Barry had walked through the door of Joe's house, his home. Iris had dropped him off quickly, before she went on her date with Eddie. For the majority of the time spent in the evening, Barry quietly sat around in nearly in every room, remembering times from when he was a kid and even to the past months.
His brooding was interrupted by a knock on the front door. Joe had already come home, then left again to help with another case. Barry answered the door.
"Hey," Oliver leaned on the doorframe. A tight lipped smile formed on his face; but not once of annoyance. He wouldn't have gone over if he didn't wat to see his friend.
Barry stepped out of the way, allowing Oliver to enter the house. He surveyed the living room they were in a nodded to himself, the right corner of his lip twitching upwards a little more.
"This is nice," he compliment on the room. Both men sat down on the couch; when Oliver pulled out his phone. He held it up slightly, hitting a contact on his touch screen. Felicity's face popped up two seconds later.
"Hey, Oliver, how's it going over there?" She smiled warmly at him. Her hair wasn't in the ponytail she usually loved to wear, it was down her face, some strands falling into her face.
"Uh," Oliver looked over to Barry, whom looked curiously at the phone. "I'm with a friend at the moment, just thought I'd check in."
"Friend? The only friend you have is-" Felicity looked shocked for a moment, then a wide excited smile crossed her face. "Put Barry on!"
Oliver handed the phone to Barry, who was also smiling wildly. Barry stood up, walking to sit down once more, this time at the dining room table. He and Felicity spoke for a few minutes, both not being able to stop smiling.
"So, now that you can see again," Felicity bit her bottom lip, then released it. "I was wondering if the next time you were in Starling City that maybe we could go out." Her lips pursed, moving around nervously as her free hand touched her cheek. She couldn't hide the evident pink flush on her face.
"I would love to," Felicity looked happy, until Barry kept speaking. "Just as friends though, okay?"
"Oh, are you with Iris now?" She asked, looking saddened.
"No," Barry answered truthfully. "I just don't really think it would be too appropriate." Barry glanced at Oliver, who was looking back at him from the corner of his eye. Confusion was written on his face for a second before it disappeared with a shake of his head.
"Uh, yeah." Felicity nodded, now her face took on a green-yellow tinge to it. Barry supposed she felt sick after being shut down. "That would be good too, I guess."
Barry did feel bad. It had been over a year since he saw her, but Felicity had appeared in a few of his eary dreams when in his coma. They slowly played out of the being in love, then drifting apart to friends, finishing with them either hating each other or being strangers. Barry knew he didn't want the last two things to happen, and he did like Felicity, he just didn't think of her in a girlfriend way anymore.
Felicity had hung up before Barry could say anything else; Oliver's phone flipped around in Barry's hand before he walked beside the couch and held the phone out to Oliver.
"Here, she hung up." Barry plopped down on the couch, the other side as far away from Oliver as he could get. Oliver couldn't get a word in, when Barry's phone buzzed on the table. Cisco had sent a message for Barry to get to the lab as fast as he could.
"Wanna run there?" He asked Oliver, who looked worried in a second. That was the only response he could get, about half a second later Barry was running with Oliver on his back, and not long after that (It could have really been less than ten seconds later) Oliver fell flat on the ground, gasping for much needed air that he felt had left his lungs. He lay on the S.T.A.R. labs floor, looking at Cisco's shoes once he looked up to see his face.
"Nice entrance," Cisco hauled Oliver up to his feet, Oliver thanking him quickly. Cisco pointed over to something on a gurney to Barry; Barry tried not to laugh at Oliver.
Both men looked in awe. A suit was laid out, maroon coloured full body suit that was lightly reinforced on the inside, with a mask attached at the neck. The centre of the chest had a gold circle, with the same matron colour background inside it, and a yellow lightning bolt crossing through the circle at a diagonal angle. The mask looked like it would cover the edges of the person's face, with the front of the mask move ring the forehead, and reaching down to cover the bridge of the person's nose. Even the feet area were reinforced, the shoes having some kind of plating above them and below the outer material.
"I made you a friction proof suit, Barry." Cisco smiled at his work, then turned it to Barry. Barry changed into the suit using his speed, standing in the lab with everything but the mask on.
"How does it look?" He asked, admiring how light the suit felt, and conformed to his body just enough.
"Awesome!" Cisco said simultaneously with Oliver's, "Great," comment. Barry seemed to engrossed with his suit to really listen to them. He didn't see Cisco shoot Oliver a funny look at his comment.
"Hey, Oliver, looks like Snart's striking another bank we should-" Caitlin stopped in her tracks, look sceptically at Barry. "What are you wearing?" She pointed at him. Barry's head went up, his happiness spread across his face in a wide smile.
"Isn't it cool?" Barry stated more than asked excitedly. He held out an arm in front of him and examined it. "Maybe I can go and help Oliver with the bank robbery!"
Cisco and Caitlin would have protested, if Oliver had not changed quickly into his Arrow attire and had Barry he the over to whatever bank was being robbed. Oliver entered first, with Barry sneaking out the bank to get in from behind.
"You again!" Exclaimed Snart, aiming his weapon at Arrow. "This time is going to end differently."
"Yes, it is." Oliver raised his bow and arrow, looking like he was going to shoot. Snart had fired the freeze gun, but in the blink of an eye, Arrow was gone from where he had been, and Snart was being held down on then ground by someone. The ice had hit the wall behind where Oliver had been, sticking out from the wall in an icicle form.
"What the-" Snart saw someone in a mask, not Arrow, but someone in a maroon suit.
"Told you it would end differently." Arrow said, crouching down in front of Snart before standing. He curb stomped Snart's face to the ground, right before Barry got them out of there. Several citizens looked shocked, other we're happy with the site of a new hero in Central City. All noticed the yellow streak he left as the pair left at super speed.
A.N. Ah, this pair up is so, amazing! I was very excited about this chapter. And so you all know, I love Felicity, I love that she's smart, beautiful, kind and brave when she has to be, so I felt bad with breaking her heart with Barry. But she might end up wit someone else (I honestly have no clue, I haven't thought much about that aspect till now). We're slowly building the relationship between Barry and Oliver, oringaly they were meant to go out again in this chapter, bu that didn't happen obviously. I hope you all enjoyed this, I LOVE this chapter. Don't forget to keep leaving Evie's and suggestions for the story, it helps to make this process easier.
