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𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐘 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐀 𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐄 two sides of the same coin, and Iris West was the ridge which brought the two together and connected them forever. They were but teenagers when they first crossed paths, two victims of an unrequited love for the same young woman, and it was that shared experience that caused their paths to collide in a way they could never have prepared for. Like thieves in the night, the two had stolen one another's hearts, and never sought to give them back.
𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐆𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐅 high school, surviving the strenuous college experience, and excelling in adulthood, Barry Allen and Dianna Genovese never once strayed from the other's embrace; if anything, their nine years together only seemed to strengthen all which held them together. He'd known from the moment he spoke his truth about the night his mother was killed, opened up to her about all he'd seen in regard to the man in yellow, in which he'd been believed undoubtedly rather than dismissed like he'd been by all others, he'd be a fool to not have her by his side for the rest of his lifetime. Beneath a full moon and a crystal clear sky of lambent starlight, Barry Allen asked Dianna Genovese to marry him, and his future was solidified in a halo of glorious light when she said yes.
𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐀𝐍 𝐄𝐘𝐄-𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐃𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄 beneath the grim skies of Starling City, Barry returns home just in time for the famed day in which the Particle Accelerator would finally be turned on; for so long had he waited to witness such an unfathomable event for himself, and his own glee bled into electricity dancing from fiber to fiber within. However, like many things in his life had before, the night he'd lauded for so long did not end up going as planned. A mistake—a glitch in the system—triggered the eruption of the Particle Accelerator, causing it to engulf the whole of Central City in unspeakable energy and a dark cloud that would loom for endless days to come. Many were killed, many were wounded, but many were touched by that energy in a way that would alter their lives forevermore, and he happened to fall among them.
