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Why did you 'go with it'?

If the answer is because you like her as a person then yes.

If it's because you felt guilty or pressured or some other poor reason, you shouldn't have gone along with it and you can break it off.

But be honest with yourself about why you did what you did and why you want to do what you've done.

[He runs a hand through his hair]

I...I need to get over Iris and she seemed nice. I do like her as a person. It's just...I've got a lot happening. There's being the Flash. You guys.

And maintaining who we are, living our lives, loving and being loved, is an incredibly important part of doing what we do.

Are you using her to try and get over Iris? Or is she just the first one and it's rough?

Both?

[He's uncomfortable about this, Supes.]

And what's the ratio on that?

[Does he have to answer that? He doesn't really want to answer that]

Barry.

I don't know!

Then you owe it to yourself, to her, and to Iris to figure it out.

[guess who's mumbling under his breath about a completely different direction if Bruce were here]

I know. I know.

[The woosh of air is Barry going off to do the right thing. Which means a text to Clark about 15 minutes later]

[ You know he can hear you, Barry. ]

How's it going?

[At least there aren't arrows in his back?]

Meteor crashing into the earth. Anything. Please?

[ Sigh. ]

Yes. Of course. There's an emergency that only the Flash can handle. It's at my apartment in Metropolis.

Seriously? No Lois tonight?

Do you want an out or not, Barry?

[It actually takes an hour before there's a knock on Clark's door along with the smell of pizza. Or a dozen pizzas, to be precise.]

[ Clark comes to the door, opens it up, and moves out of the way so that Barry can put the pizza down before something went tumbling. ]

Lois is in Mumbai, interviewing the leader of a women's collective.

[ Sigh. ]

You didn't need to bring all this, Barry.

Joe always said that you never show up at a friend's house empty handed.

Well, thank you, then.

[ He can't help it. Barry's hard to be frustrated with. ]

So.

[What does one do when one needed to explain himself before the man that embodies truth, justice, and the American way? Stuff his face full of pizza, of course]

So.

How'd it go?

I told her that she was great but I'm just too busy to date right now.

Good man.

[ Lookit that, Barry. He's proud of you. You're even getting a shoulder squeeze offered here. ]

Any of this stack here vegetarian?

Uh...yeah. Sure.

[He looks through them and produces the last box]

This one is. I didn't know you were a vegetarian.

[It's still nice to have Clark around. Big brother archetypes are a little lacking in his life]

It's a preference, not a hard and fast rule.

[ And since there was Lots Of Pizza, he figured it was worth a shot. ]

Thank you. It looks very good.