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CALLING: BARRY ALLEN 🐻 ▓
Hi, this is Ba — [ click sounds, beep, you're on. ]

CALLING: THE FLASH ⚡ ▓
You've reached the Flash!

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[ this is why barry needs her, she tempers the stupidity. ]

You're right. You always are. No surprise there.

I know you've said you were okay with it before, but I just feel really weird being in the League without you. The Flash isn't the Flash without Iris West. I don't care what Batguy says, you're needed. I need you.

[ "batguy", because barry refuses to call batman "batman" in the hopes of making iris laugh. ]

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[ When he puts it so bluntly, Iris doesn't know exactly what to say. She's quiet, with "..." flashing far longer than it needs to. ]

I've never left you, Barry.
Even if I can't walk into Justice League HQ, I'm right here.
I always will be - and that won't change.

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[ perhaps one day he will grow used to being within a new team — and being a significant member of said team — and not feel as though it's a betrayal to his first team. though it's all in his head, barry doesn't quite want to feel comfortable in the justice league. he doesn't want to enjoy it, or get along with the people there, because he wonders if that will completely undermine everything they've achieved as team flash, a much smaller and close-knit team than that of the justice league. ]

[ but isn't this their end goal? helping the world on a larger basis, learning how to be faster, more efficient, and develop as a leader and a hero and a person has been their objective since day dot. he doesn't want to do it without her. ]

Before you got here, I was pretty content not to do anything. The cities here had heroes. Good heroes. Really powerful ones, too. Who needed the Flash? But you decided to follow me, albeit at your usual slow pace, and I don't want to sit on my hands anymore. I never would've joined the Justice League if you weren't here. I forgot who the Flash was and what the Flash meant to people.

I just hope you can do the same for the other heroes here. Cisco's probably got a really cool superhero name up his sleeve for you, but I'm starting to think the one you should settle on is one that doesn't exist in our vocabulary.

[ it's probably in the speed force's, though. ]

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[ every time barry says that she is his (metaphorical) heart, the world feels as if it's coming to a standstill. there is no flash without iris west, he'd told her.

she may not be part of the Justice League, but she is always by his side. this is just a proper extension of team flash: a strike team that saves an entire country without blinking twice. but it's also precisely because they're a strike team that they need barry. barry has so, so much compassion that it could fill an entire universe. multiple universes, probably.

case in point: this entire exchange that's making her vision super-blurry and this conversation like an impressionist painting. ]

What if I told you it exists in Arabic?

[ show-off. ]

أمل means "amal," or a hope that may seem far-fetched but really isn't. Every time I think of you in the League with that gloomy old Batguy, I think of amal. I think of how you make everyone remember just why heroes matter in the first place, and how much you make me want to get out there and show the world what you're capable of.