About a month had passed since the pharmacy incident. I had to go to court to testify, luckily Cisco and Caitlin were there for me. Things had been going great now. Caitlin and I were becoming very close friends, it was nice since I had so few friends here. Cisco and I pretty much spend Saturdays together. We get lunch together, if there's something worth doing in town we go, then back to my apartment to eat and play video games until our thumbs are numb. It's Thursday afternoon and I've been stuck on an equation since Tuesday morning. Caitlin, Cisco and even Dr. Wells offered to look it over, but I was determined to do this on my own. I had a theory on something and I wanted to be the one to figure it out. I even skipped lunch with Caitlin and Cisco. I was now sitting cross legged in the corner of the room, on the floor. I had long since ditched my shoes and lab coat, sitting in my skinny jeans and off the shoulder, tribal print shirt. I had the whiteboard wheeled over so it was in front of me. I bit the marker and scanned the board again. I got up, erased a few numbers, sighed and put them back. I put my back against the corner and slid back down to the floor. I picked up my iPad and checked all the variables. All good. What was missing! My equations answer was wrong. Every time I did the experiment on a simulator, nothing happened. I could hear Dr. Wells come in.

"Lucy, if this is too much, I can give the project to someone else."

I scrambled up and moved the whiteboard. "NO! I can get this, I know I can."

Dr. Wells gave me an unsure look. "Lucy a-"

"I can get this."

He sighed and nodded. "Ok ok, just don't over work yourself ok?"

I nodded and sat down in the computer chair. I watched Dr. Wells leave and sighed. This was going to be stressful.

I sat in the labs, doing usual maintenance to the Flash suit. Dr. Wells came in as I was doing the last bit of cleaning. "I'm worried about Lucielle."

I put the rag down and looked up. "Why?"

"I gave her some work on the accelerator and she's really engrossed in it. She's having trouble but she won't let anyone help."

I nodded. "Yeah I offered a helping hand but she refused. She still on it?"

Wells sat in front of the computers, typing away. "Yeah, I just checked on her. She seemed almost angry when I offered to get her help on it."

I sighed and walked over next to him. "I'll check on her after work, make sure she doesn't stay too late."

It was 6 pm when I went onto the elevator back up to the regular labs. I walked through the hallways until I came to her and Caitlin's office. She was sitting on her desk, face to face with the whiteboard. Every time I came in her the past few days, she's been nose to board with it. I leaned against the doorway and watched her. I don't know how someone so cute wanted anything to do with me. If you looked close enough, you could see her natural dark brown hair at the roots. She was biting her lip and twisting the cap on her marker. Even in the loose shirt I could see her curves. She was fit, but with genes on her side, she had plenty going on in the bra. I ran my fingers through my hair, trying to keep my mind on track. We haven't gotten that far, and I don't plan on pushing it. No way I'm risking losing a girl like her. She still hadn't noticed me, so I cleared my throat and walked into the room. She jerked and straightened her back.

"Hey!"

Her hazel eyes looked tired. "You're worn out."

Her smile faltered and she sighed. "I know, but I gotta figure this out! And with a shoot tomorrow I'll be gone most the day! Dr. Wells is going to kick me off this experiment! Maybe even fire me!"

I walked up and rubbed her back. "Hey now no. He won't fire you over one tricky thing. Just take things slow. Rest on it, try again tomorrow ok?"

I could see in her eyes she wasn't going to. I sighed and kissed her cheek. "Ok ok, just text me when you get home ok?"

She nodded and tightened her pony tail. "I will, you going home?"

I nodded and stood in front of her. "Yeah, gonna sleep up before the weekend. You get sleep too ok? Gotta look pretty for the cameras."

She rolled her eyes and pushed me. "Shut up Cisco. I will attempt sleep though ok?"

I grabbed the back of her neck and pulled her closer. "Thank you." I kissed her. She scooted foreword more and grabbed my shirt. I leaned into her more, trying to put more into the kiss. She pulled away, laid her head on my shoulder and hugged me. I cursed myself. I just told myself I wasn't going to push things. I pulled away from her and kissed her forehead. "Don't be too late ok?"

She smiled. "I won't. See you tomorrow?" I nodded and walked out, still kicking myself.

I watched Cisco walk away, I shifted myself uncomfortably. He was so cute, and sweet. I knew that after 2 months he was expecting something. I ran my fingers through my bangs and sighed. It wasn't him, I was just.. Afraid. I've had many guys come around wanting one thing and if they didn't get it, they left. I sighed again and laid back onto my desk. I know Cisco isn't like that, but I'm so nervous. It's been a long time since I've actually dated someone. It was going so well, I didn't want to risk messing things up. I sat up and looked back at the board, hoping to get my mind off one problem to another. Then I saw it.

I woke up feeling chipper. I had finally figured out the problem in that equation and was ready to present it to Dr. Wells. I put on a black and white spring dress, black converses, put my hair in a fishtail braid, and set off to work. I drove into jitters and waited for my coffee. My phone went off and I glanced at it. It was Cisco.

'You at work yet?'

'No, getting coffee! I'll be there in 10! Make sure you and Dr. Wells are in the office!'

I put my phone away and soon was back in my car, coffee in hand. I drove the last little bit to work and pulled in. I put on my lab coat and walked into the lab. I rushed into the office.

"Hello my friends! So glad to see you!"

"What's going on Lucy?"

I pointed at Caitlin. "So glad you asked!" I spun the whiteboard around. "Remember this dastardly equation I couldn't quite figure out?"

Everyone simultaneously nodded their head. "Weeeell.."

I turned around, fixed the variables, changed a few numbers, and wrote the answer down. I turned around to Dr. Wells smiling.

"Well I must say.. It appears to be right.."

I held the marker out, dropped it, picked up my purse and walked out the door shouting "damn right it is! Shoot time!"

The shoot went by pretty easy. I sat in the car and put up my hair. I grabbed my phone and checked.

Cisco:'hey at 4 we're gonna test out your equation with the accelerator, you want in?'

I checked the time. 3:44. If I was going to make it I was going to have to rush. I shredded through traffic and barely hit the car next to me as I parked. I ran into the building and almost fell through the doorway. "Did I make it?"

They all looked back at me quizzically. "Yes, you did."

I smiled and walked in properly. "Would you like to set it up?" I looked at Dr. Wells. "Really?"

He nodded his head. "If you're to get your PhD, I want you as well prepared as possible."

I felt myself beam as I set everything up. I was shaking at first, but by the time I was done I had relaxed and was basically zoned out, only thinking about the accelerator. I didn't want a repeat of what happened here a few years ago. I stepped back, rechecked everything according to my findings, then looked at Dr. Wells. He smiled at me and started the large machine. I stepped back next to Cisco and grabbed his hand. As the noise got louder I closed my eyes and squeezed his hand. It felt like forever but suddenly it was quiet.

"It worked."

I looked at Dr. Wells. "It did?"

He nodded his head and smiled. "Yeah, you did it."

I stood there for a minute, not sure what to say. "I think the council will love to hear about this."

I turned to Dr. Wells. "What?"

He smiled. "What better way to approve you for a PhD than what you just done? You took a theory, though a small, non ground breaking one, but effective enough theory to prove you have the credentials and knowledge for a PhD. You'll still need to take the exam, but I think this'll move things along."

I sat at Jitters Saturday morning, enjoying my coffee and a book. I had a date with Cisco later and we were trying a Japanese Steak house. I was nervous this time though. It's been like 2 months and we still haven't been past kissing. I was beginning to fear he was going to give up on me, like all the other guys in my life. I just can't be intimate with someone unless I truly feel it with them. A part of me felt ready, but at the same time I was nervous. It's been quite a while since I've done anything like that. I sighed and sat my book down. I noticed that girl Iris about to pass by. "Hi Iris!"

She jumped and looked up at me. "Lucy! Hi! Sorry a bit spaced out! How are you?"

I shrugged my shoulders. "Oh you know, science stuff. Care to join me?" I motioned towards the empty chair.

"Sure! Why not." She sat down from me and looked at my book. "Great Gatsby? I read that in high school."

I smiled. "I've read hundreds of books but this one is my favorite. Decided to get out and take a breather and ever since Cisco showed me this place, I've com back for the coffee!"

She smiled. "Speaking of Cisco, how are things going with him?"

I shrugged my shoulders. "Been together bout 2 months now! We're going on a date today, probably go back to my place for video games and take out!"

She raised her eyebrows and leaned foreword. "2 months now? Come on there's more than just 'video games' going on!"

I blushed. "Actually we haven't gotten that far yet."

She leaned back with wide eyes. "Really?"

I nodded and she relaxed. "Well don't stress it. From what I hear from Barry, he really likes you!"

I smiled. "Good, cause I feel the same."

We sat down at the restaurant and grabbed the menu. We sat shoulder to shoulder and scanned it together. Once we ordered we waited on the chef to come and start cooking.

"So I sat with Iris this morning at Jitters."

He looked over at me, generally surprised. "You know Iris?"

I shrugged. "A bit. Met her one day when I ran into Barry. Which reminds me, talking good about me to him?"

He pursed his lips together. "How'd you know?"

"Iris told me Barry told her you really like me."

He seemed almost relieved. "Well yeah! You're pretty damn amazing!"

I was about to counter when the chef came up. He soaked the cooking surface with beer and put the fire on. When it first blazed out I heard Cisco take in a sharp breath. I glanced over and could see in his face it shocked him. "Ever seen them do this?"

He just shook his head no. I laughed and turned back to watch the man do tricks while cooking our food. Once we got our plates Cisco began bombarding me with how happy he was I suggested this place. "But my dear tour guide, I thought you knew all the good places?"

He stopped mid bite to glare playfully at me. I wiggled my fingers at him and took another bite. "So what do you wanna do after this?"

He took a sip of his soda and pondered. "Dunno. What's good going on?"

I grabbed my phone and sat it on the table between us. I started searching around for local events. "There's an art showing later?"

Cisco scoffed.

"Ooook I guess that's out! Uhh there... Is... Jack shit going on really."

He nodded. "Wanna go to the comic book store then just head over for video game night?"

I finished my last bite of rice and nodded. "Sounds good to me!"

We paid and walked out to his car. Once in I plugged my phone up and started playing music. As we drove downtown we held hands. He was slowly rubbing his thumb across my hand and I would alternate from looking at him concentrating on the road and our intertwined hands. Just as I was fully lost in thought the car shifted into park. I looked up and blushed, realizing I had been staring at him. He gave me a coy look. I just shoved his face and unbuckled my seatbelt. "What? Am I just too much?"

I flicked him off and got out. He joined me and quickly grabbed me by the waist as we stepped inside. I went around aimlessly until I got to the X-Men section. I began to flip through all the comics for something to catch my eye, though I was paying more attention to Cisco rubbing my side that was peeking out from my crop top. I got to the end of the section when I realized I hadn't even been paying attention to them, just on Cisco. I looked up at him and tilted my head slightly, "aren't you going to look for something too?"

He shrugged his shoulders, kissed my hair and walked to another part of the store. I stole one last glance before I went back to the comics in front of me.

We had been play in video games for about 2 hours when we decided to order food. While we ate we decided to watch Myth Busters. We started a game where we would see what the episode was about, and make our own hypothesis on what would happen. About 4 episodes in our food was long gone and we were pretty much in full debate mode. As the episode started he blurted out. "It'll work."

I turned to him. "No way! It's not going to work!" He raised his eyebrows at me, "it isn't?"

I sat up to where I was sitting on my legs, facing him. "No way! It's not possible!" He turned slightly towards me. "You seem quite confident about it!"

I smirked, "cause I'm right."

He leaned foreword. "You are huh?" I leaned even closer, almost nose to nose. "Of course."

With that his lips crashed into mine. I felt the air leave my body, but I just grabbed his neck and kissed him back harder. His one hand laced his fingers into my hair and the other one went to my waist. As we kissed his hand on my waist began to massage my hip again. Without even thinking I shifted myself until I was straddling him. I felt his tongue gently touch my lip, almost light enough for me not to notice. I smiled against his lips before I gently bit his bottom lip. His hand left my hair and trailed from my neck down my shoulder, back, then to my hip. I mimicked his action and touched my tongue lightly to his lips, this time allowing me entrance. We were almost like one, our tongues working in synch, his hands slowly rubbing up and down my lower back, my own hands holding tightly to his neck. It was like this for a few moments before we both pulled away, breathing heavily. We both stared at each other as we caught our breath. We kissed again, only momentarily before I slowly kissed across his jaw and down his neck. I smiled against his skin as he airily said something in Spanish under his breath. I quickly went back to his lips, grinding myself into him when suddenly we heard sound from the door. We both jerked back and I rolled clumsily off his lap. We both looked up at the door to see Viv walk in. "Sorry to interrupt, some jackass spilled his drink on me, had to get a change of clothes!" I looked up at the clock, it was 10:30.

"Are you staying at your boyfriends house again?"

"Yeah!" I heard her shout back from her room. I looked over at Cisco who was leaning foreword and rubbing his face. Suddenly the end credits for Mythbusters came up. "So which one of us was right?"

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Ok ok so I have a lot of ideas going on with this story! I'm not sure whether or not I'm going to write out an actual sexual chapter, or if I'll just implicate they did it. What do you guys think? Lemme know guys I feed off your input!:)