Hidden Away Until Now (Barry Allen is Sebastian Smythe)

5| This is My Boyfriend, Hunter Clarington

Hunter sat with Barry in Barry's apartment. Tomorrow he'd be meeting Barry's friends. Of course, he'd agreed, he loved Barry, but he needed complete trust to gain complete access to the Flash and Sebastian. With Barry planning to give Sebastian complete control slowly, all that was needed was for Barry to One: tell Hunter, that he's the Flash. and Two: give complete control to Bas, then the debt he'd needed could be paid. Hunter might continue with Barry if that works out.

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Time. A long thing time can be. The entire team sat in the cortex, waiting for Barry and Hunter. Joe had taken the day off; Eddie was visiting his parents; Barry was helping Hunter with the cases, so they could clock off early.

The entire team was nervous about meeting Hunter. Iris decided to declare the feelings first. "I know that we're all nervous, but, Barry seemed to really be falling in love with Hunter, so we need to be supportive. If we don't respond the right way, Sebastian is probably gonna hurt us a lot worse than just a lecture this time."

  Oliver decided to jump in, "You're right, we do need to be supportive." The team felt a shift in the mood as the electricity in the room ran faster. That was what it was like when Barry was around; his speed force energy made the electricity work faster. Barry walked in holding hands with Hunter. Hunter was of athletic build, blue-eyed, and brownish hair that was spiked up in a way that made prep school girls go wild. He wore a black coat and a red scarf. Barry, himself, had a dark gray coat buttoned up, coffee in hand, his eyes were mixing colors, and his hair was gelled in such a way that made Oliver feel faint.

Barry cleared his throat, "Hi, guys. First off it is me, Barry. Just wanted to clear that up." Hunter squeezed Barry's hand. "This is my boyfriend, Hunter Clarington."

Hunter smiled, "Hello," he said.

Iris stood up, "Hi, Hunter, I'm Iris..." she started to say.

"The foster sister? Ah, yes, Barry speaks very highly of you." Hunter then turned to Oliver. "You're Oliver Queen, not hard to miss. That's Felicity Smoak, I'd guess." He nodded at the super hacker. "Cisco Ramon, Tech genius and a good friend." Then Hunter turned to Caitlin. "Dr. Caitlin Snow." He went around the room and was introduced to everyone else,  who left quite quickly. No Wells were currently here.

"So, Hunter, you work at the CCPD? With Barry?" Oliver said, quietly. He was trying to control his emotions. 

"Yes."

Felicity pulled Oliver into a chair and gave him a look like STOP.

"We know that the two of you have dated before. Do you want to tell us why you broke up?" Iris wondered.

Barry looked at his boyfriend. "Can I..."

Hunter nodded. "Yeah, I'll help you."

"Hunter came to Dalton when I was in the middle of my senior year. He came from a military school in Colorado. Dalton brought him into captain the Warblers, I had quit after what had happened the past year with The New Directions!. He convinced me to come back, and, well, we started dating after a while, and..." Barry looked at Hunter. "It's a bit foggy,"

Hunter smiled sheepishly, "Ah, right, that'd be about the time I used the drugs on you."

The rest of the team stood and in shock. "What drugs?" Oliver asked sharply.

"Hunter made us all take performance-enhancing drugs that year. He, well.."

"I slipped them into Barry's coffee, which already had a shot of Courvoisier. Barry (Sebastian) drank that every day, and by the time it wore off, he'd be having another set," Hunter explained, reaching for Barry's hand.

"Yeah, I remember Thad and Nick, telling me about it several months ago. You threatened to unleash me on them, didn't you? In return, before finding out, of course, I pushed the entire team through deadly workouts. I gave you some extra." Barry teased.

Hunter groaned, " I hated that. I almost took you off them to see if Sebastian would be less mean, but then I remembered that Sebastian is an ass either way, so why not just make him worse? But nothing like getting the other teammates to cooperate then threatening to unleash their highly drugged friend on them."

Barry smirked. "You'd bet. That explained why Trent was mad at me that year. Blaine and Sam couldn't figure out why I didn't help them until they found out about the drugs. The entire team and the New directions dog piled me when you left and I was captain again."

The two laughed while the team looked at each other.

They were gonna have to learn to deal with this.

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Barry and Hunter walked into the auditorium in Central City. Both glee clubs were here, but Barry needed to tell Hunter something first before the chaos began.

"Hunter?"

His boyfriend turned to look at him, "Yeah?"

"I need to tell you something."

Hunter nodded encouragingly. This version of Hunter was lovable to Barry, but snarky as Sebastian when it came to anyone else.

"I'm the Flash," Barry said quietly.

Hunter looked at Barry. The shock in Hunter's face was evident, but it slowly faded. "I know,"

Barry looked at him, "You do?"

"Yeah, about a week ago, I was walking up to your lab. I felt some wind rush past me, and then I heard papers flying everywhere. I looked and saw you cursing as your lightning faded, but the easiest part to figure it out was whenever there's a Flash sighting, you were gone." The shock was gone, and there was no anger. Then Hunter's face became serious. So close. "Do your friends know? What about The New Directions! and The Warblers?"

Barry sighed, "My friends do. They help me to stop metas, but the glee clubs? No," he shook his head hard, "the more people that know my identity, the more people get hurt. You're the only one that I can trust more than my team, more than my friends." He explained, he took Hunter's hand in his.

Sebastian chuckled in Barry's head. Not bad, lover boy. Think he'll forgive you?

One day. I want one day without your snarky remarks. Barry said to his alter personality. The two watched together in their head as Hunter kissed them right on the lips hard. But, yes, I think he will. Thank you for everything, Sebastian. You deserve a chance at a normal life.

You're welcome, no getting sappy on me, though, Allen. I'll take full control after the concert. Sebastian ordered.

Do you want to sing at the concert? If I do it, I'll blow character and it would ruin everything.

Sure. Sebastian replied. Barry pulled himself out of the kiss with Hunter and his head. Then he heard a familiar voice yell, "Twinks!"

The devil herself: Santana, had arrived and was ready to talk.

She nodded to Hunter as a hello. She had never met him before, she'd been away during the drug scandal, but Sebastian had explained it all.

Barry and Hunter sat down together with Santana. Love was in the air. Hunter smirked and Barry smiled back. They turned to look at the woman before them.Santana started talking.
This time it wasn't going to be pleasing.