When Barry Allen agreed to date Leonard Snart, he did not expect the backlashes he got. While Barry Allen stayed 'single and not ready to mingle', The Flash was now known for dating the notorious Captain Cold.

The crowds loved it! Covered continuously on the news, always cheered for when the two fought. Never could the pair be left alone when they were together.
Other villains found the crowds throwing things at them as they hissed to stop taking The Flash.

It was mind-boggling - yet so funny that you could cry from laughter for days.

Even the police would act the same. Lovely and sweet to Captain Cold, anyone else, it was like they were chewing gum on the bottom of their shoes.

Barry's friends at S.T.A.R Labs just clapped him on the back and commented that they didn't know he swung that way. They later swapped bets with each other + Cisco was sure that they would have lasted another week if they tried.

Now, Barry's family was a different matter. They were all huffy-puffy. They were saying it is not right to go out with someone like him. They were against it. Joe said that he should have dated Iris - what father wants his children to date each other?

But it seems that the overall opinion between the hero and villain was positive. It seems people like it when heroes and villains to date.
Neither of them would have thought that when they first came out dating during one of the heists that Leonard pulled.

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"Barry," Iris hissed as she came storming up to him. She slapped him around the face with what felt to be a chunk of concrete. "Why have you got your pet villain out stealing things... I would be ok, Father would be ok if he stopped, but he hasn't..."

Sebastian rose the moment that she slapped him, his eyes glistening as if filled with fire. "May I ask why you seem to think I have a 'pet villain'? It seems to suggest more about you than me." Bassy hissed back.

The others were watching the two with as much concentration one would put into a fight. In a way, it was a fight.

"Why else would you want the old freak?" Iris huffed.

"Try saying that again..." Sebastian said calmly, his fists clenching as lightning crackled at the back of his neck.

Cisco and Caitlin paled, they realised that Iris had just overstepped the boundary and was now in perilous territory. They involuntarily took a step back, keeping their distance from the aggravated speedster.

"He's old and too slow for someone like you," Iris expressed, "he works with a weapon that was designed to stop you, permanently."

"Yet my friends were the ones to design and made it. You don't tell me to stay away from them?" Bassy pointed out, waving his hand to the two behind him.

Cisco paled further, his chair skating out the way as he collided with it as his body moved back slightly.

"But he's a villain," she snarled.

"When I dated Oliver all those years ago, and you didn't mind," Bassy pointed out.

"He dated Oliver?" Cisco whispered to Caitlin. His eyes were wide, unbelieving that they didn't know about this sooner.

"Apparently so," Caitlin muttered back. Would that mean that him dating Leonard was already much further than him dating Oliver?

"But he's a vigilante," Iris pointed out.

"But is treated the same as a villain, acts the same as a villain. He murders and steals, he lies and has no mercy," Bassy sneered, "that's so much more than Len is or ever was, yet it's Leonard you go against? Tell me why you have such imbalanced hate?" 'You're not even saying about how he kidnapped friends and family.'

"Oliver doesn't have a criminal record," Iris brought up.

"Neither does Len," Bassy smirked, knowing the others did not know who got rid of the records. That was a happily kept secret between Leonard and himself.

"Explain why he's wanted by the CCPD?" Iris tried again, confident that she finally had something that he couldn't argue back at.

"Explain why Oliver's wanted by the SCPD?" Bassy smirked again.

"He's shot you in the back," Iris smirked because Oliver would not have shot Barry in the back.

"Oliver has, I still feel the two arrows sticking out of my back when it rains," Bassy smirked, his whole body giving off a false air of uninterest.

"You, are so frustrating sometimes," Iris snarled.

"Why thank you, I do try," Bassy said with a cocky grin. He stuck his hands in the belt loop of his jeans, his chest puffing out slightly.

"Why was my room broken into last night then?" Iris questioned, coming back to the real reason as to why she slapped him.

"I don't know," Barry stated.

"Really? Why don't you ask your pet?!" She growled.

"Shall I say it a way that you will understand?" Barry said patronisingly. "My pet villain and I were elsewhere and pre-occupied last night," he finished with a smirk.

Now she did smack him with a stone on the other cheek.

Bassy reached his hand up, pulling it back to see his blood over his fingers. His eyes flashed dangerously, "my turn."

The others watched in sick fascination as Barry's body was covered in a mixture of blue, white and red lightning. Then their backs exploded in pain as a sonic wave exploded from around Barry, throwing them straight into the wall behind them, as Iris found herself thrown against the wall with a hand around her neck.

"Just a warning, before you assault someone, look into their past, not only their present," Bassy stated calmly.

The room was silent except for the crackling of lightning and the static of broken screens. No one dared breathe.

"While I date a villain now as a hero and I wear the gold and scarlet heroes' uniform in my present. I wore onyx and blood villains' uniform in my past," Bassy hissed, his eyes flickering to take in all of Iris' reactions.

Any bit of breath that the others' had was ripped unceremoniously from their body.
Their eyes were wide with shock and fear.

"I am so much more than what you see before you," Bassy whispered for flashing away.

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Barry ran until he felt everything drain from him, leaving him on his shaky hands and knees. He tried time and time again to call his powers, the speed force, but time and time again, it didn't work. His clothes were smouldering, the rubber of his shoes sizzling at him.

"Barry?" Leonard whispered, resting a hand on the shaking man as he crouched. "You okay?"

"I can't..." Barry whispered hoarsely. "I told them my past, my background as a villain, and I just can't anymore!"

"What can't you anymore?" Leonard asked. He pulled him around until he saw his face, his eyes going wide as he took in the blood running down Barry's face.

"The speed force... My powers. They're gone..." Barry whimpered, feeling suddenly jelly-like.

Leonard pushed him up against the small wall, leaning over Barry's dangling head. "Remind me, Barry, what were you the meta off?" Leonard sneered.

He kept a close eye on the whimpering man beneath his grip, feeling the air crackle around him as dark clouds began to build in the air above him. Leonard quickly jumped away from Barry, rolling to the floor to face the man.

Barry's eyes snapped open as a massive bolt of lightning struck down on him, as pebbles around him rose, and the birds in the sky slowed.

By the time the lightning had faded, and his eyes had cleared, Leonard set sights on the man in front of him.

He was dressed in a copy of his flash suit, covered in white, blue and scarlet lightning. The main body of the suit was blue, turning white in the light of the day. His logo was gold and scarlet. Little seam lines ran through the outfit like the lines of power through the streets, scarlet in colour. Bright gold wrapped around his wrists and waist.

His cowl was utterly different. While to an untrained eye, they may look the same, the nose part of the suit came down further, creating a sharp point through the whole top part. The icy-blue defined Barry's sharp jaw bone, coming to a ghostly white around Barry's lips and mouth. Intricate lines of scarlet and gold fluttered around the material, like the morning dance of river birds. It looked like an elegant gold and scarlet crown was resting on his head.

Leonard felt his jaw drop. Barry was crowned in all aspects. When he asked Barry that statement, he expected that Barry would get his powers back. But he never expected it to this magnitude.

Barry's eyes closed as he felt the power thrumming through his body. The feeling of the cut on his cheek stitch itself back together again. When he opened his eyes again, he saw Leonard still in his position on the floor with the Rogues standing in similar states of jaw drop behind him.

He moved until he was crouched in front of Leonard. Cheekily, he stuck his hand out to the man, "want some assistance there?"

When Leonard was out of his shock and upon his feet, he managed to find his words, "when I asked you that, I didn't expect the largest bolt of lightning to strike you, nor for your whole outfit to change..."

"I didn't either..." Barry chuckled, rubbing the back of his neck.

"Why did you have to talk about your past to them?" Leonard questioned.

"She slapped me then said that I have a 'pet villain'," Barry shrugged. "She got broken into last night and presumed that I had got a pet villain to do it."

"Why would she say that you have a pet villain?" Leonard asked, the Rogues looking on curiously.

"Apparently because you count as a 'pet'," Barry sniggered, much to the laughter of the Rogues behind.

A quick glare from Leonard and the Rogues were all silent, "why does she call me your 'pet villain'?"

"She gave a list," Barry started before he started to tick it off on his fingers, "1 - you are an old freak. 2 - you are old. 3 - you are too slow. 4 - you work with a weapon designed to stop me. 5 - you are a villain. 6 - you shot me in the back. 7 - you are wanted by the CCPD."

"I take it; she didn't leave it at that to make you lash out?" Leonard questioned.

"She didn't like the way I said about how you and myself were somewhere else last night so it could not be either of us," Barry smirked, "she proceeded to slap me - but to make sure that it left a mark, she had a rock in her hand."

There was a wave of gasps that came from the Rogues, as a few raised their hands to their mouths. The speedster had grown on them as they started to learn the real him, not just the hero side.

"I might have used my powers in anger and lept forwards at the speed of sound, pushing my other friends from their feet as I shoved her into the wall by her neck," Barry explained, getting a lot of raised eyebrows, "that is where I told them about my past. I hissed to her in the silent room, 'while I date a villain now as a hero and I wear the gold and scarlet heroes' uniform in my present. I wore onyx and blood villains' uniform in my past'. I told them through this one of my closest kept secrets that will most likely be all over the news tomorrow."

"You were a villain?" Most of the Rogues questioned.

"2013, in retaliation to a crush making a hero club, I made a villain club. This club later came out as the Sexy Villains, with the Seductive Demon - me -, as their leader. The Seductive Demon was known all across Ohio and Paris as a crime boss and the leader of the Sexy Villains." Bassy smirked.

"Man, you really are an all-in-one-bundle," Leonard sighed.

Bassy cheekily kissed him on the cheek, "and you know it!"

"That I do," Leonard replied.

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Together, they decided that the next appearance Barry would make would be from a heist from Leonard. So when the alarms went off, Barry zipped down, already knowing who it was.

Already, before Barry himself had got there, crowds had formed, waiting for the appearance of the scarlet speedster. So when their scarlet speedster appeared not looking very scarlet anymore, a surprised gasp ran around the observers.

Barry slipped to a stop in his new uniform, glimmering white and blue in the light, dancing with the mixed colour lightning bolts.

Leonard smirked to himself as a thought came to mind, he slowly approached a confused Barry, pocketing the stolen item. "I see your cheek has healed nicely," he commented as he turned Barry's head so that he could see the cheek better.

Seeing what Leonard was doing, Barry went along with it, "she hasn't managed to slap me with a rock again," he stated, watching the audience as he sneakily pickpocketed the thief of his loot.

There was a cry of outrage as the audience took in what the two were talking about. None of them realised the action that the speedster had done while the master thief was distracted.

"Shall we continue?" Leonard said as he stepped back and reached into his pocket and came back out empty-handed.

"Looking for this?" Barry asked innocently as he held the jewel in the air as if looking at it in the sunlight.

"You know very well that's what I was looking for," Leonard replied through glinted eyes. "How did you manage to get it away without any of us realising?" He asked, signalling to the confused crowd.

"With experience," Barry smirked before turning towards a cop in the crowd. "Here you go," he said, throwing the jewel to the police. "If you don't mind me, I need to return a stolen thief," Barry said with a charming smile before flashing away with Leonard in hand.

-----

"Stolen thief?" Leonard asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Well, I've done a fair job of stealing you," Barry stated as he wrapped his arms around him from behind.

"Maybe I didn't want to be stolen?" Leonard asked with a smirk as he looked at the speedster.

"I haven't heard any complaints," Bassy smirked, pecking him on the nose as he rested his chin on the thief's shoulder.

"And you won't be," Leonard smiled into the blue leather wear.

'I cannot unsee what I just saw...' Lisa thought to herself as she stared at her brother and his boyfriend. "Get a room you two!" She called to them.

"Last time I checked, this was a room!" Bassy smirked back as he felt Leonard chuckle into his neck.

"Well, get a different room!" She called back to them.

"Two against one! You need to move!" Bassy smirked back to her, his eyes shining with amusement as Leonard positively shook with laughter, the sounds muffled against his neck. "I've already claimed this spot!"

"Ew..." She said, frowning slightly, "that was too much information!"

"Last time I checked, I did not say anything," Bassy chuckled.

"You didn't have to. I'm just going to go," she mumbled as she left the room.

"Having fun teasing my sister," Leonard snickered as he raised his head to look at the speedster again.

"I most certainly am," Barry said, taking note of the twinkle in Leonard's eye.

"I daresay she didn't, for now," Leonard chuckled. "Now what do you mean by 'claimed' this spot?" He asked with his left eyebrow raised. "I'll think you'll find that I claimed this spot, for me and me alone."

"And I think you will find that I have claimed you, my stolen master thief," Bassy beamed, pecking the man on the nose again.

"Oh, I am an object to be claimed now?" Leonard questioned with an amused undertone to his raised eyebrow.

"Yes, because you're mine~" Bassy purred, staring into the sharp blue of Leonard Snart's eyes.

"Why didn't I listen to Lisa..." Mick whispered as he clutched his ears, eyes scrunched shut.

"Honestly, what did you expect would happen?" Leonard sighed, looking at his long term friend.

"Certainly not Jailbreak declaring that you are his," Mick grunted, still not opening his eyes or moving his hands.

Bassy eyes flashed to life, a cruel smirk appearing over his face as Sebastian sick sense of humour bubbled from the depths. He flashed over, whispering into Mick's ears as he circled him, "you thought that the city's Scarlet Speedster, Ohio's Seductive Demon wouldn't be possessive of what's his. That he would not take some control?"

Mick's face fell into deeper and deeper shades of pale. Almost white in the humanmade light of the warehouse.

"Boo..." Sebastian whispered in his ear after a few moments of silence.

Mick jumped out of his skin, going a bright white as he ran out of the room, trying to get away from the hero and villain.

"I don't think they will disturb us again," Bassy snickered as the door slammed shut behind Mick.

"I don't know what makes you think that," Leonard laughed. The thought of his Scarlet teasing his sister and scaring his brother in everything but blood filled him with many different powerful emotions.

"Now, where were we?" Barry asked with a charming lopsided smile.

"The reason why this room is mine?" Leonard smirked.

"Nice try, Snowflake."

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