#piperflash

also tiny Wally:

Hartley, realizing what's happened but not realizing Barry was sent with him, decides that he's going beat Harrison at his own game. He engineers a first meeting with Barry and upon realizing that Barry's bi, decides he's seducing Barry. He'll figure out how to do the whole 'I found a flaw in the accelerator, help me stop Harrison from making a mistake out of hubris' thing once he's got Barry firmly on his side, because he knows that he's probably not going to be able to stop the accelerator this time around either. But he might be able to get a fail safe in place that will at least save Ronnie.

Barry, realizing what's happened but not that Hartley was sent with him, decides to try to stop the accelerator from going active. Sure he loved being the Flash, but he owes it to the people who died in the accident to at least try. So he engineers a meeting with Hartley figuring that if Hartley found the problem the first time around then he's the one Barry needs to focus on so that Hartley has a support structure for convincing Dr. Wells to do the right thing. Except it turns out Hartley is surprisingly charming and funny and... and a really good kisser.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Flash - All Media Types, The Flash (Comics) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hartley Rathaway/Wally West Characters: Hartley Rathaway, Wally West Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Bad Parent Rudolph West, Panic Attacks, Mentioned Wally West II, Wally West Whump, Hurt Wally West, POV Hartley Rathaway, Good Hartley Rathaway, mary west isn't innocent either, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse Series: Part 2 of If DC can make up stuff, so can I Summary:

Dick: you are literally dating him.

Kyle: out of hate! Trust me!

Hartley: he sleep on top of you and you refused to let us move him.

Linda: you threatened to kill us if he moved him.

Kyle: WHAT I'm trying to say is, this on single hate bonds us together.

Dick: what is it?

Kyle: his bio pos parents.

Dick: oh yeah fuck them!

Hartley: I would love to get rid of them for him, fuck my redemption.

Linda: oh hell no, you are so right about that.

Kyle: see? Now I have news on Rudy trying to get in contact with Wally to pay his debt, we need to get rid of him so with Diana's permission we are allowed to serve cunt and kill a bastard.

Dick: finally, I'll break out my tools!

Hartley: we have permission, hell yeah his scream will be the most beautiful music I'll ever have the pleasure of hearing!

Linda: I've learned the ways of Iris West-Allen I'm ready to kick his ass for my little hummingbird.

Barry/Hartley - PiperFlash

I love this ship. It's an underrated ship to me, could do with more attention. I don't know that I'd call it cute specifically, though it can be.

They've got the enemies to lovers angle that I enjoy so much. I would, and do, read fics about them. And I write fics about them too.

There are a lot of parallels between Barry and Hartley, most especially in how Eobard treats them both as his special 'chosen' ones. And he lifted them both up with the intention of throwing them away. So I really like the idea of the two of them healing together. Though Eobard isn't all they have in common and it's interesting to examine those too.

Hartley's estranged from his family and it's not hard to imagine that Barry's belief in his father not only caused friction with Joe but with any bio-family he might have left. Shared interests in science - Hartley's a physicist and physics is a big part of the track taken to become a CSI. They're both scifi and fantasy nerds...

There's just a lot going on there that makes them an interesting ship.

Barry/Cisco/Hartley - PiperFlashVibe

Okay so this one I do find to be a cute ot3 but that's because the Cisco/Barry side is already adorable in their canon friendship. Those two are just adorable together and I have no doubt that adding in Hartley would just make their cuteness more dangerous.