Silver Springs, MD. - Friday morning

[badassprodigy]

As usual, Barry didn’t sleep on Christmas Eve. The day had been spent celebrating and watching Jeremy get his ass kicked in many video games by Summer and Roxie. No matter his age Jeremy was still a spaz at video games and always lost. Which always led to a smashing of controllers and mocking by his friends.

After everyone fell asleep, Barry spent most of the evening reflecting on the last six months and how much his life had changed since coming back to Fandom.

And wrapping gifts for friends and the gifts to replace the ones he had given Summer while he was Santa Barry.

Once he was done he started prepping food for breakfast and gift giving in the morning.

[For the girl. NFB]

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[badassprodigy]

Barry of course loved the T-Shirt. Enough that he stripped off his current shirt and immediately put it on because that thing was fucking awesome.

But the DVD.... that he was truly astonished about "I heard about this," he said in a hushed voice. "Holy shit. And I tried to find it in about fifty different dimensional repositories but every one had actively banned it. I heard if you watch it more than once it can cause actual fuckingbrain damage."

His fingers lightly traced over the cover like he was a blind man trying to read braille for the first time and suddenly discovered he could read again.

"Jesus..."

He looked up at Summer with a look of gratitude.

"I love it."

[somethingwithturquoise]

Sorry, Summer had missed at least the first part of what Barry had said because she was definitely still deep in wistful appreiation for the unexpected flash of shirtlessness she'd just been gifted in that moment, but she managed to move her eyes from his chest to his face just in time to catch that grateful look, and immediately felt like her chest was going to just straight up explode.

(Which it thankfully did not, because that would have really put a damper on this whole blissfully normal Christmas they were having here).

"I love you," she gushed out, eyes wide and marveling for a moment before she threw her arms around his neck to pull herself in to kiss him with her own very enthusiastic expression of gratitude.

[badassprodigy]

Not quite expecting that kind of reaction, Barry fumbled for a moment but managed not to drop the very valuable DVD on the floor before pulling Summer in, his arms around her waist. "I love you too," he murmured back once he finally pulled away from the kiss. "You have no idea how great the last several months have been for me."

He grinned.

"And I can't wait to see what happens next."

[somethingwithturquoise]

The fact that Barry could have been legitimately surprised by this reaction was just precious. There had been shirtlessness. It was.like flashing a piece of meat to a mob of starving wolves and being surprised when they attacked...

"I think I might have some idea," Summer grinned back, because it wasn't like this greatness was entirely one sided over here.

And she leaned in a little more, because, sorry, Barry, she was locked in now without any intention of letting go any time soon, especially not now that she'd decided.what happened next was kissing, and plenty of it.