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Joe was wordless. This was more tan Barry getting hurt, it was his daughter leaving the house.

"Are you sure, babe?", he asked softly.

Iris nodded.

"Look, dad…this has nothing to do with Barry. Eddie and I had been considering moving in together for a while now."

Joe took her hands, he looked at his daughter…she had grown up so fast…

"I´m going to miss you", said Joe and he couldn´t help his eyes getting wet.

"Me too, daddy...but I´ll come over often and you can come over, too, whenever you want. We´ll always be close…"

Iris hugged Joe, he needed it.

"I´m happy for you, sweetheart. I just can´t get over how quick time goes by…it seems like yesterday when you started school…."

Iris smiled, but she too was holding back some tears.

"You always were a great dad, you know? I´m gonna miss everything. Especially your spaghetti…", Iris had to laugh.

"Hey, no need to be mean!", Joe laughed as well. He knew his spaghettis were terrible.

Then Joe´s face looked serious again.

"You gotta find a way to break this to Barry, trying to do as little damage as you can."

It was exactly that what made Iris´s heart ache so bad. She couldn´t deal with this. The fact was that she was again the one who made Barry cry.

"I´ll try, dad".

After a while Iris headed to her bedroom. She felt awkward knowing Barry was right next door, only a few feet away and feeling suddenly that he was completely alien to her. How could she still act normal around him after what had been said? What was the definition for normal anyway?

Iris didn´t have much chance to think about it. Someone knocked on her door just that moment.

"Iris? It´s me…", she heard Barry´s voice, very soft, almost shy.

She hesitated for a moment.

"Come in", she said.

He walked in looking incredibly adorable in his blue pajamas, Iris had to admit to herself. And he looked so helpless, so insecure around her all the sudden…

"Barry, you should be in bed. Are you OK?", she asked softly. She approached him and felt his cheek with the back of her hand. He shivered when her cold skin collided against his warm face. But her touch still felt so good…it brought tears to his eyes to think that his Iris was no longer his and that she had never been.

"A little weak, but otherwise OK", said Barry.

"Iris, I´m sorry…I´m sorry that I´ve made things weird between us."

"There´s nothing to be sorry for, Bear. You did nothing wrong."

They sat down on her bed. Iris couldn´t stand the pain in her chest, she just had to say it.

"Barry, I…I am moving out…"

She avoided looking him in the eyes, she could only stare at her feet through the water in her eyes.

"Eddie and I are going to live together", she said and wiped the tears from her eyes before they could slide down her cheeks.

"No, Iris, please… there´s no need for you to go. This is your house. If anyone needs to go, it´s me."

He felt like he had done the worst mistake of his life by telling her what he felt. Now he had made her uncomfortable in her own place and after all he was the intruder in the West house, he should be the one leaving.

Iris grabbed Barry´s hand.

"No Barry. This has nothing to do with what you told me earlier today. This is something that Eddie and I have been thinking about way before all this came up. I don´t want you to leave…" her eyes pleaded.

"My dad needs you around and I… I need to know that you are safe. I don´t want you to be alone…", she was crying very quietly.

Barry just sat there, wishing to hug her, but holding himself back, because a hug now would not be just a hug, it would be awkward to her and he didn´t want to cause any more damage.

Iris tenderly held his face with both her hands and placed a sweet kiss on his forehead. Barry felt his heart beat faster in his chest. He wished she would hold him like this forever.

"I´m really sorry…", she whispered.

"Me too", Barry said and he lifted himself slowly and left her, closing the door behind him.

Barry laid down in his bed again. This day seemed endlessly long. He was done crying, there were no more tears in him. They had all been shed. He just watched through the window as the rain come down.

Heaven seemed to cry with Barry Allen…

Someone knocked on his door. For a second Barry felt hopeful.

"Iris?", he asked.

"It´s Caitlin, Barry".

"Oh, come in", he said. He sat up and greeted Caitlin, surprised to see her. It was late already.

"What do I owe the honor to?", Barry asked.

"Just in case you forgot, I am your doctor and you happen to be sick…and yesssss….I don´t have anything better to do on a saturday night." Caitlin smiled.

"Didn´t mean it like that", Barry apologized.

He tried to act normal, to look happy. Barry rarely ever shared his problems with others. He was too kind to annoy anyone with his trouble.

Caitlin examined him and seemed rather pleased with his condition.

"You seem to be doing so much better, Barry. Just stay home, it´s really cold outside. And keep resting. We want to have you back at STAR Labs only when you feel a hundred percent well".

Barry nodded. Caitlin gave him an injection to make sure his fever didn´t go up again. She was surprised when he did not protest.

"What´s wrong with you Barry? It always takes me about twenty minutes before I make you agree to a needle."

She was teasing him, but Caitlin being Caitlin was actually a bit concerned. Barry really looked depressed.

"Barry? What happened?"

Caitlin knew him just too well. He could not fool her.

"I told Iris", he finally confessed.

"Oh my God…what did she say?", she asked carefully. But Caitlin knew this couldn´t possibly have gone well.

"She´s moving in with Eddie".

Caitlin just held Barry´s hand and rubbed circles on it.

"I´m sorry…", she said softly.

"It´s alright. It was bound to happen…"

Barry tried for a smile, pretending it was not that big of a deal….But it was…

The next morning Iris packed her belongings and started the move-out. Eddie came over to help her. Barry helped a little to keep himself busy. It was better to do that than to just watch. Joe helped as well. Iris had such a lot of crap…it looked like they were never get to an end.

Everything was stuck into boxes and Eddie mad several trips in his car, carrying her things. It was already getting dark when Eddie carried out the last set of boxes. He was packing everything inside his car, iris was still inside, double checking that she wasn´t forgetting anything. Barry walked into her empty room, it suddenly looked so big. He made a round, checking drawers. To his surprise he found a teddy bear in her closet. It was actually the one he had given to her for her thirteenth birthday. She had kept it on her bed ever since, she adored that toy. Though Barry couldn´t recall having seen it there lately. He grabbed it and rushed down to give it to Iris before she left. She was already saying good bye to Joe.

"Hey Iris wait, you forgot this!", he said and handed it to her.

"Oh…thanks Barry", she said. She hugged him. It was the strangest hug Barry had received from her. It was impossible to tell what her emotions were at that moment. It was almost a blank hug, if you can call it that.

"Bye Barry", she said.

Both joe and Barry watched her closing the front door behind her, they sighed, they looked at each other´s miserable face and eventually sat down together, knowing exactly what the other was feeling.

They needed a pizza, of course. The remedy for every disease and heartache. They ordered a big one. Thy ate, they watched TV, both silent, none of them wanting to retreat upstairs where Iris room stood vacant.

It was late when Joe finally got up and sent Barry to bed as well. Before going upstairs, Barry took the empty pizza boxes outside to the trashcan. When he tuned around to get back inside he tripped over something on the porch. He looked down and found Iris´s teddy bear leaning next to the front door. He picked it up and cleaned the dust from it.

One lonely tear rolled down his cheek, another tear shed for Iris…would there never be enough of them?

He hugged the stuffed animal and went back inside to the warmth of Joe´s embrace.

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