. Brain good," Barry said with a dorky smile.

I rolled my eyes, "not so reasurringing when you say it that way."

"All of me is good," Barry tried again kissing me.

"Still not doing it," I winked and Barry kissed me again, "getting there."

Barry phone then decided to buzz for work. "Joe needs me. Crime scene."

"Oh, that's okay. I should probably get started on our neglected nursery," I said trying to stand up, but flopping back down on the couch due to my size. "It's gonna take me forever to get through this, so..."

"Oh, no. Don't worry about it. I'm done with it," Barry said.

"You're done?" I asked confused.

"Yeah. I finished the two cribs, painted the room green, and I put up the curtains over that amazing view," Barry said making me smile.

"Well, I guess you've got everything covered," I said.

"So, my lovely pregnant wife can remain stress-free," Barry said kissing me again. "Save me a bear claw?"

"Ooh, no promises, speedster daddy. You whoosh, you lose," I said with a wink.

~*~

"The Cortex's quantum algorithm should decrypt this code in no time. That should help us ID our new hacker. But while we wait, I got a little welcome back gift for you," Cisco said as we all stood around the Cortex. "Oh, I get to be Ginger today!" Cisco said clapping his hands happily.

"Excuse me?" I asked confused.

"Come, come. Walk with ya boy. Gather round, class," Cisco said answering my question.

"I do not sound like that," I grumbled as we followed Cisco.

"Ka-blam!" Cisco said as he pulled off the tarp to reveal the suit Barry had already worn once.

"I mean, that was cool Reveal and everything, but I've seen that suit. I've actually already worn it," Barry said voicing my thoughts.

"Yeah. We all know you gave Barry's suit a nice little fancy makeover," Wally said.

"Yeah, but you don't know what you don't know. And underneath all thisthed beautiful, I've built in self-repairing armor, nano-liquid circuitry, full-spectrum scanning, and a whole bunch of other big words. Chief among them. Your very own custom-made HUD," Cisco said. "This thing is loaded with maps, schematics, delivery menus. You know that Thai place you like so much?"