[ barry wonders if she's thinking what he's thinking. is she thinking of how he's begun to realise and even acknowledge that she's a fixed point for him? regardless of what he does, of who he becomes, of how the world shapes him, he always ends up orbiting iris like she's the sun and he's the planets, or she's simply the blanket of night sky his stars are stitched to. ]
[ the speed force had sucked him in, and though he felt compelled to leap toward cisco to be brought home, his friend hadn't appeared as an apparition of the force. he hadn't spoken to him. he'd come too early, too eagerly, and said the wrong things that barry didn't need to hear. but iris had come at the right time, had said the right things, had made him feel like he'd done the right thing, and had reached out to fill in the portions of him that were missing so he could feel whole again. ]
[ the news article, earth-2, the speed force … barry's taken too long to begin combing through the evidence that's been presented to him, but he's come quickly to a conclusion he can't quite pull apart and say is anything but the undeniable truth. ]
Or with an iPhone app.
[ he has to break the tension, either that or the timeline. and he doesn't want to think about that; what he thinks about is the positive: iris is a fixed point. every time he ends up walking too far into the forest of his own grief and sadness, he thinks of her being here and how that makes him feel good for the first time in a very long time. ]
Hopefully that string theory strings everything together for you better … ?
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[ the speed force had sucked him in, and though he felt compelled to leap toward cisco to be brought home, his friend hadn't appeared as an apparition of the force. he hadn't spoken to him. he'd come too early, too eagerly, and said the wrong things that barry didn't need to hear. but iris had come at the right time, had said the right things, had made him feel like he'd done the right thing, and had reached out to fill in the portions of him that were missing so he could feel whole again. ]
[ the news article, earth-2, the speed force … barry's taken too long to begin combing through the evidence that's been presented to him, but he's come quickly to a conclusion he can't quite pull apart and say is anything but the undeniable truth. ]
Or with an iPhone app.
[ he has to break the tension, either that or the timeline. and he doesn't want to think about that; what he thinks about is the positive: iris is a fixed point. every time he ends up walking too far into the forest of his own grief and sadness, he thinks of her being here and how that makes him feel good for the first time in a very long time. ]
Hopefully that string theory strings everything together for you better … ?