Primrose Path (A Harry Wells x Reader Insert)

Chapter 26

A/N: This chapter has an interesting reveal and also has a gratuitous smut scene...

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"Wow, (Y/N), you're glowing!" Caitlin remarks as you walk into the Lab's Cortex on Harry's arm.

"Yeah, there's something different about you," Barry notices. As if they don't know!

"Hmm, well, I wonder what that might be..." you joke, knowing that they each surely had a hand in helping orchestrate Harry's proposal last night. You create a dramatic hand gesture to your face that so obviously displays your massive diamond engagement ring.

"Oh my God!" Iris shouts while pointing at your new bling.

"Girl, that's like an entire planet on your finger," Cisco declares.

"You mean he didn't show you the ring yesterday?"

Harry leans in to kiss your cheek. "I wanted you to be the first one to see it, Flower."

You admire the ring with the girls while Harry tells the guys how you reacted.

"You two will be my bridesmaids, won't you?" you ask them. Iris and Caitlin beam and eagerly accept your offer.

"Really, congratulations, you guys," Caitlin says before whispering to you, "I brought some champagne up to his office."

"Harry, let's go to your office!"

Your fiancé gets a frisky look in his eye.

"Carry on, get back to work," he orders his team while starting to drag you out of the room, "Do what it is you do best and all that."

You both make your way up to Harry's office, but you're deep in thought the whole time. You start to remember the conversation Harry had with you months ago - the time when Detective Thawne came to threaten him...

When you reach the office, Harry instantly spots the bottle of champagne and smiles, picking it up and reading the label as you prepare to ask him your question.

"Harry," he turns at the sound of your voice, always giving you his attention, "I don't want to read into this but... does Detective Thawne's ongoing investigation with you have anything to do with why you proposed to me? You said before that we'd be safer if I were your wife and well..." You gestured around as if to say 'things aren't going particularly smoothly right now.'

Harry looks at you for a second, then places the bottle back down and approaches you. He takes both of your hands in his.

"That, as far as I'm concerned, is one tiny bonus to marrying you. I didn't do it because of that. I did it because I love you more than anything and never want to be apart from you again."

You look up at him and nod your head. "I just thought I'd ask because it is a bonus to the situation."

"It is, but having you as my wife is the biggest bonus I'm ever going to get," he says, holding your cheek in one hand, "and there is no way that I'm going to let Thawne ruin this and take me away from you."

"Okay," you say, bringing him in for a hug, "I love you."

"I love you."

He kisses the top of your head before pulling away and goes to open the bottle, but you're not quite done with your queries. He turns back to you with his signature eyebrow raise when you don't follow him.

"Flower? I thought we were going to do some more celebrating..." he says and you know he doesn't just mean with a glass of alcohol.

"I know... But I was thinking maybe with everything going on and more people coming after us, that you could teach me how to use a gun or a knife," you say, toeing around the idea of no one being with you to protect you. "You know, now that I've mastered hand-to-hand combat? I want to try handling a weapon now." You fiddle with your hands and look at him expectantly. Blue eyes narrow at you.