Somehow, while Eddie had initially barged into the old CSI lab with a bone to pick with Joe-and then with Cisco and Snart once he learned they were working together-now he was being stared down along with them by Iris. He hated getting on her bad side, especially now that they were engaged, love of his life that she was and occasionally terrifying.
"I've been good!" Eddie raised his hands in surrender, while Cisco did his best blowfish impression and Snart rolled his eyes. "Everything I know, you know, I swear, which was only that Joe was working the murder case. I didn't know this," he gestured between Cisco and Snart, then more pointedly at Barry and Snart, "or that."
"I knew about that." Cisco repeated the gesture. "Well, not the dirtying the kitchen part," he wrinkled his nose.
"I figured as much." Iris stalked toward them with a bob of her eyebrows for Snart to chime in anytime.
"If you think the tough girl act will work on me," he scanned down her body as if thoroughly unimpressed, "you need to meet my sister."
Oh right.
"You have a sister?" Iris balked.
Eddie only knew that from Snart's files. Lisa Snart didn't have a record.
"She's awesome," Cisco said with a dreamy look on his face, only for him to realize he'd said that out loud as everyone stared at him. "I uhh...might be dating her."
What?
"Dating?" Snart stood taller.
"I thought you knew!"
"Didn't realize there was a label to it."
"And what's the label here?" Iris completed the round of Snart-to-Barry gestures and waited for an answer. Snart was an imposing figure, sure, but he stood no chance against Iris.
He didn't seem to actually mind that Cisco was dating his sister-and wow, had Eddie missed some important developments-but focusing on Barry instead of defending himself made the thief shift gears like he was only clinging to smug standoffishness out of self-preservation, when what he really wanted was to be honest like he'd tried with Joe.
"Apparently, I'm a lost cause in the future where it concerns Barry." He glanced at nothing to make it easier to admit that. "All sappy and domestic, even."
"You can see that? The future?" Iris asked.
"Don't know how. Something about having touched too much time and dimension, he said."
"And in the future, you're together?" Eddie asked. He'd barely met Barry before the accident, couldn't say from experience what Barry was like or the type of person he might be interested in, but he definitely wouldn't have guessed Leonard Snart.
"Sorta together now, which makes me the worst kind of predator, doesn't it, only I don't like that label at all." Snart's eyes clenched tight, and when he opened them, he looked raw and vulnerable. "He's with me sometimes. Here, I mean. With me. I never would have..." He couldn't say it, and despite Joe's outburst that Snart had taken advantage, Eddie could see in the man's face that he hadn't intended for that, however things had gone down.
"This is too much for any one person to understand," Iris said, softening now that she'd gotten her answers. "You're risking a lot for Barry just by being here, and for whatever reason, the future or fate, he trusts you. That's enough for now. Anything else I need to know?" She glanced between Eddie and Cisco.
Cisco had a few things to add, but Snart did most of the talking again, explaining what they'd been working on with Joe. Snart still refused to spill the beans on who the killer was though.
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Timeless ❄️ColdFlash⚡
FanfictionA voice in the Speed Force reaches Barry in his Timeless state to convince him to come home. Barry misses that voice once he's back in real-time, but he has to set things right and save as many lives as he can. While that means Iris will be with Edd...
