Coldflash for Magical Accidents + Performer AU + Accidentally Married
I see you're just coming out swinging huh. Alright let's see what I can come up with lol
Magic had been around for quite some time. So long, in fact, that it's actually not as common as it once was. You can still see the occasional street performer hoping to make some sort of reasonable earning out of onlookers' curiosity.
Or the circus. There's a travelling circus comprised primarily of magic folk and people loved it. The performers could practice their magic with reckless, though rehearsed, abandon and the audience got to witness something fantastical. Barry loved it. His foster family never truly understood magical culture or what to do about his abilities. They understood the judgement and ridicule just fine.
He thought about joining the police to make magic folk more understood, but he promptly turned around and joined the circus and he hasn't ever regretted that choice. He met some of his best friends there. Other elementals, people that had been cursed, even shapeshifters and half spirits. They had all been set on one path, but the circus seemed to call to them.
The performance was going just as you'd normally expect. He had lightning dancing around his fingers and tossing it into the air for it to create little cracks of thunder. The next time he would do it, the performer that had been cursed with an icy touch (not to be confused for his friend, Caitlin, who was born an ice elemental) would throw a stunt grenade of ice at the lightning ball to make a flurry of snow. Not unlike how on the other side of the ring Caitlin and their resident fire elemental were making quite a steam show with their pyro and cryo-technic mix.
This was the first show that they had implemented the trick, obviously having practiced it for months prior. What wasn't supposed to happen was the wave of sparking blue light that emanated from them. Only for a moment, but long enough that the audience cheered over it and the two performers made eye contact. They did their best to continue the performance as usual and found that they were more synchronized than they had ever been in practise and that was saying something.
Their bit came to its end, as signaled by the music coming to a close. The two came together. First Leonard, his partner, gestured to him for the audience to applaud as he bowed and then Bary returned the favour. He always did love the grace of Leonard's bow- it wasn't unlike something you would see from a dancer on a stage. They took and raised each other's hands and the same blue light happened again and of course the audience lost their minds.
As soon as the two of them got backstage, they had half the circus hounding them about when they had happened. Much to Barry's confusion. He knew a little bit about magical culture, but had grown up separated from it since he had grown up with a human foster family and he figured Leonard was just as in the dark as he was since he had been cursed and not born magical.
"Um. Barry," Caitlin was soon at his side... and pointing to his arm. His left arm. The arm with which he had held Leonards hand for their bows. And of course he looked to find what was not exactly a tattoo, but not a scar either, of an interesting blend of lichtenberg figures and dendritic fractal covering his entire arm. Looking over at his partner, he saw the man tracing similar figures on his right arm.
"Mazel tov," the fire elemental, Mick, grunted before slapping both of them on the back and leaving.
"Mazel- Wait what!?" Barry was bewildered at the congratulations and this time Cisco approached.
"Dude. Hell of a way to get married. Wish you'd have warned us first, though. One cause I don't anyone saw this coming and two cause that's gonna be a pain in the ass to follow. Speaking of which, I'm up, traitor." And with that Cisco was through the tent flap and making his waving rounds with the rest of his act.
Barry looked to Leonard again.
"Looks like we have some talking to do and new acts to plan, dear."
He couldn't believe it. His act partner turned magically induced husband? wasn't obsessing over the how or the why and instead was just rolling the fact that they're apparently married now. Not that Barry was upset about who he'd wound up with. Out of everyone in the circus to be married to, Leonard was definitely his top choice. Now he just had to hope he could just wave off his being married as magic nonsense to his family to keep them from asking too many questions.
...And pray that leonard doesn't keep looking at him like that for the sake of his sanity.
