Author's Note: Bwahahahahahaaha. Yep. Hal knows. Barry knows. Time to talk. Oh and just to be clear Barry didn't phase out of the bubble she vibrated it until it shattered. I own nothing.

52. Talks

Hal stared at Barry, Barry stared back. Hal blew out a breath from between his teeth.

"I need pizza and beer. Lots and lots of beer. But we need to talk." Barry nodded and ran a hand through her hair. This was made difficult as she had forgotten to take it down from the pony tail she had worn with her costume. She quickly pulled the rubber band out of her hair succeeding in tearing out a few strands as she did. Hal sighed and laughed slightly. They both gave a very edited but similar enough statement to police and loaded into Hal's shitty car. His motorcycle was still in Central City, it would be coming back with the next large plane from Central to Coast. Hal tried to start the car, it coughed and sputtered and didn't turn over. Barry unhooked her seat belt and told Hal to pop the hood. Hal obeyed and frowned slightly. Barry was good at mechanics he'd admit that. But it sounded like he needed a jump start.

Barry wanted to try something. She held two fingers together over the battery and vibrated them until sparks flew from her finger tips. She could feel those sparks until they got about an inch away from her hands. She concentrated and the sparks pulled together into two tiny streams of lightning. She touched the lightning to the battery and the car lurched slightly before Hal tried the engine again. This time it roared to life. Barry grinned and slammed the hood down. She was gonna have to work on that power, if she was right she might be able to do much more with it than jump starting a car.

Hal decided he would withhold comment for a while. He managed it too despite the questions burning in his mind. He had so much he wanted to ask her, so much he didn't know. So much he didn't know how to ask. They picked up the pizzas in silence save for Barry insisting they double the order and that she pay. She produced a credit card with an image of Star Labs on it and handed it over to the lady behind the counter. Hal wanted to ask but he held his tongue. They loaded the six pizzas into the back seat along with the four bottles of soda Barry had added last minute. Hal also stopped at a liquor store but Barry shook her head when he asked her if she wanted anything. He didn't question that as much, Barry had never been a heavy drinker.

Soon they had arrived at Hal's apartment complex. It had been a hell of a fight getting his place back and most of his things were still missing or being tracked down or replaced, but home was home. They didn't head into his apartment though. Instead he led Barry to the roof and sat down on the edge of the building. Barry snagged a piece of pizza out of the box and took a large bite. Sighing happily she spoke around her mouthful.

"I forgot how good Coast City Pizza really is." Hal laughed and grabbed a slice for himself as Barry finished inhaling hers. They sat in companionable silence for a while, while Barry polished of a pizza by herself. Then she took a swig from one of the two liters and softly belched behind her hand. The silence persisted for another moment as she looked him up and down.

"So… How'd you do it?" Hal sighed and popped the top off his second beer.

"About seven months ago, I think anyway time's kinda funny these days, I went out on a test flight for Ferris Air. Everything was going smoothly, then suddenly the whole plane was encased in this bright green light. It plucked me out of the cockpit and flew me out into space. I thought I was going insane, maybe there had been a fuel leak and I was breathing in the fumes and hallucinating before I died. But then the light set me on this ship. There was… well he wasn't a man, a human I mean. He was something else. He called himself Amon Sur. And he was dying. He gave me the ring off his finger and told me it had chosen me, out of everyone on earth to be the next green lantern. A defender of the weak and bringer of justice. He died right in front of me. The ship took me to this place called Oa. That's where I've been since I went missing. Training, learning how to harness the power of Will, the green energy the ring uses." Hal slipped back into silence taking a swig of his beer as Barry looked at him. She didn't look skeptical, she just looked thoughtful as she chewed.

"Well…" She said eventually. "If it's willpower they need. I can't think of anyone with more of it." Hal smiled and bumped his shoulder into hers.

"I thought you'd say something like that. I wanted to tell you, I just got caught up in everything since I've been back. Coming back from the dead is hard." Barry nodded.

"I'd imagine." Silence fell again as Barry popped open the next pizza box. Hal glanced down at his ring.

"You know the ring does Bio Scans really well." Barry glanced at him out of the corner of her eyes. She spun the cap off of the two liter again and took another swig. Hal held out a beer and she shook her head.

"Doesn't work on me." Hal frowned.

"Since when you lightweight!?" Barry grinned.

"Since the lightning. I've had some adventures of my own. But I think you know that already. You wouldn't have brought up the Bio Scans if you didn't. Subtle you are not Hal." Hal grinned slightly twisting the ring on his finger. Barry inhaled another slice of pizza before she spoke again.

"Meta humans." Hal raised an eyebrow.

"That's the term we use. We toyed around with Enhanced human but Meta human won out in the end." Hal watched Barry as she took another bite of pizza.

"It's a term we use for the people who were effected by the particle accelerator explosion." Barry explained to Hal everything that had happened to her in the past two months. By the time she was finished the sun had sunk beyond the horizon and the only light available to them was the glow of the city around them. Hal grinned and laughed to himself.

"The space cop and the speedster. We're a hell of a pair aren't we Barry Allen?" Barry laughed and nodded.