❝ 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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[andaway]

No! [Both hands up] No, not really. Mark asked me about it once, but I thought he was joking? I didn't think he'd take me seriously, and not for this long.

And I don't know how you did it, but if he really believed that he was already convinced by the time he asked me anyway.

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[animosus]

I never said anything so someone must have said something. And what the hell? I don't look gay!

[Nice stereotyping there, Hal.]

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[andaway]

There's no gay look, Hal. Unless you mean having an emotional connection to another man like the one comrades in arms have, in that case I'm sorry to say you and Barry both did look pretty "gay". [Complete with air quotes and a pretty sarcastic tone.

Sorry, Hal, he spent too much helping Maggie fight so she could have her child's custody to let stereotyping slide.]

What's really bothering you about all this?