Summary: Freezing paper hearts causing a certain speedster to groan in annoyance.
Prompt used: "I hate Valentine's Day." + "I was expecting chocolates or flowers. But this is nice, too."
Barry Allen was hanging some heart streamers around the Speed Lab when he hears the familiar click of heels belonging to his best friend.
"Hey, Cait! Good thing you're here. Can you help me in decorating? Cisco's busy buying food."
He looks back and was greeted by a beautiful woman with blue eyes, stark white hair wearing a frown; her eyes looking around the decorations he had put up.
She crosses her arms and gazes at him, "I hate Valentine's Day." As the words left her mouth, Barry instantly frowned at her.
"Frost? What... Wait, why are you here?" He asks the female metahuman, walking around and freezing some of the paper hearts that Barry cut out.
She glances at him, whose eyes widened and groaned at the sight of his paper heart now frozen in her palm.
"Caity allowed me to have the control for a while. Great but also shitty because its Valentine's Day." Frost answers and crushes the frozen heart in her palm.
Barry rolled his eyes and looks at her with annoyance, "Okay. Don't touch my paper hearts!" She smirks at him, "Why not? Just use your speed to make some more."
Extending her snow-white hands, she grabbed a couple more paper hearts and froze it once more. Giggles erupted from her, Barry groaning and flashing her out of the Speed Lab.
"If you don't want to help in decorating, then just monitor the city." He said in a stern voice, placing her in front of the monitor in STAR Labs.
She rolled her eyes, "Whatever." Barry flashes back to the Speed Lab, grumbling at the sight of his frozen paper heart that are now in pieces.
#
#
The 14th of February and everyone's all excited and doing lovey dovey shit. Such a sore to my eyes. If I see another heart-shaped thing, I'm gonna make sure its going to be a frozen heart.
Frost thought while arranging Caitlin's already perfectly ordered test tubes and beakers in the med bay.
"This day is only special for couples. Buying and giving chocolates and flowers, waste of money. Better invest on alcohol. Better tell Caity about that." She mumbled to herself, wiping her already spotless table.
She sighs and went back to the computer and satellites, no crime alert or meta humans. What, they're also celebrating Valentine's Day? Ew.
Frost sits down on the swivel chair, "Hey, what are you doing here?" She turns around and gazes at the face of Cisco Ramon, holding a plateful of cookies shaped into a heart with pink and red stripes.
She frowns, "Don't act like only you and Flash can come here. I'm chilling here, don't want to help Barry in decorating. Besides, I froze his paper hearts."
The curly haired man rolled his eyes, "Don't be a grinch on Valentine's Day." Frost smirks at him, "What's so special about today anyway? Only special if you have a relationship with someone, thinking it'll last forever."
Cisco chuckles, "Wow, bitter on being single?" She looks at him and shrugs, "I'm not bitter. I'm just annoyed."
He nods, "Yeah. That's really not synonymous to being bitter." She rolled her eyes and snatches a cookie, "At least this tastes good."
"Hey! We're still setting up, don't go munching the food." Frost laughs, "Really, coming from you, who is not a speedster, but has a metabolism similar to one." Cisco moves the plate away, successfully stopping her from getting another piece.
He was about to leave, "You know Valentine's doesn't require you to have a special someone. It's also a day for... looking for that special someone. Just a little side note from someone who has a permanent residence in the friendzone."
Frost looks at Cisco, who nods and goes back in helping Barry to set up. She sits back on the swivel chair, thinking about Cisco's words.
Looking for that special someone... Hmm. Must be taxing as pining silently for someone you thought to be special.
She stood up, eyes turning doe brown and went out of STAR Labs in search of a heart shaped pizza and a small apology for the Flash because of freezing his paper hearts.
#
#
"Why are we having a Valentine's Party again?" Barry asked while eating a heart shaped cookie, listening to Lady Gaga's Poker Face and watching Cisco arrange the table filled with bottles of alcohol and some cupcakes.
The Speed Lab was still the gray and metallic training room with the small addition of some streamers with paper hearts.
A large metal table was in the middle of the room, cupcakes of various colors were displayed together with a couple of heart shaped cakes and several bottles of beer and gin.
The man looks at him and shrugs, "Because OTF is single and Harry being Harry is skipping the party. Joe has a date with Cecile and Iris is swamped with her deadlines and assignments."
He chuckles and with a sad smile, "Eddie's probably waiting for her to get home." Cisco walks to him, rubbing his shoulder.
"Hey, you okay, man?" Barry looks at him and nods, "Yeah. Just heartbroken but I'll be fine."
The metahuman with vibrational powers nods and grins, "You got two amazing best friends. An awesome man with vibe and a frosty yet caring doctor to fix that broken and bleeding heart of yours."
Barry laughs, "Thanks, man. Where's Caitlin by the way? Or Frost?" He was still a wee bit annoyed that Frost froze his paper hearts.
"I have no idea, man. I saw her in the Cortex three hours ago." Cisco said while checking the footage of the Cortex in his phone, no sign of their resident doctor or cold roommate.
Suddenly footsteps and a voice greeted the two men, "Ramon! Allen!" Harry enters the Speed Lab carrying a metallic box. Behind him was an auburn-haired woman wearing a red dress paired with black flats and a gold pendant.
She smiled at the surprised faces of Barry and Cisco, "Hey, look who I ran into." Caitlin said with a chuckle while carrying five boxes of pizza.
Barry flashes to her, helping her carry the boxes while Cisco looks at the man with glasses carrying a weird looking box.
"Is that Pandora's box?" Cisco asked with curiosity while Harry shakes his head, "That doesn't exist, Ramon."
The curly haired man sighed, "Really? Then what's that?" He tried to touch the box but Harry slaps his hand, "I'll tell you all about it later." Cisco continued pestering the man with seven doctorates.
"Thank you, Barry." Caitlin said with a smile as the pair arranged the boxes of pizza on the table.
He turns his gaze at her, taking in her beauty and how good she looked in the dress. "No problem, Cait. Thanks for the treat." Barry replies, eyeing the now open pizza boxes and feeling his mouth water.
She laughs, "Well, it's my apology for Frost freezing your paper hearts." He laughs at her words, "Tell her, she's forgiven because its pizza and you did the apologizing."
Caitlin smiles, You heard that.
Frost rolled her eyes, Got it, loud and clear.
#
#
"Happy Valentine's Day!" The four scientists greeted one another, clinking their bottles of vodka.
Caitlin walks to Barry, in her hand was a metal flask, "A speedster alcohol that Cisco and I made for the fastest man alive."
Barry chuckles and looks at her, flashing her a wide grin, "Wow. Thank you. You and Cisco are really giving me a wonderful Valentine's Day."
She smiles back, "No problem." Then her hand rubs his shoulder soothingly, "Sorry about Iris though."
His grin turns into a small smile, "It's alright. Guess I just need to move on, find someone else to be crazy about." Barry replied with a teasing smirk.
Caitlin's face was set on fire, "Very nice and familiar words, Mr. Allen." She said with a smirk, "Thanks. Heard it from an amazing woman, Dr. Snow."
The pair laughed loudly, looking at each other with their eyes shining, hearts beating in an unusual way, and genuine smiles on their faces.
Happy Valentine's Day, Ramon.
You have a knack for nicknaming metas and building things... I'm still the genius.
Love,
Harry Wells.
Cisco rolled his eyes after reading the red card, "And here I thought your metal box contained something amazing but it was only a container for your Happy Valentine's cards, which are really not giving off love."
Harry looks at him, "It's self-love, Ramon. I didn't know I was supposed to share love with you." Vibe rolled his eyes, drinking his beer and eating a slice of pizza.
"Those two sure are showing and sharing love." He said to Harry, watching Caitlin and Barry laughing and talking.
The man with seven doctorates nods, "Snow is an amazing woman. Barry is an amazing man, those two are perfect for each other."
Cisco looks at the man beside him, raising an eyebrow, "Never thought you can say things like that."
Harry glances at the metahuman with vibrational powers, "Of course, I do. How would I and my wife have made Jessie then?"
This was replied by a snort from Cisco, "Wow. Okay." He sips his beer once more, "How do you think their baby would look like?" Vibe asks the man beside him, who snorts and shakes his head.
#
#
"Thank you for taking me home." Caitlin said as she opens her door, Barry entering with a warm smile.
He looks around the house, still the same pink shade and bed, things neatly organized as expected from Caitlin Snow.
"No problem, good thing you aren't that drunk, huh?" He teased while Caitlin rolled her eyes heading to her bed, "Very funny. Cisco was also relieved that I'm not drunk." She said, spotting the stuffed toy sitting on her bed then picking it up; her eyes turning blue and a smirk appearing on her face.
Last time we were here… Caitlin was drunk. Very, tremendously and extremely drunk. Any speedster would be jealous at the sight of a once uptight doctor turned to a giggling, offkey singing but gorgeous woman.
"There you go again. Saving me from that evil dress." He remembered Caitlin saying that night, throwing random and probably rude hand gestures at her black dress on her carpeted floor.
He rolled his eyes, "Get in bed." He remembered saying, feeling his cheeks flush red that night at how weird he sounded with his completely platonic command.
"Did you sneak a peek? At my goods?" She teasingly asked.
"It's okay if you peeked a little, you deserve it for all the good stuff you do." He remembered her saying, smiling at him widely.
Barry chuckles quietly, standing in her kitchen. He felt his face flushing red, completely and perfectly remembering her black lace bra and her creamy white skin that he wanted to touch.
Caitlin Snow is kind, smart, and very beautiful. Barry knew that but he always looked at her as only just a friend; his best friend besides Cisco and Iris. But with everything they've gone through, he was starting to question his real feelings for Caitlin Snow.
She's just my friend, right?
Completely platonic best friend who sang a love song with me?
Had her frosty alter-ego kiss me and almost freeze me to death?
Just a best friend. I don't know.
His train of thought was broken with a familiar distorted voice, "Hello there, handsome." He looks up and was greeted by Frost wearing pink pajamas paired with pink fluffy slippers.
"Frost?" She looks down and rolled her eyes, "Ugh. I hate pink. But the slippers are kinda comfy." Barry chuckles then glances at her, "What are you doing here?" He noticed that her hands were behind her back, possibly hiding something.
She sighs and rolled her eyes, "I wanted to apologize for freezing your silly paper hearts. Cisco and Caity helped in persuading me."
As she walked closer to him, Barry felt his heartbeat quicken unusually. Frost stops, centimeters in front of him. He was an inch taller causing the ice metahuman to look up a little.
"Happy Hearts Day, Barry." Frost greets nonchalantly and reveals her hands, holding a bear clad in a Flash suit, bear style.
He gently grabs the plushie, a wide smile decorating his face at the sight of a brown bear wearing a scarlet mask with lightning bolts on the sides of the mask.
His furry body was covered with the scarlet suit that resembles Barry's own suit, "Wow." Barry looks at the face of the bear, chuckling as he realized that maybe this is how he'll look if they encounter a metahuman who can transform him into an animal.
Barry glances back at Frost, who had a bored expression, a light smile ghosting her lips. "I was expecting chocolates or flowers. But this is nice, too." He grins at her, holding the stuffed toy.
She shrugs, "Good thing you liked, Flashy bear." He raises an eyebrow, "I know. Caity named it, Vibe could've done better. But its kinda catchy." He laughs and looked at the bear once more, "Flashy bear it is then. Thanks again."
He gazes back at Frost, feeling her cold hand near his neck then gripping the collar of his shirt tightly. "Good. Now, get in bed and take off your clothes."
Emerald green eyes widened in shock, "Wha—" Frost pulls him by the collar, dragging him towards Caitlin's bedroom then pushing him down on the pink bed. His heart was beating fast, nervous but also excited for what's about to happen.
She gets on top of him, straddling his hips causing a silent moan to escape Barry's mouth. Frost looks at him with a smirk, "What? You thought Flashy bear was your only gift? Nope. You're getting much more, Flash."
She started unbuttoning her pink top, revealing an all familiar looking black lace bra underneath the shirt.
Barry felt his cheeks redden, eyes widen, and something to twitch inside his khaki pants. He tries to look away, using all of his strength not to stare at the beauty currently straddling him.
Frost laughs, "Don't act so innocent, Barry. Me and Caity both know you wanted to sneak a peek at our goods. Now, you're getting much more than a peek." Her hands flew to his dark blue sweater, quickly removing it from him.
Barry was left in his olive-green collared shirt, disheveled and would look more gorgeous on Caitlin's carpeted floor.
As she starts unbuttoning his shirt, "Better ready yourself, Flash. You're gonna be so surprised by me and Caity, tonight." She whispers in a breathy tone, nibbling at Barry's earlobe. He hitches a breath, heart beating fast but had no reason or care to stop her from having him.
~the next day~
"What happened to you?" Cisco asked while looking weirdly at Caitlin, who was all red and pacing back and forth inside the med bay.
She looks at him, "I… I don't know."
The man sighs, "Well stop walking around, will you? You're making me nervous."
Caitlin sighs and shakes her head, "You're right. I need to—"
Barry flashes inside the Cortex radiating happiness and grinning widely at the two scientists; especially at the auburn-haired woman.
The resident STAR Labs doctor looked away and continued walking around the med bay again.
Cisco turns to Barry, "Dude, do you know what happened to her?"
Barry smiles smugly at him, "I did. I happened to her, man."
Cisco blinks his eyes.
Caitlin facepalms herself, cheeks full on red.
"Okay. You two, talk about that. I'll go to my workshop, safely away from anything that I shouldn't hear. Specifically, mature stuff and…"
Caitlin shoots her a glare, "Francisco Ramon."
"Bye." He quickly leaves the speedster and ice queen.
Barry turns to her with a wide smirk, "Morning, Cait. Glad to see you're able to walk."
Her mouth hangs open then looks at him with a hard gaze, "Thank my fast regeneration. Don't even mention that to Cisco."
He chuckles and winks at her, "Of course. I'm not going to boast of how good 'I happened to you'."
Her whole face was set on fire, as she slapped the arm of the adorable man in front of her.
Caitlin huffs, "What happened last night, it was something much more than… sex. I need to sort out my feelings and your heart is still recovering."
Barry smiles and holds her hand, "I agree with you. Last night is so much more than sex. Just promise me one thing, Cait."
She looks at him, emerald eyes not showing any sign of teasing, "And that is?"
He squeezes her hand, "Promise me we'll get through this, together. You and me."
She smiles back at him, squeezing his hand three times, "I promise. Together."
#
#
Years later, Caitlin Snow-Allen smiled at the memory of their wedding vows' last line.
Together, in any Earth or timeline, together.
A/N: 2nd story! Hope you all enjoyed this one! Thank you for reading! I'll post the other stories in a jiff! ;)