ϟ barry allen | the flash

[supertardiness]

	✔ Cʀᴏssᴏᴠᴇʀs/AU ✔ Aᴄᴛɪᴏɴsᴘᴀᴍ ✔ Pʀᴏsᴇ	✔ Pɪᴄᴛᴜʀᴇ ᴘʀᴏᴍᴘᴛs ✔ Oᴛʜᴇʀᴡᴏʀᴅʟʏ ✔ Sᴛᴀʀᴛᴇʀs	♥ F/M ⏰ Uᴘ ᴛᴏ ᴅᴀᴛᴇ

Comments

[recolte]

:EEE
you're SO an only child

so you think he's being terrible too??
I'M SO TELLING HIM THIS

thanks dad you're the best

[supertardiness]

No, Nora, that wasn't what I meant. I meant that badgering your brother isn't going to get you very far, and I meant HER just ... that was a typo.

[Good job, dumbass.]

Don't tell your brother I said that.

[From somewhere else in their house, Iris can probably hear the thunk of her husband's head knocking against a nearby wall.]

[recolte]

right
sure it was
uh huh
totally buying it

either way i'm right and he's wrong so i win and nyah nyah nyah nyah

[what's that? the sound of iris west-allen laughing herself to death because of barry]

[supertardiness]

[As she should, but at the same time, she married this disaster.]

Mature.

[recolte]

I'm taking that as a compliant.

[supertardiness]

If that's supposed to be "complaint"? Then you're right. If it's complement, then not so much.

Look, Nora, I know I can't force you to be nice to your brother, but you have to let him make his decisions on his own. You're both adults now. You can't boss him around like you did when you were five.

[Because we all know it's the West-Allen women who wear the pants in this household.]

Sometimes you gotta let him screw up and learn on his own.

LMFAKF that was my typo now

[recolte]

FUCKING AUTOCORRECT
i mean
[... reappears and disappears for a minute]
://////


paw paw's sitting next to you and telling you what to say to me isn't he? admit it
AND DON'T LET HIM SEE ME SAY THE F WORD
you didn't see it either

LMAO this is the best

[supertardiness]

If that makes you feel better, sure.

[Because how dare he manage to pull off an actual good parenting moment without Joe's help. Or maybe it's just years of watching Joe's example and stepping up to follow it.]

You'll both figure it out. You just have to have a little patience.

[recolte]

[he's not her favorite anymore]

i'm not taking lectures about patience from the man who invented speedsters

[supertardiness]

I wouldn't really say I invented them, but that really isn't the point. And that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

[recolte]

you're the worst

[recolte]

i mean i love you and you've been awesome and i would never have another dad ever

but you suck

[supertardiness]

I love you too.

[And that means he's doing his job right, tbh.]

Dinner's almost ready. You hungry?

[recolte]

is water wet?????
you cooked right? not Mom? just checking. asking for a friend.

[supertardiness]

I cooked, yes.

[Which also means it's probably something like pancakes or French toast for dinner, but who doesn't love breakfast for dinner?]

[recolte]

great.
i'm there.
i mean i'm literally downstairs and i don't see you or the food so that's kind of awkward

[supertardiness]

Relax.

[And Barry comes around the corner from the kitchen and heading towards the dining room table, a large casserole dish in hand. His tone is teasing though, because he knows that speedster impatience she definitely inherited from him.]

It's here.

[recolte]

[It's hard to say what she's smiling at more-- her dad or the prospect of food. But if she's being honest, it's the food. Her metabolism runs as fast as his does. She could eat the entire pan of food if he doesn't hurry. Nora is out of her seat, racing over to grab it from him and back into her chair in a split second. Only the fastest man alive could actually see her steal and she honestly doesn't care if he let her to be nice.]

Where's Mom? [Nora is dishing large piles onto her plate as she asks.]

And him, I guess.

[supertardiness]

Mom is covering a big story down at town hall, and your brother is on a date.

[With that girlfriend you despise so much.]

[recolte]

[Nora wrinkles her nose but she isn't going to let talk of AshlEE ruin her dinner with dad. It's not very often it's just the two of them. She's going to savor it.]

So I don't have to worry about leftovers. Awesome.

[supertardiness]

No we do not.

[And he'll start dishing out plates as he settles across from her.]

So what have you been up to? Other than getting on your brother's case.

[recolte]

[Well tormenting her brother is basically a full time job that no one actually pays her for or wants her to do. But someone has to keep his ego in check.

Any irritation she has for her brother melts away as she starts in on her latest accomplishment.]

I was thinking of redesigning the speed suits because did you know that the current design is slower by 0.025 miles per second than what I have in mind? Do you know how much speed that is over, like a minute? An hour? And don't even get me started on the colors. Or the lack of bra support in them. It's so obvious a man designed them.

[supertardiness]

Well, you knew that already. Your Uncle Cisco takes great pride in those suits.

[But that isn't the important thing, he's just glad she loves science and math. He's totally encouraging though, because he wants her to succeed and be amazing and all that jazz.]

Though hey, I happen to love my red and gold theme, thank you very much.

[recolte]

Yeah, no. Obviously I'm not insulting Uncle Cisco. He did a great job. I'm just making it better.

[She's definitely her father's daughter. She was speed reading textbooks by the time she was seven. She was tinkering with gadgets at the lab when she was ten.]

You can keep the red and gold. That's fine. It's totally you. I want something different and James is getting something different because he's not here to tell me no. And-- and I found this-- [Nora's phone is in her hand in an instant, scrolling until she finds the picture she wants and shows it to him.]

Is this Mom?

[supertardiness]

[He leans over to look at the picture and his eyes widen for a moment before he grins a little.]

That is Mom. And I thought she buried all of those photos, but apparently not.

[He then leans back to go back to his plate.]

We went up against a meta that swapped people's DNA - and he happened to swap me and your mom. So she wound up with speedster powers for a bit.