I'm not really proud of this one, but... ehh.
Man, the writers are just killing Snowbarry, aren't they?
"Absolutely not!" Cisco shouted.
"Well, I'm with Cisco on this one. You can't do that," Barry said, crossing his arms and moving to stand next to his friend.
The latter pointed his finger at Caitlin. "HA!"
"Yes, I can!" she replied, furious. "I can put crackers in a cheese sandwich, there's nothing gross about that!"
"Are you kidding me? I could roam the multiverse without finding something worse!" Barry argued.
"Well I can find something worse." She paused for dramatic effect. "Chicken and Nutella with ice cream and mustard on the side."
Cisco gasped, "How dare you utter such foul and grotesque locutions while you reference my favourite meal?"
It took Barry a couple of seconds to grasp what the engineer had said - for the fastest man alive, he didn't get things quickly - but when he did, he shot him an apologetic look, "I have to side with Caitlin on this one, man. Sorry but that's way more disgusting than a cheese sandwich with crackers."
"That's because a cheese sandwich with crackers is not disgusting! And would you stop switching sides?" Caitlin said, smacking him lightly on the back of the head.
"Yeah, seriously dude, just choose one," Cisco agreed.
"Well..." Barry hesitated.
"Seriously? This should be a no-brainer. I'm your girlfriend!" She smacked him again, this time harder.
"Oh, pish posh! Everyone knows you should side with your best friend! Bros before hoes!" Cisco raised his hand, obviously expecting a high five.
"Did you just call me a hoe?!" Caitlin exclaimed, and at the look she gave him, daring him to repeat himself, he immediately lowered his hand.
"Yeah, did you just call my girlfriend a hoe?" But before Cisco could whimper and try to talk himself out of the mess he'd created, Barry turned towards Caitlin with a goofy smile on his face. "Ehe, 'girlfriend'. I love calling you that."
Caitlin smiled softly at her boyfriend's five year old like antics. She pulled him to her, but Cisco's voice interrupted her from making Barry very, very weak in the knees. "Oh for the love of God! How many times do I have to tell you two to get a room?"
That was just another day at S.T.A.R. Labs. Until it wasn't.
When Caitlin pulled away from Barry, she faltered, but his hands steadied her before she could fall.
"I don't..." Her voice came out as a whisper, so she tried again, and it was scarcely higher, "I don't feel so good." She suddenly fell forward, but this time, Cisco was the one who caught her and lowered her gently in a chair nearby. He didn't have the time to process what'd just happened because Barry was suddenly all over the place, freaking out.
"She told me she's been having terrible headaches, but we both dismissed it as stress, and oh God what if it's serious? What if it's life-threatening? What if we could have prevented it? What do we do now? She's the doctor, not us. Is she OK? Do you..."
"BARRY!" Cisco shut him up. "Let me think." Though he was trying to take charge, he was becoming more panic-stricken by the second.
"Would you just check her pulse?" Barry said after a few seconds, interrupting his train of thoughts.
"I don't know how to check a pulse!"he objected.
"Then just put your ear to her chest and listen to her heartbeat."
"Well why don't you do it?"
"Cisco!"
"Fine!"
He took a hesitant step towards Caitlin, then looked at Barry, who gestured for him to go for it, before turning his attention to his motionless friend. 'That's an awful feeling, to see someone you love in this state. How does she do it all the time?' he thought.
He carefully bent down and placed his ear on her chest. All of a sudden, arms grabbed him and pulled him down as an inhuman shout of "Blaaagh" resonated in his ear. He screamed and jumped back, putting a hand over his wildly beating heart before tripping on the leg of a table and landing on his butt.
A burst of laughter in the cortex followed by one near him and it hits him. He went from alarmed and startled to angry and vexed. "You two," he motioned between Caitlin and Barry as he stood up, "not cool."
"You gotta give Barry some credit, though," Caitlin said as she made herself comfortable in the chair. "He played the role of the concerned boyfriend extremely well."
"A skill I got from watching you be a concerned girlfriend all the time."
"Don't you snicker because of the word 'girlfriend' again..." Cisco said, annoyed.
"Come on, you've got to admit it was a good prank. I mean Caitlin pretending to faint, and then scaring the bejesus out of you when you got too close. I'm just glad we have security cameras in the lab so we can watch the scene unfold on replay."
"Mark my words, Snowbarry. There will come a day where I will orchestrate my revenge, and my wrath shall befall you."
Caitlin lifted an eyebrow. "Quite dramatic, don't you think, Mr. Allen?"
Barry came behind her chair. He wrapped his arms around her shoulders before leaning in. "Extremely, Dr. Snow," he replied. Cisco just groaned.
"Snowbarry for the win," she said as they high-fived.
"We're adopting that ship name?" he asked.
"We're adopting that ship name," she confirmed.
"Great," muttered Cisco, "I just gave them another way to annoy us."
"I think what I'm about to do annoys you a lot more," Barry said, and he kissed Caitlin, and they made noises, and they laughed when Cisco ran out of the cortex covering his ears.
