"You hurt your leg?" BarryClark
“You hurt your leg?” Clark asks, fingers fluttering over the casted shin.
“Yeah,” Barry says with a grimace. “Skidded on some ice from Captain Cold. It should only take a few more days to mend with the way I heal, but Jay and Ralph are covering Central for me until I’m healed up. I called out of work because the cast’ll be suspicious coming off so soon and according to the doctor wearing a fake cast for the amount of time it’d take a normal person is stupid. So now I have nothing to do for a week.”
“Why don’t you come to Metropolis or Smallville?” Clark says, inviting him impulsively.
Both of them still, surprised by that slipping out of Clark’s mouth.
Their relationship is still in the early, tentative stages, neither used to being in a relationship with another man. Clark had told his parents about Barry, but hadn’t introduced the cheerful blond yet. Barry had mentioned Clark to his co-workers, just saying he had a boyfriend and was taken (admittedly in part to get Patty to back off). Spending a week together…
“Sure,” Barry says with a smile.
They have to bite the bullet sometime.