"You owe me.  You owe me BIG TIME."

Sebastian, well he's Barry now he supposes, looks up from the coffee he is groggily nursing only to come face to face with Cisco Ramon.

"I OWE you? Why? Because you snuck or well VIBED into a very private hotel room. Trust me I know you were there. I found this..."

And with that Barry holds the gold band between his thumb and his forefinger as he continues speaking.

"I left this on the floor of the Speed Lab. But when I woke up in Ohio, in the hotel, it was sitting on the night stand. Only one way it could have gotten there is because of you leaving it. So did you enjoy whatever you walked in on? Tell me...."

Cisco sits down uneasily in his chair, facing his speedster friend.

"Bar.....   man....   what I saw before I backed away was way intense.  I didn't want to see either of you naked like that.  What surprised me most were the...." He lowers his voice some before he continues. "The divorce papers.  How long has that been going on?"

An arched eyebrow, small smirk and a rub of his temple are the only 'Sebastian Smythe' tells that Barry lets slip through his carefully created façade.  That and his rather colorful choice of language.

"Well you could CLEARLY see that all the stupid 'Flash, do you cum too fast?' bullshit is a complete falsity then.  As for the papers....  Those were a long time coming in all honesty, if I'm honest with myself, since before Caleb was born.  You're not going to tell anyone what you saw are you?"

Cisco's jaw drops, so unused to hearing the normally mild mannered speedster using such interesting choice of words.

"Dude....."

Barry shakes him head wearily.

"Just don't say anything to anyone.  This will all come to light after New Years, I know I'm going to lose some support around here.  So just don't, okay..."

All the long haired man can do is nod.

•••••••••••••

It's a cozy house just outside of Lima, Ohio where she grew up. Shannon comes into the living room with two cups of chamomile tea and hands one to her sister-in-law, who is seated in a plush chair with her newborn in the basinet beside her.

"Care to tell me why you're back so soon Shann since your new job doesn't start until the January semester or do I have to sic your brother on you when he gets home on leave this weekend?"

She practically chokes on her tea at what Rachel said to her.

"You wouldn't...."

The petite diva just gives a smirk, the one she learned from her husband, Shannon's brother Noah 'Puck' Puckerman.

"Oh yes I would! I don't get much chance for conversation with him gone and the twins in preschool. Emmylou here is a good listener but its like I'm talking to myself. So SPILL."

As if on cue, Emmylou Jagger Puckerman opens her eyes and lets out the sweetest little coo before yawning and falling back to sleep. Shannon shakes her head and gives off a weary sigh.

"It's a really long story Rach...."