Soulmate AU Prompt: @yugyuumy - You get a timer when you’re born that counts down the time until you meet your soulmate, but after you find your soulmate, your timer starts counting down the time until you lose them.
Warning/s: I tried to make it angsty, but I don’t know if it worked?
“V I B E” means the start of Cisco’s vibe, and once you see “V I B E”, it has ended.
“Barry, you have to calm down,”
“Calm down? You want me to calm down? Cisco, that girl that I saw when I ran to the future, I don’t know her but apparently in a couple of days, she’s going to be my world. I can’t just calm down,”
“Okay Barry, are you ready to see your proclaimed world again?”
“Yes, now vibe us up Cisco.”
Cisco turns around to look at Barry with a weird look on his face.
“Please don’t ever say that again,” Cisco says as he puts on his glasses, placing his hand on Barry’s shoulder. Barry looks down at his wrist.
“Two more days,” He whispers to himself, nodding to Cisco.
“Okay, let’s go to Infantino Street,”
Barry stares at his future self, and then at his said to be soulmate as Savitar holds the back of her shirt.
“This isn’t fair! Stop!” He hears his other self shout,
“No, it’s not okay, I just got you, I can’t lose you.” Barry cries out, continuing to beg for Savitar to not kill his soulmate.
“It’s too late Flash, you lose.” Savitar says as he unsheathed the blade from his suit, plunging it through her back faster than Barry could process. Barry watches as his future self runs to her, catching her before she can fall to the ground as he cradles her into himself.
Cisco grabs a hold of Barry’s shoulder again, pulling him out of his trance.
“Well, that was certainly something.” Cisco voices as he takes off the glasses, Barry sits down on the steps, holding his head in his hands as he takes multiple deep breaths.
“This isn’t fair,” Barry whispers to himself, but Cisco hears him. He sits down next to him, sighing in doing so.
“It’s just, I meet her in two days, and I only get to be with her for 3 weeks, this isn’t what I wanted, no one wants that.” Barry adds. Cisco nods along to what he’s saying, trying to think of possible ways to help his best friend out.
“I will try my hardest to help you, we will all try our hardest to help you. Now all you have to do is tell the rest of Team Flash that we need to save your soulmate who you will meet in 2 days, from Savitar, whoever he is.”
“Yeah, I should probably tell them as soon as possible.”
“So what you’re telling us is, we need to save your soulmate who you will meet in how long?”
Barry looks down at his wrist for probably the 10th time today.
“That you will meet in 1 hour and 20 minutes, and we have less than 3 weeks?” Joe repeats, as he stares at the rest of the team with crossed arms.
“Yeah, that’s exactly what I said.” Barry replies, playing with his fingers.
“Well, we got this right guys? We’re Team Flash.” Iris says trying to lift everyones spirits.
Barry looked around Jitters, trying to figure out who his soulmate could possibly be. Then she walked in, clumsily. She opens the door and staggers inside, tripping over her own feet. She goes to order her drink, seeing as Jitters wasn’t busy so there was no line.
After she orders she walks past Barry, only to drop her drink right in front of him, thankfully not on him.
“Shit,” she whispers as she quickly runs and grabs some napkins from the counter, only to come back to see that her mess was already cleaned. She looks up to see a grinning Barry Allen as he looks from his wrist at the same time.
Still in shock she responds,
“Y/N L/N, it’s nice to meet you Barry,”
“Same goes for you Y/N, can I get you another drink, to go? Unless you’re busy?” Barry asks, hoping that she says yes, so he can tell her everything she deserves to know.
“I’m not busy, so yes that would be fine Barry, but I can pay for my own drink.”
But Barry refuses stating that he should buy the drink, they ‘argue’ for a few minutes before Y/N gives in, smiling and walks with him up to the counter, ordering her drink, which Barry promptly pays for.
Soon after she receives her drink and they both walk out of Jitters, side-by-side. He takes a few deep breaths, wondering how the hell he was supposed to just say, “Oh by the way, I’m the flash, and this evil dude is going to try to kill you in less than 3 weeks time, but my team is going to work their best to help you not get killed by this evil speedster.”
“Wait, what did you just say?” Y/N says, frozen to the spot.
“Shit, did I say that out loud?” Y/N nods in response, clutching onto her Jitters cup, causing a few splashes of chai latte to spill. Barry slaps his forehead staring at her.
“I’m sorry,” He says as he picks her up using his speed and runs towards Star Labs, where he finds Cisco, Caitlin & Iris.
Once they arrive he puts her down softly, her still in shock from the news she just received.
“W-What do you mean, some evil guy is going to try and kill me in less than 3 weeks time?” Y/N asks quietly as she sits down on one of the chairs.
“Wait, you told her already? Didn’t you just meet her like an hour ago?” Caitlin asks as she goes over to Y/N whose eyes are as wide as the ocean.
“It was an accident, I didn’t mean to say it out loud, and we met like 20 minutes ago.” As soon as Barry says the last part, Iris slaps the back of his head, quite harshly. Muttering the word idiot, under her breath.
“I’m sorry I told you so abruptly Y/N, I just put a huge weight on your shoulders. I realise that, and I am so sorry, but we are trying to figure out a way to stop all of this.” Barry says trying to console her as he rubs her shoulders in a soothing manner.
Barry looks down at his wrist when no one was looking,
18:07:24:57, it says. They had 18 days left to save Y/N, and that was not enough time.
A lot can happen in a week, Barry found out that Savitar was a time remnant who was shunned, they think that they’ve found the person who could build a machine to stop Savitar’s evil plan, Tracy Brand. And Barry & Y/N easily, quickly, fell in love.
“Y/N, do you ever get water hungry?”
She stops what she was doing and turns around to face Barry, who was sitting on their couch, flicking through channels on the television.
“I’m sorry babe, did you just say water hungry?” Barry’s eyes widen as he realises what words just came out of his mouth, face palming he turns to face her whispering under his breath.
Y/N puts at his cuteness as she walks towards him, planting a kiss to the side of his head, running her fingers through his hair as she whispers into his ear,
“We all get water hungry, Bar,”
He chuckles and presses a soft kiss to her lips, sighing softly as he pulls away, staring into her E/C eyes, placing his hand to the side of her face, stroking her cheek with his thumb, treating her like a delicate flower.
“I love you, and it feels as though I’ve known you for my whole life, even if it’s only been 7 days.”
“And I love you Barry Allen, you cheesy piece of s-” She was cut off by his lips being placed onto her yet again, not like she cared.
The night of Y/N L/N’s death...
“Where is she? Where did you take her? What happened?” Barry asks with rapid fire, looking at his team with expecting eyes searching for answers.
“He has her Bar,” Joe answers as his tone goes low.
Barry starts tugging at his hair, as he looks up at Tracy, “Is it done?”
She nods at him, and runs to go get it, but Barry beats her to it.
“Then let’s go get her back and end this now,”
As Team Flash leave Star Labs, Barry can’t help but feel uncertain about the whole situation, and the rest of them try to keep him calm, try to reassure him that everything will be okay, and he tries his hardest to believe them.
Everyone gets into their places, and Barry looks at his wrist, again.
Looking up he sees Savitar holding onto her shirt, just like in Cisco’s vibe, only this time they had a plan to stop him.
“You’re too late Flash,” Savitar says, as he begins to move Y/N around in a taunting way, trying to tell Barry that he has lost.
Y/N has tears running down her face at this point as she sees the love of her life pull out the ‘Speedforce Bazooka’ as he shoots at Savitar.
She smiles as she thinks that they have won, only to see the shot ricochet off of him. Barry throws the gun in frustration seeing as it didn’t work. Savitar lets out a laugh knowing that he has won.
“Please, don’t do this,” Barry pleads as he raises his hands in a sign of surrender. Tears prick from the corner of his eyes as he begs for Savitar to not kill Y/N.
“This isn’t fair, why would you do this? I’ll do anything just don’t kill her,” Barry cries out taking multiple steps towards them, only for Savitar to grab Y/N again, tightening his hold on her.
“Have you not been listening to me this whole time? I need her to die so that you can go so far into the darkness that I am born. So sorry, but not sorry Flash.” Savitar says as he stabs Y/N through the back.
Barry catches her, and brushes her hair out from in front of her face.
“C’mon, hold on, for me, please.” Barry says in breaths as he struggles to stay strong for her.
“Hey, h-hey, it’s okay, everything will be okay Bar,” She whispers holding onto his shoulder with as much strength as she could muster.
“No, it’s not, it won’t be okay if I don’t have you by my side until I die.” Barry voices, trying to keep her awake for as long as possible.
“It’s okay, just let me go Bar, I love you,”
“I love you too,” He whispers as the tears run down his face like waterfalls, and as Y/N took her last breaths, her final thoughts were about the love of her life.
Okay I know that was bad, please don’t kill me. But feedback please :)
