READY AND STEADY ( a revision of the meet of the best friends in Flash:Rebirth 1)
"The world got too fast for you?" The recently returned to life Barry Allen turns as, inside the museum dedicated to his memory – to the memory of the Flash and his legacy – he hears the familiar voice coming from his back, and a sudden peck on one of the shoulders. Barry grins and breaths deeply, inhaling the velocity of the world, thinking that, maybe for once, his friend is right… from the day he sacrificed himself, many things changed, and few of them remained still… and he still has to understand in what category his former best friend, member of the "dynamic duo" known as the Brave and the Bold, can be.
"You kidding, Hal? Everyone's doing six things at once… the world is finally catching up with me!" Barry grins as Hal does, as the brown-head emerald knight gives him another peck, once they start to walk in direction of the part of the museum dedicated to the both of them, to their secret identities.
"Yeah, it's terribly annoying…" And Hal's feeling can be easily heard into his voice, as he send glances to people who's having a tour, downloading, messaging and calling at the same time.
"Dunno, I think it's quite exiting. It's how I've always lived. It's nice to see that I'm no longer the only one who does it"
"You didn't call it "exiting" if you'd be the one trying to have dinner with someone's who's texting their sister, fielding calls from work and late to another date she double-booked."
"She double-booked? Man, you're losing your touch…" Barry grins, and laugh, and, differently from Hal when they were younger, he is not doing so under his breath… and not like a maniac.
"c'mon, it was just an example…" Hal is answering him with the same grin, as they stop under "their" statues.
"I bet it's the jacket. Who's still wearing it nowadays? – he grins again – besides you, obviously."
"better my jacket than your bow-ties" Hal's voice sounds offended, but the kind of offended between friends, like a fake one.
"C'mon, Hal I told you the story, they weren't my fault! It was the cruel joke of a coworker of mine… - he grins again, a grin of happiness, as he looks at his "reflection" breathing heavily – besides, I don't play the field. I have Iris"
"then it makes the two of us" Hal, hands in his pockets, looks at what they once were, at what he hopes they'll be soon again, and smiles.
"don't tell me… Green Arrow settled down and now you do too?- he grins – can't believe I've lived long enough to see the day you'd decided to settle down!"
"Yeah, well, when we had to go separate ways, even back then I was ready to commit myself, I swear, and now that Chris is back, I don't want to wait any longer, I know I'll never meet someone like her ever again, because I know she is my Iris. I had my chance, once, with her, and I've been that crazy to let it pass through my fingers… I don't want to lose other time.- he pauses, smiling – let's say I've left her wait for me too long, and I think it's time to stop it."
