#also i listened to somewhere only we know by lily allen on repeat while writing

[moonrisecoeur]

🐕 ok baby im so sorry for this literal. giant list. BABY YOU SAID YOU WERE WEIRD ABOUT MUSIC, THAT YOU WERE ANNOYING ABOUT MUSIC, ECT ECT WHATEVER I FUCKING CHALLENGE YOU BECAUSE I AM NOT FUCKING!!!!! NORMAL ABOUT MUSIC !!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM DISGUSTING ABOUT MUSIC!!!!!

babe i even CATEGORIZED them bc theres so FUCKING MANY !!

also i did do cws on some songs i had concerns ab? the ones w !s are ones im super unsure ab. also aaaa u dont have to listen to any of these but,. u awaked the demon,, BEAST in me.

i have also fdhgkjdsfg listened to most of the songs in ur post but my brain is also mushy after listening to all of these and making this list so i shall. give thoughts Later. xoxo (its also late hehe)

my top faves <3 (if u like these i am skipping the making out part and going straight to fucking u)

this is your night - amber

no one ever really dies - mystery skulls

magic original demo - mystery skulls

these dont rlly have lyrics but i literally listened to them on repeat when i was writing the novel length asks to u so if u want ur brain to melt like mine while i was writing those...,, <3<3

(cw: a bit loud/high pitched and really weird music? ravey)

desktopbuddy - nanoray

dogwalk2000 - nanoray

dog bus (ft telemist) - metaroom

worm rave - metaroom

songs i feel ud like based on ur music taste ive seen (plsss tell me if u like them bc i will happily rec more i just feel bad w how long this list FUCKING IS)

until we get there - lucius

don't just sit there - lucius

wasting time - hoax

western medicine - hoax

into the blackhole - hoax

winter - daughter

the only exception - paramore

are you bored yet? - the wallows

don't you wonder? - jagged jaw

tonight is - jagged jaw

the comedienne - parenthetical girls

who'd have known - lily allen

somewhere only we would know - lily allen (this is a cover but god its my fav version so)

come to me - goo goo dolls (baby im ngl i think leon would love this song)

true love - coldplay

juliet - cavetown

lemon boy - cavetown (cavetown is a trans king please support his music <3 mwah mwah)

relax, take it easy - mika (ngl this one is a bit more of a shot in the dark buttt)

together - mystery skulls (same as above tbh)

these r from like 1 artist i rlly like but bby i am sure u will NOT like their music,, kinda like the nanoray and metaroom ones but like worse. !!WILL!! make ur brain melt. (trust me when i say i HANDPICKED thru their music,,,,)

kill screen - machine girl (!!!!cw: yelling! im only including this bc its one of my top FAVES. it goes so hard holy shit. if ur comfy with it listen from 2:55-end cus theres no yelling, its just such fucking GOOD buildup to the BEST part of the fucking song [3:18] i9ts literally. AHH)

post rave maximalist - machine girl (cw: has some sirens and airhorns? theyre not loud tho.)

freewill - machine girl

nine minutes and forty three seconds - machine girl (bro this album is like straight up not your alley this is the only song without screaming in it LOL)

cloud99 (as above mix) - machine girl

lilith - machine girl

cyan hardcore - machine girl

sin to win! - machine girl

IM OBSESSED W THESE AND THEY NEED MORE LOVE

my favorite color is you - revenegeinkyoto (!!!!cw: yelling--mostly exclamatories and parts of the bridge, the ending is a bit heavy w it tho--, yandere song, heavy metal)

don't go insane - dpr ian (THEREVE BEEN SO MANYT LEON EDITS TO IT AND GGGRRRRRR GRHHHH RHHHH that one part GURLL iykyk but ITS A GOOD SONG REGARLESS AHHHGGGHHHH)

the memory viewer - sugary sweet machines

talkative revolver city slicker (/or/) resume song - sugary sweet machines (these are 2 songs that (at their core) are essentially the same but are different enough that i pick them based on which im just feelin more,) (OK SO ALSO these r from the ost of an indie game and IDK if i can rec the game personally (i found it during a very dark part of my life) but the ost and esp these songs are hella banger and i really want the artist to get more love for them)

megatronic - powerman 5000 (cw: not yelling but heavily synthetic sounding? hard music xP)

benzie box - danger doom (THIS. GOES. SO. HARD.)

boys & girls - will.i.am (BI SONG? BI SONG?)

gekka no yasoukyoku - malice mizer (cw: not english) (THIS GOES SOOOO HARD its literally. so good. i try to avoid reccing songs not in english but this is too good to not)

cipher peon battle - pokemon colosseum (it makes me feel epic lol)

overrated but i love them

little dark age - mgmt (i literally make amvs in my head about re2 leon in my car while listening to this song i am obsessed. Obsessed.)

wasted summers - juju<3 (fuck ppl who hate on this honestly like can ppl not have fun with music? let indie musicians have fun !! hes literally making a song with his sister thats the sweetest shit ever!!!!!!!!!! also honestly this song kinda hurts if u relate ngl pookie)

rhinestone eyes - gorillaz (iykyk,, that edit introduced me to this song but it FUCKS !!)

take me to church - hozier (look. -foams at mouth- thats all.)

mary on a cross - ghost

idk where to categorize these :v

the wolf - siames (I LOVE THIS THE EVERYTHING THE ANIMATION THE DOGGIE !!! woof woof)

can't get you out of my head - kylie minogue

better off alone - alice deejay

hypnocurrency - deadmau5

gyrate - rezz

j-boy - phoenix

credits song for my death - vivivivivi

i would do anything for you - foster the people (i ALMOST put this in faves bc god i am,, obsessed w this song but, i feel like its bully material so.)

sit next to me - foster the people

the sweet escape - gwen stefani (look i always loved this song, but i have a leon edit of this song saved to my phone and i watch it Daily)

my love - justin timberlake (me and leon. i also have a leon edit to this i watch daily.)

bloody mary - lady gaga

you like early 2000s type music? cringe? this is for u bbg

(cw: cringe, ravey)

pretty rave girl - s3rl (PLSLSSSS I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCHH GRRHHRGRRHHGHHDHDGSGDFSDFGGFHSD)

blame you - romanceplanet

bleed (runaway) - romanceplanet

lollipop (candyman) - aqua

ok this is stupid but im ngl im putting songs that make me think of leon in some way here (considering making my own playlist of stuff for him lmk if my taste is good enough boo ;* /j)

with you - linkin park (!!!!cw: yelling. (im including this bc i just want to say leon would fucking love this song. id make out with and grind on him at a house party to this song,, that is all). the yelling isnt super loud but the music is screechy during the parts so it might make u uncomfy? be safe if u listen boo, its alil on the harder side of songs)

cure for the itch - linkin park (cw: the beginning has a brief moment where theres a loud announcer? other than that this fucks, goes HARD.)

under the bridge - red hot chili peppers (WHEN I WAS LOOKING FOR,,, ROCK AND GRUNGE TO LISTEN TO bc i am obsessed with leon ehehe THIS SONG LATCHED ONTO MY BRAINSTEM,,,,,,thinking ab holding his hand while this plays on our mixtape while we drive to our coffeeshop date in raccoon city,,.,,,,u//w//u)

smells like teen spirit - nirvana (!!cw: screamy? i think? i cant tell if im desensitized to screaming in music or sm LMFAO its a song i scream when i sing it tho so) (also i KNOW this is a generic pick but it goes so hard!!!!!!!!!!!! leon Literally listens to this like its just canon)

talking in your sleep - the romantics (baby im so sorry i cant explain this one i also want to fuck michael afton and thats bleeding into my lust for leon)

no friend of mine - aimless device (THIS IS SO GOOD I WISH IT WAS MORE POPULAR)

hyena - aimless device

nobody's real - powerman 5000 (cw: its a lil bit hard of a song) (i cant explain this honestly leon would just listen to powerman and this would be his fave)

i'm not in love - 10cc (look look here ok listen to my vision. leon trying to convince himself hes not actually head over heels for you. i think its cuter with re2 leon hehe hes so cutie pookie BUT. [im not personally into aeon But..] PLEASE imagine him just laying in bed listening to this because hes still hurt over ada but hes falling so hard and fast for you. and hes scared. TERRIFIED even, <3 dont worry babyboy ill treat you so well)

yellow - coldplay

the scientist - coldplay

always in my head - coldplay (ok look i tried really hard to not put in so many coldplay songs but, listen. coldplay just feels so fucking aeon for you aeon enjoyers)

sweetest goodbye - maroon 5

sunday morning - maroon 5

my console - eiffle 65 (look. its Funny.)

separate ways (worlds apart) - journey

away from the sun - 3 doors down

here without you - 3 doors down

my precious - lifehouse

hanging by a moment - lifehouse

last child - aerosmith

jaded - aerosmith

turn up the radio - autograph

lullaby - the cure

last kiss - pearl jam (cw: kinda descriptive singing about the scenario of a loved one dying, brief mentions of religion) (he wouldnt relate to this song at all but i KNOW mans would cry to it)

(i could dig up more for this section but baby i do not wanna bore you with retro songs)

actually fuck i could put so many more songs period but this is probably already a 5 hr playlist atp eheh sorry

if u want i could make an actual playlist if u ACTUALLY wanna listen to ts so its not such a pain going thru dhjksdfhgsdkg (tho theres a few songs that arent on spotty bc its stinky :( )

🐕

the most hilarious part about this is that the only song on this gigantic list that i recognize is don’t go insane BUT NOT EVEN BECAUSE OF LEON i just like dpr ian he’s so pretty :3

also i think ill be able to put them into a playlist myself !! dw i don’t wanna make u go through the effort!! i shall attempt to listen to everything!!

[king-finnigan]

20 Teacher Au, and 44. Flowers of Romance, geraskier.

It all started when Ciri went to elementary school. Her teacher was a man called Jaskier, and, by the gods, Geralt has never had such conflicting emotions about someone and it infuriates him to no end.

Jaskier is annoying. Just flat-out annoying. If he’s not talking, he’s singing. He wears colours so bright it hurts Geralt’s eyes, but no colour could match the brightness of his mood. Geralt still cannot understand how someone can be in a good mood all day every day, least of all someone who deals with a class of 30 seven year-olds every day.

But then again, it seems like Jaskier is, besides Ciri, the only person in his life who appears genuinely excited to see him. And yes, while his talking and singing is annoying to no end, he also has a very soothing voice that can cheer even Geralt up after a bad day at the office. And of course, Ciri adores the guy, and if Ciri’s happy, Geralt’s happy.

So yeah, he may be incredibly annoyed by the man, but he’s also... not, at the same time? It makes Geralt’s head hurt every time he tries to sort out what he’s feeling, so he avoids doing that as much as possible.

Until the day after Christmas break. He’s standing in the fairly large hall on his own, waiting for Ciri to put on her snowboots. It’s just the two of them, since Ciri is one of the few children who needs after-school care. Geralt wishes he could pick her up the same time as all the other parents, but his job doesn’t allow him to leave sooner, and it’s just him - after all, Yen took off only a few short months after Ciri was born, leaving him alone with the baby.

He sighs a bit, patiently waiting as his daughter shows him how she had learned to tie her shoelaces that day, and, although it takes her ages to do, and it barely qualifies as a knot, he feels pride swell in his chest.

“Well done,” he tells her, as he takes her coat from the hanger on the wall, helping his little girl put it on.

“Ah, good to see the princess and her brave knight reunited at last!” Ciri giggles and Geralt looks up, barely able to keep a small smile off his face when he sees Jaskier in the doorway to the teacher’s lounge. The man has his arms spread out dramatically, and while, yes, Geralt is fighting a smile, he’s also fighting not to roll his eyes at the sight.

He waits for Jaskier to take his guitar and start composing a little song in the middle of the hallway, like he so often does. But today, he doesn’t.

Geralt frowns, worry flaring up in his chest when he sees the bags under Jaskier’s eyes, when he notices the paleness of his skin, the hollowness of his cheeks, the tiredness in his eyes. “Everything okay?” he asks, before he can stop himself.

Jaskier laughs, quite unconvincingly. “Everything’s great! Just a bit under the weather, unfortunately.” The teacher shrugs. “Anyways, have a lovely evening, you two, and I’ll see you guys tomorrow!”

Geralt nods, and Jaskier disappears back into the teacher’s lounge.

---

On the ride back home, he looks at Ciri. “Has Jaskier been like that all day?”

She looks at him. “Like what?”

He shrugs, looking back at the road. “I don’t know... he seemed a bit... sad.”

She nods. “He said it’s... it’s...” she frowns a bit, trying to remember the words “seasoning... seasoning... it started with a D.”

“Seasonal depression?” She nods. 

“What’s that, daddy?”

He shrugs again, not sure how to explain it. “It means he’s uh...” he frowns “he’s homesick for summer.”

She nods sagely, looking out of the window.

And maybe he lies awake that night, thinking about how much it had pained him to see Jaskier so sad. And maybe he doesn’t, because he shouldn’t.

Jaskier is Ciri’s teacher, for Christ’s sake.

And yet.

---

The next day, instead of going straight to the elementary school after work, like he always does, he stops at a florist first. He curses himself for doing this, but his feet carry him into the store, his hands pick out a bouquet of blue flowers and pay the cashier, all the while his mind is screaming at him that this is such a stupid idea. 

He puts the flowers in the backseat of the car, taking one bright blue... well, whatever it is. He has no idea what these flowers are called, and he hadn’t paid much attention to the saleslady when she had explained every single type of flower in the bouquet.

He now puts the single flower in the seat next to him, driving to the school.

Once there, he waits patiently while Ciri puts on her snow boots, looking around him to see if the coast is clear. There’s no one else in sight, so he quickly walks over to the large filing cabinet next to the door to the teacher’s lounge.

Each little drawer has the name of a teacher on it, and Jaskier had explained at the beginning of the school year that parents or children could put assignments or letters in there if they had forgotten to give them during the day, and that he would check it every night before going home.

Now, Geralt looks for the drawer with Jaskier’s name. He looks around one last time when he finds it - still no one else but him and Ciri. He opens it quickly, putting the bright blue flower in the drawer before shutting it again.

He doesn’t know why he’s doing this. And doesn’t know why he hopes it’ll cheer Jaskier up, if only a little bit.

He doesn’t know why he can’t stop imagining Jaskier’s face when he finds the flower. He doesn’t know why he takes the rest of the bouquet inside, putting it in a vase. He doesn’t know why he can’t stop thinking about the flowers and the way they match Jaskier’s eyes when he’s lying in bed that night.

He doesn’t know why he puts the vase of flowers in the car the next morning.

He doesn’t know why, when he’s coming back from work the next day, Wednesday, he takes another one of the flowers before going into the school.

He doesn’t know why he asks Ciri how Jaskier seemed that day. He doesn’t know why he feels warmth bloom in his chest when she tells him Jaskier seemed to smile a bit more than the previous day. He doesn’t know why his heart makes somersaults when she tells him that Jaskier had a blue flower tucked behind his ear the entire day. 

Yet, he does.

He shouldn’t be doing this, he knows, should definitely not be feeling this, as the man is Ciri’s teacher, for Christ’s sake. Shouldn’t be taking another flower with him when he goes to pick up Ciri the next day. Shouldn’t be doing the same thing the day after that.

Yet, he does.

---

He puts the bouquet in the kitchen Friday afternoon. They’re wilted on Sunday, and he throws them out, a strange ache in his chest when he does so.

On Monday, on his way back from work, he buys another bouquet. Orange, this time.

On Wednesday, when he drops off Ciri in the morning, something flutters in his chest when Jaskier greets them at the door with a bright, orange flower tucked behind his ear. The fluttering grows wilder when the teacher smiles at him.

He doesn’t sleep that night.

The next week, he buys yellow flowers. The week after that, pink ones. After that, red. Then blue again. 

---

The week after that, it’s spring break, and on Friday, Geralt buys an orange bouquet, putting half of it in Jaskier’s drawer. 

The other half, he puts in the kitchen. On Thursday, Ciri points out he won’t stop staring at it. He tells her it’s because it reminds him of spring. He realizes a few hours later that that’s because every time he looks at it, he feels butterflies flutter in his stomach.

---

The next Monday, he doesn’t buy another bouquet. After all, he only did it to cheer Jaskier up due to his seasonal depression. Now that the days are growing longer and warmer again, he won’t need it anymore, Geralt reasons.

He doesn’t know why he feels sad about that fact. Yet, he does.

On Tuesday, Ciri tells him Jaskier seemed sad again, smiling even less than he did the first day after Christmas break.

On Wednesday, Geralt buys yellow flowers.

Before he can stop himself, he puts a little paper in the drawer as well. You smile brighter than the sun, it says.

On Thursday, Ciri tells him she has never seen Jaskier happier.

---

Every Monday, he buys a new bouquet. Every Wednesday, he leaves a little note with the flower.

He doesn’t know why he’s doing this, doesn’t know why his heart thrums wildly in his chest every time he sees a flower tucked behind Jaskier’s ear or in the button of one of his overly bright shirts, doesn’t know why he can’t sleep at night every time Jaskier smiles at him. And yet, he does.

---

His heart aches when it’s the end of the school year. One last time, he stops at the florist shop on Monday. He buys a bouquet of white roses. He leaves a note in the drawer along with two roses every day of the week. He barely sleeps anymore.

It shouldn’t matter that he won’t see Jaskier for at least two months, it shouldn’t matter that he won’t be Ciri’s teacher anymore next year and Geralt won’t have any excuse to talk to him, it shouldn’t matter that Jaskier will probably forget about the flowers over summer break. It shouldn’t matter. Yet, to Geralt, it does.

---

On Friday, he’s not greeted by Ciri in the hall of the school, as he usually is, but by Jaskier. Geralt is glad he hid the roses and the note in his jacket. 

He frowns when Jaskier walks up to him, something in those bright, blue eyes he can’t quite identify. 

“Everything okay? Did something happen to Ciri?” Geralt feels slight panic clawing at his throat, though it subdues when Jaskier smiles and shakes his head.

“No, she’s still playing with the other kids.” He shuffles from one foot to another. “I just... wanted to talk to you... alone.”

Geralt blinks, frowns again. “Sure, okay. What did you want to talk about?”

Jaskier smiles at him, though he looks a bit uncertain. “I know. About the flowers.”

Geralt feels the blood drain from his face, then return tenfold. “How long?” he manages to choke out.

Jaskier smiles again, looking at the floor, and the crow’s feet at the corners of his eyes makes Geralt’s heart flip. “February. Ciri told me there was an orange bouquet in the back of your car that moved to the kitchen over the weekend.” He smiles, shaking his head. “And you’ve never seemed like a flower guy to me, especially not orange ones.”

Geralt nods, feeling the blush creep further up his neck. His ears are probably red by now, he knows. “I’m sorry if I made you uncomfortable.” He can’t meet Jaskier’s eyes, can’t look away from his shoes.

He hears Jaskier coming closer, sees bright, red vans appearing in his field of vision. He finally looks up, meeting eyes the colour of the summer sky. 

“Do you have flowers with you now?” Jaskier asks, face alight with curiosity.

Geralt nods, taking them from his jacket, handing them to Jaskier. Too late, he realizes the note is still attached to them, but they’re in the teacher’s hands before he can take it back. Oh no. 

He feels his face go pale again, as Jaskier folds the note open, reading what’s inside. 

That morning, Geralt hadn’t been sure what to write anymore. Sure, he’d been writing little compliments for weeks, but for this last day, he had wanted to write something special. Fuck it, he had decided, putting the tip of his pen on the paper, writing down the words, folding the note closed, attaching it to the two white roses, before he could change his mind.

He now watches in horror as Jaskier’s eyes widen when he reads the last note of the year, that simply says ‘I love you’.

Geralt’s heart thrums wildly in his chest, breath caught in his lungs, as Jaskier stares at the note for a few seconds. Then, the teacher looks up, lightly scoffing, eyes incredulous.

And Geralt doesn’t know why there’s something twisting in the pit of his stomach, doesn’t know why his hands are trembling, doesn’t know why he feels something breaking in his chest. And yet, he does.

“Well, shit,” Jaskier mutters, “why the hell didn’t you say that sooner?”

Geralt frowns, and he barely manages to choke out a “what?” before Jaskier moves forward, one hand holding the roses against his chest, the other on the back of Geralt’s neck, pressing their lips together.

Geralt freezes for a second, before pulling Jaskier closer, kissing him back. The butterflies he’s been feeling in his stomach all year futter around as if caught in a hurricane, and warmth spreads across his chest when Jaskier pulls back a bit, sighing against Geralt’s lips.

“Wait,” Geralt mutters, frowning. “If you knew it was me, why didn’t you say so sooner?”

Jaskier shrugs, thumb absentmindedly running across the skin at the back of Geralt’s neck, sending shivers down his spine. “I thought you might stop. I didn’t want you to.” He leans forward, pressing his forehead against Geralt’s. “I still don’t want you to,” he whispers.

Geralt shrugs, smiling. “Well, it’s the summer holidays. I don’t have a choice but to stop. But,” he adds quickly, when Jaskier frowns, pecking a small kiss to the teacher’s lips, “I’ll buy you all the flowers you want, if you let me.”

Jaskier smiles and by the gods, it’s the most beautiful thing Geralt has seen since the first time he held Ciri in his arms.

Speaking of-

“Why are you two kissing?” comes her voice from behind Jaskier, and the teacher turns around, blush creeping up his neck.

“Do you tell her or should I?” he whispers to Geralt. 

“I’ll do it,” he whispers back. He walks forward, kneeling in front of Ciri, who looks between them, green eyes alight with curiosity. “So, the story is this...”

[agentmarymargaretskitz]

Welcome to Earth-1

AO3, Fanfiction

After I finished the second part of Welcome to Earth-4, I really wanted to write in Lisa as the Kid Flash to Leonard's Flash on Earth 4. Also, I really wanted to write more of Golden Glider Iris. So thus this was born. (Honestly, that's my only excuse for this.)

Thanks to @locitarose for letting me ramble about Earth-4 to her.

Earth-4

“Are you sure you two can handle it?” Dr. Mick Rory asked again over the comms. “Because I can call your brother in for backup-“

“No, you won’t,” Lisa Snart shot back. “He and Sara deserve the night off. Besides, we’ve got it covered.”

“Definitely,” Linda Park agreed, her white eyes turning towards Lisa. “And Lily agrees too. Now let’s get in there before they get away.”

Her head and hands burst into flames as she shot up in the sky towards Mercury Labs.

“Show off,” Lisa muttered, even though it was pretty cool.

               She sped towards the building as Firestorm streaked across the sky. It was kind of fun to be going out on patrol without her brother for once. Although a second speedster could have really been more helpful as Lisa zipped in and out of all the labs, searching for who had tripped the alarms. Eventually, she got lucky when she found the inventory room with Mercury Labs prototypes and found herself face to face with the intruders. Once she saw their weapons, she knew she should have known who it had been from the second Mick told her that there had been a break in.

“So, Cold and Gold,” Lisa smirked at Barry Allen and Iris West before turning to the third member of their party. “And Hot Stuff.”

Cisco Ramon nodded at her, although he kept his heat gun aimed at her.

“Flash Jr.” Allen replied smugly, raising the cold gun. “If you’re here to stop us, it won’t go well for you. The first time the Flash tried to stop us, well, I’m sure you heard about how they had to close down the whole block for reconstruction.”

Lisa crossed her arms. “One, it’s Kid Flash, and two-”

A burning woman shot into the room before hovering above Lisa.

“-I’m not alone,” she finished before grinning up at Firestorm.

               She was turning back to the Rogues when the cold gun whined and a chilly force blasted her back. Lisa groaned and saw a layer of ice now coating her chest. She vibrated quickly, the ice changing into water that dripped off of her. Leonard hadn’t been wrong about the cold gun. It really did hurt like hell.

“Hate to do this, but you’re in our way out,” Cisco’s voice said as a burst of flame made its way towards her.

Linda shot down and blocked the fire from Lisa. “I’ve got this. Go take on Glider and Cold!”

               Lisa followed the order and raced at Captain Cold, who fired at her again. She dodged the blows that she could before getting a good opening. Once she had it, Lisa was able to get close enough to knock him down. After he was out, the speedster looked around wildly for Golden Glider. The female Rogue was at the end of a row of shelves, fiddling with what resembled an elongated computer mouse.  A swirling portal suddenly materialized in the air in front of her, eliciting a smile from West.

“No!” Lisa shouted.

               West was starting to run forward at it, but Lisa had the Speed Force on her side. She caught up to her and tackled her forward. Only when it was too late did Lisa realize she had tackled them straight into the portal. Images rushed past her before she landed on cold, wet pavement. Rolling off West, Lisa stood up to see that she was now on the waterfront of Central City. She could see Star Labs to her left, but that didn’t make sense. Where she was standing, it should to be to her right.

She knew something had gone wrong when she heard West start laughing.

“What’s so funny?” she demanded as the other woman climbed to her feet. “What the hell just happened?”

“We’ve gone to another Earth,” West laughed. “It actually worked.”

Lisa blinked. Her brother and Sara had told her how some people from another Earth had once visited their Earth a few months ago. She had taken it in stride at the time, but now she had just experiencing dimensional travel for herself. Oh, Mick was going to be so jealous of this.

“Which Earth?” she asked, still processing the surroundings she was in.”

“What’s it matter to you?” Golden Glider scoffed, drawing out her gold gun. “You’ll be too dead to care.”

               As the portal closed behind Lisa Snart and Iris West, Firestorm screamed before splitting apart. Linda Park had her hands over her mouth, horrified by what had just happened. Lily Stein walked slowly toward Lisa and West had disappeared, staring at the spot where the portal had been. The other two Rogues were currently unconscious, so she wasn’t worried about them attacking while both were vulnerable. Lily wasn’t thinking about them though. Her only thoughts were on Lisa.

Linda swallowed. “Where do you think they went?”

“It was a breach,” Lily whispered hollowly. “It could go anywhere. They could be on any Earth.”

Linda walked up beside her. “I know we agreed to give them the night off, but we should call Leonard and Sara.”

“I second that,” Mick said through their comms. Both started a little, having forgotten he was still listening in.

“No,” Lily said sharply. “We can’t call Leonard. He’ll freak out.”

“If we shouldn’t call him, then what should we do?” Linda asked.

“Start by coming back to STAR Labs,” Mick instructed. “We’ll work it out from there.”

“Another speedster?” Wally repeated, frowning.

“Well, you, Barry, and Jesse are all accounted for,” Cisco replied over the comm. “So I’m assuming it’s someone else, probably from another Earth. The person they’re fighting might be too.”

“What makes you say that?” Barry asked from his end of the comms.

“Because I’m next to Cisco at STAR Labs,” the voice of Lisa Snart chimed in. She’d started helping out Team Flash shortly after her brother had come back to life, and had become an asset to them since. “And I have my gold gun right next to me. Whoever’s down at the pier has one of their own. They’re really good with it- ooo that was a close one.”

“Glider 2.0 almost hit our new speedster in the face with gold,” Cisco explained.

“I can get down to the pier,” Barry told them. “I’m on the outskirts of Central, I can get there.”

“No, I’m closer,” Wally cut in as he changed the direction he’d been running so he was now heading toward the pier.

               When Wally arrived at the scene, he saw two figures battling it out. One he could make out to be a woman dressed in a yellow suit similar to his own, although her boots and gloves were red and she wore a yellow eye mask. Her brown hair was pulled back into a bun to keep from getting into her face as she ran and dodged golden projectiles that came from a gun another woman was firing at her. Neither seemed to notice him watching, which gave him an advantage. As soon as he had an opening, Wally raced forward and snatched the gun from the woman attacking the speedster before knocking her down. Once she was out of the way, Wally turned back to the female speedster, who was working on phasing out of the gold that had hit her body.

“Thanks,” she said as the last piece fell to the ground, looking up at him. “Whoever you are.”

“Kid Flash,” Wally introduced with a grin.

The woman hesitated before nodding. “Right, different Earth, different Kid Flash.”

“So you’re the Kid Flash on another Earth?”

“Yeah,” the other Kid Flash grimaced as she looked down at the second woman. “Ended up here on accident while trying to stop her and the Rogues- the Rogues on my Earth, I mean- from stealing tech from Mercury Labs.”

Wally looked down at the other woman in order to get a better look at who she was. His eyes widened when he saw her face. Lying unconscious before him was his big sister, or at least the woman who looked exactly like her. On another Earth, Iris was a Rogue. Slowly, he looked back at the other Kid Flash.

“Do you mind if I take both of you back somewhere?” Wally asked. “There’s some people who probably want to see her, and meet you, uh…”

“Lisa,” the woman supplied. “Lisa Snart.”

On the other end of the comms, Wally heard the sound of a chair falling backwards and an ‘Oh shit’.

               Lisa’s arrival at the other Earth’s STAR Labs with West was more eventful when she encountered that Earth’s Barry Allen. She still remembered getting kidnapped with Sara by him on her Earth. After she punched him in the face, this Earth’s Kid Flash, a Wally West, and Cisco’s doppelgänger (who worked at STAR Labs on this Earth) hastily explained that Barry was a good guy here.

“You wouldn’t happen to be from that Earth where Snart’s the Flash, would you?” Good Barry groaned while holding a hand to his now bleeding nose.

“If you mean my brother, then yes,” Lisa nodded. “You know about it?”

“I was on Earth-4 once with your brother from this Earth,” he explained. “And I know about my Earth-4 doppelganger. I briefly met him, but I heard he’s a jerk.”

“If he, West, and Ramon hadn’t been robbing Mercury Labs, I’d still be back on my Earth,” Lisa sighed, looking at the bed she’d placed the still unconscious West on. “Then she had to go and open a breach. I tried to stop her, and we both went through.”

“Iris is Golden Glider on your Earth,” Cisco’s double said in awe. “And Barry’s a bad guy on your Earth too?”

“Captain Cold,” Lisa told him as Good Barry’s face reddened and Cisco’s jaw dropped. “What?”

“I’m the Flash on this Earth,” Barry explained, raising his hand. Lisa’s eyes widened as she watched it vibrate at superspeed. “Your brother is Captain Cold here, although he’s more of a good guy these days than he used to be.”

Lisa blinked. She couldn’t picture her brother as Captain Cold, or as a bad guy in general. And Barry Allen as the Flash? Well, he looked and seemed a lot nicer on this Earth, but appearances could be deceiving.

“What the hell happened on your Earth?” she asked.

Good Barry grinned. “Your brother said something like that to me too.”

“We could ask the same about your Earth,” Cisco said. “But I need to ask...how did that Iris get a breach open in the first place?”

“With this,” Lisa passed Cisco the device she’s found on West after shed searched her at this STAR Labs. “I guess it opens up breaches somehow. She was trying to steal it with your doppelgangers. No idea why she’d want to come here though.”

Good Barry groaned. “That might be my fault. When my doppelganger found out that I was from another Earth, he wanted to take my place and go on a crime spree here. The Iris there seemed down for it.”

“Well done, you influenced a break-in,” Lisa muttered. “I already tried to see if it would work, but it’s not creating any breaches. Even if it did, I’d need one to get me and her home.”

Cisco grinned. “Ohhh I’ve got this. And even if I can’t, I’ll still get you and Iris home.”

“Speaking of which,” Lisa heard her own voice say behind her. She turned around to see a woman who looked exactly like her enter the room with two other woman, one of whom was this Earth’s version of Iris West. “What are we going to do with Glider 2.0?”

Lisa stared at her doppelganger, who shared a quick wide-eyed gaze at her before remembering they weren’t alone. But she definitely wanted to talk to her double.  She wanted to know what her life had been like on this Earth.

“Keep her secure somehow,” Lisa advised. “She’s escaped from prison twice on my Earth. I’d like to make sure she gets back to that Earth and stays there. The last thing I’d want would be for your West to get framed for her crimes.”

“Pipeline?” the woman Lisa didn’t recognize proposed. “It’ll only be for a short time anyways.”

“I’ll get her there,” Good Barry said, lifting up West in his arms and speeding out of the room before returning a few moments later. “Done.”

“I’ll get to work on this,” Cisco said as he held up the device and turned to Lisa. “Just…relax for a while. Rest up, shower, sleep, eat, whatever you need.”

“Barry’s the one who’s supposed to go on the pizza run,” Wally turned towards Barry, and then back to her. “What do you like on your pizza?”

“I-I don’t have any money,” Lisa stammered, caught off a little by the suddenness of the question.

“It’s on us,” Good Barry smiled. “Don’t worry about it.”

Lisa nodded. “Then pepperoni, mushrooms, and peppers.”

               Lisa stared into the room where her speedster double was currently playing solitaire. She’d gotten out of her Kid Flash costume and now wore civilian clothes. Lisa wouldn’t have been as intrigued by that detail except for the part where her doppelganger was wearing sweatpants and a tank top that showed off unscarred arms and shoulders. Somehow, on that Earth she was from, her childhood had not involved an abusive asshole of a father. Maybe that was why she and that Earth’s Lenny grew up to become heroes instead of criminals and then heroes.

Eventually, she was able to work up the courage to go and talk with the doppelganger, who Cisco was calling Earth-4 Lisa. As soon as she knocked on the glass beside the opening of the room, the other Lisa looked up.

“I kept wondering which of us would approach the other first,” she admitted, turning over a card.

“Cisco’s nearly finished up with the breach generator,” Lisa told her, walking over slowly. “You’ll be able to get home soon.”

Earth-4 Lisa sighed with relief. “That’s good. My brother and sister are probably freaking out over where I’ve gone. If she’s decided to tell him that is. He didn’t go out tonight since we gave him and Sara the week off of heroing for a getaway that they really need.”

Lisa smiled a little, pleased to hear that her brother and Sara were also together on the other Earth, but there was something about what the other woman had said that stuck out to her. “You have a sister on your Earth?”

“Yeah,” Earth-4 Lisa nodded. “It’s not by blood though. When I was one, my family was in a car accident. Lenny and I got out alive, but our parents didn’t. We didn’t have other relatives to take us in, and it looked like we were going to the foster system. That was when the Steins stepped in. They knew our family, and even though they had a daughter of their own already, they took us in. Lenny and I grew up with them. They’ve been the only parents I’ve ever really had. Lily’s always been by my side with Lenny, and she’s my sister in every way possible.”

               Lisa found herself smiling as she hear her counterpart’s tale. There was a little jealousy deep down that Earth-4 Lisa had escaped Lewis’s abuse. But she seemed like she was happy. Hopefully Lenny was happy too with Sara on that Earth, and that this Lily was happy too over there. Maybe they knew Mick over there, and he was happy too.

“So you’ve been happy?” Lisa asked.

Other her nodded. “I am, although I wish I’d been able to know my birth parents before they died.”

“I barely remember Mom,” Lisa told her. “But if your father there was anything like mine over here, then you were better off not knowing him.”

To emphasize her point, she pulled her shirt collar to the side to reveal the large scar on her shoulder. Her doppelganger inhaled sharply.

“Lenny and I don’t have good memories of him,” Lisa continued, allowing her shirt to hide the scar once more. “We ended up turning to a life of crime because it was all we knew from him. One day, our father put a bomb in my neck to force Lenny to help him on a job. Cisco got it out, and then my brother killed Lewis because of what he had done to me.”

Her doppelganger nodded slowly. “I’ve seen a few scars on Lenny. When I asked, he told me that out father wasn’t a good man.”

“Guess Lewis is just an ass on every Earth,” Lisa muttered. “At least you and your brother got away from that.”

“You lived with it, but it seems you turned out to be good.”

She shook her head. “This is recent. I haven’t always been this way. Lately, I’ve been helping Barry and Cisco and the others. Plus Len and Mick have turned over a new leaf and become heroes, although don’t call them that.”

“Now that’s something I’ve been meaning to ask you about,” her doppelganger said. “What does Mick do here? I haven’t seen him at all around here since I arrived.”

“Around here?”

“Yeah, STAR Labs,” other Lisa nodded. “He’s the one who started up STAR Labs on my Earth.”

Lisa grinned. “Tell me more about this.”

               While Lisa was talking with her doppelganger from Earth-4, Iris was standing in front of the door to the pipeline. It had surprised her to learn that that she was evil on another Earth. Then again, with all the other Earths out there, it would be unrealistic if she was good on every single earth in existence. Still, it was strange to learn that she was the Golden Glider on one.

               Iris pressed the switches on the panel to open the pipeline. As the door rose up, she was able to get a good look at the cell in front of her that held her doppelganger. Earth-4 Iris West was lounging on the floor of the cell. She wore a black jacket with a tight gray shirt, black leather pants, and combat boots. Her gold eyeshadow might have been the only speck of color in the ensemble. She tilted her head up before a slow smirk spread across her features.

“If it isn’t perfect world’s perfect Iris,” she remarked, crossing her arms. “The darling girlfriend of Barry Allen and reporter for the CCPN. By the way, it’s nice to see that douche Harrison Wells doesn’t run the newspaper on this Earth.”

Iris narrowed her eyes at her doppelganger. “How do you know all this?”

“No figuring, just typing,” the double smirked, holding up a phone. Iris recognized the case as Barry’s. “It was almost too easy to take this. He didn’t even realize I was actually awake.”

“So I’m a criminal on an Earth,” Iris muttered. “Great.”

Other Iris rose to her feet. “Oh, we’re a lot of things over there. Crook, thief, convict, fugitive, survivor. Not that you’d understand what it’s like to be any of those things, especially the last one.”

Iris shook her head. “God, what made you so bitter?”

Earth-4’s Iris narrowed her eyes. “Of course you wouldn’t get it. You’ve had the perfect life. I had time to look you up down here. Just look at you, the one who got it all! Dad didn’t die in the line of duty. You have a brother. Hell, you and Barry never had to go into the system. You had it so easy on this Earth. You have no idea what it’s like to suffer.”

Iris had been trying to maintain a cool head with evil her. She could tell that she was trying to push her buttons, but she wasn’t going to give into it. However, Earth-4 Iris had gone too far now thinking she’d never suffered.

“You think I’ve never suffered?!” Iris spat coldly, approaching the cell. “Maybe not the same ways that you did, but I have suffered. My Barry was in a coma for nine months, and until he did, people thought he would never wake up. The man I loved before Barry, he killed himself to save him I never knew I had a brother until I found out that Dad had lied to me about Mom dying when I was little. She’d left because he asked her. And I was destined to die in the future at the hands of an evil speed god, and I thought I couldn’t stop it. So guess what, Golden Glider? I know what suffering is. The difference between us is that I never let it turn me into a villain.”

“Because you still had people around you to support you,” her counterpart sneered. “The only I’ve ever had is Barry.”

“Then I hope you never lose him,” Iris told her. “Because if this is what you’re like with only him, I’d hate to see what you become with no one.”

With that, she shut the pipeline again. She’d gotten a conversation with her double from another earth. It had been nothing like she expected, but it had made Iris realize how lucky she had gotten on this earth. Even with the things she had gone through, she had never given into bitterness and anger. Meeting her doppelganger had made Iris more determined to never fall into the darkness.

               Cisco managed to repair the device that had brought the Earth-4 versions of Lisa and Iris to their earth within a few hours. Lisa’s double suited up in her Kid Flash outfit and said her goodbyes to Team Flash. Earth-4 Iris had been handcuffed to be taken back and had glowered around at everyone. Iris had given her a stony glare of her own at one point.

“If you or your brother ever need help on your earth, we’ll be there to help,” Barry told Earth-4 Lisa as she took the device from Cisco.

“Thanks,” the woman said. “I have to say, the Barry Allen of my earth is a real dick, but you’re not so bad.”

She pressed the device and a breach appeared in the cortex. Taking a hold of Earth-4 Iris with one hand and the Earth-4 version of the gold gun in the other, Lisa Snart of Earth-4 sped into the portal. As soon as she disappeared into it, it closed.

Earth-4

               Lisa ran out of the portal to find herself along one of the streets in Central City. Speeding to the side of an alley, she released West’s arm. Turning towards her, Lisa unlocked the handcuffs from Golden Glider’s wrists. Then she passed the gold gun back to her. “Go.”

West frowned. “You’re letting me go?”

“Just this once,” Lisa said. “Next time, I won’t be so nice.”

               West stared at her before walking off down the street. Lisa turned the other day and ran back to STAR Labs. As she skidded to a stop in the cortex she knew so well, Lisa found Linda, Lily, and Mick gathered around on the desks. They all looked up, and Lisa found herself engulfed in a hug from Lily. Lisa hugged her sister back, relieved to see her again.

“You’re okay!” Lily said in relief, stepping back. “What happened to you?”

“Took a trip to another Earth,” Lisa explained. “Get this, Barry Allen is the Flash on an earth.”

“You went to Earth-3?” someone said behind her.

Lisa turned around to see Leonard and Sara in the entrance to the cortex. Her sister-in-law and her brother looked happy to see her, and also relieved. Lisa looked over at Mick, Linda, and Lisa.

“Okay, which one of you called them when we agreed not to disturb them?”

               A few months after her visit to the other earth, Iris opened her eyes slowly to face Barry lying beside her. The last thing she remembered was shouting at Barry to not hit the woman in the long coat who had appeared in the middle of the road when they were trying to shake the police from their tail. Now, she and Barry were on a rooftop, surrounded by other people who were now waking up in a similar fashion. One of them Iris recognized as the assassin who had spent two weeks with her, Barry, and Cisco before up and leaving without warning.

“What the hell happened?” a brunette muttered. She and another man were dressed in a sort of leather armor that looked old.

Another woman, this one wearing a high tech suit, pointed over to where a woman was approaching them. “Why don’t we ask her?”

“I’m sorry about the process I had to go through to bring you all here,” the woman in question said as she stopped in front of them. Iris recognized her as the woman who had stepped in the middle of the road before she woke up here. “But it was the best way to assemble you all here together.”

Barry climbed to his feet. “Who the hell are you?”

“My name is Miranda Coburn,” the woman replied. “And I’ve come because I need your help.”