#cfsummerfun2018

For @coldflashweeks, Mini Summer Coldflash Weekend. Day One - Day At The Beach. 

“I can’t believe you convinced me to honeymoon at the beach,” Len drawls as he narrows his eyes at the peppy couples strolling along near where Barry had decided they’d set up camp for the afternoon. 

Snorting out a faint, breathy laugh, Barry shook his head as he pauses in the middle of fiddling with the large umbrella Len had insisted they bring along with them, despite the fact the resort they were staying at already had numerous set up.

Huffing out a sigh, Len leaned back in his chair when it was clear Barry, his husband, had no intention of actually vocalizing an answer after a moment of stretched, comfortable silence. “Don’t expect me to dip one toe into that water, dear,” he snarks while leaning sideways to reach over and dig into his bag, pulling out a book he had every intention of spending the day reading.

I’m super late for the Coldflash Week 2018 Mini Summer Weekend thingy. :( The heatwave (the temperatures, that is, not Mick!) kept interfering, so this is almost a week late for Day 1: Day at the Beach. @coldflashweeks

“The nerve of that man! Can you believe this?”

Iris’s tone had taken that unique mixture of amused and outraged, piquing Barry’s curiosity.

He followed the line of her gaze across the crowded beach past sunbathing couples and playing kids. He didn’t quite know what he expected to find, but it certainly wasn’t Leonard and Lisa Snart, engaged in what looked like a fiercely competitive game of frisbee.

Barry blinked against the sunlight. For a moment, he thought his imagination was playing tricks on him; but no, it was really Snart, even if he looked unfamiliar without his signature parka and the Cold Gun at his side. The sunglasses did very little to conceal his identity, though most people probably wouldn’t expect Captain Cold on a beach and wouldn’t notice the man hiding in plain sight wearing nothing but a pair of dark navy boxer shorts. It was odd – he was displaying just as much skin as everyone else on the beach, and yet it seemed strangely more… revealing on him simply because of how covered up he usually kept himself.

Barry’s eyes trailed over the shifting muscles in Snart’s back, a flush of heat rising to his cheeks that had little to do with the sizzling temperatures and the hot sand under his feet. He told himself he was merely taken by surprise. Yes, it was definitely only the novelty that was startling him. Nothing to do with the irrevocable fact that Snart cut a striking and unfairly sexy figure – both in and out of costume, apparently.

Next to him, Iris coughed, deliberate and pointed, and Barry guiltily averted his gaze.

“I’d tell you to stop undressing him with your eyes, but it’s not like there’s much left to undress.”

Leonard hated the heat. He hated the sun. He especially hated being dragged to the beach during the hottest days of summer. Getting to eye the cute lifeguard was small consolation only.

For @coldflashweeks Summer Weekend, Day 1: Day at the Beach

And a bonus day! July 23, Day Four: Poly, Crossovers, Time Travel! Oh my!

Do the boys and their partner have some summer fun? Or maybe the Coldflash offspring get up to shenanigans trying to get their dads to date? Do Barry and Len somehow get sucked into another universe while trying to relax?Do the boys and their partner have some summer fun? Or maybe the Coldflash offspring get up to shenanigans trying to get their dads to date? Do Barry and Len somehow get sucked into another universe while trying to relax?

Tag your creations either by @coldflashweeks, or using #cfsummerfun2018, within the first five tags!

Coldflash Summer Fun 2018: Day 3: Some Summer Lovin’

At first, Mayor Leonard Snart is proud of his daughter for landing the summer internship at STAR Labs. Only a couple high-school kids are admitted each year, and Laura never asked him to put in a good word (or a few thousand in bribes). 

But when she starts getting home all starry-eyed about some geek creep at work, Len is decidedly unimpressed. He doesn’t want to tell Laura what to do, because being her father’s daughter, she would do the exact opposite... but he quietly grinds his teeth whenever Laura talks about this ‘Barry’ orbiting around her, inviting her to lunch, bringing her cookies or lending her books. 

Because in Len’s experience, only two kinds of older men would prey on a seventeen-year-old Mayor’s daughter - the stupid creeps or the calculating assholes hoping to get ahead in the world by using Laura’s connections. 

So when Laura gets home one day in early August and tells him about Barry’s invitation to come to the beach with some people from the lab, Len doesn’t have to think twice about offering his yacht for the outing. Laura gives him an odd look, knowing full well how much he hates strangers aboard his beloved Rogue, but she agrees to ask the others. 

And that’s how Len ends up watching like a hawk for this creep who is trying to mess with his daughter. He doesn’t expect the guy to be seriously hot, mid-to-late twenties, tall and lean, with a smile to kill for. Len waits for the young man to reveal himself as the asshole he no doubt is, sassing Len or kissing up to him. Instead, ‘Barry’ blushes sweetly when Len smirks at him and shakes his hand, a little too firmly to establish the dominance of a watchful father; Barry, damn him to the deepest level to hell, keeps stealing furtive glances Len’s way, thinking he’s being subtle about checking out Len’s ass. And it becomes painfully obvious, after watching the young man interact with Laura for a few hours, that Len’s poor daughter has definitely mistaken Barry’s sweet nature and perhaps some brotherly protectiveness for something it’s most certainly not, at least not on his part. 

For @coldflashweeks, Mini Summer Coldflash Weekend. Day Two - The Road to Happiness.

“This is payback,” Barry remarked as he carefully folded the map up, before tucking it in between his seat and the middle console, “Isn’t it?” He flicked his gaze over to Len as he shifted his body as much as the seat belt would allow.

Smirking, Len flicked his gaze to Barry before moving it back to watching the road, and shifted so he was holding the steering wheel with his left before reaching over with his right to twine his fingers with Barry’s. 

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: The Flash (TV 2014) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Barry Allen/Leonard Snart, Captain Cold/The Flash Characters: Leonard Snart, Barry Allen, Mick Rory, Iris West, Cisco Ramon, Lisa Snart Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - No Powers, Hurt/Comfort, Injury Recovery, Physical Therapy, Day At The Beach, sort of new life at the beach, Fluff Summary:

Leonard Snart has been forced into early retirement as a dance choreographer after too many hip injuries and recent hip replacement surgery. He’s moved into his beach house from the city to rest and relax and figure out where to go from here as he begins his physical therapy. While he hates to admit it, he’s lonely and completely unsure of what to do next.

Enter Barry Allen, Len’s gorgeous, charming young neighbor, who is far too sexy to be anything but distracting and keeps crossing Len’s path.

Thank you to @a-redharlequin for coming up with the title, which is AMAZING and so perfect.

I don't know where this idea came from just from 'Day at the Beach' as a prompt, but I WILL be returning to finish where this story leaves off after I am done with Vertigo, because I know everything that happens next.