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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.

How do you do it? With everything we do, saving the world, having a regular job. I could try but...maybe I need to try harder because even Joe is saying that I need to get a move on from Iris.

That sounds like about three different questions.

[ He detaches a piece of from the pie and looks around for a plate to eat it off of. Ma Kent trained him well. ]

Which one are you really looking for the answer to?