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3wishesandthensome · 6 years

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Flash Episode Idea (w/ the twins)

Okay, so last night after the episode with “Dawn”, I started thinking about how most likely next season WestAllen will be parents. Iris is either gonna find out she’s pregnant towards or at the end of this season. There have been too many hints to suggest otherwise. So, with that in mind, I figured they’re probably gonna skip over the pregnancy (since we already have a Cecile pregnancy; seems kind of repetitive to do another one, although I hope we get at least a few episodes of pregnant WestAllen it’d be extremely cute) and next season the kids will be either toddlers or children. I thought maybe if they did a couple years time jump the kids would be toddlers or full grown children, if they rationalize that the kids maybe grow at an exceptional rate because of their speed abilities (kind of like Renesmee from Twilight). But anyways, I was trying to fall asleep last night and I couldn’t stop thinking about WestAllen trying to parent two little speedsters so I kind of came up with my own episode. I’m not a fanfiction writer so I kind of just saw the episode in my head and I’m just going to describe it out to you guys (with some dialogue). I personally think it could actually be an episode in the future!

This is going to be very long so keep scrolling if you don’t want to read! Btw, in this scenario, there’s really only been a time jump of about 3 years but the twins are physically and mentally the age of around 8 or 9 (I know this wouldn’t really happen, but for the sake of the idea, it only really worked if they were this old). Also, they usually refer to Dawn as Nora since her name (I think we’re all assuming) is Nora Dawn, but still sometimes call her Dawn or Dawny.

Enjoy!

So the episode starts out with the twins running around the house at lightning speed, even though they know they shouldn’t be. Barry comes down and wrangles them up, because both he and Iris know telling them to stop won’t do much.

“I’ll take Don,” Iris says, bags under her eyes, indicating the amount of sleep, or lack-thereof, she got last night due to the twins incessant running around.

“Why do you get the easy child?” Barry groans. He hadn’t gotten much sleep either. Actually he’d probably gotten less since he was the only one who could catch them.

“Because I pushed both these kids out of my -”

“Yes, okay, fair point. I’ll get Nora.”

“Thank you,” Iris says with Don already in her arms. He was the less problematic one. He always listened to his parents, unless Dawn told him not, then all bets were off. He followed his twin sister wherever she went and did whatever she did. This didn’t always lead to great results.

Iris left to drop Don off at school while Barry sat down with Dawn and tried to explain to her the importance of only using her powers when absolutely necessary. They go back and forth for a while but she eventually concedes and he gets her to school on time.

The episode goes on and they fight their weekly villain with the usual hurdles. The first fight goes wrong and the villain gets away. Team Flash regroups at Star Labs and goes over how to stop them. As they are deliberating the twins speed in from school to everyone’s surprise.

“Beat ya!” Dawn exclaims.

“Nuh-uh! I was through the doors first. I didn’t know you meant whoever was in the lab first wins, so I stopped running downstairs.”

“Not my fault you don’t get how racing works.”

“What are you two doing here?” Iris interrupts, clearly upset. She tried not to let it show how worried she got for her kids about their powers but sometimes she couldn’t help it. The city doesn’t know the Flash has kids. If their powers were ever discovered, it would only be a matter of time before people started putting two and two together to figure out who they were and that would eventually lead to the Flash’s identity being revealed.

Barry stood with his arms crossed in front of his kids waiting for an explanation, Iris behind the dashboard with the same body posture, while Harry, Caitlin, and Cisco, slowly exit the room, knowing the storm that’s about to be brought towards the young children.

“I wanted to prove to Don that I’m faster since I’m older.”

“By one minute!” Don quickly pointed out. Both Iris and Barry rolled their eyes.

“Still! I won so I’m right.” She shrugged and walked off with Don to the training room to start her homework, as they usually do after school.

Both Barry and Iris have their heads in their hands at this point, not knowing what to do about their persistent and stubborn children.

“Bare, we have to do something about this. If they don’t quit using their powers, something is going to happen to them. I won’t be able to live with myself if something happens to our babies.”

“I know. I know.” Barry slowly walks towards Iris and wraps his arms around his lightening rod. While in an embrace, he adds, “I didn’t get my powers until I was an adult. I could be trained and I had enough sense to know the responsibility that came with these abilities. They’re just kids. They don’t get it. I can’t imagine what how they feel. I mean even without powers kids just want to run around and have fun. It’s kind of like that but 100 times worse.”

Iris leans back to look him in the eyes and smiles. “Lucky us, huh?”

He returns her smile. “Yeah, lucky us.”

The next day, Barry goes to Harry with a favor. He asks him to build two small power inhibitors to suppress the twins’ powers, but subtle enough so they won’t know they have it on. Harry builds one into a bracelet for Don and another into a headband for Dawn. Barry takes the twins to Star Labs before school.

“Guys, I got you two some cool presents. I thought you could wear them to school.” Barry pulls out the new accessories for his kids. Iris watches lovingly, not knowing the gifts’ true intentions.

“Cool!” Don exclaims as his dad puts on his new bracelet.

“Cute.” Dawn says, a little less enthusiastically but still happy to have something from her dad that she oh so admired.

“Do you like them?” He asked his kids as he knelt down to their level.

“Yes!” They both said. Barry smiled so wide, knowing he made both him and his kids happy, for different reasons. “Good! Now, I’m giving these to you on the promise that you won’t use your powers for anything but absolute emergencies, okay? That means no racing, no speeding through your schoolwork, and no running home after school. Got it?”

“Yes, daddy.”

“Alright, Mommy is going to drop you off at school and I’m going to pick you up later. Love you guys. Give me a kiss.”

They both gave him a kiss on the opposite cheek and skipped off with their mom who was waiting for them by the door. Dawn looked back at her dad one last time before he was out of sight. Barry gave her an affectionate wink. Barry didn’t have a favorite child, of course. He loved his kids both to the moon an back equally. But he and Dawn had a special connection. She was just like him; not as he was as a child, but as he is now. She was always itching to help someone and oh so stubborn when it came to someone telling her not to do something. He admired her for her bravery just as she admired him for simply being her dad.

The episode goes on with Team Flash dealing with the uncaught villain and side storylines with Caitlin, Harry, Cisco, and Joe. At the end of the school day Barry goes to pick up the twins (it’s become a running gag in the show that Barry and this other carpool dad always get into it because they always end up blocking each other when picking up their respective kids). So while they’re getting into another argument, Dawn is walking out of school, with Don close behind her. There is another kid in front of them bouncing a ball carelessly. As the twins are walking towards their dad (who is still arguing with the other parent) the child with the ball loses control of the ball and goes out into the street to retrieve it, without looking to see if there are cars coming. Dawn, being the innate hero that she is, runs to push the child out of the way of an oncoming car because she knows she’ll be fast enough to save the kid without getting hurt. She runs to push the kid out of the street, and she does, but now she’s in the middle of the street, helpless without her speed working, and a car approaching quickly. A few parents scream, not knowing what to do, which draws Barry’s attention. He sees his little girl seconds away from being critically injured.

“NORA!” He screams and runs as fast as he possibly can to get her. He grabs her just in time. He cradles her tightly her on the sidewalk, not letting go even for a second, knowing he almost lost his baby, and it was his fault.

Back at Star Labs, Caitlin is caring for Dawn in the medical lab, just to make sure she’s not too traumatized from almost being hit by a car. She tucks her in while Don cuddles her from behind, making sure his sister is okay.

“How is she?” Iris asks anxiously, rising from her chair.

“She’s still a little shaken, but she’ll be alright. Don is comforting her. Two peas in a pod those two.” Caitlin says admirably.

“Can we go in and talk to her?” Barry asks. His head hangs down like it usually does when he’s upset or saddened by something.

Caitlin hesitates before speaking, knowing they’re not going to like her answer.

“It’d be a good idea to give her some space. I think she’s a bit embarrassed.”

“What could she possibly be embarrassed about?” Iris asks, wanting nothing more than to just hold her daughter and tell her it’s all going to be okay.

“She said her dad is the Flash, a hero that saves people every day. And she wasn’t able to save this one kid. She just really wants to make you proud.” With that, Caitlin walked off, unknowingly making Barry feel like the worst father in the world.

Iris sighs and looks on her children through the glass. “I’m just so glad she’s okay. She could’ve been seriously hurt. You saved her. Why do you look so defeated?” She asked her husband.

Barry can’t look her in the eyes. “Bare?” She asks again.

“Iris, I... I messed up.”

“Barry, what happened?”

He sighs, then let’s it all go. “You know the bracelet and headband I gave them this morning?” She nods. “They had power inhibitors in them to suppress the kids’ powers. I didn’t want them being reckless and I knew they weren’t going to wear them if they knew what they were. Iris, I’m so sorry I thought I was helping.”

“Barry, Dawn was almost killed today! What were you thinking?”

“I know, I know, and I wish I could take it all back! I thought this would protect them. All I’m trying to do is protect them!”

Iris backs away from Barry. She knows he meant well, but she also knows they were supposed to be a team, as partners and parents. He should’ve told her what he was doing. But he didn’t and now that’s all weighing on him.

“Iris, please, listen to me. I’m so sorry. I know you’re mad, but listen. The inhibitors were supposed to just keep them from using their powers until we could teach them the importance of -”

“Barry.” Iris interrupts, not looking at him, but behind him.

“I just wanted to protect -”

“Barry, stop.” She says, with a finality to her tone. He follows her gaze to their children who left the medical room and entered the main lab with their parents moments ago, just in time to hear what their dad had done.

“How could you do that to us?” Dawn says, anger radiating out of her. Both Barry and Iris had never seen her so mad. Hell, they’d never seen an 8 year old this mad ever. Don hovered behind his sister, clearly upset and hurt, but not as vocal about it. He had always been that way. It reminded Barry of how Barry and Iris used to be as kids. With her taking the lead and him always following her. Maybe that’s why Barry had such as strong connection with Dawn. Maybe it wasn’t that she reminded him of himself, but of Iris.

“Guys, I was trying to protect you -” Barry tried to muster up some fatherly strength, to not seem weak in front of his kids, but he’s defeated. He feels so guilty about what happened - or almost happened - to his kid. He can’t forgive himself.

“You’re always saying that, but all you do is lie! You tell us not to use speed unless it’s an emergency, but you use your speed to do whatever you want! You use it to do dishes, to get to work, to cook dinner, even to get us to school! You tell us to be honest with you but you lied to us and almost got us hurt! You’re supposed to be a hero. Heroes don’t lie.” With that, Dawn threw her headband on the ground with such force, Iris actually gasped. Then she sped off.

“Dawn!” Iris yelled after her, but she was long gone by then. She quickly turns to her husband. “Barry you have to go after her. Who knows what kind of trouble she could get into.”

“On it.” He says without hesitation. But he’s back within the minute without his daughter in tow. “I checked the house, the school, Joe’s, Harry’s, Cisco’s, and Caitlin’s houses. She’s not there.” They both turn to their son. “Don, do you have any idea where your sister would go? You know her better than anyone.”

They look at Don expectantly, but to no avail. He shakes his head sadly, not knowing what to do. Iris pulls him in for a tight hug, wishing she could do the same for her other child, but at least she can make one of them feel better.

Team Flash stays at Star Labs for the rest of the night searching for Dawn, but nothing is helping. Barry is normally tracked by his suit, and neither of the twins were wearing the one Cisco had made for them to wear for training. Wherever she was she was being still because there was no indication of a speedster showing up on the radars.

It’s very late at this point but the team is still at it. Iris and Barry are trying to stay calm for their son’s sake but they are both freaking out on the inside. All of sudden, the monitor in the lab pops up with this week’s villain. He turns the camera to Dawn, who is tied up to a chair with rope and her mouth is duct taped shut. Iris immediately gasps and starts crying at the sight of her baby being held captive. The villain tells them if the Flash does not come he will kill the child (A/N: in my head he was basically threatening to burn her with acid like the trickster episode so obviously that wouldn’t be reused but since this is a fake ass episode I’m going to use it lol). The villain isn’t aware Dawn is the Flash’s kid but he knows he wouldn’t let an innocent child suffer. He starts the timer at 15 minutes. After it runs out, the acid will consume her.

Iris covers Don’s ears, not wanting her son to hear the horrible things this man plans to do with his sister. Cisco takes Don out of the room while Iris loses it and runs out into the hallway, almost to the point of hyperventilating. Barry goes out to comfort her. He tells her he’s going to bring her back. He won’t let anything happen to her. He promises.

He goes back into the main lab and puts on his suit. Cisco advises him not to go just yet, seeing as how they don’t have anything to combat the acid and Barry will most likely get hurt.

“I don’t care! That’s my daughter and I’m not going to let anything happen to her!” He screams with determination.

Harry says, “Barry, it doesn’t do us any good to send you in and you get killed. Nora will still get hurt and Iris loses her husband and her child. We have to come up with a plan.”

“He’s right.” Iris says with tears still in her eyes. “We have to have a plan in order to save her.”

They come up with a plan (one I cannot be bothered to actually think of) and they head out. Before they do, Iris looks at Barry. “Barry?”

“Yeah?”

“Bring our baby home.”

He nods with certainty. “I will.”

At the warehouse that Caitlin and Iris triangulated the signal to be coming from, Barry, Cisco and KF show up to get their youngest member. The clock only has 5 minutes left on in. The villain takes the tape off of Dawn’s mouth so she can plea.

“Help me daddy! Please!” She cries.

The villain looks shocked. “Well, well, well. I had no idea the Flash had procreated.” He smiles sinisterly. “This must be so hard for you.”

“Let her go!” Barry says, his voice not wavering. He’s trying to stay strong for his frightened daughter. “This has nothing to do with her. This is between me and you.”

“Not anymore. Tick tock, Flash. Tick tock.”

The 3 superheroes fight the villain but they are each quickly defeated. Barry feels helpless as his little girl looks to her dad with desperate eyes, screaming his name every time he’s injured.

The clock is down to 2 minutes. Barry, on the ground and feeling hopeless, pleas with the villain. “Please… just let me talk to her. I need to say something to her before… before she…”

The villain sighs. “Ugh…I suppose. Better make it quick. 1 minute left.”

Barry is on the ground, so injured he can barely move. But he manages to muster up enough strength to look at his daughter, straight in the eyes. “Dawn, listen to me. Are you listening?”

She lets out a sob, but she nods. “Yes, daddy, I’m listening.”

Her little voice, sounding so scared, breaks Barry even more than he already was. But he knows he has to tell her. “Remember last year for your birthday party? All the kids had already left and mommy was putting Don to sleep?” Dawn nods. “And it was just me and you? You had had so much cake you were practically bouncing off the walls. And we started to dance,” Barry starts smiling at the memory, despite the current circumstances. “We danced so much and we were having so much fun. And you, Dawny, you started to shake so fast, and you had no idea how you were doing it. Remember that?”

Dawn nods, making sure to keep eye contact with her father, sensing something about to happen.

He looks her right in the eye, and says, “Do that again.”

Barry musters up all the strength he has left to leap at the villain, catching him off guard and tacking him to the ground. Dawn vibrates as fast as she can and the rope breaks off from her. The timer goes off just as Dawn is free. Barry runs to pull her from under the acid just as it starts to come down while KF has regained consciousness and freezes the acid before it can touch anything. Barry holds his girl in his arms so tight, she can barely breathe. But Dawn doesn’t mind. She’s so happy to be in her father’s arms again.

The episode ends with the WestAllen crew at the loft a few nights later. They’re watching a show they all hate except Dawn, who picked it. And since she had two near death experiences that week, she was allowed to pick the nightly entertainment.

Once it was over, Iris announces, “Okay kids, time for bed. I want those teeth brushed and polished by the time we come up and tuck you in.”

“My teeth are always polished. See?” Don opens his mouth as wide as it can go and shoves his mother’s nose in his mouth so she can smell his stinky breath.

Iris pulls back, laughing. “Gross!” As he runs upstairs she slaps him on the butt and he laughs.

Dawn pulls out a folded up piece of paper from her pocket and hands it to Barry. He looks puzzled but she doesn’t indicate what it is. She kisses both her parents before running after her brother.

“What is it?” Iris asks curiously, leaning closer to Barry on their couch.

“Not sure. Let’s see.” He opens it up for both of them to see. It’s an assignment they had to do at school that day. The assignment was to talk about your favorite superhero. Barry reads it out loud for them both. “’My favorite superhero is my dad. His power is being the best dad ever. He’s my favorite because he’s always there for me. Even when I don’t listen, he’s always there to catch me when I fall. He’s the best dad ever.’”

Iris didn’t realize but there were tears in her eyes. Barry wiped them away when he saw and kissed her on the forehead. It made him feel great to know that even though her dad was a literal superhero, she still saw him, Barry Allen, as her hero.

“Lucky us, huh?” Barry said with a smile.

“Yeah, lucky us.” Iris reciprocated. The two shared a tender kiss, and then went upstairs to put their kids to sleep.

So that’s it! In my head that’s basically how the dialogue went. I had a lot of fun writing this. I’m not by any means a fanfiction writer so that’s why is was very clunky. On top of that I wasn’t really trying to make it a story like on fanfiction, just a description of what I saw in my head. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed! I hope we get something like this down the line. I can’t wait to see WestAllen as parents!

#the flash #the flash fanfiction #westallen #westallen fanfiction #dawn allen #don allen #tornado twins #Barry Allen #iris west allen #Joe west #cisco ramon #caitlin snow #killer frost

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barryslightningrod · 6 years

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Afternoon Plight

Barry races through the bedroom door, knocking over a lamp and several books off the nightstand which neither he nor Iris have the time or interest for at the moment.

“Coast is clear?” Iris inquires once she registers his presence, brushing her windswept hair out of her face.

“Crystal,” Barry nods.

“Thank God it’s Saturday,” Iris huffs, collapsing onto their mattress.

“You’ve really had a rough week,” Barry remarks, eagerly pulling the covers back and climbing into bed after her.

“Yes, that’s why I need you to make me forget I did,” Iris hisses, seizing his shirt and pulling him closer to her.

“Very attractive,” Barry jokes.

“I don’t have the luxury or energy to seduce you,” Iris shoots back.

“No, I mean it. I’m really turned on,” Barry chuckles, rolling over to settle on top of her.

“Are you trying to say whenever I threaten you, you think I’m flirting instead of plotting to kill you?”

Barry laughs. “Look, everything you do is sexy. That’s not my fault-”

“Stop talking,” Iris interrupts. “Are you up for my challenge or not?”

“Challenge accepted. I’ll make you forget your own name,” Barry boasts stupidly, wiggling his eyebrows.

“Why am I married to you?” Iris shakes her head, but smiles fondly, opening her mouth to accept his kiss.

They kiss with sloppy eagerness for a length of time, tongues twisting and heads slanting. Their lips are still joined as Barry fumbles for the hem of Iris’s robe, tugging it upward to grope her thighs.

Iris breaks their kiss. “Bear…” she pants against his mouth, her gaze dizzy.

Barry snickers. “I see you’re not amnesic yet. I’d better step my game up,” he growls, palming between her legs.

“Mhmm,” Iris giggles, closing her eyes, grinding against him. “I hope you plan on being more than just handsy.”

Barry smirks down at her before bending over to kiss her again, moves to push his pants lower-

The door bursts open and two four-year-olds barge in.

Iris shrieks and shoves Barry away which isn’t necessary considering he’s already tumbling off of her and yanking his pants back over himself.

Barry sits up straight and clears his throat audibly, crossing his arms with feigned composure, despite his heart racing and his cheeks heating. Behind him, Iris hurriedly struggles to smooth her robe back over her knees.

Dawn and Don stare at their parents.

“Hey Kids!” Barry attempts casually, raising a hand to wave. Once he realizes where his hand had just been he drops it hastily.

“Why are you in your bed if the sun is out?” Dawn accuses. “It’s not nighttime.”

“We-we were just getting out of bed right now!” Iris explains with a halfhearted chuckle, nudging Barry with her elbow until he grasps the hint to stand up.

“Daddy, your face is pink,” Don giggles. “You look funny.”

Barry laughs nervously, fanning himself. “I’m just-you know-hot.“

“Dawn, Donny,” Iris starts, and Barry doesn’t need to turn around to know her teeth are gritted with forced sweetness. “Didn’t Mommy and Daddy tell you to knock when the door is closed?”

“But it was open this tiny much,” Don chirps, indicating the space between his thumb and index finger as reference.

“You couldn’t close the door all the way?” Iris mutters reproachfully out of the corner of her mouth, clearly still peeved at having been disturbed. Barry understands her frustration: she really did have a rough week and had been hinting at wanting to steal away from the kids for some stress relieving alone time.

“I’m sorry, alright?” he mumbles over his shoulder irritably. “I put a movie on for them. This...wasn’t part of the plan.”

Iris sighs exasperatedly. “You are so lucky we didn’t get as far as last time when you panicked and actually pulled out of me as fast as you did.” She shudders at the memory.

“Why do you always bring that up?” Barry defends. “It was one time!”

“I was sore for weeks! You ripped-“

She seems to catch herself, facing the twins again with a gauging, anxious laugh.

The twins look back and forth between Barry and Iris, confusion still apparent on their tiny faces.

Dawn blinks before breaking the awkward silence to address the real elephant in the room: “How come Daddy is always on top of you Mo-“

“Okayyy!” Barry cuts her off, clapping his hands together. “Who wants ice cream?”

“Me, me, me!” Dawn and Don jump up and down in unison, each taking one of Barry’s hands, as he leads them toward the door, grateful for their raging appetites and easy distractibility.

He halts on the way out, turning back to Iris, looking her straight in the eye: “I promise you, tonight, I will make you forget your own name.”

She glares at him skeptically, until Dawn’s matter-of-fact voice sounds from the hallway: “Her name is Mommy, Daddy.

The two of them dissolve into laughter, with Barry following the twins and Iris throwing her head back against the pillows, only recovering enough to clutch her chest and holler after him, “You’d better bring me a scoop of mint chocolate chip!”

Author’s notes: This was fun! I love Barry and Iris as exasperated and exhausted parents, even if they were terrible ones here LOL. I hope I got some of the twins’ personalities out. Don is clueless and goofy and Dawn is clever and curious.

#westallen #westallen fic #westallen fanfiction #Barry x iris #my writing #afternoon plight

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xswestallen · 6 years

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Bringing the Twins Home

Summary: Barry and Iris bring their newborn twins, Dawn and Don, home. Joe and Wally offer advice. Extremely fluffy!

A/N: Requested by nakeyaj729.

Usually, driving from the hospital to Iris and Barry's home only took 15 minutes. But, Joe drove with so much caution and such little speed, it took nearly an hour. Barry and Iris didn't mind. They were sitting in the back, next to their infant twins. It was nice to just sit and admire their children. When they finally arrived, Barry and Iris each took a carseat containing a sleeping baby and brought them into the house.

"Welcome home." Iris whispered to Dawn and Don.

Joe started tearing up. He played the tough guy all the time, but when it comes to his grandchildren, Joe turns to a pile of mush. Barry and Iris were also very emotional. There are no words to describe the wonder of meeting your child. Barry took Dawn out of her carseat and rocked her in his arms, smiling ear to ear. Iris sat down on the couch with Don. He grabbed hold of his mommy's pinky finger. The small, unconscious gesture of love brought Iris to tears. In that moment, the world seemed so peaceful.

Joe decided to unpack the hospital bag so the new parents could soak up every minute they got with their babies.

"Thank you." Barry told Iris for the millionth time. He joined her and Don on the couch. "You're the most amazing person I've ever met. You've always made me happy. And, I tried my best to make you happy too. But now," Barry looked down at the beautiful girl, cradled in his arms and then to the equally beautiful boy holding onto Iris and drooling in his sleep. "Iris, you've given me the greatest thing I could've ever imagined. I get to be the father to your children. We're going to raise them together and watch them grow. I'm just so proud to be their dad." Barry chocked back tears. "I'll never be able to repay you for bringing our children into the world."

"Bear." Iris said with love. More happy tears ran down her face. The hand that wasn't being held by Don, caressed Barry's face.

"I'm still going to try." Barry laughed.

A millisecond later, Wally sped into the room. "Hey, it's my niece and nephew!" Wally sat down next to the West-Allen family of four. "Hi there little guy." Wally cooed at Don. "And you," Wally looked at Dawn. "You're lucky you look more like your mom than your dad."

Barry nudged Wally with his leg, careful not to disturb Dawn's slumber.

"I look at them and I feel like every bad thing in the universe just disappears." Iris wondered if Barry and Wally felt the same way.

"You say that now." Joe's voice called from the kitchen. He walked in, holding plates of lunch. "Just wait till it's 3 in the morning and their screaming at the top of their lungs."

"That's why I'm glad I'm just the cool uncle." Wally held up his hands. Everyone laughed.

"I'm glad our kids get to have you as their uncle. You'll be great." Barry told Wally.

Joe wiped the tears from his eyes. "Some advice," he offered Barry and Iris. "Don't wear any clothes you really care about until they're like ten."

"Really dad?" Iris rolled her eyes, knowing the incident Joe was referring to that made him say that. "When are you going to get over that?"

"That was my favorite shirt!" Joe said, defensively.

Wally quickly slipped off his nice, new jacket and tossed it onto a chair far from the twins.

"I read on mommy blogs that we should sleep whenever the babies sleep." Iris told Barry.

"You know that you can come to me and Cecile for anything, right? Well, not diapers. I've changed enough diaper." Joe looked like he was having a war flashback and shuttered.

Barry and Iris laughed.

"But the best advice I can give you," Joe was being serious now. "Ignore everyone's advice. No parent really knows what they're doing, and every kid is different. If you want to know something, ask questions. That unsolicited advice is all crap from parents who want to brag about how great they are. You do whatever you think is best for Dawn and Don."

"Are you guys sure about those names though?" Wally chimed in.

"Yeah." Iris said. She knew it was a little silly to have given her kids names that sounded the same, but they were the two names she and Barry liked best. "Donald Wallace, after Barry's grandpa and my grandpa.... and you of course, Wally." Iris added when she saw the hurt look on Wally's face. "Dawn Ann, because I've always loved the name Dawn. Ann because it's my middle name and it was the middle name of Barry's mom."

"I remember you saying that you wanted to name your future daughter, Dawn, back in elementary school." Barry smiled at the memory. He would never time travel again, but, if he could go back and tell his younger self that one day he'd be married to Iris and they'd be holding Dawn Allen and her twin brother, young Barry might faint. It would sound too good to be true.

Dawn stirred and Barry started lightly vibrating to calm her. Soon, Dawn was sound asleep once again.

"Wow!" Wally was impressed.

"How did you know that would work?" Iris asked.

Barry shrugged. "Just instinct, I guess."

Iris began crying hysterically.

"What's wrong?" Barry asked.

"You're already such a good dad!" Iris croaked through her tears. "I'm sorry I'm so emotional. I want to blame the postpartum hormones but I think the truth is I'm just a shmoopy mess."

"It's ok." Barry reassured her.

"These kids are so damn cute, they could bring anyone to tears." Joe reasoned.

#westallen #westallen fic #westallen fanfiction #westallen fluff #barry allen x iris west #barry x iris #tornado twins #dawn allen #don allen #dad barry allen

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dawnofspeed · 6 years

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ok this is gonna be a sort of mini rant/feels thing so just bear with me.

so i went through the tornado twins tag, and there’s a lot of great things in there. wayyyy more than there used to be bc the show has gained traction, and westallen is all the rage and then barry mentioned the ‘we need more diapers’ line in new season, which added to previous foreshadowing everyone believes THE TWINS ARE COMING or a baby is at any rate. and while that’s great, and i love the excitement, heck i’m excited and i love that it renews interest in dawn and don, there’s something that’s troubling me. i’m worried guys, and here’s why.

dawn and don have always kind of been a footnote in the comics, besides from providing the odd storyline for wally west angst and for giving the grandkids from the future, bart and jenni, the twins kinda sorta basically didn’t exist. but there’s still a discrepency between who kinda sorta got more erasure than the other- dawn.

dawn in the comics had the first interracial relationship and she had a daughter. compared to don who appeared way more ‘traditional’ and had a son. in fact, his relationship was way more fleshed out and he got way more references than dawn ever did, possibly also because bart got way more attention than jenni. not to mention, his love interest, meloni thawne appeared quite a few times after don’s death (and retconned deaths). don’t get me wrong, i love meloni and i love bart but doesn’t it come off, well... BAD that the women characters and the mixed race fam had significantly less development and ‘screen time’ than the straight laced boys club?

which brings me back to the dc and cw problems at hand. i’ve been kinda vocal for a while now about a few shows- dc’s animated stuff has come up a lot. i’m a massive fan of both young justice and their superhero girls programs. in fact, yj was one of the first things that moved me over to dc. before that i was pretty marvel based. and bart’s appearance on the show is awesome. but... it does piss me off too. because bart had already had a tv show appearance- smallville. and the cartoon already had a male speedster boy- kid flash. jenni had just as much right to be there, and ties to barry. and i get from a commercial standpoint- bart has a huge fanbase and the show was trying to appeal more and more to boys. but it would have meant so much to have a biracial speedster girl on that show. then you go to superhero girls... THE NAME OF THE SHOW is superhero GIRLS. the only speedster making an appearance? barry. an older guy. dawn would have been easy to introduce in this alternate universe where harley quinn and poison ivy hang out with batgirl and supergirl. barry’s speedster daughter who is learning to use her powers and wants guidance from older more experienced girl role models? like?

so now we go back to cw. and we have fans calling on the show to introduce bart. skip the twins altogether. some people calling for the twins to be replaced with a son called bart. other people suggesting that there will still be twins, but called bart and nora but nora will stay to help iris deal with some problem in the future and bart will go back in time and get stuck.

don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with speculation and a lot of people are very articulate. i mean there are some who have whitewashed bart and don in castings (not kidding, someone suggested a white guy for don but a biracial girl for dawn, that was weird.) but here’s why some of this bothers me and why i’m imploring people to think about what they’re posting about the twins and how we want the cw, and the show’s creative team, to look at what we say about this. as someone who just got their degree in film, and had to FIGHT HARD even in SMALL productions to get people of color and their stories made we have a huge thing in iris west, and the west family, being black now. and a biracial family at the centre of a superhero show. not only that, women of color at the centre of a superhero show. but if we go the way of the comics and past adaptations, as much as we loved them, those women will be cast aside. disappear. get no screen time or mention. and we might also get some heavy whitewashing.

so please, PLEASE, do not advocate for bart to be the next key core member. as much as you love him. or, if you do, implore for jenni to be there too. cousins in hand, front and centre. girl speedster RIGHT THERE IN YOUR FACE. implore for dawn and don to be equally present in their parents lives. ask for dawn to be in on that adventure as much as her brother (or nora, or whatever you want their daughter to be called). i worked at a kids care centre for three years and girls were always being teased for their superhero interests, until superhero girls came out, and supergirl and wonder woman. we want our girls of color to believe they can be that special speedster kid as much as any boy. especially when the flash is finally getting to a good place of including women in their show, even if they still use a slur for one of them.

#long post for ts #long post #tornado twins #dawn allen #don allen #... i'm probably gonna get backlash for this but it's important you guys #as much as you love some characters there needs to be changes #there needs to be more inclusion #women matter. girls matter. people of color matter. BOTH IN ONE PERSON IS HARD.

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