❝ 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?

Comments

[langsyne]

[That is an amazingly mature response and one Scott would have laughed at any other day.

Unfortunately, this broadcast hits a little too close to home, especially when paired with Bianca's post some time ago. Lovers, children, best friends. Here one day and gone the next. There isn't a single ounce of stability here on the turtle save for the everpresent threat of war.

Maybe it's easier for him, since everyone he knows and loves is here, but he knows he'll be in this position one day and the thought absolutely terrifies him.]

Screw yourself. [No malice in those words, just a whole lot of tiredness.] Just be glad you got to spend time with him.

[And then he disconnects, because there's really no point left to this conversation.]