Prompt from KaMi-HiMe BVB. Together Eddie and Iris put two and two together and go to confront Barry about being the Flash.
Eddie and Iris sat in Jitters talking about Iris's new favorite subject: the Flash.
"He's so familiar. I don't understand it. He gave me this ridiculous name to call him but I don't believe it's his real name. A superhero named 'Ralph?' Come on."
"Why do you need to know who he is?" Eddie asked. "Isn't knowing he's out there good enough?"
"I just feel like I've known him longer than . . . longer than I've known about the Flash."
"I bet he does have a weird name, though, if the first thing he could think of was Ralph."
"So we should be looking in a group of people with weird names. I wonder if Bartholomew knows of a club." Iris laughed a little, thinking about how much Barry hated his full name.
"We should ask him. So what else do you know about him other than he might have a weird name?" Eddie questioned.
"Brown eyes."
"I will put out a BOLO for a brown eyed man." Eddie gave her a pointed look. "I'm going to need more than the most common eye color, Iris."
"He's someone I know. He's tall and pale. He's usually smiling, he seems like he genuinely wants me to be safe, and . . . I know who he is." Iris realized in shock.
"Who?"
"I'll give you one more hint. He's always late."
"Are you serious?"
"Yeah."
"Barry."
"Yeah."
"Barry Allen."
"Yeah."
"Bartholomew Henry Allen."
"We established the weird name part." Iris deadpanned.
"You do remember that the Flash nearly killed me not too long ago, right? You think that was Barry?"
"He did tell me something about another metahuman temporarily warping his mind. Maybe he wasn't lying to try to ease his mistakes. It would explain Barry's outburst at the captain that day too. And in his defense you had been trying to get a task force against him even before he attacked you." Iris watched for her boyfriend's reaction.
"I setup a task force against Barry. What do I do? It's not like I can tell the captain, 'Hey I changed my mind. I don't think he's dangerous anymore, we should disband the task force.'"
"Barry's smart and forgiving. I'm sure he'll be ok. Anyway, there's still a chance I'm crazy and Barry isn't the Flash."
"One way to know for sure."
"I can think of at least three; stakeout, try to get him to meet the Flash (you'll see that one soon), drop hints until he knows that we know, the list goes on." Iris's brain was running as fast as Barry.
"Or we could talk to him." Eddie gave Iris a weird look.
"That would work." Iris blushed.
"Where do you think he would be?"
"STAR Labs. They would have been the first to notice something was different about him, and it would give another reason behind a continuing friendships with his doctors."
"Let's go."
"Wait. Let's not confront him at the lab. It should be somewhere more familiar with as few people as possible."
"Jitters after closing?" Eddie guessed based of her earlier confessions of meeting with the Flash.
"On the roof." Iris added. Eddie gave her a questioning look. "He would carry up to the roof where there were less cameras." She defended.
"I have to say, I was not expecting a summons. Especially without a task force surrounding the building." The Flash appeared behind them, but he didn't speak with malice, it was almost as if he was resigned.
"I'm sorry about that." Eddie bowed his head slightly not wanting to meet the Flash's, no Barry's eyes.
"I'm sorry I attacked you. I don't even want to know what would have happened if the Arrow hadn't gotten to me." Barry wouldn't meet his gaze either."
"You are better right?" Iris was still worried. She knew she could be wrong about him being Barry and didn't want anything to happen to Eddie.
"Yeah, the Arrow got me into a chokehold and forced me to look into different colored flashing lights which reversed the rage-aholic metahuman's power."
"'Rage-aholic metahuman'?" Eddie whispered to himself.
"His eyes would turn red and which caused one center of the brain to activ-" The Flash looked at Eddie and Iris and only saw confusion. "He made people angry by looking in their eyes and my speed made me have a longer, harsher reaction to it."
"OK" Iris nodded. "So Barry were you ever planning on telling me you were the Flash?"
Barry stumbled. "What?"
"Give it up, the scientific tangent got rid of any doubts I had left." Iris was too used to how excited Barry got over science and how disappointed he could get when no one understood what he was talking about.
"What gave it away to begin with?" Barry asked as he took off his mask.
"A combination of things. You felt familiar, you're protective-aside from the rage-aholic episode,- and you're always late."
"I'm working on the late thing."
"How can you have super speed and still be that late?" Eddie asked beginning to feel a little more comfortable with the situation.
"Everyone that knows my secret asks that question." Barry gave a small smile. "Though last time it was asked, I got two arrows in my back. Long story."
"Seems to me like you've got time for the whole story."
So Barry told them, starting from waking up and time slowing to the training he had gone through earlier that day. When he was finished he waited for his two shocked friends to gather their thoughts.
It was quite unfortunate that being the fastest man alive made you impatient, but it also meant you could take breaks without anyone ever knowing.