Please watch this. I can just picture teenage Barry alone in his room. I'm dying. watch?v=L3iA-tAWODM
Prompt from Lmb111514. Scene continuation in episode 8 when Barry attacked Eddie, but instead of yelling at Iris and turning back to Eddie, he forgot about Eddie and yelled about Iris being invisible to his feelings. Then in the end he reveals his feelings and shows her his face before the Arrow shows up to calm him down and tell Eddie and Iris to run.
Iris was driving with her boyfriend when it happened. One second he was flipping through radio stations, then they were arguing about the Flash, and the Flash ran up alongside them and ripped Eddie out of the car.
Iris's first thought was how lucky she was. It could have Barry in the car with her. Then her thoughts quickly turned to worry for Eddie as she slammed on the brakes and got out of the car.
Eddie was lying on the ground with the Flash standing over him. Eddie tried to stand up.
"I heard you've been looking for me!" The Flash yelled and Iris couldn't help but feel guilty. She had told him about Eddie trying to get the task force, but Iris also noticed the similarity between the words he spoke now and the word he said when he first spoke to her, expect now the words were packed with hatred and anger. "All this time you've been trying to catch me, and I caught you first. Guess you never read your girlfriend's blog." Eddie pulled out his gun and shot at him.
"Eddie no!" Iris yelled as he pulled the trigger. Her worry for the Flash was unnecessary, he dodged the bullets easily.
He sped to the other side of where Eddie still lay on the ground, trying to get to his feet. He ran toward the Flash, but was quickly thrown to the side.
"Eddie!" Iris yelled in warning.
"Who the H**l are you, huh?" The Flash yelled at his beaten form, once again lying on the road. "You think you can just come along and get to have whatever you want? What gives you the right?"
"What the H**l are you talking about?" Eddie growled, crawling away from his attacker.
"What are you doing? What is happened to you?" Iris questioned in obvious disbelief. How could her hero, her guardian angel, her hope for the world, be doing this?
"I feel fine." He replied not evening sparing her a glance. Something in his twisted mind would allow him to look at her.
"You are not fine!" Iris fought. This was not the man she had come to know and- no she wouldn't even think that word, especially right now.
"How would you know? Because you write about me?" His voice rose with every word. "You don't know me. You don't know who I am! You never did." He continued to follow Eddie's crawling form but slower now. More of his attention was focused on her. She should have been terrified, but something told her that even now, when he was out of his mind he wouldn't physically hurt her. He had already emotionally hurt her, she felt betrayed, but he would never bring her harm.
"I know that you have risked your life to help people, to save them. Someone who does that does not suddenly turn around and want to hurt people. Please!" Iris begged for herself as much as for her boyfriend.
His head turned back toward her slightly. She could just barely his eyes. Eyes that she had grown to know, beautiful green eyes that were her biggest clue to his identity, but now they were not green but a violent shade of red. Was that what was causing this outrage? She thought before he turned his full attention on her. She admitted to herself, his red eyes were terrifying. Still she knew this wasn't a part of him.
"Why would you know anything about what I want?" He demanded.
"Because you have saved me. You risked your life, going up against someone who had already beaten you, to save me. I know that you care about what happens to people in this city." Iris spoke with a calm yet pleading voice, begging him, the real him, to hear her.
"Even without the mask you don't really know me. With it you're just as clueless as the rest of the world."
"Then who are you?"
"Oh, wouldn't you just love to post that on your blog? I bet that'd get a lot of hits." He snarled.
Iris sighed. "This isn't about my blog. I want to help you."
"You always say that, and yet, you've never really done much to help."
Iris had no idea how to respond. She didn't know what he was referring to. Maybe she knew the other version of him?
"I don't understand." She shook her head sadly. "What can I do to bring you back?" Tears were starting to run down her face.
"This is me, Iris! It's just part of me that has been ignored because people don't accept it. People like you. This is not another thing for shrinks to analyze. This is me! Do you understand, yet? You have never known me! You don't know any part of me." The Flash started to pull his mask off. "No matter how much you have claimed to know me, like you have done our whole lives, you never saw me. I was as invisible to you as I was to the whole world. The only way you were different from the rest, was that I saw you."
Iris couldn't stop staring at him. She stared at every part of him but the eyes, she couldn't bear to see the hatred in her loving friend's eyes. She knew more than ever that it wasn't him talking, but his words still cut her deeply. Iris looked back to her boyfriend who had crawled to a nearby building and was once again aiming his gun at the Flash.
Time slowed down and Barry immediately knew why. Eddie was shooting again. I can't just dodge them and let them continue on their course like last time, the real Barry thought. They would hit Iris instead.
Let him go to jail for her murder. He deserves it. Thought the part of Barry affected by the metahuman.
Barry grabbed Iris and ran a few feet away. The bullets lodged in Iris car. She knew even more that her Barry was still buried deep within his head, but he could find his way back.
"Tell me what else I need to understand." She asked him, hoping against all hope that talking to her about normal things would bring him back to her.
"I love you, Iris. I always have, but every time I tried to tell you, you brushed me off. Like I was just a piece of lint on your shirt."
So much for normal. She thought as her eyes widened and her mouth dropped slightly. Quickly, she hid her reactions, there was no telling what effect they would have on the situation. Finally she brought herself to look into his eyes. Still they had not returned to their beautiful, familiar green that for so many years she had called home.
"Run." She heard a voice growl. Both Barry and Iris turned to look at the newcomer. It was the Arrow. "I told you to run, Iris. Take Eddie with you."
Iris grabbed Eddie and called an ambulance to pick him up. Quietly she snuck back to where the two vigilantes were fighting. Barry was tossing around comments that without even being directly to her, hurt. Eventually she saw Arrow falling from a building, then within moments the Arrow had Barry in a chokehold and a trucks went down into the road. Iris saw a bunch of flashing lights and assumed it was some scientific thingy to help Barry, but what shocked her was who she saw inside the van.
Not only her best friend, but also her father had been keeping secrets from her.
But, at that moment in time, all she really cared about was that Barry's eyes returned to their normal color.
I hope you guys don't mind, but tomorrow is going to be another Christmas one. I'm posting this one today because it was already written.