Years later

Sweet, salty sweat clung to the air. Len kissed the smaller man's chest before taking the tiny pink nipple in his mouth. Biting down softly earned him a moan that could make angels swoon. Barry clawed at Len's back and head, as he grinds against Len's leg.

"Hurry!" breathlessly whispered. Len ripped off Barry's pants as he finished his the last breath. Sticking one already coated finger into Barry, quickly making it to all three. Not long after Len removed his fingers and was ready replace them with his dick. An ear piercing beep noise cut through the air.

Len blinked awake. A dream, of course, it was a dream. Sitting up, he looked down, taking notice of the bulge in his pants. He could do the dirty deed and finish himself off. Or he could get up and get ready for work. Hitting the snooze button on the still blaring alarm clock. Signing he reached down and pulled himself out. He works in the strokes as his mind wander back to the dream and focused on the lovely moan the dream Barry made. Within a minute with a shutter, Len came on his hand.

Len angrily yelled at himself in his mind. He knew Barry since the kid was in middle school and Len still had his head full of him. More since the kid graduate from high school and work for the CCPD. The older Barry got, the more wet dreams Len had of the two of them doing that. He was still surprising himself with how much self-control he had. He went to the shower still thinking of the dream, wishing it could become real, but he knew that Barry was too good for someone like him.

Joe turns to look at him as he walked into the police station. "You're late"

"Bad traffic."

Joe pointed to the Captain's office "Your new partner is here."

"Any good" with a shrug Joe walked off. Len opened the door to the office "Sorry, Captain, bad traffic"

Singh huffed "sit". The other guy looks nervous, probably fresh out of the academy. "This is Eddie Thawne, he will be your new partner" before Len or 'Eddie' could get a word out Singh throws a file on the desk "Your first assignment" Len grabbed the file looking at it. It was a homicide some poor kid. "Allen already at the scene waiting so hurry up"

Len nodded and headed out the door, the new guy followed or at least tried to but he was moving at a fast pace. On one hand, Len could not wait to see Barry he had always brightened his day but he also could not get that dream out of his head. Len climbed into the driver seat, checking one more time where the scene was.

Climbing into the passenger seat was an out of breath Thawne. "You're fast, " he let out. Len just dropped the file on Thawnes lap and drove away.

Arriving at the scene to find Barry on the phone trying to convince Joe something about Iris being a big girl that can take care of herself. When Barry caught sight of Len he smiled and end the call with the over worried Joe, but then a strange look was on his face. "Hello, I'm Eddie Thawne" Barry blinked watching Eddie for a few seconds "I'm Snart's new partner"

"Mick will be sad to hear that," Barry said with a smile.

Len chuckled "He'll get over it. Anyways, he the one who left me first to become a firefighter and everyone knows the two don't mix." Barry let out a laugh at that and he turned to the body.

"He was a freshman in college."

"Cause of death"

Barry pulled the sheet away from the body revealing and a gunshot wound to the chest, "you tell me." Eddie turned away

"That's awful."

Barry sighed "That's not the worst of it. There are signs of sexual intercourse and not willingly."

"God" Eddie choked out.

"The scene between gone through, yes," Len asked. Barry nodded. "Good, we take a quick look around then you guys can clean up." Barry left to go and talk to another forensic scientist. Eddie looked around with a disgusted expression plastered on his face. "Why did you become a detective if you can't handle this",

Eddie looked up from the body "I want to help people and stop the bad guys, I need to be in the best position I can be."

Len nodded "See anything"

"no."

"Okay," Len spoke with some of the office holdings off the onlookers.

When he came back, he found Eddie talking to Barry. That was not okay, wait Barry is a grown man he can make his own decisions, doesn't mean Len blood wasn't boiling with anger and a new need to hit this Eddie guy.

As Len got closer he heard Eddie say "Is he always that… Way"

Barry laugh at this "He's a big tough guy at the start, but when you get to know him, he is a good guy"

"I hope I make long enough to find that out for myself"

"Don't be so hard on yourself"

"I could not agree with Barry anymore, you don't know till you try"

"You know it is impolite to eavesdrop, Len," Barry said in a mischievous tone.

"Ha, Eddie and I should be heading back"

"See you then" Barry smile out before walking away.

Eddie followed Len to the car "are you two a thing". Len's head shot towards Eddie

"No, we know each other for a long time."

"Oh," Eddie smiles like he knew a secret that Len had missed. In the end, it didn't matter what Eddie thought, but it did keep him quite unlike the way there, he had spent the entire drive trying to make chit-chat. The new quiet was a warm welcome to Len, he hated driving with noise. He had forgotten how loud some people got when in cars.

They arrived back at the station and the silence, that Len was really starting to enjoy, was broken. "So how did you and Barry meet" something in the way that he said Barry's name made Len want to hit him square in the jaw.

"He helped get me out of a bad situation and for that, I will be entirely grateful."

Eddie watches him for a second before smiling and saying "Yeah he seems like a great guy."

Yup Len really wanted to punch Eddie.

Barry POV

When he saw Len he was overjoyed. First, it always was a delight to see him, but also it gave him a reason to hang up on Joe. Who had apparently bugged Iris' phone? He had found out that she was going on a blind date with some cop and now Joe was on a mission to find out who it was. Most likely to gut the poor guy.

Then like a sudden slap, Len was with some guy. For a few seconds, Barry was passed that some guy would just come in and try to take Len from him. Then he registered the guy, he was the one that he keeps seeing with Iris when she demanded to know her future love life.

"Hello, I'm Eddie Thawne." The new guy introduced himself and they went over the body. Barry left for a while to talk to another one of the forensic scientists.

When Barry came back Len left to talk to one of the other officers. "How can you not… Throw up."

Barry turned to look at Eddie, "I" Barry took a second to think "most the time I just think about the science, but in some cases" Barry motion at the body, "it can be hard."

"For that Len guy, it doesn't seem to be a problem. Is he always that… Way."

Barry laugh at this "He's a big tough guy at the start, but when you get to know him, he is a good guy"

"I hope I make long enough to find that out for myself"

"Don't be so hard on yourself"

"I could not agree with Barry anymore, you don't know till you try"

"You know it is impolite to eavesdrop, Len" Barry's heart jumped happily at the sudden sound of Len's voice behind him. Barry turned to him and all he could imagine was throwing his arms around the man to kiss him.

"Ha, Eddie and I should be heading back."

"See you then" Barry watched them as they left.

"Allen, we should move the body." Barry turned to help the guy with the body, but when his hand touches the body had a intense pain in his head of just white flashes before passing out.

Eddie POV

He was sitting in the captain's office waiting for someone call Snart. Captain Singh kept looking at his watch and muttering "where is he." The door open to leave a well-sized guy with a shaved head.

Len, as he had learned that his new partner's name, took off after the Captain had finished. Eddie was having a hard time keeping up with Len as he walked.

The two had visited the crime scene and they met a forensic scientist by the name of Barry. When he first saw him Eddie swears he saw hatred in his eyes, but soon it was replaced by happiness. They went over the case and Eddie talked to Barry.

As Len and he were leaving Eddie asked him "are you two a thing?" Len said that the two weren't, but Eddie didn't buy that for a second the way they were making love eye at one another they weren't just longtime friends.

They got back to the station, Eddie asked how the two met. Eddie was happy to hear that Barry had helped Len out. Eddie was smiling as he went inside, but stop when Joe-an older detective he had met this morning-rushed out.

"Len something has happened to Barry."

Len' POV

After Eddie weird questions they started to head inside, but the Joe came running out "Len something happened to Barry." Len couldn't breathe, his body went on autopilot and he got into the car, Joe got into the other side without a word.

"Which hospital?" asked Len as he made it out onto the road.

"Central City General MED." In record time Len got them to the hospital. Iris and Lisa came out to meet them.

"They say that he must have had a panic attack because he was said to have touched the body, then fainted" Iris gave Len a look when she said this.

"I thought it didn't work with the dead."

"Well, now it does." The continued the conversation as the made their way to Barry's room.

"Hi" Barry's voice was raspy. Iris brought a glass of water to his lips.

"Thank you."

"What happened?"

Tears start falling do Barry's face, "I saw him die, Len." Len sat on the hospital bed soothing him.

Joe was the first one to talk, "There's no point in all us standing here gawking like idiots, I'll take Lisa and Iris home. Len can stay here to take care of Barry. I'll work something out with the captain."

Surprising to Len neither of the girls argued with him and with a nod of Joe's head they left.

"Len" he turned to Barry, who had a fistful of Len's shirt "it was a cop, but I can't remember who it was."

"It's going to be okay Barry I'll nail this guy" he wrapped his arms around Barry. Len told the truth, he would do everything in his power to stop whoever had done this.