Old Mates.
Barry walked out of the store and the sleeping toddler's stroller to the local park on his Earth. As long as they kept asleep for another hour while he finished a few notes for work than he would be fine. Just one hour.
Barry walked passed Jitters only to hear someone call his name a couple of seconds later. "Barry Allen?"
Barry turned around and saw a woman about his age. She seemed a tad bit familiar to him. Her hair was a shade lighter than Kara's hair, plus shorter, held together in a fishtail braid. She wore a gray v-neck crop top, worn with a camouflage army jacket, high waist pale blue jeans and dark brown court shoes.
"Do I know you from somewhere?" Barry questioned.
"Duh," She rolled her brown eyes. "We only went to school together for, like, three years together."
"Where?"
"At college. You had my cousin Jeff as a freshmen year room mate."
Okay, he remembered his weird roommate from freshmen year. Barry used his skills and studied her face more and now just noticed the two scars on the left side her head; one on the left side of her forehead, a tiny zigzag, and one right above her eyebrow on the corner. It wasn't until the girl smiled, revealing the gap teeth, Barry remembered her. "Veronica?"
The blonde sighed and corrected him. "Vika. Victoria to be formal."
"Vika?"
"My mom's parents are from the Ukraine," She laughed lightly. "So when they started to call me Vika as a nickname the rest of the family sort of caught on."
"Oh, Vika. Yeah, it's been a couple of years. How've you been?"
"Good," She took her sunglasses off and rested them on her head. "I read in a paper years ago you found your moms killer? The guy who made that...giant thing that exploded and gave half of Central City powers? Right?"
"Yeah. Long, weird story."
"That's great." Vika smiled. She noticed the two toddlers in the stroller and asked, "Are they yours or are you babysitting?"
"No," Barry grinned. "They're mine."
"When did you get hitch?"
"Not married. My girlfriend of four years and I had them a year ago." He explained. "She was in a bit of shock when she had a feeling she was pregnant. Then she told me and I had a similar feeling. But after the tests came back positive we were over the moon...and beyond," He chuckled. "The biggest surprise was finding out we were having twins."
"The day before?"
"Nichole was born about a minute after Allie."
"Oh how sweet. Beautiful girls too." Vika admired. "You've got the time?"
"Twenty five past noon." Barry read his watched.
"Shit, I'm late for a meeting." Vika sighed. She pulled out a pen and a business card from her bag and handed it to him. "The front is my work and the back is my personal number. Call me sometime, I'd love to catch up!"
"Thanks." Barry said. "Great catching up."
Down at the park a little while later Barry, finished with work, pushed on the two baby swings while using the video on his phone to record.
He pulled out of his pocket the business card and looked at the back. He remember Vika in college, vaguely. She and Jeff rarely spoke to one another at the time but she wanted to make sure he didn't get into any fights with the campus police or fights with other students, so she came to the room and checked on him once in a while. Or had Barry shoot her a call if Jeff started an argument with a student.
He turned the card to the front and read the name of the company she worked.
Nice name. Nice business.
Very late that night after both Kara and Barry each had a box of twelve doughnuts plus split the third one in half, Kara relaxed in the chair. "I don't think I've said this before, but I'm stuffed!" She said.
"Are you at ease now, Miss Stressful?" Barry smirked.
"Yes." Kara sighed. The past week she's been stressed out between CatCo work, Supergirl work and mothering. "I'm trying to not burnout but I think I'm starting to burnout."
"Don't forget you have help."
"Yeah but besides Eliza, everyone is working and I don't want to keep asking Violet to cross over the ocean to watch them. I don't have work on Friday or Monday because Cat is going to be out of the city visiting someone in Washington, so that's four days of partial relaxing."
"That' good." The brunet told her as he cleaned up the table and going to the recycle bin.
Kara looked back at her boyfriend from staring at the ceiling. Rao, he looked good. As usual, but he really looked good right now. Some emotion came over Kara in that instant; she needed him now. Kara rapidly stood up from the table, knocking her chair over.
Barry whipped around to find Kara standing up. "You okay?"
Kara, in quick speed and her strength, gently (but sternly) pressed Barry against the wall, forcing him to drop the boxes, and began making out with him. After a moment of shock, Barry kissed her back in the same manner, wordlessly understanding what she wanted to do.
Barry picked her up bridal style, ran into their room, and laid her under him on the bed.
Hmm, where does Vika work that Barry finds interesting?