atms | IC CONTACT.

So am I. [ he snaps right back at her, letting the defensive glibness disappear entirely. ] I'm not a nice guy, but I wouldn't fuck someone over like that. Especially not someone like Barry. It starts looking like he's in over his head, I'm out.

He's already in over his head, that's the whole point! He's still in love with a different you, why do you think he wants to —

( spend time with you. be with you. convince you to love him back. )

He asked you, didn't he.

No. He contacted me, but he didn't ask me. I asked him, after I asked if he was sure he wanted to spend time with me.

[ a quiet, frustrated noise gets caught in the back of his throats as he scrubs a hand down his face. ]

Look, I get why you're worried. He's gotta grieve, and me being around ain't gonna help him do that. But if I avoid everybody who's got some kinda history with me that I don't remember [ because that's easier to swallow than it being another him with an identical history ] then nobody from home's gonna be able to be around me. That's not gonna work.

Oh, because he's so obviously going to say, "No, Leonard, I don't want to pretend like my boyfriend is still here with me in this new place, let's not hang out." This is Barry we're talking about.

( king of excellent decisions, the one and only barry allen. she loves him, but... questionable choices are sort of his calling card. )

He's not going to tell you no, even if it means he gets hurt in the process. You know that.