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"We're ready whenever you are, Barry." I told Barry as he ran in the Speed Lab, Barry's voice coming through, "I'm ready!"

"Are you serious?" Cisco looks at me.

"Please Cisco, just one more." I press my palms together, pleading, "I won't ask again."

Barry was training, trying to be fast enough to run into a breach Cisco would make, so he would be fast enough to do the same for Devoe.

I was dressed in black joggers, a white sweater, a braided beige beanie on my hair to contain the slight mess of my straighten hair, white slip on vans on my feet.

"She said two hours ago." Cisco shot me a look.

"You and I both know he's not gonna stop until he makes it through." I walk over to him, a innocent smile on my face, my palms still presses together, "Come on, just one more. You know how Barry gets."

He squints his eyes at me, before exhaling, "One more."

"Thank you." I chirp, Cisco walking to where Barry would come out from, holding his fist up, opening a breach.

"All right, here we go." I said to Barry, standing behind Cisco, "Three- two- one. Now!"

Cisco closes the breach right before Barry can get through it, Barry grunting, "Damn it! One more."

Cisco exhales deeply, "Zee?"

"Barry- let's take five." I began, crossing my arms.

"No, not until I get this, all right? Come on." Barry turns to run again.

"Listen, Miyagi-" Cisco began, "I've been here all day, opening breaches, all right, so unless you wanna rub your hands together and do some magic shoulder popping-"

"I'm not rubbing your shoulder." Barry stares at him, exhales.

"That's what I thought. I'm taking five." Cisco starts to leave the room.

"Hey, come on!" Barry tries to stop him.

"I'm taking five!" Cisco ends the discussion,'leaving the room.

"I- I don't understand why I can't get this." Barry breathes heavily, walking over to me.

I hum, "I don't know, maybe because we've been at this all day and you've been up all night?"

"That shouldn't matter." Barry shakes his head.

"Barry, a bridge closes in three -picoseconds. Picoseconds are a thing?" I look at him, confusion falling over me, as he shot me a look. I clear my throat, "Besides the point- Devoe's could shut even faster. Look, I'm just saying that this might not even be the best plan to catch him anyway."

"It's a plan, you know." Barry exhales, sitting down, "It's the only one we have right now."

"I know- we don't really have anything else right now." I walk over, sitting next to him, "But, you gotta stop acting like this is our only option."

"I don't know, Zee, but, I mean, we need something. We have no leads on the next three bus metas, no way to track Devoe, no way to stop him." Barry sighs lightly raising his voice, stressed, "I mean, he can't be this smart."

I got silent, as he sighs, pinching the bridge of his nose, "I'm sorry, but, I mean, we've been at this for months, and we have nothing."

"Well-" I began, looking at him, "Maybe- that's what's placing a wall between you and- something to help us- something to go off on. You know, sometimes you have to take a breather and let the answer come to you. Do something else for a bit."

"Like what?" Barry questions, looking at me.

"Date night." I shrug, wrapping an arm around him, "You know, we haven't had any quality time, just you and me, since our honeymoon."

"Which was severely cut short." Barry comments.

"That's right." I smile softly, "We deserve a night to ourselves. I know, we're always preoccupied with the team and all-"

"We're also Barry and Zee." Barry nods, "No, you're right, yeah. All right, I'm gonna make a reservation tonight, someplace very romantic."

"Or-" I drop my head down, looking at him directly, "Instead of throwing the money that you don't have because of your recent unemployment and your refusal to apply at Big Belly Burger-"

"Zee-" Barry lets out a light breathy laugh at my joke.

"Okay-" I laugh quietly, "We could just-"

He cuts me off, "No- I want to treat you. I'll make a reservation, okay?"

"Fine." I give, pointing at him, "I'm only giving in this time."

Barry smiles lightly, nuzzling his head into my shoulder, my head leaning against his, "How is it we live together, work together, sleep in the same bed together, but it stills feels like we don't spend any real time as husband and wife?"

The device chirps, Harry's voice coming in, "Allen- other Allen- I mean- god- The Allens-"

The sound of shuffling, the voice completely changing to Cisco, "Zee, Barry, we need you in the cortex."

"You know, I really like the sound of your last name being Allen now." Barry smiles at me.

"Oh?" I smile softly.

"Yeah, Detective Allen." Barry presses his lips into mine, a smile on both of our lips.

Harry's voice comes in again, "I said, now!"

I pull away from Barry, "Duty Calls, Barry."

"All right, let's go." Barry pecks my lips, getting up with me, as we made our way into the cortex.

"So what's this?" I question as Barry and I stood by Harry, Caitlin and Cisco, looking down at what they brought us up here for.

"This is a signature field, mapping every time DeVoe's gone in and out of his layer in the pocket dimension." Harry points.

"All of these?" Barry questions.

"All of them." Harry confirms.

"So, how did you do this?" I look at him.

"I didn't do it, actually." Harry admits, "Ramon did."

"But all I did was just come up with a really complex and eloquent algorithm to track the warping signatures." Cisco trails off.

"Don't do that, all right? Don't do that. Don't be modest." Harry told him, "All right? It's unbecoming."

"You're unbecoming." Cisco shot at him.

"You wish I was unbecoming, all right?" Harry shot right back.

"Do you know that these are Devoe?" Barry stops them, questioning.

"These are Devoe, all right?" Harry starts pointing at different locations, "This is when Marlize grabbed him from Izzy at Lawrence Hills. This is when he showed up at Iron Heights prison."

Caitlin leans over, "This is Devoe's house."

"And this is the alleyway in the city center, where he abducted you." I point, looking at them, "How long has this been going on?"