I've been swamped with homework, so this is kind of rushed, sorry.

Prompt from Mayflowers 123. Iris is on her way to the police station when a metahuman kidnaps her and in Barry's haste to save her he doesn't put on his suit.

Iris really needed to talk to Barry. This was one of those times where she really wished she had more female friends, but Barry had come through for her on so many other occasions, so she knew he could help her. She had just broken up with Eddie. Well, Eddie had broken up with her.

She had known this breakup was coming since the day Barry told her he loved her. Eddie was right, Barry loved her and she loved Barry more than she could ever love Eddie.

So there she was, walking toward the Central City Police Station with red, puffy eyes. Just because she knew the breakup was coming didn't mean it was any easier. Iris had wanted to believe in the easy solution; stay with Eddie and make herself be happy. He was a great guy. Why shouldn't she be happy with him? She had thought she loved him and maybe with a little more time, she would have.

This is why she needed Barry. He had always made sense out of everything whether it had been boy problems like this, popular girls teasing her at school, or just plain self-esteem issues, it had always been Barry that she turned to. Now that she knew that they loved each other, why should it be any different?

That's exactly why it's different. I don't want him to just reassure me and tell me anyone would be lucky to have me, I . . . I want . . . hi- She had yet to confess her feelings to herself, she couldn't. She loved her best friend and wanted to be more than his best friend, and she knew she could be. So what was she so afraid off?

Iris's thoughts had kept her too distracted. She was twenty feet away from the police station doors when someone grabbed her from behind. She barely had time to scream before a cloth was placed over her mouth. Iris had never been able to hold her breath for very long, fifteen to twenty seconds at most, so it didn't take very long for her to give in and breathe in the fumes from the chloroform cloth, but apparently, she had enough time to hallucinate before passing out because she saw a red streak and then Barry's face where the streak stopped.

Barry heard a scream right outside the station. He ran to his window to see what was going on, so he wouldn't be charging blindly into a fight. What he saw terrified him. A man was pressing a cloth to Iris's face. Barry didn't think he just ran. He ran as fast as he possibly could with all of the twists, turns, and obstacles in his way in the crowded police station. He was still too slow.

By the time he got outside to where Iris was, all he saw was her and her captor fading away and a shocked look on Iris's semiconscious face.

Joe appeared at his side. "What happened?"

"Teleportation. I don't know where they went." Barry said looking all around in a vain hope that they hadn't gone very far.

"I'll call the lab and have them start looking. You . . . run . . . search. Just do what you have to do." Joe was shaking slightly as he pulled out his phone and walk back into the station.

Barry took off as fast as he could. He ran in ever widening circles looking everywhere he could think of as to where the other meta could have taken Iris.

He had searched three quarters of the city by the time he heard his phone ring. He answered and heard Caitlyn's voice.

"She's in Lamb Valley."

"I don't know where that is, Caitlyn."

"It's the subdivision north of the Glades."

"The teleporter took her to Starling?" Barry asked incredulously.

"Yep." This time it was Cisco's voice. "Better start running dude."

"Call backup." Barry hung up the phone and started running. He knew they understood what he meant.

His cloths were burning, but he barely thought about that. He couldn't feel the fire, only see it and smell it, but he knew he was getting burns all over.

He reached Lamb Valley in record time. He called Caitlyn and Cisco.

"Where to now, guys?"

"Two lefts, one right, fourth house on the left." Caitlyn ordered.

Barry followed her directions and barged into the already open house. He followed the Arrow's path of broken objects to the basement where he saw Iris tied in a corner and Arrow fighting the metahuman. He was teleporting behind or away from Oliver fairly frequently and while the metahuman was still getting plenty beat up (with an arrow in his left knee), Oliver couldn't quite catch him.

"Nice of you to show up Flash." Arrow growled as he continued to fight. "Might want to untie your friend instead of just watching." Barry snapped into action racing over to Iris and freeing her then running back to help fight the metahuman.

The meta couldn't teleport very quickly, but Barry couldn't touch him while he was teleporting though the meta could still land punches on him- totally not fair by the way-, and Barry couldn't predict where he would go. It seemed like they were fighting for ages before Barry landed a lucky hit and the metahuman fell to the ground.

"Barry?" Iris asked tentatively.

"Heeeeey, Iris." Barry said nervously.

"Barry, you don't have time to talk. You are barely on your feet." Arrow said grabbing Barry's arm as he started falling. He hadn't realized just how badly he had been burned on the way there or how badly he'd been hurt while fighting. His strength was failing now, the adrenaline was leaving his system.

"Barry!" Iris called out reaching for her best friend.

"Do you think you can make it to the foundry?" Arrow asked.

"Arrow Cave?" Barry asked teasingly.

"Or I could leave you here. Answer the question." Arrow smirked at him.

Iris's eyes widened in fear. He wouldn't really abandon her injured friend would he?

"I can't stand up, Arrow." Barry winced in pain as he tried to stand one more time.

"Ok kid." Oliver said scooping Barry into his arms.

"What about Iris? Can't just leave her here." He was fading out of consciousness.

"I'll come back for her. I promise." Barry didn't hear his response. He had already lost consciousness. Arrow turned to Iris. "The foundry isn't far from here. I'll be twenty minutes at the most." Arrow tossed her his phone. "Call Joe, let him know you're ok. Twenty minutes."

"How do I know I can trust you? You've killed people."

"Barry trusts me."

"I don't know who you are." Iris said. She did not want to let a murderer take her best friend from her, but he had saved her and Eddie from- from Barry when he was going crazy. Could she trust him?

"I have a feeling you'll know who I am by the time I come back." Arrow turned his back on her, and still carrying Barry, he left the building, climbed onto his motorcycle and drove off, leaving Iris pacing on the porch of her kidnapper's house.

Her kidnapper.

They had both been so focused on Barry that they hadn't spared a thought for the metahuman that had caused all of this.

She would babysit the man until the Arrow returned in now . . . fifteen minutes. She took out the phone he had tossed her and called her father. Once again she had been told the Arrow could be trusted. She hung up with her father and thought. The Arrow had said she would be able to figure out who he was.

Iris realized that the Arrow must know her. She knew the man beneath the hood. Barry obviously did too, so who did he know in Starling City?

Wait, this was crazy. She had just found out that her best friend, her Barry, was the Flash, and she was sitting here trying to figure out who the freaking Arrow was?

Barry was the Flash.

Her best friend was a superhero.

For so long she had thought he didn't keep secrets from her. Then she thought his biggest secret was knowing Oliver Queen. Then she thought his biggest secret was being in love with her. But now, this.

Back up. Oliver Queen. The playboy billionaire marooned on an island for five years who returned a completely different person. Different enough to have become Robin Hood.

Iris's kidnapper was just barely stirring when the Arrow came back.

"What are you going to do about him . . . Oliver?"

He pulled down his hood and looked at the man. Oliver put him in a chokehold as Yow Fe (spelling?) had once done to him to give him the appearance of death.

"He won't wake up until I allow him to."

Iris once again looked at him in fear.

"C'mon, time to go." He told Iris.

"Where?"

"The foundry. Where Barry is. I figured you'd want to wait with him until he's ready to be driven back to Central City."

Iris followed Oliver out to his motorcycle where he put his hood back up.

"Driven? Is he in that bad of condition?" Her heart began to race. Oliver grabbed her arms.

"He's fine. He heals fast, but the burns came from him running all the way here without his suit, so running back with you and neither of you having fireproof clothing or other protection . . . not the best idea."

Iris nodded and climbed on the back of the motorcycle with the bow and arrow wielding former killer.

When they got to the foundry Iris immediately ran towards Barry who was lying on a table with two people standing over him.

"Bear!" She grabbed his hand and then noticed the other people in the room. "Felicity?"

"Hi Iris." She greeted happily. "This is Diggle and Roy."

Iris nodded at the men in greeting. "Felicity. You work for the Arrow. Barry is the Flash. Oliver Queen is the Arrow. Felicity works for the Arrow. The Arrow has other friends." Iris continued to mumble new things she had just learned. "Ok, ok this is too much. Too much." Oliver grabbed her arm and sat her down in a chair.

Two hours later Barry was well enough to stand. He went right over to Iris, who stood and immediately went into his arms.

"Wow, I thought you'd be mad at me." Barry smiled down at his friend still snuggled tightly against his chest.

"I am mad. I'm beyond mad. I'm- I'm livid. Yes, that's a good word. Livid." She glared at him, but then he could see the excitement explode within her. "But this is awesome! We're standing in the Arrows hide out. You're almost healed from nasty injuries in about three hours. Not to mention you have other superpowers. I'm really mad about not being told all of this, but for now I'm just going to go with this is awesome!"

Oliver dropped them off at Joe's place, and they waited on the doorstep talking for a few minutes.

She kept smiling at him and telling him when he was completely better he needed to take her for a run.

Barry was glad to see her smile so much. He didn't see very much of that precious smile anymore, but she would explain why in due time.

Or maybe she won't have too. Barry thought as her lips crashed onto his.

"I love you too." Iris said. "Eddie broke up with me because my heart wasn't really in the relationship, and it took me a lot longer than it should have to admit to myself where I knew my heart really was."

Barry's lips crashed onto hers again until they realized they needed to go inside and prove to Joe that they really were ok.

I just kind of wrote until my fingers hurt on that one. Sorry if it sounds like the word vomit that it legitimately was.