Hello Journal-

It's been about 2 weeks since Mardon. A suspiciously quiet week, in my opinion. Life had taught me that quiet meant bad people were likely planning bad things.

On top of that, Barry has suddenly decided he's angry with me. I know, I know. He was okay with me last week. But he went to see Oliver, and I think he's upset that I never told him that I knew Oliver. How was I supposed to know that he knew Ollie?!? I'm still not psychic!!

Anyway. That's why I've started this. I can rant about annoying, infuriating, inexplicably adorable Barry Allen and with any luck, no one has to find out.

I've had a journal before, you know. During the war. I don't know what happened to it. I think SHIELD might have it.

Joe's coming. Got to go.

Hayley

Hayley slammed the leather book closed as Joe walked into the lab.

"Hey Joe. How's life?" Hayley asks. Joe faces her. "There's a crime scene and we need to go." Hayley frowns.

"Where's Barry?" she said. "He may not like me, but we are still partners."

Joe shakes his head. "Just come on."

Barry shows up fifteen minutes later. Hayley rolls her eyes. The boy was trying her patience, and she'd never had much to begin with.

"Can those of us who were here to start with please begin?" Hayley questioned, turning her attention to the captain, who nodded at her.

"Doing a little fall shopping, Mr. Allen?" Captain Singh asked. Barry looked at him, confused. Joe pulled a tag off his coat, holding it up for him to see. Barry flushed red.

"Oh. I-I was going so fast this morning I didn't even notice" he tried to explain.

Singh stared blankly at him. "Right. I'll just..." He headed towards Hayley.

"If you were going so fast, why were you late?"

"Don't start."

Eddie came up to joe. "Got the footage from the security cameras. Looks like only one perp."

Barry looked up. "Actually it was 5."

"Six." Hayley corrects. "You missed a set." Barry nodded.

"We should be looking for a crew." he added. Hayley stood up and walked over to Joe. "I think it's weird how Barry was going too fast to notice a tag, and yet was still late, don't you?"

"Huh."

Everyone turned to Barry.

"What?" asked Hayley.

"Looks like they all wear the same size of shoe. Men's 10s, I'd guess. Just like you Captain." Hayley snickered. "Not that you're a suspect sir."

Hayley walked off, laughing hysterically at Barry.

Back at the lab, Hayley tried to get the vortex mixer to start. It wasn't working. She hit it for fourth time, and groaned softly, banging her head on the table. Barry walked in, chuckling at the sight. "You okay there, Hayes?"

Raising her head, she glared at him. "Hayes?"

"Yeah I thought it was a good nickname for you. Anyway, what's up?" Hayley groaned. "The stupid machine stopped working." she explained as Barry came over and mixed it himself. She didn't add that she would have mixed it herself if she had been alone. Barry still didn't know about her speed and that's how she'd like to keep it. They also didn't know about the Tesseract. Now that she thought about it, they didn't really know much about her at all. That probably would come back to bite her someday.

Her thoughts are interrupted by Iris entering the lab.

"This is all your fault."

"Jeez, Iris, be blunt."Hayley snickered.

"You, shush." Iris said, pointing at Hayley. Turning back to Barry, she added,"I could have taken European Folklore to cover my sociology requirement, but no, you said take Journalism, Iris. Reporters have all the fun. Guess what, Barry? Reporters have none of the fun. Journalism is boring. I'm bored. I blame you." Barry just looked at her. Hayley, on the other hand, replied.

"Really I think it's your fault for listening to him in the first place." she pointed out. Iris rolled her eyes at her best friend.

"What? Why are you staring at me like that?" Iris asked Barry. He blinked.

"You look really nice." Hayley snorted. Real smooth, Bar. Real smooth. She kinda wished she could just film this conversation. Settling back, she watched it play out.

"Thaaanks. Why don't you look nice?"

Barry stared. "This afternoon? Suit and tie. The university is giving Simon Stagg-"

"Simon Stagg."Barry cut off.

"Some big award." Iris finished. "And you agreed-"

Barry cut her off again. "To explain the science stuff in your article. It's all coming back to me now." Iris shook her head. She loved Barry, he was like her brother, but sometimes... She didn't know how Hayley dealt with this.

"How fast can you get home and change?"she asked.

"Uh. Pretty fast." Barry nodded. They both turn to look at Hayley as the girl collapses on her desk, shaking with laughter.

"Is she okay?" Barry nodded.

"Hey, Allen." Eddie walked into the lab. "Joe asked me to see where you're at on the evidence from the gun store shooting." Hayley raised her hand.

"I got it, Eddie." He nodded to her.

"Oh, hey, Iris." he added indifferently.

"Detective." she replied. Hayley walked over to hand the report to Eddie, giving Iris a we'll-talk-about-that-later look. Barry looked between the two.

"Look, guys, I already know, remember? Please, just kiss already." he said. Hayley looked up at the heartbroken look on Barry's face, then at the couple. Standing, she walked over and separated them. They stared at her. "What?" Eddie asked.

"Barry might not mind, but I do. No smooching in the lab. Those of us who are single don't need to be reminded of that which we do not have." Barry smiled gratefully at her, as he left with Iris.

"Thanks for the report, Hayley." Eddie said as he left.

Left alone with nothing to do, Hayley decided to go to STAR Labs. Cisco was always fun to hang out with.

--1 hour later--

Hayley is being versed in the inner workings of the Flash suit, when Barry walks in and sits on the hospital bed. She gives Cisco a questioning look as the two head over.

"You lied to us." Caitlin accused. Barry hung his head like a child being scolded. "How could you not tell us you were experiencing dizzy spells?"

Hayley's eyes widened. "Is that what that was earlier?" she interrupted, earning herself a glare from Caitlin. She zipped her lips and sat on the floor.

"We're your doctors. God knows what's going on inside your body. Your cells are in a constant state of flux. You could be experiencing cardiopulmonary failure, or transient ischemic attacks." Barry looks to Dr. Wells for an explanation. "Mini stroke. Probably not." Barry nodded.

"You of all people should know that in science, we share. We do not keep secrets." Caitlin stormed off angrily. Cisco stared after her.

"Wow. I haven't seen anyone make her that angry since Ronnie." he said, walking off. Hayley shivered.

"An angry Caitlin is a scary Caitlin. I do not want to be on the receiving end of that." Barry looked at Dr. Wells.

"Ronnie was Caitlin's fiancé?" he questioned. "The one who died the night of the particle accelerator explosion?" Dr. Wells nodded sadly.

"Yes. He is... Missed." he said." I, for one would like to know why this keeps happening, Mr. Allen."

Hayley watched as Barry entered the treadmill room. "Are you sure this will work, Cisco?" he called. Cisco grinned.

"Yeah. Most home treadmills are equipped to hold up to 12 miles an hour. This one has been Ciscoed."

Hayley turned incredulously to Cisco.

"Did you seriously just turn your name into a verb?" Cisco nodded. Shaking her head, Hayley turned back to the now running Barry.

"Everything seems normal" Caitlin was saying. "For Barry."

Hayley frowned at the screen.

"His glucose levels are dangerously low, though." she said. Everyone turned to stare at her. "What?" she asked defensively. "I am a science major."

"Barry, we think we know why you keep-" Dr. Wells is cut off by Barry crashing into the boxes. "Passing out."

Barry woke up on a hospital bed, Hayes smirking over him. "You passed out." she singsonged. Caitlin pushed her out of the way.

"Total metabolic failure caused by acute hypoglycemia." she said. Barry nodded in understanding.

"I'm not eating enough." It made sense. Super speed equals super metabolism. "So an IV bag and I'm good to go?"

Hayes laughed, patting his shoulder. "Not quite." she said

"Try forty." Cisco added. Dr. Wells came in, gesturing to the rack of IV bags.

"Guess you were thirsty." he remarked.

"We're gonna need to fashion you a new diet based on your metabolic changes" Caitlin said, Hayley standing next to her with a tablet. Before she could continue, Cisco cut her off, saying, "I've done a few calculations. You need to consume an amount equal to roughly 850 tacos. " Hayley grinned at the look on Barry's face. "Unless we're talking cheese and guac, which is like a whole other set of equations." Barry begins to answer when Joe's voice cuts him off.

"For Mexican, I recommend Tito's. On Bruckner Avenue? Best burrito in the city." Barry groans, sitting down on the bed.

"Detective West." Wells interrupted. "What brings you here?"

"When I couldn't find you two at your lab, I did a little research. Turns out there's been reports of a red streak around the city." Barry opens his mouth, but Joe isn't finished. He whirls on Hayley, pointing an accusing finger at her. "And you, Hayley Parker, you told me you didn't know who the red streak was."

Hayley, unaffected, shrugged. "I lied. Don't take it personally. I'm going to get coffee. Anyone else want some?" They all shook their heads. Shrugging, she left. She would have stayed, but she could sense that Joe was about to chew them all out, and she'd rather not be there for it. Besides, Iris had some explaining to do. Walking into Jitters and waving to Iris, she completely missed the redhead watching her from across the street.

Barry watched Hayley leave. He was glad she wasn't there for Joe to yell at him. On the other hand, he wished she'd stayed. Tuning back into the conversation, Barry catches the end of Joe's sentence. "My kid."

Hayley walked in as Barry, having been full of pent up energy all day, blew up on Joe.

"I'm not your kid, Joe. And you're not my father." Hayley's eyes widened. That was harsh. "My father's sitting in Iron Heights. Wrongfully convicted. You were wrong about him. And you're wrong about this. Now I may not be able to help him, but if I can save someone from a burning building or stop some armed thieves, I'm gonna do it. And you can't stop me. So don't try." Joe looked around at all of them.

"You think you're so smart. All of you. But you don't know what you don't know. And I hope that you're clever enough to figure it out before somebody gets killed." He points to Barry before starting to leave. He's almost out the door when someone else walks in.

"Knowing Parker over there, someone is bound to get killed."

Hayley rolled her eyes, accepting the fact that this would probably change everything. She took a breath and leaped off the edge.

"What do you want, Romanoff?" Natasha Romanoff looked around the room. Looks like Parker found an apple pie life after all. It's too bad she was about to blow it to pieces.

"You need to come in."