toofast: 𝚝𝚘𝚘𝚏𝚊𝚜𝚝 (pic#14895418)
𝚋𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚢 𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚗 ⚡ 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙵𝙻𝙰𝚂𝙷? ([personal profile] toofast) wrote in [personal profile] nightlife 2021-09-01 12:23 am (UTC)

[ How can he not think of trying to pull off such a thing? Maybe it's a little cocky of him to think he can — maybe he's letting what he can do and what he's capable of get to his head and inflate his ego for once. He'd run back towards the speed of light and went faster then it. So fast that he'd been able to rewind time itself and give his teammates — give this man right here a second chance at something that went horribly wrong. How can he not want to give his dad — give his mom a second chance at something that went so incredibly horribly wrong?

When Bruce comes to cradle his hand against his face, however, he pulls himself from his thoughts and the what ifs zipping around in his head and his gaze softens at what Bruce says... how earnest and soft he seems in saying what he does.

It tugs at Barry in a way that makes him pause for a couple of seconds. It's... a possibility. One he's been chewing on since everything happened. The thought of getting "lost in time" is not anything he hasn't considered. He just... doesn't know how accurate it is, especially with his being so fast.

He smiles, ]
Lost in time and unable to find the present. Yeah. Can't say the theory's not possible. [ Licking over his lips, he nods, slow. A tilt of his head into that hand, he lets his gaze warmly settle on the other man, words soft but so earnest. ]

I'd come back to you.

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