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24/04/2014 - Muse Prompt @ muserevival

"I wish my brain had a map to tell me where my heart should go…" - Unknown

Barry wanted to smack himself when he woke up feeling all too comfortable naked and spooned up behind Felicity in her bed. His arm was wrapped protectively around her slender waist, and her favourite perfume that he loved made him feel like he never wanted to move from this position. That didn't stop the cold-hard reality hitting him, closely followed by being drowned in guilt about what they had just done.

He managed to stifle a groan, but he didn't make any immediate attempt to move... )

For Barry/Felicity AU: Felicity used with permission.
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23/04/2015 - Muse Prompt @ muserevival

"When did the rain become a storm?
When did the clouds begin to form?
Yeah, we got knocked off course by a natural force
And we'll, we'll be swimming when it's gone."

• Beautiful Goodbye, Maroon 5


Today, the treadmill was doing nothing to relieve Barry’s stress and frustration. The worst part was, he knew it was all his own making. After deciding mutually Felicity that they were “perfectly perfect” for each other but it wasn’t meant to be because their hearts were still tethered elsewhere, it turned out it was a temptation too strong to resist. For Barry, it was like, once the notion that they could be a perfect match was planted in his mind, he couldn’t ignore it… and he hadn’t been able to stop thinking about her.

So, he took the plunge and they started dating on the hush. Mostly on the hush. He was pretty sure Caitlin and Cisco suspected, but they hadn’t pried. Prying would have been tempting, but also very low down on the priority list with everything else going on. And it had worked. It really had. His speed meant he could pop over to see her whenever he felt like it, and their dating life was probably more sound than many couples who lived under the same roof. The metahuman thing definitely had perks.

Then all of a sudden, things just got really crazy and Barry was feeling like he couldn’t keep up... )

For Barry/Felicity AU: Felicity used with permission.
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12/12/2014 - Muse Prompt @ muserevival - for [community profile] perfectlyperfect

"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is." - Jim Morrison

Felicity's first trip to Central City had been when Barry had his wake-up call. It was just a wake-up call that confused him because he had been stuck so hard and fast in the comfort zone he had built up around him over the years, that he actually convinced himself that their instant attraction and connection was just because they were so alike.

The Iris Factor, that he had come to think of the whole thing in his head, was the biggest roadblock. He thought he was still very much in unrequited love with Iris that when he had come out of his coma, he was stuck on it like a scratch CD. He kept skipping over and over that old scar, back-tracking because it was familiar and it was easy. But he didn't really want familiar and easy. What he wanted was someone who got him, someone he could laugh with, and someone he didn't have to hide with.

And that was Felicity... )
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31/10/2014 - Muse Prompt @ muserevival

"Someday, you're going to meet someone who makes you happy, makes you feel beautiful, and stands by you even when you feel like you don't deserve them." - Unknown

Barry had never had a friend he connected to as well as he did Felicity. It had been a shock for him to see her arrive in Central City, but it had been a very pleasant surprise to hear she had checked in on him when he had been in a coma. He would be lying if he didn't admit to himself that there was a niggle of wistfulness in seeing her, and spending time with her that proved to him how well they got along. It was true, they would be perfect for each other... if their hearts didn't belong to other people.

He didn't know if Oliver would ever reciprocate Felicity's feelings. What he had done that he was now riddled with guilt over was not correct her assumptions that it was Iris who held his heart. She had, once upon a time, but it was one of those sorts of crushes that would never eventuate into something else and probably solely based on the fact he had no other social life to speak of before the coma. Work was is social life, along with Joe and Iris. That wasn't even an exaggeration, unfortunately.

The lightning strike had changed his life... )