The Flash
Tell Me What You Want Me to Say
By giraffeter
“Look, the only way I know how to survive is to shove it in people’s faces as hard as I can. You want to be my date, you’re going to have to let me put you on display. You cool with that?”
Barry nodded slowly, considering. “Yeah. I can be cool with that.”
“Really? You’re cool with letting me kiss you? Letting me touch you, in public? Helping me put on a bit of a show for Central City’s criminal elite?”
Barry swallowed hard, but didn’t look away. “Is that really how you treat guys you date?”
Len allowed a bit of a smirk to creep back to his face. “No, actually. But these people don’t know that. Like I said, I have a reputation to uphold.”
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To track down a ring of smugglers moving goods into Central City, Barry convinces Captain Cold to bring him as his date to Frank Santini's annual end-of-summer party. Len is willing enough, especially since it means spending the evening with Barry Allen under his arm. Neither of them is expecting feelings to enter the equation.
This cover took time. It's a hard cover with a contrast spine and Label maker title. It is also Origami paper with "Floral" theme that I painstakingly placed gold washi tape on to enhance the design already on it. It came out so very pretty but so time consuming; but I'd do it again! It has dusty purple splash pages, a gold bookmark ribbon, gold snowflake page breaks, and decorative gold snowflake near the front.
This is really fun, watching this pair interact and see how they fake their relatioship while accidentally falling into a real one. Of course, being a Flash story it should have a big fight scene; takes place right after Len's customary freak out. It's such fun.
