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Hunter sped on the road, unseen by anyone. He really didn't see the point in the new suit if he was just going to stay invisible the whole time. But, with the comfortable fit, cool design, and nice blue color; who was he to complain? Out of the corner of his eye he could see Barry whizzing past him. The little ball of yellow lightning was hard to keep up with, even with Cisco's modifications to his bike and the GPS connecting them both.
"I'll go in through the front. You go through the side and get the hostages out." Barry ordered over the COM.
"Got it."
The plan went off without a hitch, which was rare for Team Flash. In no time at all the criminals were tired up in the same rope there hostages were. "A taste of their own medicine." Barry had called it grinning. Hunter sped both of them back on his bike with Barry grinning and laughing about it the whole way there. He was genuinely happy about being the Flash, about having his powers. That feeling had started to fade and his powers were becoming a burden until now. For that, he was grateful to Hunter for more than just being there for him. They were a team now, in more ways than one. A duo that so far felt like it could never be stopped. He was so lost in the happiness high from what happened that the pain his side didn't even take effect until they got to S.T.A.R. Labs.
"I thought I heard a gunshot." Hunter said carrying him in. The wound was bleeding and red liquid was soaking into his suit from a bullet hitting him. Barry hadn't even noticed he missed catching one when they fired at him. Now the bullet was embedded into the right side of his torso, and Cisco was probably going to be huffing and puffing about the blood on his suit for days.
"I thought you were faster than a speeding bullet." Joe said as Caitlin worked on getting the metal out of his side.
"They fired five shots and I only have two hands Joe. Fast or not…" He yelped as Caitlin pulled the bullet out of his wound "it still doesn't rule in my favor too much."
"Well, we'll just have to work on getting you faster than five speeding bullets, Mr. Allen." Dr. Wells said "now Cisco, if I may ask; what is that?" He said wheeling over to Hunter's suit.
"Oh, that's Hunter's suit. He's been helping Barry out in stealth mode. It's pretty dope."
"He...what?!" Dr. Wells' eyes filled with fear for a few seconds. "And when were you going to tell me? I knew you were evaluating Clarington's powers, but this is a different matter entirely!"
"Okay, okay, I should have mentioned it to you." Cisco said backing up slightly. Dr. Wells never got this angry this quick before.
"Since when does he have powers?" Joe said looking at Barry.
"You never told Joe?" Caitlin asked.
"Can we not talk about this while I'm getting stitches please?!" Barry said gripping the sides of the examination table.
"Can you guys go to the lab while I finish up?" Caitlin said glaring at everyone to emphasize her point of 'get out.'
"Okay, I'm in the dark and I better be in the light real quick." Joe said still eyeing Hunter suspiciously and putting a hand close to his gun pouch.
"Okay, well Hunter's a meta-human." Cisco started out. "He turns invisible and it's really cool and-"
"Show me" Joe said still looking at the blonde.
Hunter nodded and turned invisible for a few seconds. "All I was doing was getting the hostages out of the bank safely. That's all, I'm in, and then I'm out. No one but Barry even knew I was there, and I want to keep it that way. Barry is this city's hero, not me."
Joe's shoulders relaxed and his face softened. "Alright, but I still don't trust you." He said putting his chin up "not until I see you in action."
"Understandable" Hunter nodded "but, even if you don't trust after you see me. I'm still not going anywhere. Whether you like it or not, Barry and I are a team now."
And with that, Hunter turned on his heels and went back into the medical room to his boyfriend.
Barry groaned as he came to. His side had stopped hurting, which was good. He could still feel the stitches in his side, but they were healing, his blood pumping to the wound and the white blood cells doing their job.
"Heard you got a new partner" Barry's eyes shot opened fully and looked around the room. Felicity Smoke was standing above him. She was smiling at him brightly with her usual blonde ponytail and office-appropriate attire.
"Hey, what are you doing here?" Barry asked smiling at her.
"You didn't answer the question Barry." Oliver said coming in.
"Technically she never asked one." Barry smirked and sat up some, carefully not to rip any of his stitches.
"How many times can I tell you not to be careless in your fights until you do it?" Oliver huffed.
"One more time wouldn't hurt" Barry said smiling. "I'm fine, really, it's just a bullet."
"First time anyone's said that." Cisco joked before greeting the two visitors.
"So...did you?"
"Did I what?"
"Barry" Felicity sighed "did you get a new partner, because if not we have a problem."
"Okay yes, I have a new partner." Barry said "is this why you traveled all this way? Because you could've just called."
"No, but-"
"Barry, you're up" Hunter said smiling and holding two cups from Jitters. Hunter put the espresso (with a shot of Courvoisier, of course) on the bedside table next to Barry. He stopped mid-sip of his own drink as he finally noticed the two individuals staring at him. He glanced at Barry, hoping for an introduction.
"Hunt, this is Oliver and Felicity, two of my friends from Starling City."
"Hunter Clarington" he said holding out his hand "Nice to put names to the faces. Barry told me about his little adventures in Starling."
At this Oliver glared at Barry and he shook his head slightly. Hunter didn't know about the Arrow's identity quite yet.
"Don't trust him" Felicity said to Barry once every one is gone.
"What?"
"Barry, he's not who he says he is." Felicity said "his name is really Cooper Sheldon. I went to college with him until he created a virus to get him arrested." Barry gave her a strange, unbelieving look. "I'm serous Barry; he's a criminal who can't be trusted. He kidnapped me and my mother and held me at gunpoint!"
Barry seemed to waver. Hunter wouldn't do anything like that. He couldn't open his own desktop, let alone create a virus serious enough to get himself arrested.
"But...Felicity-I went to high school with him. He joined the army right after graduation. He never went to college."
"Well, unless he suddenly has an evil twin, he's the same guy." Felicity placed a hand on Barry's and stroked it with her thumb. "I'm sorry Bear."
Barry paced around his room, biting off every nail on his fingers down to their plates.
"He can't be-it's not possible, he wouldn't-" he muttered, going over in his head how this was all some cruel joke. How could Hunter, the man he loved, and his new partner in fighting crime be crime? This had to be a joke, this had to be. Hunter wouldn't lie to him. He wouldn't fake something like this.
But what if it was real?
What if Felicity was right and he had been faking this whole time?
What else had he been lying about?
Did Hunter even love him for real?
Barry was so wrapped up in his own mind and his own anxiety that he didn't notice the salt water until he tasted it. Hot tears were-and had been- streaming down his face for the past half hour he'd been here.
"No, no, stop it!" He scolded to himself. "Stop crying, stop, you don't care! He doesn't-he doesn't mean..." He doesn't mean anything. He couldn't even think it without his gut twisting in a horribly awful way. He felt sick.
What was he going to do if he found Felicity was right? He couldn't bring himself to think about cast Hunter aside. He hadn't come this far in caring for him just to lose him a second time.
God, the first time crushed him enough.
Without meaning to, his mind transported him to the day Hunter left Dalton. No, Hunter didn't leave. Hunter was taken from Dalton. Forcibly removed was the correct term. Pulled away by his parents after the steroids fiasco, even after it was proved it was just salt water and Hunter was just trying to do a sort of sugar-pill-effect with the Warblers. The Claringtons put Hunter and his belongings into a car and drove off, taking some of Barry's heart, soul, and for a little while, a little of his sanity with them.
After watching the car drive away Barry sat on the floor crying in his half-empty dorm room for days. He didn't eat, didn't come to Warbler practice. He was drifting through one class to the next. If it wasn't for Nick and Jeff he probably would've failed his junior year, and possibly starved himself to death.
Wait
Nick and Jeff
Nick and Jeff, his two best friends that got married the summer of his sophomore year in college.
The wedding both him and Hunter Clarington had attended.
"Felicity," he said getting the blonde on the phone. "What years was this 'Cooper Sheldon' in jail?"
"It's a different guy Felicity, I'm telling you. They may look similar, but it's not him. None of the time lines between him and Cooper line up. He was with you in college when Hunter was with me in high school. He was in jail when Hunter was at some friends of ours wedding. I'm telling you the truth!"
"Okay, okay, I'll look into it more." Felicity said jumping to one of the computers in the lab.
"Why is he so important to you anyways? You meet him for, what? A few weeks and you trust him enough to let him become your partner. What if he double-crosses you at some point?" Oliver said folding his arms.
"I never questioned any of your team members." Barry said trying to sound annoyed instead of nervous. "And for the record, I didn't meet him a few weeks ago. I met him when I was 16 and lived with him until he transferred to military school. I know him and he knows me probably better than any of you. I learned never to throw my lot against Hunter a long time ago. I trust him."
"Okay" Oliver nodded with raised eyebrows. "Well, if he's part of your team, and you know he has your back...I guess I can tolerate him."
"Thanks" Barry said, a little dry in his tone, but smiled none of the less.
"Barry's right" Felicity said after a few minutes of just listening to her keyboard click in awkward silence. "The timelines don't match up. I guess the first part of our trip was for nothing."
"First part?" Barry questioned knitting his eyebrows together.
"We found a body you might want to take a look at. It should be here in a few hours." Oliver said, getting closer to the speedster. "And make sure Wells isn't here when we bring it in."
"So...if this is Wells" Caitlin said looking over the crumpled, decaying body. "Then who have we been working for?"
Barry looked over the mummy and tried not to focus on the bile he felt nagging to come up his throat. It was just the three of them examining the little present Oliver left. They set Wells (or whoever their boss was) up to go to a conference in Cincinnati while they ran the tests.
"I don't know" Barry said gripping the table. "Maybe we can sneak a DNA test somehow, I don't know?" He started shaking slightly.
"Barry, you alright man?" Cisco said "I know this is freaky, but you look like you're going to faint."
"I just-" Barry swallowed "follow me."
Barry led them into his lab and pulled up the map of Central. "This is everything I know about my mom's murder." He started. He pulled back the paper one more time to reveal a red string covered slide with news articles about the person he looked up to for years. "This is all me and Joe know about Dr. Wells...or whoever that is."
His two friends looked to the slide, to Barry, then back to the slide.
"Why would you do all this?"
"I...I think Wells is the one that killed my mother." The statement rattled the room like a gun shot. "Harrison is the reverse Flash."
"Barry, hey are you alright?" Hunter said shaking his lover awake after he started screaming "flashback?"
"Mm hmm" Barry nodded and wiped his brow.
"Is this why you want to stay over?"
"Yeah" Barry nuzzled into Hunter's chest as the blonde handed him a glass of water. "Hunt, what am I going to do about Wells? I can't even sleep without thinking about that night. If I have to face him...if I have to look into the face of my mom's killer and my worst fear..."
"Hey, hey look at me Barry." Hunter said cupping his cheeks. "You're not going to be alone. You don't have to keep your fear in and be tough all the time. I'll be there with you if it does come down to a battle between you and that yellow suited maniac. Caitlin and Cisco are going to be helping you too."
"What if I fail? What if he kills someone else?"
"Barry, doing the 'what if' game never helped anyone" Hunter said firmly. "It's okay to be scared, but try to deal with what you have. For all you know Wells could be clean of being the Man in Yellow."
Barry nodded and held onto Hunter like a rock. That's what he had been since he arrived, his rock, his stronghold. That comfort that he could cling to. The someone that told him it was okay to be scared, to not be a 'man's man' all the time that he never got with Joe.
He started shaking and sniffing. "Please, don't ever leave okay?"
"Barry..." Hunter sighed and ran his fingers through his brown, slightly wavy bed head. "I can promise you I'll never leave you intentionally." He said pushing his bangs out of Barry's soft face. "My officers will have to brag me by my toes."
Barry looked up at him and laughed a little. "Sometimes...sometimes I forget you're in the Army."
"That's not good." Hunter said cupping his cheeks. "Don't worry, Cisco and I have been working on me transporting. It's not much right now, a few feet at most. But if I can keep working on it...if I can travel long distances-"
"You'll be here when I need you?"
"Even if I'm at training or something. I do need to do a few of those each year Bear. I can't get out of that. The longest one in basic was four weeks, so I won't be gone long. But like I said, if I can get out of it, I will."
"Four weeks? You know how much can happen in this city in four weeks Hunter?"
"A lot, I know. But you can handle it. I know you can. Don't get dependent on me for your crime-fighting. You are this town's hero, not me. You can do a lot on your own." Hunter kissed his forehead. "You're the boss."
"I'm not all that great at leadership."
"That's a load of bull. If you can handle the freshman Warblers, you can handle Caitlin and Cisco. With Cisco it's basically the same thing."
"Hey, now you're just being mean."
"See your defending them already." Hunter chuckled as Barry lightly hit his chest. "You keep doing that and you'll bruise me."
"Payback for all the hickies." Barry said laughing. "Don't worry, I still love you."
"Love you too Bear." Hunter said kissing the speedster and placing him in his lap. In about a minute they were moaning, grinding on each other, and Barry's pants were off at lightning speed and tossed on the floor.
"Well that got intense quickly." Barry paled as he turned to the window. The source of the unfortunately recognizable voice was sitting on Hunter's opened window sill, hood up and bows in hand. It was too dark to tell, but Barry knew the Arrow was either about to kill him or smirking like the devil.
"Why me?" Barry groaned into his hands. Oliver chuckled and took off his hood, entering the little room.
"Queen-you're the Arrow" Hunter blinked "why am I not surprised?"
"Felicity is hearing this too by the way." Oliver said grinning at Barry who was red down to his chest and looked like he was trying to turn into a turtle.
"I hate you all." He groaned.
"I know" Oliver laughed.
The Arrow team had to leave soon enough, but not before teasing Barry and Hunter whenever they were alone. Once the embarrassment wore off Barry was actually glad to have someone to talk to about Hunter. With Iris still in the dark he couldn't talk relationships with her and ask for advice like he normally would. So Felicity was sort of his replacement. She was no boy guru, but she was a good listener. Oliver had gotten himself accustom to alternating between smiling at them both, to glaring a hole into Hunter's head whenever they acted like a couple. Barry enjoyed it, enough so to question why he was hiding things from his friends at all.
But one text and that question was erased from his mind.
"What's the matter?" Hunter asked wrapping his arms around Barry's thin waste as the speedster was sitting in his lap.
"Iris just texted me about her roommate from college" Barry said Apparently...I have a double date."
Dr. Wells wheeled into his secret room, gripping the arm rests in his chair in anger.
"Gideon!" He yelled once the doors were closed.
"Yes?" A mechanically female voice answered.
"Show me the future." He demanded. What he saw made him get up from his chair and kick the wall.
"No, no, this can't be!" He said looking at the future news article. What once stood there, a disastrous page about the Flash's abrupt disappearance, was completely wiped clean. Even the author had changed from Iris West-Allen, to Iris West-Thawne.
"This can't happen. I won't waste 15 years just to see it all burn now! Gideon give me the location of Hunter Clarington's apartment." Dr. Wells turned to his bright yellow suit. "It's time I do something about him."
"Locating the dwelling of Hunter Allen-Clarington, 2015."
