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It was great to be able to get out with Iris; a girls night at the movies was just what they needed. No boys - just the two of them, extra large sodas, and a jumbo bucket of buttery popcorn goodness while the horror movie flickered on the big screen.
As they filed out of the movie theater, Carrie couldn't help but note: “One a regular movie scale I'd give it a seven or eight. Zombie movie scale? A four, tops.”
“There's a zombie movie scale?” Iris snickered.
“Of course. And did you know there are actual zombies that exist?” she asked and Iris arched her eyebrows at her. “Not like in the movies – there's this fungi that infests ants...”
She trailed off at Iris's expression. “I started going full nerd again didn't I?”
“You did,” she chortled. “Lucky for you, Care-bear, you're the most adorable nerd I know. I'll have to see if I can find you someone who can enjoy that trait as much as you do.”
Carrie blushed hotly. “Well...I mean...”
“Oh sweetie. I know how much you like him but I doubt he's looking for romance right now, not after well...” Iris trailed off, not wanting to bring up the night the particle accelerator exploded.
“...yeah...” she sighed glumly.
Iris bumped shoulders with her, “You know I am all the more interested in the amazing of late...”
“You mean 'cause of the 'red streak' thing?” she asked, feeling guilty; how she just wanted to tell her---
“Yup. He's out there! So many people are seeing him and talking about him,”
“So how do you know its a he? Could be a she,” she said, trying to drop a hint.
“Hmm. Maybe. But a lot of people think it's a he, so I'm defaulting to he. Would be cool if the red streak was a woman though...” Iris fished out her phone, pulling up a picture; she showed it to Carrie. “See this what someone took when they were being pulled from a car accident.”
She giggled, “No its not. That's your boyfriend calling.”
“Oh! I should totally get this, I'm staying over and he's supposed to leave a key for me...” Iris took the call and she felt a twinge of envy watching her sister's eye light up like that.
The only man that made her feel like that was Dr Wells but...Iris was probably right. He probably just saw her as a kid he was mentoring....he was so much older than she was and still grieving Tess Morgan...
As Iris wandered away to throw away her empty soda cup, Carrie's own phone rang; it was STAR Labs. Oh come on it was girls' night... “Hello?”
“There's a code 237 on Waid boulevard,” Cisco informed her and she looked at her phone as though Cisco could see the incredulous look she was giving it...and him.
Placing the phone back up she repeated: “Public indecency?!”
“Oh...wait I think I mean a 239?”
“Dog leash violation?” she repeated in growing confusion.
“Bad man with a gun in a getaway car!” Caitlin interjected. “Go!”
She glanced over at Iris; good still wrapped up in her conversation. Like that, Carrie was off towards Waid Boulevard. It wasn't hard to find the vehicle in question – the driver was shooting at a squad car. In a crackle of lightning, she sped forward, disarming the gunman and pulling him from the driver's side of the pickup and depositing him into the back of the squad car, his hands cuffed securely.
Carrie wondered what they officer's faces looked like when they realized what had happen as she sped back to Iris's side. She was there as Iris hung up and turned around.
“Did you guys figure everything out?” she asked.
“Yup. Eddie says hi, by the way.”
“Cool. You now he should totally just give you a key. You two have been together how long now?” she asked in curiosity as they walked off, arm in arm. She sniffed the air as they passed by a restaurant, “Oh something smells divine. We should totally try this place next movie night...”
“Ooh it does smell good. I might have to drop hints to Eddie...maybe see about a double date? Some of his friends are single...”
“Okay, okay...I'll let you put me through blind dates if it'll make you happy...”