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"Okay, from Oliver and Felicity." Barry opens the last wedding gift, "We have an espresso machine."

"Not on the registry, but-" I start, as him and I were seated on the couch, opening wedding gifts. I was dressed in an oversized sweater, not dressed for the day yet, my legs bare, as I was kneeling on the couch next to him.

"I'll put this in the return pile." Barry places it down.

"No-" I reach for it, but end up wrapping my arms around Barry, looking at him, "I want it."

"You want the espresso machine?" Barry chuckles lightly.

"Yes." I nod, "It has something to do with coffee. ."

"Okay, we won't return it." Barry smiles, pecking my lips.

"Was that the last of it?" I question, sitting back down, crossing my legs.

"No, we got one more." Barry picks up a small rectangular box, "There's no card."

Barry rips open the wrapping, looking at the box, "It's another set of knives." Barry opens it, "It's not even a full set. Yeah, it's one knife. That's just shoddy gifting."

"Hey- it's a pretty knife." I shrug, taking it from him.

"I'm gonna clean up." Barry gets up, crouching down, shoving wrapping paper in a black garbage bag.

"No speed cleaning?" I ask, walking behind him, crouching next to him, wrapping my arm around him, pretending to slit his throat with the knife in my hand, "Isn't that gonna kill you?"

Barry chuckles, shaking his head as I put the knife on the coffee table, "No, we're not in a rush."

"Barry, you barely used your powers in Bora Bora, either." I say, standing up, "I mean, not even to put on suntan lotion. Complete- normal Barry Allen. There was no Flash."

"It was a spray-on bottle." Barry looks at me.

I laugh lightly, "Did someone steal your speed without me knowing?"

"No-" Barry got up, vibrating his voice, a smile on his face, "Speed all good."

"Then why haven't you used it at all?" I ask, putting my hands on his chest, looking up at him.

"I mean, I don't know." Barry shrugs, holding my wrists, "I have been thinking recently that, you know, when I first got my powers, I would use any excuse to use them. It would just be me and the road, and everything around me would disappear. It's like the first time in my life I really felt like I was at peace. I just feel like that all the time now. I don't have to run when I'm with you."

"You're very cute." I smile softly.

"I love you, Zee Allen." Barry leans down.

"Oh- I love that sound of that." I stand on my tippy toes, "But, I love you, too."

Barry leans in, smiling, pressing his lips into mine.

-

My hands run through the receipt in my hand as Barry and I walked down the sidewalk that night, Christmas cheer everywhere we looked, "Why would Rory think that we needed 40 toasters? We literally have- so much store credit now."

"He said that there was some kind of fire sale." Barry shoves his hands in his pockets, shrugging.

"This is Rory we're talking about." I shot him a look, "He stole them."

"Yeah-" Barry exhales, "He definitely stole them."

Before any more words were said, Barry was blasted away from me, thrown right into an alley, landing on the car with a grunt of pain, falling onto the ground.

"Oh my god-" I gasp, my head snapping from where it came from, my eyes widening at the sight.

"Hello, Zee." Devoe greeted me, hovering in the air in his chair, my eyes wide at his appearance, "My deepest congratulations on your wedding."

Devoe presses a button under his hand, the same thing he blasted Barry with aimed right at me, electricity crackling behind me as Barry grabbed my waist, pulling me away, the glass of the car Barry landed on shattering due to how fast Barry ran, coming to a stop, him now in his suit, "You okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine- are you-" I start to ask.

"I'm fine, I'll be right back." Barry turns, running towards Devoe, an robotic arm coming right out of his chair, grabbing Barry, another one following, tasing him, and Devoe taking him.

I jump up, letting flight take over me, Devoe and Barry gone, as I went to Star Labs, landing on my feet, running in, and up to the cortex, being greeted by Cisco, Harry, Joe and Ralph.

"Devoe attacked us on the street." I exhale deeply, "He took Barry."

"What? Are you kidding me?" Cisco sighs.

"Are you okay?" I ask Harry, noticing the ice pack on his head, "What happened?"

"Amunet Black abducted Caitlin." Joe told me.

"Two people go missing at the same time." Ralph looks at us, "That's quite a coinkie-dink."

"Yeah, that's a great observation, Captain Obvious." Cisco puts his hands on his head.

"Can you set the satellite to look for Caitlin's cryokinetic energy or Barry's Speed Force signatures?" Harry asks.

"We've got to look for both of them." I take charge, "I want you to set the satellite to look for Caitlin's cryokinetic energy-" I point at Cisco, "-and I need you to vibe Barry."

Cisco nods, touching his temples, vibing Barry, before being knocked back, knocking the tree that him and Harry set up over, grunting.

"Holy poltergeist!" Ralph says, his eyes wide.

I walk over to Cisco, crouching, "Hey, are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm just not gonna- be vibing again for a while." Cisco groans, staying down, rubbing his temples.

"What about Allen?" Harry questions.

"Wherever he is, I've never experienced- anything like it." Cisco exhales deeply.

-

"Sark me!" Cisco flinches, backing away from what he was just working on as it sparked.

"What happened?" I question, looking at him.

"Well, the satellite's trying to search for Barry's Speed Force energy and Caitlin's cryokinetic signature, so the bandwidth limiters are overheating." Cisco sighs.

"Well, that's what you get when you rely on machines rather than a master private eye." Ralph shrugs, "I've had a ton of missing person cases. There was this wife once. Turns out she faked her own death. She was just living in Arizona."

"Are you saying Barry faked his own death and moved to Arizona?" Cisco asks, looking up at him.

"Well no." Ralph began.

"Well, then shut up." Cisco snips.

Harry walks in, holding a coffee, "Tell me you got something."

"Got nothing." Harry sighs, "Searched the DeVoe house thoroughly. It's clean. Joe's gone to check the scene from where Barry was taken."

"You know, there was this other case once. Woman couldn't find her husband. Turns out she just had amnesia. He was home. She just didn't recognize him." Ralph continues, "And I still got paid. Twice."