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[tardily]

 

Barry Allen
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The Flash
This is The Flash. Not Kid Flash or Impulse. The Flash. I can't text and run. I'll get back to you ASAP and you know that's pretty fast coming from me. BEEP.

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text; surprise cold barry is also messed up

[tardily]

[ Barry doesn't know if he wants to go with this charade that he's Barry or if he wants to admit to Snart that he hasn't gone by that name in a while. A long while. In the end, he goes for a mixture with a simple word. ]

Why?

text to voice; everything is falling apart

[catchacold]

[Just a moment's thought, then he switches to voice. Paranoia or suspicion, he banks on the latter. People have been out to get him far too often.]

I just noticed some unexpected things around here. Checking in on my Flash.

voice; it all falls down, etc.

[tardily]

[ Barry doesn't want to get Snart, not in a way that's particularly bad. They have an understanding, of course they're on different sides where he comes from but he's a man of honor sometimes.

Barry doesn't say anything for a good few seconds before he laughs. There's something wrong about it, something more sinister than Barry should be capable of. ]

Look at you— checking up on me. You know, Caitlin asked me the same thing. Just wanted to check up on her Barry.

voice;

[catchacold]

Seems as if I had a point. You sound just a little under the weather.

Barry.

[He's been overpronouncing names since before Barry was born. He also hears the tone, hears the laugh. Under the weather is one way to put it.]

Tell me if you need some cold medicine.

voice;

[tardily]

What? No Bartholomew, Leonard?

[ Not Mayor Snart, not Captain Cold, not even Snart. If this was video, he could see Barry's head tilting just a bit but he can't. ]

Is that a threat? I thought we had an arrangement.

voice;

[catchacold]

I thought it was Barrybert.

[Rolling with the punches is one thing, but he's not even sure what world these punches are coming from.]

Remind me, what's our arrangement again?

voice;

[tardily]

Barrybert, Leo, that is weak. You can do better than that.

[ Barry tries not to snort but he does before he can even stop himself. Oh, this is entertaining. Playing with this Leonard Snart is hilarious. ]

You don't remember, I'm hurt. It involves one of us doing very bad things and the other one deciding to just look the other way because it's in our best interest. Sound familiar?

voice;

[catchacold]

[Leo? He hasn't heard that in a very long time. Last under very strange circumstances, but there's nothing good down the path of thinking about that.]

Can't help that you look like one.

Not really. Seems like a lousy deal for me and I don't make lousy deals.

[He's trying to get a hang of opposite day.]

So. Up is down, Barry is bad, cold is hot? Original.

voice;

[tardily]

One day I should ask you what exactly a Barrybert looks like beyond me. You mean to tell me that Leonard Snart doesn't enjoy having a speedster in his pocket. Oh, you wound me with the idea that I'm a lousy deal. How will I go on.

[ If he could be more mocking, that would have been said in a singsong voice. ]

Cold is good, Barry zooms and well, up and down all depends kind of on your perspective. Don't tell me, you're a bad boy right now.

voice;

[catchacold]

I'd say that depends on your perspective too. And on my mood.

[Just off. Wrong, he supposes, but he's dealt with worse. Doesn't make it less unsettling.]

From what I gather, I'd not be a big fan of zooming.

voice;

[tardily]

On your mood. Suddenly you can shift physics?

[ There's that trace of the Barry Leonard knows hidden in that comment, but as soon as it appears it's gone. ]

Aw. You're a big fan of it where I come from. You love it.

voice;

[catchacold]

I wouldn't underestimate me, but mostly I was just referring to being good or bad. Not up and down.

[That's a lot of emphasis on that 'love', he didn't miss that.]

Really now? I see. How do I express this love?

Re: voice;

[tardily]

You and Caitlin asking questions like that. I'm beginning to worry about you too even if you're not my Frost and Len. Come on how do you think you do?

Careful, I might be hurt depending on how you answer.

voice;

[catchacold]

Frankly? You're bringing it on yourself.

Also, if he's anything like me? Punching or pointing a gun. It's how I express most of my emotions.

voice;

[tardily]

I won't deny punching is a part of it. But it ends a little less violent than that.

[ he sounds like he's grinning when he says that and he is but for what reason is debatable. ]

Then again I guess he's a little better than you are.

voice;

[catchacold]

Most people are a little better than me. Though if that leads to being less violent, I think I'm all right with that.

What I'm wondering is why I got such bad taste. You're really lacking like this.

voice;

[tardily]

And just how am I lacking, Mr. Snart?

voice;

[catchacold]

Subtract personality and add some stereotypical vague evil, not really something all that memorable.

You're no Barry.

voice;

[tardily]

Subtract personality. You wound me. But look at you, defending your Barry. I bet he's too good for you. Too uptight and not willing to bend his rules for you. Can't be sleeping with the enemy, right?

voice; I can't stop adding the damn html for text, it's a disease

[catchacold]

I don't know about that. He's been bending a lot around me.

But he has a strong will and he keeps to his principles. I like that. Makes it fun.

voice; spoilers i almost did it twice in this thread.

[tardily]

Well well, little dishrag me isn't such a coward after all. I might want to meet him some time.

Oh. Oh Leonard. Haven't you heard that breaking those principles is so much better? Trust me, I know. You don't think you're such a bad guy where I'm from, do you?

voice; at least i follow through and actually mess up

[catchacold]

He's a lot of things. He's not a coward. I wouldn't bother if he wasn't worth the effort.

[Oh. Oh Leonard. Right. Are they at that part already? Next step, sex tape.]

From what I've heard so far, I'm disturbingly non-corrupt, so I'm hoping that ain't true.

voice; well i mean one of us had to.

[tardily]

Please, if you look at his ass the way you look at mine, you'd bother even if he was.

[ Barry ]

That might depend on your definition of non-corrupt. I mean, being involved with a supervillian is pretty corrupt.

voice; I'm a full failure, not just the attempt

[catchacold]

If you're that identical, your ass isn't your best feature.

[Although also very far from being the worst.]

Just how involved are we talking here, because so far it's just been about looking at your ass.

voice; which is a title you should wear proudly

[tardily]

And what would be? My personality?

[ Ha. Now there's a funny joke. ]

Let's just say looking isn't the only thing you do with my ass, Leonard.