The Continuing Adventures of Barry Ween

The doors to the warehouse were closed. Locked down tight. After the conversation with the mayor and... weirdly now working for a local government (How the fuck did that happen?), Barry had closed up Dite's and started putting his next experiment to work.

It it involved an emergency portal trip to Barry's old basement and pulling out a piece of equipment Ramaat and-

Yeah. Well that was a long time ago. And technically it never happened. Time travel was weird that way.

( Cut for fake science and bad memories )

[Doors closed. Post open. Trigger warning for character death/troublesome memories under the cut.]

Barry had avoided the warehouse for a total of a day. For the better part of the weekend, he had been holed up here watching friends go through some of the more horrible things that he could have ever imagined. There were of course bright moments that happened as well but the overall horror was outshining those moments.

Which is probably why Barry decided to call home.

( Dude... )

After the call he sat back and shook his head in amusement. Suddenly the warehouse didn't seem as grim anymore.

Five minutes later he was back to his regular self and running five experiments at once as he started building yet another project.

[Open door, open post]

The past week had been a trying one. Especially when you're a genius stuck in the body of a grumpy looking puppy. And two people insist on dressing you up in silly puppy outfits.

Kathy and Elsa would pay for that really. Well... mostly Kathy.

However one thing that Barry insisted/barked on was that he be allowed walkies back into his lab to monitor his long term experiments and analyze his current. It was difficult to accomplish in puppy form with puppy paws but somehow Barry had managed.

Probably much to the chagrin of Elsa and Kathy who were no doubt bored out their skulls since Barry would start barking if they tried to put another Bollywood musical on his monitors.

( And that's when Barry got naked... )

Barry was not nervous.

Correction: Barry was not admitting to himself that he was nervous.

Which is why he had made sure the big screen monitor was functioning in perfect honor about a dozen times in the last half hour. He also made sure the snacks he had purchased (various types of chocolate) were in perfect organized order and had tested the popcorn button on the microwave about five times to make sure the popped vs un-popped kernels was a good ratio.

To sum up: Barry was totally nervous.

At some point someone was eventually going to show up but until then he was trying to make sure that everything was perfect.

[For one and potentially others!]

Barry was back in his portion of his warehouse running experiments on a certain device which was sitting in the middle of a block of ice.

While he waited for the results on the most recent readings, he did something he hadn't done for a while which was initiate a connection to his remote lab back in his home dimension. He had shut down most of the operating equipment there but for one reason or another he was looking at the GPS tracking system he had in place for his friends and family. (Some people might call it an invasion of privacy but Barry had reasons, okay?) Looking at his scanner he could see the two blips for his mother and father. There was another two blips which were practically on top of each other representing Jeremy and Roxie and then... there was the single blip for Sara.

Barry stared at the screen for few moments taking it all in before terminating the connection and going back to his experiment. This was no time to be homesick or missing people.

There was science to do.

In a fancy hat.

As you do.

[Open Warehouse. Open Post. Subject to SP this evening.]