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"I can't sleep."

Barry's eyes dutifully opened after needing several seconds to refocus on the real world. "Have you actually tried sleeping?"

"Yes, I have. But it's been twenty minutes. I think."

"I don't want to get up." Ironically, The Flash had no energy.

"I'm way too comfortable to get up." Barry was the multiverse's most comfortable pillow.

"Do you wanna...you know."

"I didn't mean it like that. Can't we just, I don't know," She gently nuzzled her head against Barry's collarbone to weaken his willpower. "Cud-dle, and maybe you can tell me a story."

She received an exacerbated sigh in response.

"Fine. I'll tell you a story." Pursing her lips, she scoured the labyrinth of her mind for an appropriate sleep time tale. The time she nearly burned Star Labs down and partially fried Cisco's hair? When one of her college professors came to class severely inebriated and punched her lab partner in the face?

No, wait. That one. That would be perfect.

"Once upon a time, there was a girl who lived in a greeeat big city," It was impossible for her to contain her excitement. The introduction almost came out as a song. "Then she met a boy, and she was instantly smitten. He was smart, funny, very, very handsome, and heroic. The only problem was that she was far too terrified to risk presenting her feelings to him," She used her peripheral vision to acquire an appraisal of Barry's level of awareness. Though sleepy, his interest was captured. "So, being a master of the scientific arts, she deduced a way to figure out if he felt the same way. And, luckily, she had a very intimate level of access to him."

Now he was furrowing his brow. He was far too adorable when he was sleepy. "To that end, she monitored his biology to see how he reacted around her, and all signs indicated that he did feel the same way. So, she haltingly asked him out, whereupon the boy and the girl lived happily ever after." The recollection prompted an impromptu jig, bringing her head side to side.

Now Barry was awake, and obviously perturbed. "You spied on me to see if I liked you?"

She flashed a maniacal grin. "Mayyybe. But only to see how your heart rate increased whenever I would walk into a room or when we would reach for adjacent objects. Innocent stuff."

"Really?"

"I may have also touched you more than necessity dictated during your physicals." It was a difficult job, but someone at Star Labs had to become well acquainted with the various facets of Barry's Greek deity-esque body for the sake of the world.

He brought his hand to his face to hide his embarrassment. "You are the worst."

To placate him, she scrounged together what fleeting energy she had left and silenced him with a passionate kiss. "Don't be upset. Before I scooped you up, you didn't even know how to take off a girl's bra."

Even in the darkness, his blush was radiant. "Goodnight."

She once again nuzzled her face against his collarbone, completely satisfied. Revealing the truth, teasing Barry, and witnessing him blush was more than enough to help her sleep. "G'night."