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[personal profile] braveandthebold 2024-08-07 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[For the briefest of seconds, Hal is almost worried this won't work the way he thinks it will. But then he feels Barry basically melt into him and he knows it's going to be fine. When they part from the kiss, Hal stays close, unwilling to get out of Barry's personal space just yet. The clarity and recognition returning to Barry's eyes gets a smile out of Hal and he leans in for a brief, much gentler kiss]

'Bout time. Welcome back, Bar.

[At least now they're in this together. They can tackle just about anything together]

Some kind of mind control or memory block. This whole world is fake. They had me in a fake Coast City. Not a very good one, either.
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[personal profile] braveandthebold 2024-08-08 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Only for you. Anyone else and I would have had to come up with an actual plan.

[Barry doesn't say anything but Hal notices regardless. He doesn't say anything either. It's gotta be hard for Barry, being thrown into a reality where Iris never died and then being pulled back out to realize it was all fake and she's still dead. Hal tries to never bring up anything related to Iris because he knows it's a hard subject for Barry. So, really, this is just mean. All the more reason to find whoever did this]

Nope. No ring. And I was already counting on the no speed thing.

That's the last thing I remember. Whoever that meta is, he's probably the one responsible. Only problem is figuring out where he is and how we get out of here.
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[personal profile] braveandthebold 2024-08-10 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[This is a strange situation, so Barry can't really be blamed for still feeling off. What a weird day]

Seems to be. Especially in your case. [In Hal's case, they don't seem to have dug very deep. They definitely didn't manage to dig out anything actually accurate about Carol]

Yeah? So how do we do that? I don't see any crashed spaceships around here.
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[personal profile] braveandthebold 2024-08-11 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
Or maybe you're just easily mind-controlled. Ever thought of that? [He gets it. That's part of why he has yet to get out of Barry's personal space. That and maybe he also needs the closeness right now. No one can prove anything]

That's as good an idea as any. A lot of the details are pretty phoned in, but Central seems relatively accurate. [Barry's memories were apparently more of an open door than Hal's. He might wanna work on that] So the lab it is, I guess.
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[personal profile] braveandthebold 2024-08-12 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
You like it.

[It's not really surprising at all that Barry was more susceptible. And how were they supposed to know that the meta they were chasing could do this? Most of the time when you're after someone you've never encountered before, you find out what their powers are just like this. Experience.

Hal reluctantly gets out of Barry's space, because they can't really go anywhere attached to each other]


Let's go, then. I can't remember the last time I saw you drive. [Teasing to try and distract from the fact that this is all pretty fucked, actually]
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[personal profile] braveandthebold 2024-08-15 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Obviously, I like you. My taste is questionable.

[He follows Barry to the car. The last time they were in a car together was years ago, before either one of them died, and it was Hal driving. So this should be interesting. He gets into the passenger seat of the fake car in the fake driveway, shutting the door behind him]

As funny as it would be to watch you crash a fake car, I'm glad for that. What's your plan when we actually get to the lab?
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[personal profile] braveandthebold 2024-08-18 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
Well. Okay.

[That is, in fact, a terrible plan. But Hal has no better ideas so he's not exactly in a place to throw stones here. At least if this poor excuse for a plan works, they'll be one step closer to getting out of here. That seems like a long shot until it actually starts raining.]

On the bright side, Bar, we may have just found out that this fake world we're stuck in is manipulable. Keep focusing on that.
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[personal profile] braveandthebold 2024-08-19 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
Could be. That makes about as much sense as anything else that's happened to us today.

[Hal gets out of the car too, looking up at the sky. It's weird how encouraging that lightning is. Everything about this day is weird. Honestly, Hal can't wait to find the meta responsible for this]

Hopefully. Let's go get you struck by lightning. [As you do]
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[personal profile] braveandthebold 2024-08-20 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
That's putting it lightly.

[Hal feels like maybe he should be...offering some sort of comfort or something. This has undoubtedly been harder on Barry than it has on him. But he also feels like the time for that isn't right now. Once they get out here, he can do that. Right now they need to get out of this illusion so Hal can beat the shit out of the guy who put them here]

I just want you to know that the only reason I'm okay with this is because it's probably our only way out of here and you've already survived it once.

[He goes where he's directed without even questioning it, though. He's not wild about this plan but he trusts Barry's judgement]
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[personal profile] braveandthebold 2024-08-22 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
I don't panic.

[That is a lie. But only because Barry is involved. Anything else and it would be true. Barry just has this tendency to draw the full spectrum of emotion out of Hal. It's very annoying.

The lightning strike is...about how you’d expect watching someone get struck by lightning to be. Hal has to mentally remind himself over and over again that it's fine. This has already happened once and Barry's fine. He stubbornly ignores the little whisper in the back of his mind that says that it'd be just his luck if it turned out to not be fine. It's incredibly relieving when Barry stands, though he doesn't approach for now]


Why does everything you do have to be so damn dramatic?
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[personal profile] braveandthebold 2024-08-23 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"It worked". Pain in my ass. [Hal can only really roll his eyes, though, because it did work. It was dramatic and vaguely distressing but it did work. He takes Barry's hand when it's offered, giving it a little squeeze]

Back to fake California, then?
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[personal profile] braveandthebold 2024-08-24 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[The casualness with which Barry scoops Hal up has always been a little funny, honestly. The first time he ever did it, years ago, it had surprised Hal. They'd known each other...maybe two weeks? And there Barry was, picking him up like it didn't even matter. Dinah still to this day sometimes brings the story up, mostly just to make fun of the look Hal had apparently had on his face when it happened. Now, he doesn't even really think twice about it. It's just funny how things change]

Middle of the California desert. I don't know the exact spot for sure but...that should be specific enough.

[Sure enough, the blurry background features start to turn a little more barren. Lots of brown and rocks all around them]

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