100 Ways
99. Be careful.
"No, no, be careful, be—let me—" Barry set down the tray of breakfast food and helped Eddie, who'd been trying to push himself into a sitting position. In no time, Barry had Eddie upright with pillows supporting him in just the right ways and with a breakfast tray across his lap.
"I can sit up by myself," Eddie said with a laugh.
"Can and should are two different words," Barry replied. "If you tear your stitches again I swear I'm going to lock you in the Pipeline until you're completely healed."
"Kinky," Eddie said as he tore off part of a biscuit and popped it in his mouth.
Barry rolled his eyes and hen made sure that everything Eddie needed was perfectly in reach, and then he grabbed his own plate of breakfast food from the kitchen. Since the Reverse-Flash's attack, everything had been going well. In fact, it had been just about perfect. Eddie was healing quickly, Barry was regaining the speed that the Reverse-Flash had taken, and there'd been no signs of red lightning anywhere around the city. Life was good.
An alert sounded on Barry's phone, lighting it up with an exclamation point and a map of the city. It was Cisco's newest innovation, along with SOS signals on each of their phones.
"Metahuman?" Eddie asked.
"The work never ends," Barry replied, zooming out of the room and into his Flash outfit then coming back in. "I don't know how long this'll be, but please text or call Joe or someone if you need something while I'm gone."
"I'll be fine," Eddie told him. "There's a marathon of ANTM today, so I'm good."
Barry laughed and shook his head.
"But hey, be careful, cause I want you to come home in one piece," Eddie said.
"Home?" Barry repeated and quirked an eyebrow. "Are you asking me to move in?"
"I mean, you practically live here anyway, what with the 24/7 nursemaid act you've been putting on," Eddie replied, shrugging nonchalantly. "Might as well make it official, right?"
Barry kissed him quickly. "Yes, and we should talk more about this, but I really have to go."
"My boyfriend the hero," Eddie sighed dreamily.
Barry grinned, then raced off to save the day.