Barry returned back to STAR Labs to find a very frustrated Astrid! "What the hell is wrong with him!" She yelled, as she threw a pen across the room. Just missing Barry.
"Great to see you too! What did Cisco do now? What did I just walk into?" He asked defensively.
"Sorry, Barry!" she apologized. "Just that stupid friend of ours! I caught him on his way out of here to get coffee and somehow we ended up in an argument. I haven't seen him in two weeks and the minute I see him... Grr! We haven't had a fight like that since. God I don't know! It makes me wonder why I even came back to town at all!"
Barry picked up the pen and placed it on the desk in front of her. "I need to ask on Cisco's behalf. Why didn't you invite him to your wedding with Oliver?"
Astrid stared at Barry with confusion, and then it was as if everything had sunk in. "Wedding? What wedding? Oh my God! That wedding!" she said softly, "We never actually got married. Quite the opposite, actually. But I guess you guys only saw what the media displayed."
Barry could tell that his friend was clearly going through something, "Astrid. What happened in Sterling City?"
"Oliver and I broke up." She told him. Barry had not expected to hear that.
"Um… How do you go from getting married to breaking up all in two weeks?" he asked her.
"Long story, short. We got married to lure out some crazy woman who goes by the name of Cupid... It was a sham proposal... you know the drill! Because this girl was obsessed with him. A few other things happened and we realized that those he is close to are his vulnerability." She wiped a small tear away, as if it were no big deal, and looked at the arrow in Barry's hands. "What the hell is that?" she asked him, pointing at the arrow.
Barry sighed. "I think this belongs to Cupid." He told her.
"Oh no! Oh No! No! No!" Astrid said. "Because that would mean that she followed me here and that she is no longer in police custody!" She walked over to the window and opened the glass to let some fresh air in to the room.
"We heard on the radio that she escaped. I actually brought the arrow here as its part of a case that we're working on." Barry took the arrow and walked over to Caitlin's med bay. He began analyzing the DNA on the tip as fast as possible. He looked over at Astrid as he realized something interesting.
"Astrid… It's not just blood that is on here. There is some other type of chemical." he told her.
"Yeah? What is it?" she asked him. But, before he could answer her, he saw something from his peripheral vision. An arrow had come in through the open window and was coming straight for her.
He knew that he had no time to move her out of the way. So instead, he ran into the direction of the arrow. It hit him in the shoulder and brought him to the ground.
"Barry!" Astrid blurted out as she crouched down over him. The arrow hadn't entered an artery, thankfully. A strange gaze came over his face. He sat up, as Astrid ran to get gloves and something to remove the arrow. "Wait there." She told him.
As she retrieved the first aid kit, she turned to see Barry standing right in front of her with a large grin on his face and the arrow, that he had removed, was lying on the floor. His skin had already healed over.
"I forget you have super fast healing abilities!" she put the first aid kit back down and Barry continued to follow her around. "Barry, you're making me a little uncomfortable. Can you give me a little space?" She asked him as his face was only inches away from hers.
"You heard the lady." Cisco's voice chimed in as he entered the room, staring at them both.
Astrid walked over to Cisco. As he handed her a hot coffee from Jitters. "An olive branch, for the boss." he told her. "I'm sorry for acting like the stupider version of myself, earlier. While I would like to say that it won't happen again, I think you and I both know our dynamics."
Astrid took the coffee. "And while I would like to say the longer version of ditto, I need to tell you that Barry just protected me from an arrow that came in from that window over there… But what I don't understand is how they shot it from this high up. I'm guessing it was Cupid and we need to get her back in to police custody, asap! Barry can you go find her?"
"Cupid?" Cisco asked, unsure as to what was going on.
Barry still wore the same smile on his face. "Anything you say, my love!" he told her. He went to leave, still wearing his Barry Allen clothes. "Barry what are you doing? You need to put on your suit, first!" she told him. He put on his suit and left as fast as he could to find Cupid.
"Did he just call you, what I think he called you?" Cisco asked her, as he took a sip of his coffee.
"You heard that too? What happened while I was away?" Astrid asked him taking a sip of her own.
"Nothing, actually. He was fine this morning." Cisco shrugged it off.
Barry grew a little sidetracked from finding Cupid as he sped past a street vendor selling flowers. He picked up a beautiful bouquet of roses and left the money on the counter, to pay for them.
He returned to STAR Labs to find Astrid on the phone.
"Barry." Cisco said, requesting his attention. "Who are they for?" he was referring to the flowers. He had a feeling that they were for their female friend.
Astrid ended her phone call to see Barry waiting for her. He removed his mask. "Barry, what's with the flowers? Never mind, I think Iris will love them. Did you find Cupid?" she asked him. She noticed Cisco staring at them both.
"These flowers are for you, actually." Barry told her. She was surprised, though she didn't take the flowers. "They're beautiful, Barry. But why?"
"I knew that when you told me that you and Oliver broke up that it was because of this… this thing between the two of us." Barry declared, "I want you to know that I feel it too." Barry held the flowers out to her and took a couple of steps forward.
"Woah! Woah! Woah!" Astrid gasped, stepping backwards. "What the hell is going on, Barry? Cisco? Is this some sort of joke that the two of you had planned? It's really not funny!"
Cisco was just as confused as she was. "Barry. Are you ok?" he asked his friend.
"Astrid never married Oliver. They broke up and now we all know why. She wanted for us to be together!" Barry told him.
"Barry… you love Iris!" Cisco tried to remind his friend. "You know? Iris West?"
While Barry was distracted, Astrid went to call Joe, she needed to inform him of their friend's odd behavior. But as soon as he saw her pull out the phone, Barry's attention was back on her. "Who are you calling, darling?" he asked her.
"Joe, actually." She told him, glancing at Cisco, from over Barry's shoulder. "But I suppose that it can wait. Let me take those flowers and put them in a vase."
She took the flowers from Barry's hands and smelt them. Right now she was afraid of Barry. He was acting very unpredictable and she felt that humoring him, would be the best way to keep him from doing something unstable.
"Cisco. Would you mind calling Caitlin?" Astrid asked as she went to retrieve a vase, "She and Ronnie should be back from their honeymoon by now. Could you also call Joe?" She placed the roses in the vase and smiled over at Cisco, hoping that he had gotten the hint. Fortunately, he had and he had left the room.
Barry was still smiling at her. He stroked the bottom of her chin making her feel all the more uncomfortable. "While Cisco goes to make those phone calls, that will give us enough time to chat. You are so beautiful… Did you know that?" he began.
He inched closer to her ready to give her a kiss. But she took his hand from her face and removed it, automatically pushing it behind him. She wanted to keep him talking. Her psychology instincts had come over her. "So umm… Barry. You said that you wanted to chat… tell me, when did you realize that you had these feelings?" Barry was thrown off guard.
They heard the emergency beeper going off and so Astrid ran towards the computer, relieved to be saved
by the bell. "Barry, there is an emergency on the corner of banks and woodward. Go and this time no distractions!" she told him, Barry left immediately.
"He won't find an emergency, because I set off a false alarm," Cisco said as he reentered the room. "But what was all that? He was acting all Beyoncé crazy in love with you."
"Thanks for the quick thinking. I don't know what's wrong with him. I thought the two of you had some sort of prank going for a moment. I think it might have something to do with Cupid. Did you call Caitlin or Joe?" Astrid asked him.
"Caitlin still isn't answering. But Joe will be here as soon as he can." Cisco replied.
"Good! Because acting like I am in love with Barry is a lot harder than I thought."
