<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ff99">Barry wasted no time and sped over to Felicity's place. He was leaning against the side of her house by the time she got there, and when she called out to him, he came around the corner and smiled as he saw her. "What took you so long, slow poke?" He couldn't help but tease as he laughed and then crossed over to where she stood in the doorway waiting for him.  "I've missed you, Felicity. I mean, really. It's been so long that I was gone, it felt like I waa gone for a decade or something. Everything and everyone has changed."<br/>
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"But the only person I want to be anywhere around right now, is you. I just.. I thought about you a lot while I was gone<i>. </i>And maybe that's a crappy thing to admit, but it's true. <br/>
I mean, sure, I missed all of the others, but well, it's different when it comes to you and me. We're a lot alike, and it's easy for me to be around you. You've always been kind to me, and you've always helped me and been there for me. You never judge me when I screw up, and we know I screw up a lot. </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(153, 255, 153)">I just.. I wanted to see you. I needed to get away from everyone else back home."<br/>
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"They expect too much from me, and I just got back. I mean, I'm not the same Barry that they used to know. I've changed. Being away from everyone that I cared for and loved, changed me. And being locked up in the Speed Force changed me. There's no way that it couldn't. And they just don't seem to understand that I need time. Time to get used to the fact that I'm not there anymore. That I'm out and home, and alive. And that I'm not just dreaming it or wishing it, or crazy. I mean, sure, I want my life back. But it's not going to be as easy as the others think it will be."<br/>
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"I've been by myself for so long, that it's hard for me to have all of them around me at once. But I feel like I can't tell them that, because it's going to hurt their feelings, and I don't want to hurt them. I don't want to be crowded right now. I just want time to get myself together. I'm not ready to go back out as The Flash again, not yet."</span></span></span>