Heartache (Completed)

Chapter 20: Waking Up To Chaos

Note: #PoorBarry #WhatTheHell? Also, this chapter has more pictures than normal...

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"Excuse me?" Caitlin shouted. Oliver looked down. "So you basically forced him to have sex with you!?!?!" Caitlin questioned angrily. Oliver nodded. "No wonder he had a panic attack." Caitlin said. Now it was Oliver's turn to look angry. "You lier!!" he replied.

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Barry could hear shouting. He didn't know why. Wasn't heaven supposed to be nice? And why did it sound like Oliver and Caitlin?

He decided to opens eyes.

Then he remembered what had happened.

He decided not to open his eyes.

Sadly, Caitlin noticed his change in breathing

"He's up!" Caitlin said, as way of stopping the argument or because of Barry, no one will ever know. 

"Barry!" Oliver said. "I was so nervous! What happened!?!" Barry couldn't answer that. He really couldn't. So what to say?...

He still hadn't opened his eyes, but he was likely about to be busted. He decided to wait and see.  

"What if he doesn't want to talk to me?" Oliver asked sadly. "What if he's mad at me?" Caitlin gave him a look. "Well, duh, of course he's allowed to be mad at me, but what if he doesn't forgive me?" Oliver said. Barry couldn't see it, but Caitlin gave Oliver a smile before answering. "Of course he'll forgive you. This is Barry we're talking about." Oliver tried to smile back, but he couldn't manage it. "Thanks, Caitlin," he replied sadly. Caitlin nodded. 

Caitlin left, and Barry decided to strike. He flashed opened his eyes, put a hand over Oliver's mouth and looked around. When he decided that they were alone, he let time catch up with him. 

Sadly, he didn't check right outside the door, where Caitlin and Cisco were eavesdropping.

"Hey, Ollie," Barry hissed. Oliver looked hurt. "Good morning, Barry," he replied sadly. Unfortunately for him, Barry didn't have and compassion left. "Please leave," Barry said. Oliver looked shocked. "Let's talk about-" Barry cut him off. "Listen, Ollie, I don't want to talk about this. So, if you don't go, I'll move you myself."

Oliver gulped. He knew he only had one shot. "Barry, I'm sorry. I didn't listen, and I hurt you." Barry looked livid. "It took me passing out to help you see that! I can't be with someone who doesn't listen to me. I'm not sorry, however. I'm glad that I found it out now. Don't wanna be even more heartbroken when this is over. Besides, I'm sure you have Felicity," he spit out with malice.

Oliver felt tears in his eyes. "You don't mean that," he said. "You're just hurt." Barry growled. "The sad thing is, you think you know me. You don't. So don't pretend to. Your just making this harder." Oliver felt like everything was falling apart. What about Flarrow?

"Barry?" Oliver asked. Barry looked at him, and Oliver realized that Barry was crying. "Barry. I did something terrible, and I know that I can't make up for it, but please, let me try." A runaway tear slid down Barry's cheek. "I'm sorry, Ollie, but I can't. I can't get past this. We can still work together, but that's it. We're no longer friends, we don't see each other, nothing. I won't tolerate it."

Oliver found himself inches own home in STAR City as soon as Barry had finished.

He also found that his tears had slid all the way down his face.

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Len had finally given up. He really wasn't ever going to get the boy. 

He couldn't keep seeing him, hearing about him, etc. He needed to get away. 

He thought back to the proposal he had gotten that morning...

At first, he had thought that it was ridiculous, but the idea was starting to become appealing, especially since that meant that he wouldn't have to see or hear about Barry...

Yes. He would do it, if only to avoid Barry.

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There went the 'Kara is my girlfriend' plan. Man, Barry felt so awkward now. He was running on his treadmill, thinking about all of the different ways the could have gone.

Barry's only problem was that now that Oliver was gone, he couldn't help but think about Len. 

It was really, really unhelpful.

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When he boarded the timeship, he had no idea that he would never see Lisa again.

Never rob a bank again.

Never breath again.

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Barry couldn't stop thinking about Len. So, he looked him up. He called people, ran places, looked everywhere, but he couldn't find him. 

Not until he heard about the Legends.

So he waited, hopping his love would travel through time to be with him, to see him, anything. 

But he never did.

And when Barry heard why, his heart shattered.

Note: I feel like this picture kinda represents this chapter... Minus the smiling Oliver. He should be frowning.