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[westallenfun]

WestAllen secrets santa 2022

Hi everyone!

The Westallen gift exchange is back!

During this event you get the chance to exchange an online westallen present with someone else. You make something for someone and someone makes something for you. This could be fanfic, gifs, edits, drawings, playlists etc. As long as it’s about WestAllen!

1. You sign up here. You’ll get the chance to indicate what kind of gift you would like to receive (fic, gif etc), and if possible you’ll be matched up with someone that can make that, but sometimes that is not possible.

2. After sign ups close you’ll receive your assignment: who the person is you will be making a present for and what kind of gift they would like. While these are suggestions, make sure to not include anything they have pointed out as something they do not want.

General information, rules and submit info can be read here! The submission process is a little different this year, so be sure to read!

You need to have a Tumblr account to participate

Important dates:

Sign up until:  23 Nov

Assignments given: before or on Nov 25

Assignments due: Dec 12

Event Dec 15!

I hope you sign up and have fun!

[backtothestart02]

It’s coming BACK!

Go follow @westallenfun if you haven’t for updates!!

[mmtions]

Barry is running late to the CCPD Christmas party. His ugly sweater itches, and he's really not looking forward to the evening, especially when he has an interview with some ridiculous CCPN reporter tomorrow.

But perhaps, upon meeting the mysterious Iris, he can be put in an entirely different mood. Perhaps something wonderful can come of the evening after all.

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my secret santa fic! my one from last year is also up and part of a proper ao3 series, so check that out as well if you like!

[backtothestart02bts]

My submission for @westallenfun‘s Runnin’ Home to You challenge.

CONTEXT: The canon divergence in this chap is that Joe isn’t present when Barry is told he’s a superhero and Iris is also telling him about who Savitar is in addition to that. Some exact lines from the episode’s scene are included.

*Many thanks to my amazing beta, @valeriemperez, for looking this over. <3

*Also available on FFnet.

[cheryls-blossomed]

Two’s Company (Part 1)

Inspired by Jane Austen’s Emma. On the eve of publication of the most important article of her professional career thus far, Iris West realizes that she is head over heels in love with her best friend, Barry Allen. Trouble is she can't exactly tell him, for fear of ruining their friendship. But a weekend trip to Metropolis sets in motion a series of events which may force Barry and Iris to face some long-awaited, romantic truths. Written for this year's WestAllen Secret Santa event on tumblr.

Rating: T

I will be posting this fic in all three parts on AO3. This fic is also posted to the westallenfun blog as part of this year’s Westallen Secret Santa Event and was a gift for Lauren/backtothestart02. 

[jade4813]

hey i was just wondering, are you going to continue your WestAllen fics?

Hey! I really do hope to continue my WestAllen fics. I do think about them frequently, but I’ll be honest. I often go on hiatus when the show is on hiatus because it’s harder to find inspiration to write. Even when the show has been on the last couple of seasons, there have been times that inspiration has been...hard to come by. They have done the ship dirty in ways that it would have been, really easy for them to...not. And right now, we aren’t hearing enough (or anything) about the show to change that. KF goes on a date? Be still my beating heart. /sarcasm

So do I intend to continue with my WestAllen fics? Absolutely! But it would be really, really great if the show let Barry and Iris be in the same scene again because that would REALLY help with the inspiration.

THAT SAID. I did just sign up for the Westallen Secret Santa exchange that @westallenfun puts on every year, so I’m hoping that should launch me back into my Westallen love and inspiration!

[theartofdreaming1]

January Fic Rec

Amazing fanfic I read these past few weeks:

by @backtothestart02:

Crazy for Her (”Barry dwells on his love for Iris.“ Sweet!)

“I prefer getting a rose from you than a million roses from any other boy.” (Cute, short drabble, with highschool Westallen :)

by @sophisticatedloserchick:

Last New Years Eve (”Its the New Years Eve in 2023 and all Iris can think about is what will happen to Barry in 2024.“ Short, reflective, bittersweet fic.)

by @wanderer765:

Appreciating (Barry appreciating his girls. Short and adorable!)

Promise, Promise (Iris thinking about her and Barry’s future... particularly about fateful year 2024... Bittersweet.)

by @westallenfun:

I just want you for my own (Super cute Barry and Iris moment taking place just before Christmas!)

Enjoy!

[nooowestayandgetcaught]

Dancing In The Rain

AO3 or FFN

~1k, WestAllen, G-rating, for the @westallenfun’s WestAllen Secret Santa 2018 event and for my giftee @ckpflash

Summary: Barry's hand lands gently on her, leading them to the porch. He smells faintly like Iris's perfume. Iris has already said goodnight to her dad and Cecile when the dinner party finally ends, shutting the front door behind her, waiting restlessly for their taxi.

[finnicks]

( fic ) i just want you for my own

i just want you for my own the flash | barry/iris; iris, barry | 1234, pg. you better kiss me, or face the mistletoe curse. or the one where barry and iris celebrate christmas with a tree and some mistletoe.

written for @sophisticatedloserchick for the @westallenfun secret santa, 2018. originally posted here. cross-posting for my records.

[ao3feed-westallen]

i just want you for my own

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2RlpAmD

by buries

you better kiss me, or face the mistletoe curse. or the one where barry and iris celebrate christmas with a tree and some mistletoe. written for westallenfun's secret santa, 2018.

Words: 1234, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: The Flash (TV 2014)

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/M

Characters: Iris West, Barry Allen

Relationships: Barry Allen/Iris West

Additional Tags: Christmas, Fluff, Domestic Fluff

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2RlpAmD

[westallenfun]

Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays!

It’s almost time for WestAllen secret santa 2022!

The first present will be posted starting 13:00 EST and presents will continue being posted until about 17:30 EST

This year it will not be the westallenfun account that posts the present, but the present makers will be posting the presents on their own blog. So be sure to check out the #westallen secret santa tag. However, the gifts will be retweeted here, too!

In short, I hope you enjoy and have a blessed day, and be sure to leave your appreciation for the artists!

[backtothestart02]

Runnin’ Home to You | 4/10

My submission for @westallenfun‘s Runnin’ Home to You challenge.

Part 4 of 10.

Synopsis: 3x21 - Canon Divergent - What if Team Flash decided to keep Barry from remembering until after May 23rd?

Note: No context needed in this chapter and probably none of the others either. Completely new material from here on out.

*Many thanks to @valeriemperez for being a spectacular beta! <3

Chapter 4 - Every Hour, Every Minute

“So, you don’t want us to try and get his memories back?”

Cisco directed his question at both of them, but he was looking at Iris.

Barry and Iris shared a look.

“Well—”

“See, I’m just trying to wrap my head around this, because I thought Icy Hands over here made a pretty good argument for why getting Barry’s memories back as soon as possible is pretty much a necessity.”

Barry followed Cisco’s blind gesture to the hall where presumably ‘Icy Hands’ was still working on some sort of device that would restore his memories.

“Ice…Icy Ha—” He lowered his voice and whispered near Iris’s ear. “Is that her name—Icy-”

“Barry.”

“Sorry,” he said quickly and promptly pursed his lips tightly so he wouldn’t make a sound.

Iris took a breath.

“It wouldn’t be forever, Cisco.”

Cisco folded his arms across his chest.

“Just until after I’m… after Savitar…” she couldn’t finish, and Cisco sobered. “I mean, there isn’t a chance he’ll forget and…never remember, is there? I mean, because we haven’t tried to retrieve his memories in so long?”

“No, I don’t think so,” Julian chirped, finally joining the group after presumably having come up with a good enough to reason to leave without causing suspicion from their icy friend.

Cisco glanced over at his shoulder at him. “What’d you do?”

“Apparently recalling all the things I love about her – her being Caitlin, of course – makes her nauseous. She told me to leave.”

“Man, that sucks,” Barry said without thinking. Cisco and Julian’s fixed stares on him made him purse his lips again after a quick “sorry” muttered under his breath.

“Back to Barry’s memories,” Iris interjected. She fixed her eyes on Julian. “Can you be certain?”

“I’m a CSI, Iris. I deal in forensic science, not…neurology.”

“And yet, both of you did a presentation on how to prevent Barry from retaining any new memories,” Joe said, stifled irritation in the statement. “And look!” He gestured to Barry. “Long term memory loss.”

“I—” Barry tried, but Iris squeezed his hand to stop him, and he retreated back into silence.

“In my defense,” Cisco started, but nothing followed, especially not after the simultaneous pronounced eyebrow raising of all the Wests before him.

“Iris,” Julian began, his voice softer this time. “I can’t be 100% sure, but people lose their memories for a variety of reasons all the time. Whether it’s…waking up from a coma, getting hit really hard on the head, going through a traumatic experience and just shutting down, sometimes a side effect from surgery. I’m sure in a lot of cases doctors do whatever they can medically to make them remember, but a lot of times family and friends just try by reminding them who they are.

That hasn’t been successful with Barry, and it probably won’t be. We need whatever Caitlin is making to get Barry to remember everything about who he is without us telling him. He needs to remember those things as memories from his past, not just memories of us telling him.”

“And if we delay?” she asked again, weariness evident in her voice.

Barry felt an inexplicable urge to pull her closer and rub her back. He nearly did it until Iris’s hand tightening on his reminded him this was not the time or the place to get even remotely intimate with her. He squeezed her fingers in response and hoped that would be encouragement enough.

“Everything’s a risk, Iris,” Wally said when neither of their proclaimed ‘scientists’ spoke up. He gave her a reassuring smile when her gaze fixed on his. “If we do this, you both live. Isn’t that the ultimate goal here?”

Reluctantly Iris nodded. “Yes, you’re right, of course.”

She turned to face Barry. “You still in?”

“Absolutely,” he said without hesitation.

“You’re the love of his life,” Wally said, making them both turn towards him. “He’d do anything for you.” He paused, a small smile breaking through. “Even if he doesn’t remember why.”

“Wally, I…” Iris tried, truly touched by his sentiment, but he brushed it off.

“I need your help,” Wally said, now addressing Cisco.

Cisco’s pointed at himself questioningly. “My help? Why do you need me?”

“We need ourselves another Flash,” he grinned, his smile spreading wide across his beaming face. “You know,” he cleared his throat in an attempt to compose himself, “until Barry’s up to speed with what he can do again.”

“Another Flash,” Cisco said numbly. “But we don’t know…” He stopped himself, then started snapping his fingers when the realization dawned.

“Yes. Yes.” He closed the distanced between them and clutched Wally’s arms, giving them a little shake. “You are a genius. I knew she’d come in handy one day.”

Wally gave him a borderline offended look, to which Cisco released him and gently patted down his shirt.

“Not that we want her just for her powers… What I meant to say is—”

“Cisco.” Joe halted the conversation.

“Yes.” Cisco snapped to attention, meeting Joe’s glare with a worried look of his own.

“Get Jesse.”

“Getting Jesse.”

Cisco wrapped his hand around Wally’s arm and steered him out of the room. Joe nudged Julian back in the direction of the supervillain who was hopefully unaware of their discussion, glancing back only once at the pair before making his way down the corridor.

“Who is Jesse again?” Barry asked, hating to ask questions but feeling safe enough to do so when it was just the two of them.

“Another speedster,” she said.

He waited for the other shoe to drop. “And?”

“And Wally’s girlfriend.” She smiled.

“Ah.” He smiled too, but not just for Wally and Jesse’s happiness. He smiled for Iris. He liked how a smile looked on her and wanted to keep it there as long as possible. “That explains the, uh…”

“Yeah.” She laughed. “Enthusiasm.”

“So, he’s got ulterior motives for wanting to keep my brain wiped.”

She laughed again. “Wouldn’t you?”

Barry sobered up as he took her in; beautiful smile, dazzling eyes, a heart that could melt stone.

“Yeah,” he said. “I would.”

*Also available on AO3 and FFnet.

[westallen94]

@westallenfun inspired fanart for Westallen Family Event! These were fun to make.

[backtothestart02bts]

Part 2 of my submission for @westallenfun‘s Runnin’ Home to You challenge.

CONTEXT: The canon divergence in this chap is that the scene where Joe & Iris are discussing Barry’s situation while Barry runs in the speed lab has an AU extended ending where Wally interrupts them.

*Many thanks to my awesome beta, @valeriemperez, for looking this over. <3

Chapter Preview:

“You do know that if Savitar never remembers, you’ll never get your powers back, right?”

Wally shrunk back a little but nodded. “I know.” His eyes fixed on Iris. “But this is more important.”

“Wally—” Iris’s voice broke, but he brushed her off.

“There are other ways to help people than with super speed. As dad told me many times before I got my powers.” He locked eyes with Joe, urging him to agree, ignoring the guilt clear on Iris’s face.

“And what about Central City needing the Flash? You can’t teach him everything he needs to know before the next metahuman criminal needs to be stopped.”

“I know. But I think you guys are forgetting something very important.”

Joe and Iris shared a look and then looked at him confused.

“Me, Barry, Jay… there’s one more speedster out there.”

*Also available on FFnet.

[sunshinesunsethappiness]

This was already posted on @westallenfun, but wanted it here as well:

WestAllen secret santa gift I made for @xscarletspeedstress . The prompt was: A crossover with Doctor Who & The Flash, like Amy and Rory travelling with the doctor, but it’s Iris and Barry.

(Promo pics from Far Far Away, and this PSD )

[cheryls-blossomed]

Two’s Company (Part 2/3)

        “You and I are the dream team,” Barry corrects, emphatically, and he’s smiling widely at her and refusing to break their gaze, and she thinks…. she thinks he too must be feeling this intensity that has persistently lingered between them since their almost kiss, and she wonders for just a moment that maybe, just maybe, he feels the same way. Her hand comes to rest on the wedding band, just above the bodice of her cocktail dress, and his eyes track the movement, first tracking her neck, then her collarbones, and then the dip of her cleavage which disappears beneath her dress. She thinks she sees his tongue dart out momentarily over his lips, and she feels hot, suddenly, and she’s sure it has nothing to do with the warm, summer night. 

This fic was originally posted to the westallenfun blog and is a gift for Lauren/backtothestart02 as part of this year’s Westallen Secret Santa Event. I am now posting the fic to Ao3, and Chapter 2 has just been posted.