❝ 003 ❞ v i d e o ( forward dated to the 31st )

[animosus]

[Hal's recording this from Barry's place and he looks uncharacteristically hesitant.]

I think Barry's gone. My ring can't find him and I know it couldn't find people when everyone did that ghost trick a while back, but he also left his-- [He belatedly realises he can't say Flash ring.] --wedding ring behind and he'd never forget it.

[He falls silent again as he figures out what else to say.]

It's like I just got him back and now he's gone again. [He hasn't worked it out, but it feels like in all the years he's known him, Barry was dead longer than he was alive.]

I never really paid attention to what people did in this situation, but I guess I should tell Bart to get over here. Anything else I should do?

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[animosus]

[He doesn't even notice the encryption in his agitated state.]

Yeah, Bart's here.

I'd never really talked to him before we ended up here, I wasn't around when he first arrived. But me and Barry go way back. I'm probably the first person people think of when you bring him up.

[...]

Other than his wife, of course.

[How has it become necessary to state that Barry has a wife now...]

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[everylittlegirl]

So you know like, what he did for a living and all that?

[It's said just innocuously enough not to arouse suspicion from someone ignorant of Barry's secret identity. For someone who knows, however, the tone is not entirely innocent.]

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[animosus]

Yeah, he's a forensic scientist in Central City.

[While none of the Green Lanterns bother with secret identities here, they know to keep their everyone else's.]

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[everylittlegirl]

Uh huh. [And she's over it.]

Just make sure Bart gets what he needs or whatever.

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[animosus]

[As nonchalantly as he can.]

Why'd you want to know?

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[everylittlegirl]

Know what?

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[animosus]

What he did for a living. He didn't do his loser thing and talk science at you, did he?

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[everylittlegirl]

Nah. He offered to help me find a killer once and said he had some kind of experience. I was just curious and never got the chance to ask.

I take it you're not a scientist.