Barry is undercover in Iron Hights.
(As himself because the police think he’ll be able to get information because of his father. Cover story is he was using his job to cover up crimes he comitted. Barry agrees to do it because his dad will be able to get parole (earlier) if he helps.)
Shortly after his arrival, Captain Cold also arrives in Iron Hights. Causing quite a stir, a) because he got caught, which hasn’t happend in ages, and b) because he doesn’t break out two days later, like he usually does and c) this has led him to be quite the celebrity in there.
And he doesn’t break out because he is there to get intel on some mafia guy, very important business, he couldn’t get the same info anywhere else, absolutely no way. It’s not to keep an eye on that idiot speester who has no idea what he got himself into, the prison is full of dangerous people and he is not only risking his life but his secret identity and what is he thinking?! Also, is that guy staring at scarlet?? Better go scare him off.
In love with this!! And you know Len’s making the worst innuendos towards Barry 😉
Thank you ♡
Yeah, probably. And Barry would think he’s just messing with him 😀
Also the bunny grew:
Mick went with Len to Iron Hights because he was worried about him, and now he and Henry are bonding about how ridiculous Len and Barry are.
Also planning the wedding
It got better! But where is Lisa?
I feel like she would want to know who had caught her brother’s eye (and wanted in on the wedding planning). So she would be ‘caught’ and then both Len and the CCPD would be confused on why the three original rogues are all in Iron Heights and NOT escaping???
Aren’t prisons either men exclusively for men or women, though ? Since she would be recognised working as nurse or something wouldn’t work either… Maybe she uses her brother-free time to get into Cisco’s pants, sending Mick different wedding magazines in return for letters detailing Len’s ridiculous plans. (She is turning them into a collage and one day asks Cisco if he can access the security footage in Hights so she can add some photos. When Cisco finds out what is going on, their dates often involve the footage and popcorn.)
I’d love to see Len’s reaction when he finds out his sister and Mick are talking about a wedding. 😀
I’d love to see Barry’s reaction tho! Just imagine Cisco being awful at keeping this secret…maybe Iris stopping by Star Labs to update them on Barry and Cisco letting it slip that he already knew that stuff. So she interrogates him, and he spills everything about Lisa and torrid love affair going on behind bars (or at least thats how Lisa describes it). I feel like Iris would go visit him and start giving sly little jokes that Barry doesnt get until she tells him to stop acting coy and to tell her all the dirty details!
But I can picture Barry Allen as the sad, quiet doctor working tirelessly at Arkham Asylum – where Henry was sent because of the heinousness of Nora’s murder, so Barry sought the job just to see his dad. He’s too sweet and optimistic to work with such sadistic psychos, everyone says so… But then that’s why the patients at Arkham all appreciate Barry, in their way; he treats them like people, and they are oddly protective and possessive of him in turn.
They’re also the only people, outside of Joe and Iris and a handful of friends, who don’t treat Barry like he’s just as nuts as his patients. Reactions to Barry’s “conspiracy theories” about the “man in yellow” have made Barry feel so alone and so strange – so different from everyone else.
So of course when Leonard Snart – aka the “Joker”, a name the press gave the always super-serious and cold-blooded killer ironically – ends up sitting across from Barry in therapy, all smooth voice and pretty eyes and too clever questions that ought to be Barry’s to ask… Barry is easy prey. Snart charms Barry, convinces him to help Snart stage an escape – just for the patients who *deserve* to be out, like Snart and Henry, of course – and ultimately betrays Barry, using the opening Barry gives him to break out ALL of the biggest big bads locked up in Arkham.
Except…
It turns out Barry had charmed Snart right back, because after the escape, he can’t stop thinking about the kid. And when he finds out Barry was seriously hurt during the escape – struck by lightning while locked up in the metal room where Snart had put him (to keep him safe, as much as he’d sooner kill than admit it) Snart steals Barry away from the cheap facility housing him in his comatose state. Snart gets him the best treatment, watches over him day and night – thinks about all that was said and done in the process of getting Barry to fall in love with him – a killer and a compulsive liar, locked up in Arkham of all places.
He’d never let himself even consider falling for Barry in return. Being vulnerable is something the Joker doesn’t do – didn’t think he was capable of anymore, actually. But if Barry could love him despite everything he already knew about Leonard, having full access to all his files at Arkham…
And then Barry pulls through. Stronger than before. Stronger than *Snart*. And if Len hadn’t already been deep enough in love, Barry zipping through two walls and bodyslamming Len against a wall – not to get away, but with tears in his eyes, because Len had lied to him – certainly seals the deal.
So Barry isn’t quite like…. Barry, as he was before the lightning. But he’s himself in every important way. Just a little angrier sometimes. A lot less quiet. Never sad, so long as he and Len are on the same page. And he’s somehow even sweeter than he was before he could vibrate his hand right through anyone who makes him feel like not being sweet to them… At least he is to anyone smart enough not to so much as look sideways at Len.
He’s perfect, in other words. Perfect for the Joker. Who makes anyone who so much as looks sideways at Barry regret the day they were born…
The kings of Central City, Amanda Waller calls them.
TELL ME I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO’D LOVE TO READ THIS FIC!!!!
@nevcolleil I FEEL PERSONALLY ATTACKED, HOW DO YOU HIT ALL MY AU BUTTONS OHMERGERD I NEED IT (wait, does that make Mick Poison Ivy who decides to seduce the sweet thing?)
Yes, @a-redharlequin Mick would be a great Poison Ivy! He’s an insatiable pyromaniac self-medicating through gardening and murder. 😃 He loves hothouse flowers the best – fills his apartment with them so that being there is like being inside of a giant terrarium, and it’s Barry’s favorite place to be when he’s not with Len.
I don’t like to imagine Len mistreating Barry the way Joker mistreated Harley Quinn in most versions, so I don’t imagine Mick seducing Barry away. But maybe Mick has always loved Len, he’s and just never known how to talk about it. (Most days, Mick talks to no one other than his plants, and Len’s the only one who’s ever been okay with it. Seems to know what Mick’s saying with just a grunt or a look. It’s one of the reasons Mick loves him, actually.)
Mick figures if Len wanted him, he’d have done something about it by now. Len always goes after what he wants. (So long as he doesn’t want it so bad it scares him, which is what Mick makes him feel – not that Mick knows that.)
And maybe Len knows what Mick is thinking because Mick doesn’t actualky talk *that* quietly to the plants. He’s always talking about Len with Len right there like he can’t hear him, and it’s adorable. Len doesn’t know how to *deal* with that. Can’t begin to start – at least not until after Barry.
I imagine Mick loves Barry at first because Len loves Barry, and it doesn’t occur to this Mick to be jealous or bitter about that. Barry makes Len happy and that makes Mick happy.
Mick happy, by the by, means he glares and grunts less. He doesn’t talk to the plants about how he would kill each person in a given room – with them in it – in detail, if Len didn’t have rules against that sort of thing.
-at least until he realizes how funny Barry finds it when Mick threatens terrified minions via his plants. Barry’s laughter sounds like pretty little flames snapping at the air, Mick tells his plants, and when Barry hears him he starts to love Mick too.
He goes postal on anyone who lights a candle or a cigarette in Mick’s presence, knowing how Mick struggles not to overindulge in those urges again.
He sings to the plants.
*Barry sings to the plants.*
And that makes Mick love him for real, just for himself.
@nevcolleil Valentine’s day was last week and you come after my heart NOW? I don’t even have any flowers to give you!
I need a fluffy/silly fic of Barry being whammied by Bivolo’s meta abilities but love instead of anger, making Barry the equivalent of love drunk. Barry going around and hugging everyone while insisting that he loves them and they’re awesome for all the reasons he can come up with and Team Flash is like ‘Barry is clearly not himself. We should fix this…. After one more hug.’
(“We are terrible people,” Caitlin says as Barry hugs Joe for the third time.
“Caitlin, no! You guys are the best!” Barry insists as he uses super speed to move from Joe to her. )
…
… Damn.
For extra humor (and coldflash cause I’m shipping trash):
Barry: [SWEATS] i am straight i am straight i am straight
Yep, I can see it.
Just imagine when they move on to hand-to-hand combat…
“For this position you need to spread your legs. No, wider.”
“Harder, Barry. Come on. Harder!”
“Up for one more round?”
Barry: [SWEATING HARDER] i am not straight i am not straight
Just imagine Len overpowering Barry in a move and slamming him down on the mat and for a few moments he’s literally on top of Barry, using his body to pin him down.
Just imagine Barry losing control of his brain-to-mouth filter and letting out an absolutely pornographic moan at the feeling, automatically tilting his head back to bare his neck and arching upwards. Just imagine Len who’s been waiting for this for weeks and doesn’t hesitate for a second to pin Barry down harder and go to town.
EDIT: You know what I just realized, though? Barry already knows how to shoot a gun. He uses a service revolver in one of the episodes with Grodd, and it’s fairly obvious by the way he handles it that he’s had some modicum of training.
So….Barry pretending he has no idea how to fire a gun in order to get Len to ‘show him how to do it.’ (Innuendo absolutely implied.) Makes this whole scenario ten times better.
I TELL YOU BARRY IS THRISTY FOR LEN AND JUST WAITING FOR HIM TO BE ABLER TO TRUST HIM
Guys…. I know some people in the tags have suggested a The Proposal AU, but this scene, come on, it’s PERFECT.
Len as Sandra Bullock’s character – the [Canadian] editor who’s work visa expired and bullies Barry [his assistant] into agreeing to a sham wedding so he isn’t sent back to Canada. He drags his heels the whole way but totally falls in love with Barry once he gets to know him and has to pretend to be engaged to him.
Barry as Ryan Reynolds’ character – The assistant bullied into agreeing to marry his boss but he’s full of sass, exasperated, with the attitude of “I’m doing you a favor, you realize?” and also “hey btw I have to go spend a weekend with my family now and since we’re fake-engaged I guess you have to come and please don’t screw this up, okay?”
And in this scene right here, I mean anyone who’s read Tumbling Together knows I headcanon that Len can’t swim. This AU is practically gift-wrapped, okay?
Len in expensive tailored suits and Italian loafers that are all so WRONG for the damn climate
Len offering the West family’s dog to an eagle as a replacement for his stolen phone
LEN AND BARRY CRASHING INTO EACH OTHER NAKED
yes
so much yes
You understand me. Yes. All this. Gosh I should re-watch this movie and come up with more ideas for it.
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