Prompt from Guest. Barry leaves Iris at the police station in a hurry, so she decides to follow him. She catches him using super speed and confronts him later.
So, I realized that I switched prompts in the middle of the story.
Prompt 2 from Not a Nerd Just a Stranger. Iris gets kidnapped by a metahuman and Barry goes to save her without his mask, and Iris confronts him.
A new metahuman was attacking Central City. He could read minds, which Cisco thought was totally awesome, other than the fact he was using it to steal government secrets.
Barry walked into the police station not really watching where he was going. He had too much on his mind, his training, being the Flash, hiding that he's the Flash, his real job, protecting his city, the list went on. Strangely enough his training that morning had been an attempt to clear his mind, so he could protect the people he cared about from the mind-reading metahuman. He wasn't doing really well on that task. For all he knew he could already be too late. Barry couldn't be sure what the other metahuman saw in his mind during their first encounter. His worry only filled his mind more and he had absolutely no idea how he could possibly fight this metahuman. No one even knew how he was doing this.
"Bar-RY!" He heard Iris exclaim.
"Oh, hi, Iris. I'm sorry." Barry stuttered.
"Has apologizing just become a kneejerk reaction for you, Bear?" She laughed and lightly hit his shoulder.
He pretended to be hurt. "It seems like it. How long had you been trying to get my attention?"
"Just a couple minutes." Barry opened his mouth to apologize, but Iris gave him a playful glare. "Don't you do it."
"I'm-" He met Iris's playful gaze and matched it.
"Don't you dare."
"What are you guys doing?" Barry had no idea how long Eddie had been watching them, and he was pretty sure he didn't want to know.
"Just messing around. How are you?" Iris turned her attention to her boyfriend, and Barry's heart sank.
"I'm good. Barry, did you get anything from the scene?"
"Nope, not a shred of useful evidence." At least not that I could bring to the station.
"This case is insane."
"Almost impossible?" Iris raised an eyebrow.
"Oh, we're going back to that now?" Eddie joked.
"I'm just saying; use the impossible to solve the impossible. Maybe the Flash would know something about it."
"I doubt he could. There is no information on this case whatsoever."
"It would be worth asking." She said in a singsong voice.
"Ok sure. You ask him." Eddie laughed.
"Ok, I will." She replied seriously.
"Wait, what?" Eddie stared at his girlfriend.
"So, Barry." Iris turned to him trying to change the subject. "Where did he go?"
Eddie pointed off to the side where Barry stood talking on the phone. Barry hung up and walked up to them.
"Sorry, I have to go." Barry turned and ran-at a normal speed-toward the door.
"Weird." Iris gave his retreating form a suspicious look. "I'm gonna follow him."
"Iris, are you sure that's a good idea?"
"C'mon, you're a detective. You know you're curious about Barry disappearing." Iris tilted her head, and Eddie smiled guiltily.
"Ok, let's go."
The pair exited the building and crept into the alley Barry had turned into.
"What is that boy doing?" Eddie whispered to his girlfriend.
"Shhhh!" Iris turned her head to shush her boyfriend. When she turned back to watch her best friend, he was gone, and in his place a red blur. "Oh my-"
"Was that-? Is Barry-?" Eddie stuttered.
Iris nodded. "Uh-huh. I need to have a long hard talk with that boy."
"I wonder where he's off to in such a hurry." Eddie tried to joke. He was met with a blank stare.
Suddenly Iris's eyes widened as someone came around the corner and stuffed rags in her and her boyfriend's face. The world went black.
Iris woke up in what looked to be a large storage area. She and Eddie were tied back to back. A man sat watching them on the other side of the small room.
"Where are we?" Iris demanded of her captors.
"Oh, don't worry dear, you're little Flash will be here for you. He's found me here before, he'll do it again, especially with you as bait." The man ran his hand against Iris's face.
"Don't you dare touch her." A disguised voice growled. The voice was barely recognizable and Iris now understood why he had used it around her. She could recognize Barry's regular voice anywhere even now she could hear the familiar undertone of Barry's voice. It just sounded like auto tune.
"You can speak freely, your friends here already know you're little secret. You should really stop to take a look around before speeding off." The man bragged about nothing. Barry took off his mask. (It wasn't all that comfortable.)
Barry ran and untied Eddie and Iris. "You know, the Arrow told me the same thing, and then I got shot with two arrows in the back, but something tells me you're not quite that prepared."
"I don't need to shoot you. I have your weakness right behind me. You won't let them be hurt." He gestured to where Eddie and Iris were standing up.
The man held out a hand toward their heads, and immediately Iris screamed. Barry leapt into action. He ran towards the torturer at the fastest speeds he could reach with only a few feet of room. He attacked him with mile-a-minute punches.
The fight didn't last long, even a mind reader can only exert so much power before he quits.
"Don't think saving my life gets you off the hook for lying to me, Barry Allen. You will tell me every detail there is to know."
Barry did as he was told. He started with waking up at STAR Labs and told his best friend everything. He hesitated at the parts that involved Joe, but he knew that she would find out sooner or later. (More likely sooner with all the eggnog.) He finished with the phone call that made him leave work.
"So, when I've been telling you to work on your speed in the gym . . ." Eddie looked sheepish.
"I was trying very hard not to laugh." Barry smiled. Within seconds the other two had joined him smiling and laughing. They both continued to ask questions, and Barry answered as best as he could.
It's nice not having to lie, Barry thought.