guide: Plain text is Iris. Italics are Flash.
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Part Two
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Today (8:18am)
Exactly how early does the Flash wake up?
(8:20)
You know what they say about justice
(8:21)
Yeah, it never sleeps
(8:22)
Yeah well, neither do the criminals. Or I guess the journalists who write about them
(8:25)
Good morning to you too. I didn't want to wake you, but we didn't exactly hammer out all the details of our partnership last night.
(8:26)
Oh we're partners now?
(8:28)
Yeah, unless you prefer to ~work alone~
(8:28)
Where's the bat emoji when you need one?
(8:29)
Ha, no, you're fine, I'm just getting some clarification
(8:31)
Good bc you already said you'd help me figure out what's going on with STAR Labs and the meta-humans.
(8:32)
That I did
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So, we're partners
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Colleagues? Friends?
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We can be whatever you want us to be, Iris
(8:35)
Friends then.
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We'll solve this mystery, and see what comes next :)
(8:38)
Maybe breakfast
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Together?
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Stupid question. Of course not. Secret identity.
(8:40)
I'll leave your pancakes on the roof of Jitters
(8:42)
Now that doesn't sound very sanitary
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How about I wait until after you get up there? That gives me, what, like forty minutes to make them?
(8:46)
Sounds pretty slow
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I can't exactly speed up the cooking time. Besides, I just woke up
(8:50)
Want to leave a latte up there too?
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Ha, am I your partner or your assistant?
(8:53)
Depends on how good the coffee is
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Then prepare to be amazed
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You've got 30 minutes
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Make it twenty. I'm already headed to the car.
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Well, I already have the batter down
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If you have any chocolate chips…
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Yup they're there, double chocolate
(9:00a)
Best assistant ever
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Wait until you taste them
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(9:14a)
I'm here, yet I see no pancakes
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(9:20a)
Only four minutes left, tick tock
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And you are late!
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Turn around.
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When did you — you're not staying?
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Already ate, plus there's a little emergency to tend to. Bank robbery, you know how it is
(9:27)
Meta-human bank robbery or normal human bank robbery?
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(9:30a)
Nope, case details are not part of the partnership
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Not part? It's totally meta related, that puts it on the table
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A lady snapped and robbed the place she worked at. It's definitely not meta related, or STAR Labs related.
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Wanna bet?
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How much?
(9:36)
Pan of brownies and a quick peek at where my dad's going?
(9:37)
Iris, I never agreed to spy on Joe
(9:38)
Okay, just the brownies then.
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Buut I did check his recent searches, and they're all about Starling City and this car crash, and it screams, "I'm tracking Harrison Wells." My dad's up to something.
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I'm not tracking your dad.
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I'm only saying that if you were really gonna be my partner, you might check out what's happening over there.
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…partner… so you liked the pancakes then
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I would gladly wake up to those pancakes every day for the rest of my life.
(9:48)
Noted.
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(9:53)
You're not gonna start showing up with pancakes, are you? Because I don't think any of the men in my life would approve of that
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I thought you weren't talking to any of them
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Doesn't mean I don't care what they think.
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Come on, you've frozen people out, right?
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I try not to. It's pretty bad when I stop talking to people
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This /is/ bad. Haven't you ever been in love?
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It's not really something I talk about
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So you have.
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Yeah, Iris, I've been in love
(10:05)
This is all off the record, right? I'm not going to find any of this in your next article? "Flash-ing in and out of love"
(10:07)
First of all, that is an awful title, and second of all, I told you, your secrets are safe with me
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Go on.
(10:13)
Sometimes it takes something big to get people to recognize what's important. Eddie doesn't seem to think I can handle whatever's going on, so he's keeping it away from me, but that's the opposite of what I need.
I had another friend who kept something from me. Something huge, like life-changing, needed to reevaluate our entire life long relationship huge. And we're still recovering from that, but we are recovering because I love that friend more than almost anything else in this world. I want to feel like that about Eddie, and for that to happen, I need to know what's going on. I don't want to wake up one day and find out there's another 20 year old secret I didn't know about
(10:15)
Twenty sounds like an exaggeration
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Fifteen then. Fifteen year secret, and do you have any idea what it's like to think one way about something — someone — and find out you never really knew them at all?
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My boss once turned out to be a very different person than I thought he was
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Your boss
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Don't take a tone, yeah, my boss, my mentor, the guy I looked up to in my field is turning out to be literally my worst nightmare, and I have no idea how to deal with that
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I keep acting like I do. If I don't then everyone else will freak out. They'll spiral, and if we're all spiraling, then he'll get away and it'll be like everything in my life led up to me being the exact same kid who watched his world fall apart someteen years ago
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Oh.
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Sorry to hear that.
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No, I'm sorry. I'm supposed to be helping you, not making you doubt another person
(10:33)
I don't doubt you, Flash. It's nice to know that even superheroes have shitty relationships
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Then I'm glad I could help
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But…
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But?
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You know that someteen's not a word either, right? This is a recurring thing, Flash. I'm buying you a dictionary.
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Hardy har har
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Really though, this partner thing can go both ways, if you want. You don't seem like you've got people to talk to either
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I could, but the one person I want to talk to can't know about any of this.
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Remember what I said about ignorance leading to pain?
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Remember what I said about literal worst nightmare?
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If your friends can't fight your battles with you, are they really your friends?
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I've got to go
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Flash, wait
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(10:55a)
Should I not have pushed?
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It's fine. I'm not avoiding you. This case is a lot more than we thought
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(3:35p)
What case? The woman who says she didn't rob the bank? Was she telling the truth? What kind of meta are we talking about here? Mind control? Shape shifting? Have they done it before? The crime, not the shifting. Though those could probably inform each other.
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Flash?
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(9:19p)
I honestly can't answer everything right now, and I definitely owe you some brownies, but first, Iris, tell me you won't freak out.
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About being right? This is awesome. I've been looking into this stuff all day. Did you know that other crimes have happened like this?
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Okay, it's not awesome, obviously, more super human crimes isn't good for Central City, but this is a pattern! There's almost an M.O.!
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Iris
(9:28)
Monosyllabic responses, guessing we're serious. What's wrong?
(9:29)
It's not your dad. Just a little accident, two cops on the force got shot, but they should be okay. We'll figure all of this out and stop Everyman, but first, just don't believe anything that you hear about tonight.
(9:31)
What?
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What did you do?
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Nothing. I only passed through it. Look, I'm sure you'll hear about it, just try to go to bed for now. Call your dad. See how Starling's treating him. He's bonding with Captain Lance and the D.A.
(9:35)
What the fuck, Flash. You can't tell me something bad happened and then not say anything else. What kind of partner are you?
(9:37)
The kind who's got other stuff to worry about right now. The worst kind of criminal is out there. Would you rather I text you about it or actually save the day?
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That was rude
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(9:46p)
Hey, don't let me hold you back
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Iris, I sent that text before I thought it through.
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It's fine. Go save the day. I'm fishing out my dad's secret scanner anyway.
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I really wish you wouldn't listen to that
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I'm a big girl, Flash. I can handle it.
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(10:23p)
Eddie's not answering his phone. Why isn't he answering? Sure he was there when the other cops got shot, but he's not under investigation.
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Where's his phone? Why isn't he answering?
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(10:34p)
Why isn't anyone — No one's answering my questions. There's nothing inputted in the system yet about this. What did you see? What happened?
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(10:53p)
Seriously? Again?
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(11:00p)
Can you at least tell me if Eddie's okay?
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(11:04p)
I'm circling him. They brought him in, and no one gets to see him. I'm doing everything I can, but I'm gonna have to turn in soon. There's nothing I can do until tomorrow. But believe me, nothing's gonna happen to your boyfriend, Iris.
(11:06)
He didn't do anything wrong. He's not that kind of guy.
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I know. He's my partner too.
(11:09)
Ohhh, we are so coming back to that.
After you bring him home to me.
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Thought you moved out
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Just keep him safe
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Right away, boss
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Friend*
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Iris
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Right, stop messaging. I'll stop.
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Text me when you wake up
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Or just updates since, yanno
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Justice never sleeps
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Night, Flash
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Night, Iris
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